ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
PANCYTOPENIA-Clinico-Hematological Study in a Capital City of Telangana State -India
Majed Momin, Abhijeet Ingle, Anamika Aluri, K.M. Reddy G, B Saroj Kumar Prusty
Page no 397-405 |
10.36348/sjmps.2018.v04i04.005
Pancytopenia is the simultaneous presence of anaemia, leucopenia and thrombocytopenia. The etiology ranging from non-neoplastic, neoplastic to fatal leukemias. The management and prognosis depends both on the severity of pancytopenia and on the nature of underlying etiology. Thus identification of cause is the key to appropriate management. To study the clinical presentations, diagnosis and evaluation of various causes of pancytopenia by hematological parameters including bone marrow aspiration. It was prospective study. One hundred and fifty cases of Pancytopenia evaluated clinically with hematological parameters and bone marrow aspiration in a Yashoda hospital, Malakpet, Hyderabad, during period of January 2014 to February 2017. Out of 150 cases, age of patients ranged from 2 to 85 years with a mean age of 43 years. There was male preponderance. Fever and generalized weakness was common clinical presentation. The commonest physical finding was pallor and splenomegaly on systemic examination. The commonest peripheral smear was dimorphic picture & commonest bone marrow finding was hypercellular marrow with megaloblastic erythroid hyperplasia. The commonest cause for pancytopenia was Megaloblastic anemia (34%) followed by Hematolymphoid malignancy (26.6%). This study showed that clinical history, detail primary hematological investigations along with bone marrow aspiration, biopsy imprint in cytopenia patients are helpful to diagnose and to rule out the causes of pancytopenia. Megaloblastic anemia is commonest cause of pancytopenia in most indian and continent studies. Present study also shows increase in incidance of HLH (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis) and MDS are among emerging causes of pancytopenia and nutritional diet rich in vit B12 and folic acid prevents majority cause of pancytopenia in india.
CASE REPORT | April 30, 2018
Isolated Spinal Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis is a Close Mimic of Pott’s Disease in the Tropics
Solangaarachchige Anushika Luckmy, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Navaneethakrishnan Suganthan, Selvaratnam Gowry, Sheyamalan Pathmini, Niluka Ranathunga
Page no 121-123 |
10.21276/sjpm.2018.3.4.5
Spinal tuberculosis (pott’s disease) is a common manifestation of
extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Spinal langerhans cell histiocytois is also a granulomatous
condition which can resemble pott’s disease in many aspects.In the tropics where pott’s
disease is common, diagnosis of spinal langerhans cell histiocytois may be masked. We
describe a case of recurrent langerhans cell histiocytosis with a long lag period whereas
the first presentation was compatible with spinal langerhans cell histiocytosis on
retrospective analysis. This case highlights the importance of high index suspicion of
langerhans cell histiocytois in the tropical medicine.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
To Know the Prevalence of HPV and HSV Infection in Patients Presenting with Vaginal Discharge at Index Medical College, Indore
Priyanka Sachdev, Arun Saxena
Page no 182-185 |
10.36348/sjm.2018.v03i04.015
HPV being the most important risk factor, needs to be evaluated in all the regions of the country since the prevalence of HPV and its genotypes are different in the populations from different geographical regions. Its assessment at various stages of the disease will also be helpful in understanding its role in cervical cancer pathogenesis. The present series of work entitled as “Study of cytodiagnosis of discharge per vaginum with specific reference to HPV and HSV at Index Medical College, Indore” was undertaken to detect cervical lesions of female genital tract and prevalence of HPV and HSV by means of exfoliative cytology. Out of 1542, 9 cases showed cytomorphological features of HPV and 2 cases showed cytomorphological features of HSV. All 11 cases were found to be associated with multiple risk factors. In this study, epithelial cell abnormality are more common in hindu (85.19%). In muslims, it is only (14.81%).
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Epidemiology of Helicobacter Associated Diseases of Gastrointestinal Tract in Uzbekistan. The Local Treatment Protocols
Dusanova NM, Karimov MM, Ismailova JA, Saatov ZZ
Page no 124-127 |
10.21276/sjpm.2018.3.4.6
This paper devoted to the results of Helicobacter pylori infection spreading in
Uzbekistan, its molecular-genetic characteristics, antibiotic resistance. It is shown that
Uzbekistan belongs to the regions with a high degree of infection of the population of
the HP. Pathogenic Cag positive bacterial strains were associated with chronic
Helicobacter pylori associated gastritis. The resistance of HP to clarithromycin in the
region was 13.3%. The effectiveness of the 7-day eradication triple therapy was 65%.
