High values of both preoperative and postoperative cardiac troponin I (cTnI) contribute to higher rates of short-term cardiac events following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The prognostic value of very early cTnI…
Routine use of adjunctive devices to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the treatment of patients of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is questionable. Also, the clinical characteristics of STEMI patients that can modulate the treatment benefits of adjunctive devices are…
Severe pneumonia in children under 5 years of age continues to be an important clinical entity with treatment failure rates as high as 20%. Where severe pneumonias are common, predictive tools for treatment failure like chest radiography and pulse oximetry…
To determine the prevalence of elevated blood lead levels (EBLL i.e blood lead >10 micrograms/dL, Centers Disease Control criteria) in children with encephalopathy. SETTING: Hospital. DESIGN: Case control study. PARTICIPANTS: 100 children, 49 with encephalopathy and 51 consecutive hospital controls.…
No Abstract available. MCH Community Newsletter August 2008. By: Patel AB, Badhoniya N, Dibley MJ Download Paper
International multicentric study at nine tertiary care centres. OBJECTIVE: The World Health Organization (WHO) currently does not recommend chest radiographs (CXRs) for routine management of pneumonia. We evaluated the use of CXR for the prediction of treatment failure in children…
Cohort study at a tertiary care hospital. OBJECTIVE: To assess the potential use of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-G) in monitoring clinical response to anti-tuberculosis treatment. DESIGN: We conducted a cohort study of 76 active pulmonary tuberculosis patients with serial testing…
No Abstract available. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008;12:1102. By: Katiyar SK, Bihari S, Prakash S, Mamtani M, Kulkarni H Download Paper
Iron chelators have dramatically prolonged the life expectancy of patients with transfusion-dependent thalassaemia, but their precise clinical benefit in reducing the myocardial iron burden and improving cardiac function is unknown. This systematic review and meta-analysis included published clinical trials that…