Vol. 2 No. 4 (2014): October-December 2014

Published: 2017-01-26

Review Articles

Routine laboratory diagnosis of chromosome aberrations in multiple myeloma

Yuet-Meng Chin, Zubaidah Zakaria

1241-1247
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Sexual violence among married women: an unspoken sting

Amruta S. Indupalli, Purushottam A. Giri

1248-1252
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Linezolid resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Pavani Gandham

1253-1256
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Ozone (O3): an excellent adjunctive tool in medical and surgical management of patient

Vipin Thakkar, Harsh Thakkar

1257-1261
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Work related musculoskeletal disorders among medical laboratory professionals: a narrative review

Parul Raj Agrawal, Arun G. Maiya, Veena Kamath, Asha Kamath

1262-1266
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Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis: an overview

Vijay Kumar Verma, Khwaja Saifullah Zafar

1267-1277
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Review on special emphasis of bortezomib on relapsed/refractory myeloma

Praful A. Talaviya, Bhavesh M. Vyas, Shashi P. Indoria, Vipul B. Modh

1278-1282
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Original Research Articles

Six-minute walk work in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Archana C. Dogra, Urmil Gupta, Malay Sarkar, Anita Padam, Arun Chauhan, Smitacharu Thakur

1283-1288
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A socio-demographic profile, growth, nutritional and hygiene status of children of primary and secondary boarding schools of Gandhinagar district: a cross sectional study

Nilesh C. Thakor, Dipak Prajapati, Jyotsna Pandor, Samir Bhagora

1289-1293
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Recurrence of occult hepatitis B virus infection in a recipient of a liver transplant for HCV-related cirrhosis: full length genome, mutations analysis and literature review

Tahar Bajjou, Mohammed Rida Tagajdid, Safae Elkochri, Rachid Abi, Nadia Touil, Jalila Rahoui, Fatima Zahra Kandoussi, Yassine Sakhsoukh, Hicham El annaz, Saad Mrani

1294-1301
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Increasing incidence of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in inpatients of a tertiary care hospital

Ved Prakash, Prem Prakash Mishra, H. K. Premi, Apoorva Walia, Shikha Dhawan, Abhishek Kumar

1302-1306
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A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors

Siny Vellukara Sasidharan, Vinu Kumar, Radha R. Pai, Sheela Vasudevan

1307-1312
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Role of alcoholism in liver abscess

C. Stalin Raja, P. Karthick

1313-1319
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Assessing the performance of the radiology information systems in use in the teaching hospitals of Isfahan city based on the Great Britain’s royal college of radiologists’ guidelines

Maryam Jahanbakhsh, Javad Sharifi-Rad, Sakineh Saghaeiannejad-Isfahani, Razieh Mirzaeian

1320-1324
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Study of dorsal wall of sacrum

Rashmi Benaganahalli Nagendrappa, Jayanthi KS

1325-1328
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Study of variations in the branching pattern of thoracodorsal nerve

Santosh Manohar Bhosale, Nagaraj S. Mallashetty

1329-1333
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Relation between obesity and depression in a sample of patients in Isfahan, Iran

Ali Sheikhi

1334-1338
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Developing an educational program for fourth-year students at Balikesir University’s school of health, department of midwifery, to learn and practice antenatal skills

Selda Yörük, Türkan Günay

1339-1346
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Knowledge assessment about risk prevention of rabies amongst doctors in AIIMS, Jodhpur

Dewesh Kumar, Pankaja Ravi Raghav, Mahendra Singh, Pankaj Bhardwaj

1347-1349
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Clinical study of multi nodular goitre in a rural hospital

C. Stalin Raja, P. Karthick

1350-1354
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Clinical profile, risk factors and aetiology of young stroke: a tertiary care hospital based study from the Sub-Himalayan region in North India

Dhiraj Kapoor, Ashish Dhiman, Rupinder Sharma, Shyam Sundar

1355-1359
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In vitro assessment of Ag and TiO2 nanoparticles cytotoxicity

