Low-dose Oral Minoxidil in the Treatment of Alopecia: Evidence and Experience-based Consensus Statement of Indian Experts.

Alopecia is a highly prevalent condition worldwide including in India. There are different types of alopecia with differing etiology, presentation, and hence treatment. Androgenetic alopecia represents the most common form of hair loss affecting male as well as female population termed as male and female pattern hair loss, respectively.

Oral Tranexamic Acid for the Treatment of Melasma: Evidence and Experience-Based Consensus Statement from Indian Experts.

Melasma, a chronic pigmentary skin condition mainly affecting the face, remains a challenge despite the availability of several options for treatment. Many melasma patients are not satisfied with treatment outcomes. Tranexamic acid (TXA), an anti-fibrinolytic drug has shown promising results in patients with melasma.

Patients' perspective about speech, swallowing and hearing status post-SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) recovery: E-survey.

Objective: The present study investigates the COVID-19 survivors' perspective on speech, swallowing, and hearing-related issues post-COVID-19. We further investigate the recovery duration for speech, swallowing, and hearing-related symptoms post-COVID.

Design: Survey study; E-survey.

Rare case of gastrointestinal mucormycosis with colonic perforation in an immunocompetent patient with COVID-19.

Primary gastrointestinal mucormycosis is a rare disease associated with an increased mortality and is rarely reported in an immunocompetent host. We report the first case of mucormycosis-associated colonic perforation in a COVID-19 patient with a favourable outcome. A 48-year-old healthy male doctor in home isolation due to COVID-19 was admitted to COVID-19 intensive care unit when his symptoms deteriorated.

Nature's balancing act: Infective endocarditis of pulmonary valve with ventricular septal defect in fifth decade; a rare and unusual presentation.

It is unusual for a moderate-size ventricular septal defect (VSD) to remain asymptomatic and complication-free until the age of 45 years. Similarly, infective endocarditis of anatomically normal pulmonary valve is also rare. Here we report a case in which nature created a protection for VSD, i.

Hemoptysis secondary to actinomycosis: A rare presentation.

We present a 70-year-old female patient who had the history of hypertension and presented with massive haemoptysis. She had been complaining of cough with expectoration and mild streaking of blood in sputum for about 3 days with only crepts in right infrascapular and infra-axillary regions as positive clinical findings. Bronchoscopy revealed a cauliflower-like lesion in the upper- right lobe bronchus; bronchial aspirate showed occasional colonies of gram positive filamentous bacteria surrounded by neutrophils.