Health Sciences

Objective: To investigate the correlation of the presence of meconium in amniotic fluid with perinatal outcome.
Methods: Out of 1983 deliveries, 99 women were found to have meconium on spontaneous or artificial rupture membrane. For all the patients the following items have been checked: 5 minutes APGAR score and neonatal complications like the need for admission in NICU, need to CPR procedure and neonatal death and root of the delivery.

In the last decades radiotherapy induced brain injury has become an emerging issue for physicians. Brain RT-induced injury has been classified, according to its time of onset, into acute, early delayed, and late forms.  The latter is not reversible. Etiopathogenesys of brain damage after RT has been at length discussed, vascular injury and white matter pathologic changes have been described.

NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a rare, highly lethal malignant epithelial tumor caused by rearrangements in the nuclear protein testis (NUT) gene in chromosome 15, and few studies have described the condition. This report describes NMC in an 8-year-old girl presenting an asymptomatic lesion on the tongue dorsum. Cervical lymph nodes were significantly increased, and the patient presented dysphagia, dyspnea, severe fatigue, and marked weight loss.

Introduction: Peyronie's disease (PD) is a tissue disorder acquired in the tunica albuginea (TA) of the penis and its pathophysiology is not completely understood. The disease is characterized by the development of a fibrous plaque which affects the inner layer of the corpus cavernosumTA. The estimated prevalence of PD is 3 to 9% and its incidence has increased in the last years. Objective: To determine if atherosclerosis is associated with PD.

Gynecomastia, defined as a benign proliferative of the male’s breast glandular tissue, is a common finding in boys during childhood and adolescence, and usually caused by increased estrogen activity, decreased testosterone activity, or the use of numerous medications.  Although most cases are benign and self-limiting, it may represent signs of an underlying systemic diseases, drug induced or even male breast cancer.  Understanding its pathogenesis is crucial to distinguish normal developmental variant from pathological causes.  A stepwise approach that includes clinical assessment, imaging

Purpose: To evaluate the changes in knowledge and attitude of school teachers regarding Traumatic Dental Injuries (TDIs) following oral health education on initial dental trauma, in Sundernagar city of Himachal Pradesh. Methods: The study was based on a pre and post evaluation questionnaire with relevant questions to evaluate the level of knowledge and attitude of school teachers about initial dental trauma management at baseline and six months after the implementation of the programme. Associations were assessed using Chi square test.

Histology teaching and research depend on the quality of haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained sections. Over a period, slides fade and become uninterpretable even with good attempts for preservation. One of the principal causes of fading of H&E stained slides is the quality of the mounting media (DPX). Earlier studies have suggested the use of mounting media with added antioxidants to prevent fading in fluorescent staining. For the preservation of H&E stained sections, we utilised antioxidant (1% butylhydroxytoluene) enriched mounting media.

Many published textbooks and articles dealt with qualitative research and its methodologies; still, it is difficult for a clinician without proper qualitative research background to be engaged with these texts. They represent a different research paradigm. The essence of qualitative research is to understand a phenomenon in a natural environment appose to experimental setting in quantitative research, in which all the aspects (variables/ parameters) are examined under experimental conditions. Qualitative research studies the patient’s experience within the patient’s natural life setting.

Trypanosoma vivax is a protozoan that infects a wide range of wild and domestic ungulates causing important economic losses on the livestock industry. Considering a recent outbreak in bovines from the state of Pernambuco, the aim of this study was to utilize the PCR as a tool to detect T. vivax DNA in the blood of animals from different regions (i.e., Litoral, Zona da Mata, Agreste and Sertão). Based on previous serological survey, the cities in each region which had the highest frequency of reagent cattle to antibodies IgG anti-T. vivax by Immunofluorescence Antibody Test, were selected.

Objectives: With respect to the issue that febrile seizures (FS)is the most common seizure type in children, the purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological, clinicaland laboratory features of children admitted to Misurata Teaching Hospital with febrile seizures in2015 – 2016 and its comparison with similar studies in other parts of the world.