Yearly Archives: 2017

Heart rate variability (HRV) is known to be impaired in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Time-domain analysis of ECG signals traditionally relies heavily on linear indices of an essentially non-linear phenomenon. Poincaré plots are commonly used to study non-linear…

It is being increasingly recognized that a majority of the countries in the thalassemia-belt need a cost-effective screening program as the first step towards control of thalassemia. Although the naked eye single tube red cell osmotic fragility test (NESTROFT) has…

No Abstract Available. Acta Haematol. 2006; 116: 223-5. By: Mamtani M, Jawahirani A, Das K, Rughwani V, Kulkarni H Download Paper

In spite of several available anthropometric indexes, the relative merit of these indexes for the prediction of type 2 diabetes remains unknown. Considering that obesity and diabetes commonly coexist as co-morbidities, our objective was to directly compare the performance of…

Considering the multigenic and multifactorial nature of the disease, we argue that a generalized bone marrow hyperplasia—and not merely erythroid hyperplasia—will occur in sickle cell disease. Consequently, we expect the hematological parameters to depict erythroid, myeloid as well as megakaryocyte…