Apoorva Priyanka Ganapathi, Ramakrishna Devaki, Naveen Reddy Thuniki, Joydeb Manna, Bhaskar Tirumuru, Chinnapu Reddy Gopu, Sadanala Bhavya Deepthi, Rajiv Trivedi, Rohit Kumar Rana, Annie Hasan

1360-1367
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Causal inference at the population level

Azam Yazdani, Eric Boerwinkle

1368-1370
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Management of hepatic hydatidosis by open versus laparoscopic surgery

Ashutosh Darbari, Abhinav Jauhari, Ambuj Shrivastava

1371-1377
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Histopathological study of endometrium in cases of abnormal uterine bleeding

Saroj A. Bolde, Smita S. Pudale, Gopal A. Pandit, Pushkar P. Matkari

1378-1381
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Burden of head and neck cancers in Kamrup urban district cancer registry of Assam, India: a retrospective study

Jagannath Dev Sharma, Debanjana Barman, Mridul Kumar Sarma, Arpita Sharma, Manoj Kalita, Amal Chandra Kataki, Jamil Ahmed Barbhuiya, Ranjan Lahon, Barsha Roy Deka

1382-1387
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Elevated hsCRP levels signal increased risk of future cardiovascular disease independent of lipid profile in H. pylori infection

Gaurav Shashikant Kansara, Pooja Nitin Joshi, Shyam Rameshwar Adhau

1388-1392
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Seizure in later life: an ode to the elderly

Raminderpal Singh Sibia, Amith Kumar S, Honey Sharma

1393-1395
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Study of determination of laboratory turnaround time in tertiary care hospital in India

Abhinav Dileep Wankar

1396-1401
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hsCRP in pre-hypertension and hypertension: a prospective study in Southern Asian region

Satwika Sinha, Kaushik Kar, Monoj Soren, Anindya Dasgupta

1402-1407
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Serum high sensitivity C-reactive protein in breast cancer patients

Shilpa Balaji Asegaonkar, Unmesh Vidyadhar Takalkar, Pushpa Kodlikeri, Avinash Pagdhune, Virendrakumar Bonduliya, Anand Pandurang Thorat

1408-1411
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A study to assess prevalence of obesity among medical students of G.R. medical college, Gwalior, M. P., India

Ranjana Tiwari, Vikas Jain, Ajit Singh Rajput, A. K. Bhagwat, Manish Goyal, Sakshi Tiwari

1412-1416
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Epidemiologic study of 80 patients with ulcerative colitis referred to Imam Hospital in Ardabil city during 2004-2011

Vahid Sadeghifard, Firouz Amani, Firouz Amani, Leili Avesta, Leili Avesta

1417-1422
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Effectiveness of distributed form of constraint induced movement therapy to improve functional outcome in chronic hemiparesis patients

Shraddha J. Diwan, Purva Shah, Ankita B. Bansal

1423-1430
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Retracted: Pulmonary functions in pregnancy complicated with anemia

Subhalaxmi Dash, Sudhanshu Sekhara Nanda, Ashok Kumar Behera

1431-1437
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Clinico-epidemiological study of pityriasis versicolor in a rural tertiary care hospital

Nazeema Tabaseera, Nischal Kuchangi, M. Ranga Swaroop

1438-1440
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Anatomical variations of sinonasal region: a CT scan study

T. D. Thimmappa, P. Amith, M. Nagaraj, K. N. Harsha, K. S. Gangadhar, Abdul Azeem

1441-1445
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A study on clinical profile of stroke in young and elderly in GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Chirayu V. Vaidya, Drusty K. Majmudar

1446-1452
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Abdominal tuberculosis: a study of 50 cases

Ashutosh Darbari, Abhinav Jauhari, Geetika Darbari, Vartika Shrivastava, Ambuj Shrivastava

1453-1461
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To evaluate the levels of glycated hemoglobin, serum calcium, magnesium, phosphate, uric acid and microalbuminuria in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus

