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Sep 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2328-0182.japst-20-3526
Anbessa BekeleCorresponding author
Background Self-medication (SM) can be defined as the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms, or the intermittent or continued use of a prescribed drug for chronic or recurrent disease or symptoms. A number of individuals in developing countries do not attend physicians for their…
Jun 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-3585.jpmc-20-3416
Volkan Sarper ErikciCorresponding author
Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a rare disease characterized by the presence of mucofibrinous plugs which may occlude and conform the shape of tracheobronchial tree. These casts are exteremely cohesive. Most common presenting symptoms include cough, fever and dyspnea and if the cohesive casts occlude the…
Aug 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2470-5020.jnrt-19-2983
Léhleng AGBACorresponding author
Neurology Department, University Hospital Center of Kara, Kara University, PoBox 18 Kara (Togo)
Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, tetanus is frequently found in sub-Saharan Africa. Because of its rarity, this disease poses two problems for doctors of the 21st century: to make early diagnosis in order to refer patients to appropriate care structures, and to continue to ensure correc…
Dec 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2576-6694.jbbs-18-2489
Monica ButnariuCorresponding author
Essential oils, called volatile oils or ethereal oils, are natural metabolic secretions of plants, the role of which is not yet fully understood by science. Some specialists consider them to be true plant hormones, fluid manifestations of the immune system of plants, in the sense that they contribut…
Nov 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2766-869X.jfd-18-2276
Fatma CheikhrouhouCorresponding author
We report a case of a young woman with acquired immune deficiency syndrome admitted with fever and abdominal pain. Saccharomyces kluyveri was isolated in blood culture. She was successfully treated with fluconazole. This case demonstrates the pathogenicity of Saccharomyces Kluyveri in immunocompromi…
Aug 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-18-2262
Mrudula PhadkeCorresponding author
Sr. Adv. NHM, Mumbai, India
Objective: To analyse safety, tolerability, efficacy and logistic issues related to administration of 3 types of therapeutic feeds to children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) from tribal district of Nandurbar, Maharashtra. Design: A three arm open label, block randomized trial using 3 therapeut…
Jun 2016 DOI 10.14302/issn.2471-2175.jdrt-15-836
Samaneh AbiriCorresponding author
Cellulitis is an acute, spreading pyogenic inflammation of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue, usually complicating a wound, ulcer, or dermatosis. Inappropriate diagnosis of cellulitis is a problem and would need prospective rather than retrospective studies to quantify the extent. There is one nati…
Feb 2016 DOI 10.14302/issn.2574-4488.jna-15-712
Bassam BerniehCorresponding author
Background Dapagliflozin; the new oral hypoglycemic agent; is a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor that acts by inhibiting glucose reabsorption in the proximal tubule of the nephron. Main reported side effects are osmotic diuresis, dehydration, urinary tract and genital infections. Her…
Feb 2015 DOI 10.14302/issn.2578-2371.jslr-14-539
Mehdi SoufiCorresponding author
We present a rare case of a 46-year-old man who presented with recurrent fever and abdominal pain without other symptoms. Laboratory data were no specific for diagnosis. Abdominal imaging revealed a pseudotumor liver. A diagnosis of isolated liver tuberculosis with abscess component was confirmed wi…
Nov 2013 DOI 10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-13-266
Provash Chandra SadhukhanCorresponding author
Objective: Toanalyze the socio-economic pattern amongst HIV patients in eastern and north-eastern India as measured by different parameters such as educational status, wealth, marital status, sexual behaviour. Methods: This study involved 650 HIV seropositive individuals enrolled in a HIV Apex Clini…