To study the efficacy of the ultrafast Papanicolaou (UFP) staining technique for immediate cytologic diagnosis, to check specimen adequacy during radiologically guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) procedures and to objectively assess the quality of UFP stain and factors affecting…
Abstract not available Int J Lab Hematol, 2010: 33(1):113-5. By: Mamtani M, Chatterjee N, Mishra A, Soni R, Jawahirani A, Das K, Rughwani V, Shrivastava M, Kulkarni H Download Paper
Abstract not available. Eur Respir J 2010; 36(3):679-81. By: Katiyar SK, Sampath A, Bohari S, Mamtani M, Kulkarni H Download Paper
Zinc supplementation is recommended in all acute diarrheas in children from developing countries. We aimed to assess whether zinc supplementation would be equally effective against all the common organisms associated with acute diarrheas. We used data on 801 children with…
For over a decade, the importance of zinc in the treatment of acute and persistent diarrhea has been recognized. In spite of recently published reviews, there remain several unanswered questions about the role of zinc supplementation in childhood diarrhea in…
Reports on the association of polymorphisms in the gene encoding apolipoprotein E (APOE)—a vital macromolecule in cholesterol metabolism—with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have provided conflicting results. Our objective was to meta-analytically synthesize the existing evidence for the association of the…
In humans, the muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) signal is challenging to detect, record and analyze. Several methods exist that attempt to capture the latent construct of MSNA. We directly compared the performance of five MSNA parameters: burst frequency, burst…
To assess if early revascularization offers any survival benefit in patients with cardiogenic shock (CS) complicating acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who are > or = 75 years of age. BACKGROUND: CS after AMI continues to pose formidable therapeutic challenges in…
Diarrhea causes an estimated 2.5 million child deaths in developing countries each year, 35% of which are due to acute diarrhea. Zinc and copper stores in the body are known to be depleted during acute diarrhea. Our objectives were to…
Zoledronate is a promising bisphosphonate that improves the bone mineral density by 0.69 standard deviations in thalassemia-induced osteoporosis, but the entire range of its actions and side effects is currently not fully understood. INTRODUCTION: Zoledronate is a promising bisphosphonate for…