Qazi Najeeb, Ruqaya Aziz, Sajad Hamid

1462-1465
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Effect of cyclophosphamide on the microanatomy of liver of albino rats

Javed Ahmad Khan, Shaheen Shahdad, Mohd. Arif Makhdoomi, Sajad Hamid, Gh. Muhammad Bhat, Yasmeen Jan, Sabia Nazir, Zahid Bashir, Shameema Banoo

1466-1469
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The cytokine gene polymorphisms (TNF-α, IL-10 And IFN-γ) and the role of inflammatory cytokines in diabetic neuropathy

M. Ramesh, Konathala Geetha Kumari, G. Sudhakar

1470-1478
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A comparative study of safety and efficacy of tiotropium bromide with salbutamol in moderate persistent bronchial asthma in a tertiary care hospital

Vijaya S, Rajyalakshmi N, Ramanath B

1479-1482
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The relationship between pelvic alignment and trunk control in stroke subjects: a cross-sectional study

Shivani Pathak, Vijaya Kumar K, Akshatha Nayak, Rakshith C. Kedambadi

1483-1487
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Effect of chronic exposure to biomass fuel smoke on pulmonary function test parameters

Priya Arora, Rajesh Gupta, Rahul Chopra, Anupama Gupta, Neena Mishra, Sushma Sood

1488-1494
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Association of OSTA index with bone mineral density (BMD) and its comparison with calcaneal quantitative ultrasound for the prediction of low BMD in peri-menopausal Indian women

Sachin M. Patel, Pradeep R. Jadhav, Alfven Vieira

1495-1499
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Study of health status of street children in Khammam City of Andhra Pradesh

Aditya Suryabhan Berad, Sampat Momula, Ravi Kumar B P

1500-1503
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An innovative approach for manual preparation of slides of compact bone tissue

Ritu Singroha, Usha Verma

1504-1506
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Clinical profile of acute hemorrhagic stroke patients: a study in tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Omkar P. Baidya, Sunita Tiwari, Kauser Usman

1507-1510
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Perceived stress, psychological well-being and burnout among female nurses working in government hospitals

Divinakumar K J, Shivram Bhat Pookala, Ram Chandra Das

1511-1515
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Effect of moderate - vigorous intensity physical exercise on female sex hormones in premenopausal university students in Nnewi, Nigeria

Chidiadi M. Atuegbu, Samuel C. Meludu, Chudi E. Dioka, Charles C. Onyenekwe, Jude A. Onuegbu, Christian E. Onah, Onyema A. Onyegbule, Adanma R. Analike, John N. Udo

1516-1520
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Aerobic bacteriology of chronic suppurative otitis media: a hospital based study

Asifa Nazir, S. M. Kadri

1521-1525
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Pelvic bone indices as effective parameters of sex determination in skeletal remains: a cross-sectional study

Kishan R. Siddapur, Geetha K. Siddapur

1526-1529
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Risk factors associated with poorly controlled diabetes in a rural population of Karnataka: a case-control study

Alisha N. Blah, Carolin E. George, Devashri Mukherjee, Gift Norman

1530-1533
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Incidence of dengue in a rural hospital, Chinakakani, Andhra Pradesh, South India and comparison of two commercially available enzyme linked immunosorbent assays with immunochromatographic rapid test

Sumana Prudhivi, Bindu Madhav Yenigalla, Ramesh Babu Myneni

1534-1540
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A study of mode of transmission, clinical presentations, WHO and immunological staging among HIV infected children

Durgesh Kumar, Mukesh V. Singh, Dinesh Kumar, K. M. Shukla, D. K. Singh, Dharmendra K. Singh

1541-1544
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Pattern of referral and management of oro-dental problems in patients with cancer: a retrospective study

Kaberi Das, Manigreeva Krishnatreya, Amal Chandra Kataki

1545-1547
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Comparison of compliance and response rate of radiotherapy alone vs. chemo radiotherapy in stage IIIB carcinoma cervix patients having obstructive uropathy