Prolongation of the period of eradication therapy to 14 days and the inclusion of a
complex of therapies of bismuth preparations allowed increasing the effectiveness of
therapy to 95%.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Study of Clinical Profile of Cardiomyopathy at Tertiary Care Centre
Neha Bhargava, Ram Awatar Rawat
Page no 169-172 |
10.36348/sjm.2018.v03i04.012
Breathlessness and Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnoea (PND) is a common cause of emergency visit in our country. Cardiomyopathy is among most common cause of Breathlessness and Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnoea (PND). The disease is often misdiagnosed and mistreated. There are very few studies on Cardiomyopathies from India. To evaluate clinical and demographic profile of patients with cardiomyopathy. We undertook this study in a tertiary care Medical College of North India. It is retrospective observational study of 80 patients. Routine echocardiography was done to diagnose cardiomyopathy. Patients with DCM were then evaluated as per protocol. We had a total of 80 patients in our study with a male: female ratio of 50:30. Most patients were aged over 40 years. The most common type of cardiomyopathy is Idiopathic CMP
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Xanthogranulomatous Appendicitis: an Unusual Pattern of Appendiceal Inflammation
Rana Shaker AL-Zaidi
Page no 115-120 |
10.21276/sjpm.2018.3.4.4
Xanthogranulomatous inflammation is an unusual destructive chronic
inflammatory process that involves various organs & tissues particularly gallbladder
(xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis) & kidney (xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis).
Xanthogranulomatous appendicitis (XA) is a rare form of appendiceal inflammation
that has been regarded as an unusual healing pattern of appendicitis associated with
delayed or interval appendectomy. It poses a significant diagnostic challenge because it
can mimic clinically, radiologically, & even pathologically malignant tumors as well as
other inflammatory processes of appendix. Little information has been written in the
literature regarding this entity. In this review article, data have been collected from all
the previously reported cases in the literature including my observation in a XA case I
have diagnosed.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Cost Recovery Impact on National Budget (APBN) and Oil and Gas Shared Fund (DBH)
Kasman Arifin ZA
Page no 394-400 |
10.21276/sjbms.2018.3.4.4
The purposes of this research are to empirically analyse and examine the
cost recovery impact on national budget (APBN) and state shared fund (DBH).The
analysis of this research unit is on upstream of oil and gas industry which is managed
by the Indonesian government with Production Sharing Contract for 44 companies.
The population of this research comprises operators of Production Sharing Contract
and the body of government that manages oil & gas or that is called “SKKMIGAS”
consisting of 62 persons of manager level, 51 professionals, and 18 researchers from a
university. The researcher also uses secondary data obtained from “SKKMIGAS” in
1984 to 2014 documents. The results of this research indicate the variable which has
big impact on state shared fund is recovery cost, and the variable which does not have
any impact on national budget is recovery cost.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Correlation Analysis of Immunological Status and Clinical Parameters with Their Histological Subtype during the Treatment of Leprosy Patients
Vallamreddy Siva Kota Reddy, Vaheda Begam Korrapadu
Page no 99-104 |
10.21276/sjpm.2018.3.4.1
Leprosy is a skin disease affecting also the nerves was caused by
Mycobacterium leprae. Multidrug therapy (MDT) cures the infection, but
immunological reactions may occur and neuropathy may lead to disability and
deformity. The current study aimed to understand the immune status of the patient
before and after treatment by correlating histological subtype and peripheral blood
lymphocyte count. Total number of 35 cases was studied. Blood samples were taken
from the patients and complete blood picture was done before instituting the MDT
including TLC and DLC. After 6 months of treatment, patients were followed up with
complete blood picture. In lepromatous leprosy group (BL+LL) total mean WBC
count was increased with 11,414 (range 7,000- 22,600 mm3) above the range of
normal limits before treatment. It was in the mean normal range after treatment with
8514 (range 5,900- 11,000mm3). Lymphocyte count has increased after treatment.
