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Leprosy is an infectious disease characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from tuberculoid to lepromatous disease with immunologically unstable borderline forms in between. In clinical practice cases often do not conform to a classical textbook description, which may lead to misdiagnosis if not properly investigated. A 22-year-old patient presented to us with erythematous plaques localized to the face.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian Dermatol Online J
July 2010
Former Director-Professor of Dermato-Venereology, Calicut Medical College, Past National President, IADVL, Calicut - 673 02, Kerala, India.
Indian J Gastroenterol
March 2010
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
Background: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common serious complication of cirrhosis, and carries a high morbidity and mortality. Rapid diagnosis and prompt treatment of this condition may improve survival of such patients.
Objective: To validate the diagnostic efficacy of a leukocyte esterase reagent (LER) strip test for rapid, bedside diagnosis of SBP.
Indian J Gastroenterol
December 2009
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Calicut, 673 008, Kerala, India.
Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J
November 2009
Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
World J Emerg Surg
October 2009
Dept, of Surgery, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
Intestinal obstruction is a common surgical emergency caused by varied conditions. Appendicitis as a cause is both uncommon and unsuspected. Strangulation of intestine caused by appendicitis is extremely rare with very few cases reported in literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Forensic Leg Med
August 2009
Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Calicut Medical College, Calicut-8, Kozhikode, Kerala 673004, India.
Tuberous sclerosis is a neurocutaneous disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance. It is characterized by the triad of seizures, mental retardation, angiofibromas of the face though the triad is not always complete. We incidentally encountered a case of tuberous sclerosis in a case of hanging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian Pacing Electrophysiol J
May 2010
Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
NT-proBNP is produced from both atria and ventricles. The primary regulation of production is at the synthesis level. The plasma half-life of NT-proBNP is 60-120 min.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Gastroenterol
July 2009
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
Indian Heart J
January 2009
Non-Coronary Cardiac Interventions Registry, Calicut Medical College, Calicut.
Trop Gastroenterol
January 2009
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College Hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India.
Tuberculosis may involve any region of the gastrointestinal tract but involvement of the rectum is rare. The literature concerning rectal tuberculosis in AIDS patients is limited. We report the case of rectal tuberculosis mimicking malignancy, both clinically and endoscopically, in an AIDS patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrop Gastroenterol
January 2009
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College & PVS Hospital Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
A 30-year-old lady presented with a 6-month history of recurrent partial intestinal obstruction associated with intermittent fever, anorexia and weight loss. Barium meal follow-through and colonoscopic evaluation suggested ulceration of the ileum and caecum with small bowel obstruction. Histology of the lesions showed marked acute and chronic inflammation consistent with ulceration and granulation tissue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Gastroenterol
September 2008
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
There is limited information regarding the efficacy of 'directly observed treatment short course' (DOTS) in the treatment of intestinal tuberculosis. We randomized patients with ileocecal or colonic tuberculosis to receive daily tuberculosis chemotherapy (Group A) or DOTS (Group B). Patients received isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol daily for two months in group A and thrice weekly for 2 months in group B, followed by isoniazid and rifampicin daily for 7 months in group A and thrice weekly for 4 months in group B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrop Gastroenterol
May 2008
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode 673 008, Kerala, India.
Juvenile polyposis located solely on prolapsed rectal mucosa is very unusual. We report the case of a 17-year old boy who presented to us with a history of passage of blood and mucus per rectum of a mass protruding through the anus during defecation. Per rectal and colonoscopic examinations revealed numerous polyps located solely on the prolapsed rectal mucosa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Coll Cardiol
March 2008
Department of Cardiology, Calicut Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India.
Brugada syndrome is characterized by right bundle branch block pattern with ST-segment elevation in leads V(1) to V(3) and a propensity for sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrhythmias. The arrhythmogenic substrate in Brugada syndrome may not be restricted to the ventricles, and atrial arrhythmias are being increasingly reported. Incidences of spontaneous atrial arrhythmias vary from 6% to 38% and those of inducible atrial arrhythmias from 3% to 100%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gastroenterol Hepatol
August 2008
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
Background And Aim: Rigid proctoscopy, the gold standard for detecting hemorrhoids, has become a neglected procedure in the era of flexible endoscopy. Evaluation of hemorrhoids is often done with the retroflexed fiberoptic colonoscope. The aim of this study was to evaluate the technique of videoanoscopy in comparison with retroflexion of colonoscope in the rectum to detect hemorrhoids and to correlate objective findings of hemorrhoids and their relation to bleeding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Gastroenterol
October 2007
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
Indian J Gastroenterol
October 2007
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode, India.
Background: In Western countries, colonic polyps are usually adenomatous in nature, are evenly distributed along the entire colon in asymptomatic per-sons and show a left-sided predominance in symptomatic patients. There is dearth of such literature from India.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed reports of colonoscopies done in our institution during the period 2001 to 2005.
J Gastroenterol Hepatol
August 2007
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India.
Background And Aims: Tegaserod is approved for the treatment of constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (C-IBS) in females. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of tegaserod on colonic transit time (CTT) and symptoms in male patients with C-IBS.
Methods: Forty-four males with C-IBS (Rome II) were enrolled.
Indian J Med Sci
August 2007
Department of Medicine, Calicut Medical College, India.
Background: Uveitis is increasingly being reported from south India following epidemics of leptospirosis. The incidence of eye involvement in treated patients has not been investigated properly in prospective studies.
Aims: To determine the incidence, clinical spectrum and risk factors for Leptospiral uveitis in antibiotic-treated patients.
Gastrointest Endosc
September 2007
Department of Gastroenterology, Calicut Medical College, Kozhikode, India.
Heart Rhythm
May 2007
Department of Cardiology, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
J Assoc Physicians India
October 2006
Department of General Medicine and Medical Oncology and Division of Hematology, Calicut Medical College.
Myelofibrosis occurring both in childhood and adulthood is most commonly idiopathic, followed by neoplastic infiltration of the bone marrow. We are reporting an extremely rare association of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism associated with stable secondary myelofibrosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Med Microbiol
October 2006
Department of Microbiology, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
Indian J Med Microbiol
October 2006
Department of Microbiology, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.