A one year old female patient presented with abdominal mass. (Photo 1) On general examination, patient was having good general status and was afebrile. The weight was 10.2 kg (75 percentile) and height was 76 cm (90 percentile). Patient had pallor but had good appetite and normal bowel functions. On abdominal examination, the liver was palpable, which is 7.5 cm below the costal margins and sple...

We present a 3-year-old female born of a consanguineous marriage with the complaints of high-grade fever, petechial spots, abdominal distension, and lymphadenopathy for 20 days. She had pallor, hypopigmented hairs, petechial rashes, and palpable lymph nodes (up to 1 cm) in the bilateral inguinal and cervical region. Systemic examination revealed hepatosplenomegaly. Her hematological profile was...

AGROUP OF AFRICAN GREY parrots kept indoors on the premises of a parrot breeder in the UK are being studied longitudinally over 3 years to monitor the effects of staged changes in husbandry on calcium metabolism. The study group consists of 100 healthy adult African grey parrots of known sex that were fed a seed diet for 12 months prior to the beginning of the study. Fecal samples were taken fr...

The study was conducted on 145 buffaloes brought to Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, LUVAS from Hisar and adjoining villages, with signs of anorexia and decreased milk yield. Urine samples from buffaloes were screened for ketosis using two tests (Rothera’s test and Keto-Diastix-strip test). The disease was confi rmed in 24 buffaloes as primary ketosis on the basis of clinical signs (select...

We present a statistical path analysis model for the evaluation of two tests in the absence of a "gold standard" method. This model is applied to the evaluation of flow-cytometric and visual reticulocyte counting by using as the comparison method a combination of three hematological measurements: hemoglobin concentration (HGB), mean cellular volume (MCV), and erythrocyte density width (EDW). We...

Diabetes mellitus has been a metabolic disorder characterized by interferences in the breakdown of carbohydrate, lipid, and protein as result insulin deficiency. Great efforts are ongoing understanding management diabetes, disease related complication. In this work, an attempt was made to study hematological hypoglycemic effects Annona muricata ripe fruits pulp Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diab...

Background: Covid-19 was fulminant and had a rapid spread in China many other areas around the globe. This is life threatening problem at present as it causes severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus (SARS-CoV). Aim: To explore diagnostic value of hematological parameters COVID-19 patients. Study Design: Comparative Cross-Sectional Study. Methodology: Patients (n=200) having were enrolled...

SUMMARY This case report focuses on a 71-year old patient affected by unknown dyspnea and erythrocytosis referred by his general practitioner to our center for specialist advice after a hematological examination had excluded polycythemia vera on grounds of negative test for JAK2 V617F/exon 12 mutation. An accurate clinical history and physical examination accompanied by respiratory function tes...

Adalimumab is commonly used to treat autoimmune diseases with few reported hematological adverse reactions. We herein describe the case of an 85-year-old Japanese man with plaque psoriasis who developed autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) after 3 years of adalimumab treatment. The patient suddenly developed hematuria and dyspnea on exertion while receiving adalimumab treatment. Laboratory data s...

Materials and methods: In this study, 608 patients (397 male and 211 female) admitted to a smoking cessation clinic to quit smoking between 1 January 2006 and 1 June 2010 were investigated. Routine biochemical and hematological tests, pulmonary function tests, exhaled carbon monoxide levels, electrocardiographs, and chest X-rays were obtained from all of the patients. Th e questionnaire forms, ...