After the treatment, there is considerable increase in lymphocyte count. It was in the
range of 34% to 42% with a mean value of 38.1%.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Predicting Significant Hyperbilirubinemia in Healthy Term New-borns, Using First Day Bilirubin Level
Ratnesh Khare, Sharad Thora, Aarti Sahasrabuddhe
Page no 130-135 |
10.36348/sjm.2018.v03i04.004
The aim of this study was to determine critical predictive serum bilirubin value on first day (24 hrs) of life which can screen healthy term newborns at risk of developing significant hyperbilirubinemia. This was a prospective study conducted at "Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital Indore" between August 2008 and September 2009. Serum bilirubin estimation was done by Van Den Berg method to know total and direct reacting bilirubin. We believe that data from this study could be applied to babies at low risk and specially will help to screen babies who may develop neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (NNHB) inspite ruling out risk factors. This group mainly represent in which hyperbilirubinemia is due to- increased enterohepatic circulation, breast milk jaundice, hypothyroidism, drugs, galactosemia, Crigler-Najjar syndrome, Gilbert syndrome, infection etc.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Retrospective Study of Cholecystectomy Specimens
Dr. Gayathri Devi Thanigaimani, Dr. Hemalatha Ganapathy
Page no 105-108 |
10.21276/sjpm.2018.3.4.2
Surgical resection of gall bladder is a common surgery and the most
common indication for it, is inflammation. Incidental diagnosis of malignancy in such
specimens changes the entire perspective of future management for the patient as gall
bladder carcinoma is a malignancy with poor prognosis and high fatality. The aim of
the study is to study the clinicopathological to study the clinic pathological correlation
of the cholecystectomy specimens received in our pathology laboratory. This was a
retrospective study over a period of 2 years from June 2015 to May 2017. The case
reports were reviewed and data collected. The age and sex incidence, the presenting
complaint with duration, the investigations done, the clinical diagnosis and
histological diagnosis were analysed. A total of 200 cases of gall bladder were
received in the lab during the study period. About 65% were women and the age
group commonly involved was 40 to 60yrs. The most common presenting symptom
was right upper quadrant pain. The clinical diagnosis correlated with the
histopathological diagnosis in 99% of patients while it was different in two cases
(1%). Both the cases were adenocarcinoma of gall bladder diagnosed incidentally
during histopathological examination. Though the two patients had had CT done
preoperatively, gall bladder malignancy was diagnosed histopathologically only. This
stresses the importance of meticulous examination of gall bladder specimens and the
importance of examining the surgically resected margins of the gall bladders.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
To Assess Intraoperative requirement of Opiod Analgesia at MGM Medical College, Indore
Ravi Barde, Jitendra Zilve
Page no 178-181 |
10.36348/sjm.2018.v03i04.014
The increasing number of opioid users among chronic pain patients, and opioid abusers among the general population, makes perioperative pain management challenging for health care professionals. Anesthesiologists, surgeons, and nurses should be familiar with some pharmacological phenomena which are typical of opioid users and abusers, such as tolerance, physical dependence, hyperalgesia, and addiction. Further clonidine also reduces intraoperative requirement of opioid analgesics as compared to normal saline group. Total amount of rescue analgesia needed in 24 hour was also significantly less in clonidine group as compared to placebo group. Intraoperatively more fentanyl required in placebo group as compared to clonidine group (p<0.05).
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Object-Oriented Design (OOD) Consideration in the Design and Deployment of Agent-Based Patient Appointment and Scheduling System (APASS): A Case of University of Calabar Medical Center
Ele, Sylvester I, Ofem OA, Obono I. Ofem
Page no 228-237 |
10.21276/sjeat.2018.3.4.4
The University Medical Center which currently runs a manual system for
the management and maintenance of its critical information also operate an
Outpatient Department in which non-urgent patients arrives for consultation with the
problem of patients‘ long waiting time. This scenario has resulted to certain
impediment ion terms of service rendering, including difficulty in accessing data due
to improper keeping of patient details; delay in attending to patients on emergency
which could lead to case complications as well as death of the patient; Lack of an
effective Doctor-Patients appointment coordination; and more so, the few Doctors
and Nurses could be overworked. The aim of this research project is to develop an
Agent-Based Appointment Management System that will improve the medical
center‘s efficiency in health services provision and reduce outpatient waiting time
without adding extra resources. With the introduction of appointment system, the
result has shown that average waiting time could be reduced by thirty-seven to forthfour percent as compared to the current status. Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Methodology (OOAD) were adopted in the design for the Design and development of
the proposed system. The proposed system was implemented using PHP, AJAX,
HTML programming technologies. MYSQL was used as the database engine in
XAMP server. The hospital appointment and scheduling system was tested using
several test data by stakeholders and error correction was carried out.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
Impact of Multidisciplinary Team Approach in the Management of Diabetic Foot for a Favourable Outcome
Kumar Srinivasan, Ambikavathy M
Page no 119-124 |
10.36348/sjm.2018.v03i04.002
