Level-headed

Monitoring Antiepileptic Drugs: A Level-Headed Approach

Despite advances in epilepsy therapeutics, some physicians feel uncomfortable with newer antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) due to difficulty in promptly obtaining blood levels to guide medication adjustment, and even when levels for newer AEDs are obtained, many practitioners feel they are not very useful. Lacking confidence in AEDs whose levels that cannot readily or expeditiously be measured, many c...

A double-headed polyp

A 50-year-old man was seen as an outpatient for isolated, minimal and intermittent lower gastrointestinal bleeding. He had a history of well-controlled hypertension and diabetes. During his colonoscopy, a polyp with two heads that shared a common long and large stalk was encountered in the sigmoid colon (Fig. 1A). The heads were approximately 2 cm and 3 cm in size. Because of their overall size...

A Double-Headed Monster

A Double-Headed Monster

A double-headed monster was born in the Railway Hospital, Samastipur, on 5th July, 1948. It is an interesting case because of its rarity; the photograph (plate XXII) tells its own story. Dr. Mody, in his jurisprudence, gives a picture of such monster without any detail. The woman was a sweeper by caste, second para, and fairly well built. She came to hospital in a precarious condition, having b...

SORTILIN: many headed hydra.