Introduction and Objective:Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with increased mortality morbidity. The disease severity multifactorial, co-morbid conditions advanced age are the most important risk factors. At present, there a sparsity in published data on CAP Sri Lankan adults adolescents. Aim of study to identify complications outcome CAP.Methods:A single center descriptive prosp...

Pleural calcification is a commonly encountered diagnostic finding in daily practice. A 55 year old male patient presented to us with chest pain for last 3 months. There was a past history of pleural effusion, for which he took ATT for six months. Physical examination was unremarkable. On investigation, ECG showed ST depression in inferior leads. Patient was treated as ischemic heart disease an...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy and practicality of a small-bore wire-guided chest drain for management of pleural space disease in dogs and cats. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 14 gauge chest drain was placed using a modified Seldinger technique in animals requiring ongoing management of pleural space disease. A questionnaire was used immediately after placement to collect data regarding the ea...

Pyothorax-associated lymphoma (PAL) is a newly-described entity developing several decades after artificial pneumothorax treatment for pulmonary or pleural tuberculosis. It is known to be associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) with constant expression of the two latent membrane proteins: latent membrane protein (LMP)-1 and EBV-associated nuclear antigen (EBNA)-2. We are reporting three new ca...

Case summary A 12-year-old domestic shorthair cat was presented with acute non-painful hindlimb proprioceptive ataxia localising to T3-L3 spinal cord segments. MRI revealed paravertebral muscular hyperintensity on T2-weighted images at the level of T7-T8 vertebrae. The cat improved on conservative management but deteriorated 3 months later. Repeated MRI showed meningeal enhancement at the same ...

INTRODUCTION Children engage in a high volume of sitting in school, particularly in the classroom. A number of strategies, such as physically active lessons (termed movement integration (MI)), have been developed to integrate physical activity into this learning environment; however, no single approach is likely to meet the needs of all pupils and teachers. This protocol outlines an implementat...

In a 3-year experiment, the effect of catch crop management [catch crop incorporated in autumn (A) or mulched (B) vs plots without a catch crop (C)] on soil acid (PAC) and alkaline (PAL) phosphatase activities as well as on the available phosphorus content (PAVAIL) were investigated on typical Alfisol. The catch crops were sown at the beginning of August and ploughed in the autumn in 2008, 2009...

PURPOSE To determine whether the use of progressive addition spectacle lenses reduced the progression of myopia, over a 2-year period, in Hong Kong children between the ages of 7 and 10.5 years. METHODS A clinical trial was carried out to compare the progression in myopia in a treatment group of 138 (121 retained) subjects wearing progressive lenses (PAL; add +1.50 D) and in a control group o...

Introduction In my previous report I discussed the realtime behaviour of electronic mixers capable of mixing a PAL with a VGA image, downconverting the mixed images to PAL format. We concluded that the behaviour, especially in the temporal domain, is suboptimal. If possible, we would like get better real-time behaviour. One possibility is to mix these images optically. This report discusses how...