68 Indian Journal of Gastroenterology 2005 Vol 24 March April A infection due to HCV results in a chronic course in 55% to 85% of cases.1 Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the leading causes of chronic liver disease, affecting about 170 million people worldwide.2 It is also a major cause of liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma and is the leading indication for liver tran...

We read with interest the article by Duszańska et al. [1] entitled ‘Predictors of successful iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm compression dressing repair’ recently published in the journal. The authors suggested that compression dressing repair (CPR) might serve as an alternative method of femoral pseudoaneurysm (FPA) management in patients with low forward and reverse velocities of the flow in pseudo...

INTRODUCTION Body packing takes advantage of the human storage capacity within the alimentary tract. Body packing is used for the smuggling of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, hashish and ecstasy. Most body packers are asymptomatic. However, packets may rupture or obstruct the alimentary tract. Preventive surgery has been recommended for body packers with package retention beyond 5-7...

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in pediatric stroke research. However few studies have addressed antithrombotic safety or effectiveness. Three paediatric stroke guidelines combining research data with expert consensus have been published in the past five years. For most patients treatment recommendations are consistent. Newborns with arterial ischaemic stroke (AIS) rarely require a...

istorical Aspect In 1827 Robert Adams was probably the first person to recognize Atrial Fibrillation (AF) clinically as a sign of mitral stenosis. Hope in 1839 identified irregular pulse in association with mitral stenosis. Etienne Marcy in 1863 published a tracing of atrial fibrillation from a patient with mitral stenosis. Arthur Cushney described it in 1899. Initially AF was termed as Deleriu...

Accessible online at: http://aorta.scienceinternational.org * Corresponding Author: Zvonimir Krajcer, MD Department of Cardiology Texas Heart Institute Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA Tel: +1 713 790 9401, Fax: +1 713 790 0353, E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract For patients with coarctation of the aorta (CoA), surgical intervention results in an overall survival rate nea...

Current therapy for hepatitis B has a limited effect and can rarely eradicate viral infection (normalization of ALT, nullification of HBV DNA, or seroconversion of HBsAg to anti-HBs). Progress in hepatitis B therapy over the last 5 years did not have much influence in this segment. Modifications in therapeutic indications for both acute and chronic hepatitis B presented below are based on stand...

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...