{"title":"One face, two oral cavities.","authors":"Shilpi Karmakar, Saradha Ramani, Brijesh Mishra","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_753_2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_753_2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 5","pages":"292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143426858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal subtleties of the Indian Assisted Reproductive Technology Act of 2021.","authors":"Richa Mishra, Sahil Thakral","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_785_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_785_2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infertility is a widespread medical issue that profoundly affects couples, subjecting them to a roller coaster of emotions often marked by grief and loss. For many, the natural occurrence of conception holds a sense of miraculous success, often overshadowing the prospects of surrogacy or assisted reproductive technology (ART). Diverse factors contribute to infertility, including unidentified causes, age-related concerns, lifestyle choices and medical conditions. ART treatments are vital in aiding infertile couples facing these challenges. The Government of India introduced The ART (Regulation) Act, 2021, which brought much-anticipated regulation to reproductive practices. The Act's primary objectives are to oversee ART clinics and banks, ensuring the ethical and safe delivery of services while preventing potential abuse. However, it falls short in addressing critical issues related to the equal rights of LGBTQIA+ community, single fathers and unmarried couples residing together. These omissions are important. We discuss how the ART Act contradicts the principles of equal rights and the existing legal stance on the rights of same-sex couples. Although the Act brings regulation to the industry, it simultaneously gives rise to a range of legal issues, encompassing rights, scientific advancements, international surrogacy, obligations and moral dilemmas. The focus on equal rights for all, irrespective of sexual orientation or relationship status, remains a pivotal aspect that must be addressed in the context of reproductive regulations.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 5","pages":"272-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143426846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does prescription of physical activity matter at primary care?","authors":"Anam Anil Alwani, Harshal Ramesh Salve","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1020_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_1020_2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 5","pages":"257-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143426784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bheru Dan Charan, Ashish Gangwal, Anu Bhandari, Kailash Meena, Savyasachi Jain
{"title":"Post-traumatic arterio-enteric fistula causing massive rectal bleed.","authors":"Bheru Dan Charan, Ashish Gangwal, Anu Bhandari, Kailash Meena, Savyasachi Jain","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_892_2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_892_2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 5","pages":"295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143426859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sujata Devi, Debasish Das, Debasis Acharya, Tutan Das, Sashikant Singh, Jaideep DAS Gupta, Subhas Pramanik
{"title":"Scrub typhus presenting as mitral valve infective endocarditis.","authors":"Sujata Devi, Debasish Das, Debasis Acharya, Tutan Das, Sashikant Singh, Jaideep DAS Gupta, Subhas Pramanik","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_295_21","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_295_21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scrub typhus presenting as infective endocarditis of the mitral valve is rare. There are few reports of infective endocarditis by scrub typhus with just one previous report of involvement of the aortic valve. An 18-year-old woman presented with prolonged fever for 1 month. Her repeated blood cultures were negative. She was finally diagnosed to have scrub typhus with scrub typhus IgM being positive and became afebrile with prolonged oral doxycycline monotherapy. Although atypical organisms such as Legionella, Mycoplasma and Coxiella are described to cause culture-negative endocarditis, vegetations were present on both the anterior and posterior mitral valve leaflets in our patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 4","pages":"203-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scrub typhus presenting with massive splenomegaly and lobar pneumonia.","authors":"Jonnalagadda Vihari, Adurty Aditya, A Vamsi Krishna, Thammineni Roja, Manasa Elika, Uppu Pooja","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1001_2021","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_1001_2021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scrub typhus is still an underdiagnosed disease despite an increase in incidence as the clinical presentation is often different, leading to a low index of suspicion among doctors. Scrub typhus, an acute febrile disease, is a cause of prolonged fever and pyrexia of unknown origin. It can have varied clinical presentations ranging from mild asymptomatic disease to fatal multi-organ dysfunction. Splenomegaly in scrub typhus has been rarely reported. We report a 30-year-old man presenting with fever, hepatomegaly, massive splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy and lobar pneumonia. Tests for malarial parasite and enteric fever were negative. Bone marrow aspiration showed normal haematopoiesis. IgM scrub was positive. Upon serological confirmation, doxycycline therapy was started followed by a rapid and complete resolution of pneumonia (both clinically and radiologically), splenomegaly and lymphadenopathy. This highlights the importance of recognizing rare clinical manifestations of this common tropical disease. An early diagnosis is required as a delay may lead to complications and a poor outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 4","pages":"200-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edibe Nurzen Namli Bozkurt, S Nilay Uçarman, Ahmet Arslantürk, Alper Saribas, Derya Altun, Hamit Özsaraç, Hulya Simsek
{"title":"Evaluation of 3-year tuberculosis external quality assessment results of public health laboratories.","authors":"Edibe Nurzen Namli Bozkurt, S Nilay Uçarman, Ahmet Arslantürk, Alper Saribas, Derya Altun, Hamit Özsaraç, Hulya Simsek","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_287_2022","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_287_2022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Background We aimed to evaluate the 3-year participation status of tuberculosis (TB) laboratories in public health laboratories (PHL) tuberculosis external quality assessment (EQA) and EQA results. Method During 2018-2020, PHLs participated in the EQA programme organized annually by the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL). Five kinds of EQA samples were sent to the participating laboratories on three parameters, including microscopy, culture and phenotypic first-line drug susceptibility testing and they were asked to perform according to the standard protocol. The results were taken over by the Tuberculosis Laboratories Surveillance Network (TULSA) web system and analysed. Results A total of 24 PHLs participated in the EQA in 2018; 30 in 2019 and 23 in 2020. In terms of sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and reproducibility in microscopy, respectively, in 2018, 20 of the laboratories were 100%, 4 of them 80%, and in culture 16 of them were 100% and 2 of them 80%; in 2019, 28 of them were 100%, 2 of them 80%, and in culture 11 of them were 100%, 6 of them 80%, 1 of them 60%; in 2020, 20 of them were 100%, 3 of them 80%, and in culture 13 of them were 100% and 3 of them 80%. Conclusion It is beneficial for laboratories working on TB to participate in EQA in terms of evaluating the accuracy and reliability of the method used.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 4","pages":"191-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Smita Hegde, Rajat Hegde, Madhuri D Biradar, Suyamindra S Kulkarni, Pramod B Gai
{"title":"G>A transition at 376 position of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) gene plays a key role in causing G6PD deficiency in the Siddi population of Karnataka.","authors":"Smita Hegde, Rajat Hegde, Madhuri D Biradar, Suyamindra S Kulkarni, Pramod B Gai","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_304_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_304_2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 4","pages":"233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dinesh Kumar, Md Sahil Reza, Reyaz Ansari, Utpal De
{"title":"Malignant transformation in giant sebaceous cysts: Uncommon but not impossible.","authors":"Dinesh Kumar, Md Sahil Reza, Reyaz Ansari, Utpal De","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_550_2024","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_550_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"37 4","pages":"234-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}