Lower extremity amputation is performed to remove ischemic, infected, necrotic tissue or locally unresectable tumor, and at times, is a life-saving procedure. Peripheral artery disease, alone or in combination with diabetes mellitus, contributes more than half of all amputations; trauma is the second leading cause. Lower extremity amputations are common debilitating complications in patients with diabetes mellitus. Our aim was to analyse the various causes for lower extremity amputations, assess the complications and amputation rates in patients with diabetes mellitus and to identify risk groups for lower extremity amputations that can be focussed for preventive treatment at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and research centre, Bangalore. This retrospective audit was conducted jointly in the Dept of General Surgery & Dept of Medicine, VIMS&RC, a super speciality teaching hospital in south India, between Jan 2011 and Dec 2014. Case files of patients who underwent lower extremity amputations were retrieved from the institution medical records section and data analysed for demography, clinical presentation of diabetics, other causes for amputation such as vascular disorders, kidney disorders, malignancy and diabetic ulcer/ infections of the foot, and post-operative morbidity and mortality. 137 patients were amputated, of which 120(87.59%) males and 17(12.40%) females (table-1, fig-1). 82(59.85%) patients were diabetic and 55(40.14%) non diabetic patients which included twenty three peripheral vascular disease (16.78%), osteosarcoma 16(11.67%), crush injuries 9(6.56%) and elephantiasis 3(2.18%) (fig-3). Of the 82 diabetics males were 65(79.26%) and females 17(20.73%) (Table-2). Foot infections and chronic renal disease preceded amputation in patients with diabetes. Diabetic women were older than the men when amputated, diabetic men underwent multiple amputations both minor and major, had severe foot infections compared to the women. 90 % of all diabetes-related amputations were preceded by foot ulcers leading to ischaemic gangrene. Various interventions the patient underwent ranged from wound debridement to revision amputation ( table-3,fig-4)The number of diabetics attending the diabetic foot clinic increased over the years showing the impact of awareness programmers and counselling about the disease (fig-2).The complications of diabetic foot infections ranged from cellulitis to gangrene (table-4,fig-5) There was 50% reduction in the rate of amputations performed above the ankle in patients with diabetes during the year 2014( table-6)) as most of them were referred to the multidisciplinary foot team in our diabetic clinic prior to the decision of amputation. There was no mortality in the study. The gradual decrease in rate of major amputations is due to an active implementation of the consensus guidelines of foot care in the diabetic clinic and awareness of the patients to get themselves examined and treated for foot problems early. Diabetic foot complications and diabetic nephropathy when identified early in diabetics can prevent major lower extremity amputations.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
The Characteristics Houses in the Urban Settlement of the Kahayan's Riverbank in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan
Sri Pare Eni
Page no 204-218 |
10.21276/sjeat.2018.3.4.2
As we have known from the Ancient History of Human Beings that for
their survival of Life, People are always live closely to the water. It is because water
is a basic need for Human Beings. For this reason, People build their houses along the
River's banks or on the beaches. Based on this Philosophy, we have seen along the
Kahayan's River Bank at the Central Kalimantan in Indonesia, there are the
settlements on it. For having more accurate data, we also made some interviews to the
People, who live in this settlement. We also made some Interviews to the some
officials of the Local Government of Central Kalimantan. We also have made Library
Research for having more clearly of its Research and to make it accomplished. We
have found that, in this Urban Settlement, there are Three Characteristics Houses at
the Kahayan's River Bank – Central Kalimantan. Due to the Natural Conditions, the
People of its region have built their houses by adopting its surrounding/natural
conditions. The Houses are the Floating‟s Houses located really on the River; The
Scaffolding‟s Houses/the Upraised Platform Houses located between the River and
the Land/ Water and Soil; The Ordinary‟s Houses located on the earth/ground/soil.
Focusing on how the People of this Region fulfill their needs in adopting the
Nature's/Environment's condition. We have tried to understand and distributing this
knowledge by explaining their characteristics of the houses from these elements, such
as the Location; the Materials of the Buildings; How People Live in it; the Layout of
the Houses; the Infrastructure; the Transportation; Trade and Commerce; the
Problems of the Settlement and also the impact to the River. We give also the
solution of the problems. The purpose this report we would like to sharing our
knowledge to the German alumni, UKI, University of Palangka Raya and also we
would like to give this report to the local‟s government authority.
RESEARCH ARTICLE | April 30, 2018
The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in Project Procurement in the Kenyan Public Sector
Bett Kiprotich Emmanuel, Sang Paul
Page no 325-331 |
10.36348/sb.2018.v04i04.002
The public sectors play an active role through its involvement in the execution and delivery of public projects in order to improve the quality of life of the citizens. The kind of procurement method used in securing a project is vital to the success of a given project. The stakeholder’s input should be taken in accordance with their particular concern on different project definition elements, so that their involvement reflects the degree of their importance and relevance to the project. This review sought to establish the role of stakeholder engagement in project procurement in the Kenyan public sector. The study found that stakeholders are vital to the ethical decision making in project procurement and ultimately the successful completion of a project because their unwillingness to continuously support the vision or objectives of the project leads many projects to fail. Therefore, there is a need to engage the stakeholder in the project as early as possible to determine the need and capture stakeholder inputs in such projects.