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The six decades of Indian independence have witnessed too several plans, papers and proposals giving high priority to the health problems in India. sadly, despite vast economic process, health continues to be the best difficulty. Even the WHO slogans ‘Health for All’, ‘Millennium Development Goals and additional recently ‘universal health care haven’t translated into substantive …

Rural Nurses and their Role in Primary Healthcare in Low Resource Environments: The System on their Shoulders Read More »

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is that the fourth leading reason behind cancer-related deaths within the us and includes a median 5-year survival rate but less than 5%. Though surgery offers the simplest likelihood for a cure for carcinoma, but 20% of patients are eligible for doubtless curative surgery, as a result of in most cases, the …

MicroRNA-Based Targeted Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer Read More »

Oral sarcoidosis is a rare entity. Scroff in 1942 reported first case of oral involvement in a patient with sarcoidosis. Oral manifestations are usually seen in known cases of generalized sarcoidosis. Rarely, like in the present case, oral involvement may be the first or only presentation of the disease. A 58 year old male presented …

Sarcoidosis Presenting As Tongue Ulcer Read More »

A two-month old male with failure to thrive and a history of a subarterial ventricular septal defect (VSD) and a secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) presented to our institution for surgical repair. His operative course was preceded by intubation for acute respiratory failure secondary to acute on chronic heart failure and multi-organism bacterial pneumonia, which …

Intrapleural Hematoma after Congenital Heart Surgery in a 2-Month Old Infant Read More »

Aortopulmonary (AP) window can be associated with aortic arch anomalies, including interrupted aortic arch with ductal patency. The rare association of distal aortopulmonary septal defect, aortic origin of the right pulmonary artery (RPA), intact ventricular septum (IVS), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and interrupted or Hypo plastic aortic arch, might have been originally described by Berry …

Interruption of the Aortic Arch with AP Window and Intact Ventricular Septum Read More »

Ectopic thyroid – i.e. thyroid tissue being in locations other than the normal anterior neck region – is a rare disease with a prevalence of 1 per 100,000 to 300,000 people [1,2]. This condition results from developmental defects of thyroid gland embryogenesis passing the thyroglossal duct from the primitive foregut to the final position [2]. …

Ectopic Lingual Thyroid in a Young Female Patient with Mood Disturbances Read More »