Narendra Rathore, Sunnia Gupta

1548-1557
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Influence of sex on the profile of acute coronary syndrome: a tertiary care hospital based study from the Sub-Himalayan region in North India

Dhiraj Kapoor, Pankaj Gupta, Tushar Sontakke, Vishnu Agarwal, Shyam Sunder, Rupinder Sharma, Vineet Jearth

1558-1562
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Evaluation of diagnostic efficacy of hepatobiliary scintigraphy as a diagnostic procedure in pediatric practice with special reference to cholestatic jaundice

D. K. Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Veer Singh, Mamta Singh, D. K. Hazra, Meena Singh

1563-1568
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PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway participates in neuroprotection by dexmedetomidine inhibits neuronic autophagy following traumatic brain injury in rats

Man-He Zhang, Xiu-Min Zhou, Jun-Ling Gao, Kai-Jie Wang, Jian-Zhong Cui

1569-1575
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Prevalence of Metallo-β-Lactamase producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in wound infections in Duhok city, Iraq

Najim A. Yassin, Haval M. Khalid, Ayman O. Hassan

1576-1579
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Development of word list in Hindi for speech sounds to work on articulation errors for children with hearing impairment

Rajeev Ranjan, Arun Banik

1580-1585
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Non alcoholic fatty liver disease and its relationship with hsCRP in type 2 diabetes mellitus

Naina Bhuyan, Mridupawan Gogoi, Vineet Todi, Ajit Pegu, Anup K. Das

1586-1590
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Variation in brachial plexus formation, branching pattern and relation with major vessels

G. Anwer Khan, Deepak Kafle, Shekhar K. Yadav, Om Shrestha, Arun Dhakal, Sudeep K. Yadav, Ranjit Guha

1591-1594
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Periodontal disease as a risk factor for coronary artery disease

Rosaiah Kanaparthy, Aruna Kanaparthy

1595-1601
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Role of mitochondria in progression of cancer: a semi-quantitative study

Deepali Jain, Pooja Lohiya, Minal Chaudhary, Madhuri Gawande, Swati Patil, Sourabh Kumar Jain

1602-1606
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Awareness and attitude regarding human papilloma virus and its vaccine among medical students in a medical school in India

Nagasireesha Challa, Venkatachalam Madras, Supradeeptha Challa

1607-1611
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Endothelial dysfunction in patients with metabolic syndrome: a prospective study in a rural institute in India

Khwaja Saifullah Zafar, P. S. Singh, Vijay Kumar Verma, N. A. Wafai

1612-1619
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Clinical profile of enteric fever: a prospective study of fifty enteric fever patients

Ashish Kakaria, Dilip Asgaonkar, Meenakshi Narkhede

1620-1625
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Comparative analysis between single incision and conventional laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis

Sreeram Sateesh, Harsha Subraj, Gangaiahgari Mahesh, Pasupuleti Sreenivasa Rao

1626-1631
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Maternal and fetal outcomes in rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy

Dhivya Sethuraman, Nirmala Ramachandran, SAP Noorjahan, Vijay Kanna

1632-1637
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A study on body mass index and its correlation with type 2 diabetes

Subhash Chand Jain, Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, Deepak Gupta, Madhu Kanta Jain

1638-1641
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Feeding practices in infants: ritual factors dominating mother’s education - a cross sectional study

Dinesh Kumar, Indra Kumar Sharma, Mukesh Vir Singh, Durgesh Kumar, Krishan Mohan Shukla, Dinesh Kumar Singh

1642-1647
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Comparative study of serum lipid profile between prehypertensive and normotensive

Hitesh A. Jani, Priti C. Bhanderi, Chandankumar Sharma, Maulik Padalia

1648-1651
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Osteoarthritis of knee joint - role of quadriceps exercises

M.A.Q. Ansari, M. Asimuddin

1652-1654
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Maternal and fetal outcome among abruptio placentae cases at a rural tertiary hospital in Karnataka, India: a retrospective analysis

