Barriers to evidence based medicine practice in South Asia and possible solutions [2008] - 430KB
by R Agarwal, J Kalita, UK Misra
The South Asian countries share common health challenges with very poor health indicators in the world. This is primarily because of political apathy, poverty and staggering health infrastructure. In ...

Venous thromboembolism in ischaemic stroke in Asia [2008] - 457KB
by KS Tan, AR Rashid, CT Tan
Background: There are extensive studies indicating that deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism contributes to significant morbidity and mortality after acute ischaemic stroke in the West, with ...

Clinical profile of young-onset dementia: A study from Eastern India [2008] - 419KB
by SP Nandi, A Biswas, S Pal, S Basu, AK Senapati, SK Das
Young-onset dementia, defined as dementia occurring under the age of 65, is an increasingly recognized cause of morbidity and disability. There are few reports of the clinical profile of young-onset d...

Nocardia asteriods spinal osteomyelitis in an immunocompromised host from South India [2008] - 504KB
by MB Nagmoti, G Raviraj, B Sonali, MN Jyoti
The clinical presentation of nocardiosis is protean. Very few cases of spinal nocardiosis have been reported in the past. A 50 year old man, who was HIV seropositive presented with low grade fever and...

Parkinsonism due to isolated substantia nigra involvement in probable Japanese encephalitis [2008] - 743KB
by R Shukla, V Bajpai, H Mehta, S Gambhir, S Prakash, A Kumar Singh
Parkinsonism due to an isolated lesion of the substantia nigra following a febrile illness is a rare entity. Anecdotal reports in the literature implicate substantia nigra as peculiarly susceptible to...

Parkinsonian presentation of SSPE: Report of two cases [2008] - 402KB
by AK Misra, A Roy, SK Das
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a disease caused by defective measles virus. It is usually characterized by progressive dementia; incoordination and generalized myoclonic jerks. Although...

Familial transthyretin-related amyloid polyneuropathy in a Malaysian patient of ethnic Chinese descent [2008] - 813KB
by KJ Goh, JH Kim, BJ Kim, CT Tan
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy is commonly the result of deposition of variant transthyretin in nerves and other organs. Apart from the Val30Met variant commonly seen in endemic areas of familial amy...

Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, early diagnosis mandatory: Report of a case from North India [2008] - 1,218KB
by S Jha, M Khateeb, K Sonker
A 30 year old male presented with insidious onset of painless swellings in tendons over 20 years, with learning difficulty, tremors, progressive instability of gait and frequent falls. There was no si...

Multiple sclerosis in Japan: Nationwide surveys over 30 years [2008] - 748KB
by J Kira, T Ishizu, M Osoegawa, The Research Committee of Neuroimmunological Diseases
There are two different phenotypes of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Asians: opticospinal (OSMS) and conventional (CMS). In Japan, four nationwide surveys of MS have been performed. The first three were i...

Multiple sclerosis in South East Asia and diagnostic criteria for Asians [2008] - 193KB
by HT Chong
Multiple sclerosis is an uncommon disease in Southeast Asia, having been characterised only recently. The estimated prevalence is about 2 – 3/105, with high female to male ratio, but rare family his...