Results More than 4000 determinations of ferritin requested by the study unit were performed between January 2004 and December 2007 by the central laboratory of the study hospital. Hyperferritinemia was found in 408 determinations in 87 patients. The most common specific diagnoses in patients with hyperferritinemia were the following: systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) (48.3%), syste...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the resistance pattern of tuberculosis cases. METHODS A descriptive study was done in two out patient referral clinics from January 1999 to March 2003. All TB cases that had cultures positive for mycobacterium tuberculosis were evaluated. RESULTS Data from 71 proven culture positive patients was available. Resistance to at least one antituberculous drug was found in 44...

BACKGROUND Patients' opinion regarding services has acquired great importance. Patient satisfaction is playing an increasingly important role in quality of care reforms and health-care delivery. The study aimed to measure patient satisfaction in a tertiary care hospital in order to know the patients' perspectives and expectations of the services and make appropriate improvements accordingly. ...

Imaging plays an essential part of chest trauma care. By definition, the employed imaging technique in the emergency setting should reach the correct diagnosis as fast as possible. In severe chest blunt trauma, multidetector computer tomography (MDCT) has become part of the initial workup, mainly due to its high sensitivity and diagnostic accuracy of the technique for the detection and characte...

Intensive care unit (ICU) sepsis in patients is a common clinical practice primarily in the tertiary care settings. Multidrug resistance to pathogens causing ICU sepsis is widespread, and it poses a severe threat to physicians in terms of managing their patients. At times, physicians get exposed to a pathogen they have never encountered before. Burkholderia cepacia infection in immunocompetent ...

UNLABELLED We describe a patient with salmonella enteritidis meningitis and unknown HIV infection. SETTING A 14-bed adult intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital.The patient was brought to the emergency department with fever, nuchal rigidity and confusion. A first cerebrospinal fluid examination was non diagnostic. After a short period of improvement the patient developed septic shock. A s...

BACKGROUND Proportion of elderly is increasing among the total population of Kerala, and mental health problems of this group are unique. OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical and sociodemographic profile of patients attending Psychogeriatric Clinic in a tertiary care center and to study the correlation of sociodemographic and clinical variables with psychiatric diagnoses in this population. MA...

BACKGROUND Anaemia is the commonest haematological disorder frequently faced by clinicians worldwide. The multi-factorial aetiology of the disorder warrants a comprehensive search for the different causes as management plans differ for different disorders. The objective of this study was to identify the different acquired causes of anaemia in our paediatric population. METHODS The study was c...

A Cross sectional data based study was performed on the demographics of patients labelled as rifampicin resistant using Genexpert® from the period of January 2014 to June 2015 at the Provincial TB reference Laboratory, Dow University of Health Sciences. The records of the patients diagnosed as rifampicin resistant by Genexpert® were tabulated using Microsoft Excel® with anonymization and analyz...