Vartika Shrivastava, Pushpa Kotur, Abhinav Jauhari

1655-1658
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Study of medial end of fourth ribs with special reference to changes in pit shapes according to age, a qualitative approach

Sunil M. Doshi, H. M. Mangal, Hetal Kyada, Jainik Shah, Makbul Ali Vijapura, Shailesh Bhuva

1659-1662
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A study of the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with FAC regime in locally advanced breast carcinoma

Ajesh Gopal, U. Anjit

1663-1666
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Fine needle aspiration cytology in head and neck swellings: a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure

Himanshu Shekhar, Ashmeet Kaur, Pallav Agrawal, Aruna Pancharia, Poojaba Jadeja

1667-1671
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A comparative survey study on current prescribing trends in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs among practitioners in private set up and tertiary care teaching rural hospital

Ravi Alamchandani, B. M. Sattigeri, P. S. Karelia

1672-1675
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A study of outcome of neuroparalytic snake bite patients treated with fixed dose of antisnake venom

Ashish S. Kakaria, Meenakshi Narkhede, Sanjay Agrawal, Abhijit Bhavsar, Vivek Nukte

1676-1682
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Profiles of gall bladder cancer reported in the hospital cancer registry of a Regional Cancer Center in the North-East India

Srabana Misra Bhagabaty, Jagannath Dev Sharma, Manigreeva Krishnatreya, Pintu Nandy, Amal Chandra Kataki

1683-1686
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Association between functional polymorphisms of Foxp3 and Interleukin-21 genes with the occurrence of recurrent pregnancy loss in Gaza strip-Palestine

Mohammed O. Jaber, Fadel A. Sharif

1687-1693
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Lipid profile alterations and fasting blood glucose levels in primary hypothyroidism

Maram Sushma, Krishnan Ramalingam, Jupalli N. Naidu, Tatireddy V. Lakshmi

1694-1698
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Case Reports

Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis presenting like chronic parenchymal liver disease with ascites: a rare case report and discussion

Arnab Banerjee

1699-1701
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A rare variant of carcinoma of the cervix: neuroendocrine tumour

Maya Menon, Sridevi TA, Satish Selvakumar A, Rajeswari RR

1702-1705
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An unusual and rare case of burn: challenge to cause and manner of death

Sharad V. Kuchewar, Radhey R. Khetre, Manish B. Shrigiriwar, Raviprakash D. Meshram, Sachin J. Gadge

1706-1709
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Sphingobacterium multivorum causing fatal meningoencephalitis: a rare case report

Rajesh Kumar Verma, Ramakant Rawat, Amit Singh, Dharmendra Prasad Singh, Vijay Verma

1710-1712
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Indian common krait envenomation presenting as fulminant myocarditis and coma: a case report

Vijay Kumar Verma, Vijender Maurya, Rajesh Verma

1713-1717
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Co-occurrence of syndrome of horizontal gaze palsy with progressive scoliosis with stroke in young: a case report

Mohamed Murtuza Kauser, Prabhakar Kamarthy, Asfia Afreen, Raveesha Anjinappa

1718-1719
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An undocumented variation involving auriculotemporal nerve, inferior alveolar nerve and middle meningeal artery

Sunita Kalra, Swati Thamke, Ankit Khandelwal

1720-1722
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Higher division of popliteal artery: a case report

Prakash Babu Billakanti

1723-1725
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A case report on development of CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumour from astrocytoma

Sunnia Gupta, Narendra Rathore

1726-1728
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Primary pulmonary synovial sarcoma: a rare case report

Sumalatha Kasturi, Santhosh Babu Rendla, Sreenivas Vemula, Shanmuga Raju P

1729-1731
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A rare presentation of dengue fever: acute motor quadriparesis due to hypokalemia

Jitendra Singh, Ambukeshwar Singh, Anju Dinkar, Virendra Atam

1732-1734
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Clinical rabies: is cure possible?

