OBJECTIVE The objective is to see how chronic tinnitus sufferers who are unmanageable to maximized medical therapy can benefit by decreasing their subjective complaints from a sleep evaluation and treatment. However, the proper identification of these particular patients has not been described well in the literature when attempting to correlate these 2 diagnoses. Thus, tinnitus patients with an...

Acute pancreatitis is one of the common encountered disorders in common surgical practice. In recent times management has changed dramatically with majority of decisions like role of antibiotics, use of Ryle’s tube, nutrition etc. Ranson’s and APACHE II scoring systems are the two major scoring systems to predict the severity of disease, but the efficacy between the two scoring systems still re...

INTRODUCTION BODE index, a multidimensional grading system which is based on Body mass index, airway Obstruction, Dyspnea scale, and Exercise capacity, has been increasingly used for the evaluation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Many of the systemic manifestations of COPD are shown to be mediated by elevated levels of proinflammatory biomarkers. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investi...

BACKGROUND The appropriate medical treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis is determined largely by the severity of symptoms. Hospital assessment of the severity of disease activity includes investigation of laboratory indices and sigmoidoscopic assessment of mucosal inflammation. AIMS To develop a simplified clinical colitis activity index to aid in the initial evaluation of exacerbati...

BACKGROUND Use of anticholinergic (ACH) medications is a biologically plausible and potentially modifiable risk factor of delirium, but research findings are conflicting regarding its association with delirium. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the longitudinal association between use of ACH medications and severity of delirium symptoms and to determine whether this association is modified by the presen...