{"title":"Clean fuel-based interventions for reducing non- communicable disease burden at community level.","authors":"Pranav Sankar, Harshal Ramesh Salve","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1641_2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_1641_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"102-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532554","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":"Diagnosis and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.","authors":"Varshitha Tholasappa, Shyam Sundar Arumugham","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_511_2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_511_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"104-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532557","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":"Indian connection of Albert Einstein.","authors":"Sachi Sri Kantha","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_214_2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_214_2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532558","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":"Letter from Chennai.","authors":"M K Mani","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1628_2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_1628_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"124-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532564","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}
P Aravindhmozhi, Tanuj Moses Lamech, Charankumar Swamikkannu, Anila Abraham Kurien, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan
{"title":"Rifampicin-associated intravascular haemolysis causing acute kidney injury.","authors":"P Aravindhmozhi, Tanuj Moses Lamech, Charankumar Swamikkannu, Anila Abraham Kurien, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1479_2024","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_1479_2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drug-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) is a rare adverse effect of rifampicin, and is mostly related to acute tubular necrosis and acute interstitial nephritis. We report a sputum- positive, isoniazid mono-resistant, pulmonary tuberculosis patient who had a history of anti-tuberculous therapy (ATT) intake 30 years ago. The patient developed AKI requiring dialysis when he restarted the ATT recently. A renal biopsy was consistent with pigment-cast nephropathy secondary to rifampicin-induced intravascular haemolysis. Rifampicin was stopped, and the patient underwent a total of four dialysis sessions and subsequently recovered.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"92-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532567","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":"Progress towards Clinical Pig Organ Xenotransplantation.","authors":"David Kc Cooper","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_348_2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_348_2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"65-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532566","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":"Two lady doctors, a vicereine, and a princess: The women behind four historic medical colleges in India.","authors":"Siuli Mitra, Reena George","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_582_2024","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_582_2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We introduce the stories of the lives of four women founders of four Indian medical colleges: Dr Edith Brown who founded the North Indian Medical School for Christian Women, Ludhiana (present-day Christian Medical College, Ludhiana); Lady Winifred Hardinge, after whom the Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi was named; Dr Ida Sophia Scudder who founded the Christian Medical College, Vellore; and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the cabinet minister responsible for the creation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. We highlight events and people in their lives crucial to the creation of the four institutions that have had a transformative impact on Indian medical education particularly for women. We observed that very diverse backgrounds and early lives prepared these four women for a mission that in its impact was very similar.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"119-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532572","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":"Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration leading to cardiac empyema and tamponade by Prevotella oris.","authors":"Damla Ernur, Volkan Hanci, Salýha Ýldem Kaya","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_570_2022","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_570_2022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TNBA) is widely recommended for the diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy of malignant and non-malignant aetiology. EBUS-TBNA is preferred over mediastinoscopy as it has a better diagnostic accuracy and safety, is cost-effective and less invasive. Major complications of EBUS-TBNA include bleeding, mediastinitis, pneumonia, mediastinal abscess, empyema, lung abscess, pericarditis, pneumothorax, and rarely pericardial tamponade. We report a patient who developed pericardial empyema and tamponade due to Prevotella oris following EBUS-TBNA.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 1","pages":"12-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144103365","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":"Isolated heart block in snake bite: Recurrent syncope as presenting symptom.","authors":"B Sharan Kumar","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1047_2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_1047_2023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 1","pages":"58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144103460","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":"Rapid diagnosis of disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection mimicking metastatic malignancy using metagenomic next-generation sequencing.","authors":"Yan Liu, Jie Wang, Yonglan Pu, Shenjie Tang","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_872_2022","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_872_2022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) disease, which is mainly found in immunocompromised individuals, is a rare and severe infection whose diagnosis poses a challenge to clinicians. We present a patient with disseminated NTM infection mistaken for metastatic malignancy in an otherwise healthy patient and the tortuous diagnostic process. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) played a critical role in the diagnosis. Further screening for anti-interferon-γ antibodies revealed that the patient had a potential immunodeficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 1","pages":"16-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144103404","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}