Mithun C Mohan, Sudeep K, Nived ., Pramod V K, Ajith Kumar, Prasanna Kv S, Narayanan P V

1735-1739
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Anomalous branching pattern of common hepatic artery: a case report

Sushant S. Das, Babita Pangtey, Sabita Mishra

1740-1742
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Unusual branching pattern of external carotid artery in the left carotid triangle

Gangadhara ., Shakuntala Rao N, Manivannan K, Krishna Rao H R

1743-1745
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‘WhatsApp’ as an adjunct to home based pin tract care: a case report

Ganesh Singh Dharmshaktu, Irfan Khan

1746-1747
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Gasping infant for emergency neck exploration, anaesthesiologist’s nightmare!

Supriya R. Palsodkar, Anjali R. Bhure, Heena D. Pahuja, Neha K. Fuladi

1748-1750
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Mucinous carcinoma of breast with neuroendocrine differentiation: a rare case report with review of literature

D. Anuradha, A. Bhagya Lakshmi

1751-1754
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Idiopathic gynaecomastia in twins: a case report

S.V. Kumar, K. Lakshmi Kumari, P.V.S.S. Vijaya Babu, K. Asha Latha, P. Kusuma Kumari

1755-1757
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Co-existence of Riche-Cannieu communications and Berretinni communications

Aarti Rohilla, Jyoti Rohilla, Kamal Singh, Gopal Gupta, Sudha Chhabra

1758-1760
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Case of foreign body as a broom handle in the rectum

Vikash Lal, Pranav Narayan, B. Mahapatra, S. Deolekar, Vivek Patil, A. Panchal

1761-1762
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Scrotal cystocele presenting with renal failure

Vikash Lal, Ashish Dhande, Pranav Narayan

1763-1764
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Valproic acid induced pancreatitis: a case report

Bhupen Barman, Niraj Kalotia, Tony Ete

1765-1767
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Vitamin B12 and folic acid deficiency presenting as acute febrile illness: a case report

Khwaja Saifullah Zafar, P.S. Singh, Vijay Kumar Verma, Vidyasagar Ram

1768-1770
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Plexiform neurofibromatosis of vulva

Bharat B. Dogra, Shamshad Ahmed, Ashwani Kandari, Rohit Virmani

1771-1773
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Exacerbation of hypereosinophilic syndrome with pulmonary involvement in two consecutive pregnancies: a case report and review of the literature

Itai Ghersin, Nizar Elias, Gleb Slobodin, Majed Odeh

1774-1776
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Bilateral phyllodes tumor of the breast in a young nulliparous woman

Rajesh K. Soni, Ajit Sinha, Abhishek Kunal, Arun Anand

1777-1779
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Origin of accessory left hepatic artery from left gastric artery

B.R. Chaitra, K.R. Dakshayani

1780-1782
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A rare case of bilateral bifid ribs: a case report

Vivek A. Patil, Vikash Lal, Tanveer P. Shaikh, Pranav Narayan, Sandesh Deolekar

1783-1784
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Bilateral high division of sciatic nerve

K. Shwetha, KR Dakshayani

1785-1787
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Hemichorea as a presentation of acute rheumatic fever: a case report

Khwaja Saifullah Zafar, P.S. Singh, N. A. Wafai

1788-1790
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Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis- a morphological curio or a pitfall for surgeons: report of two cases and literature review

Anjali N. Bode, Sandhya V. Poflee, Nandu P. Pande P, Anuradha V. Shrikhande

1791-1794
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Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: a rare case report with uncommon imaging findings and discussion

Rajeev Ranjan, Arnab Banerjee, Ramita Sarkar, Niladri Sarkar

1795-1798
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Other

Human papilloma virus vaccination: practical guidelines

Kiran Yadav, Kaushal Yadav, Sabhyata Gupta

1799-1803
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Dengue fever: atypical manifestation

Nataraj Gangasiddaiah, Nagaraj Nanjundaiah

1804-1806
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