Epidemiological study of gall-stones in Urban Kashmir.

The study is conducted by using ultrasonography as an imaging tool. It is found that the gall stone prevalence (per 100) is 6.12:3.07 in males and 9.60 in females. The prevalence increases with increase in age in both sexes. There is no significant relation of gallstone prevalence with obesity, SE status and diet

Role of Personal and Dietary Habits in the Causation of P malignant Lesions and Malignant Tumors of Stomach.

The prevalence of gastric cancer is very high 4444/1000 in Kashmir valley. The prevalence of Chronic gastrites (with or without atrophy) and intestinal metaplasia is 76.64% and 26.35% respectively mostly in smokers and older people. People consuming Nune-CHai" have higher prevalence 91% of gastric precursor lesion lack of sufficient retinol, riboglavin and vitamin C in diet seems to have a casual relationship with gastric pre-cursor lesions

Spectrum of hepatitis E virus infection in India

A solid phase enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that detects IgM and IgG to hepatitis E virus (HEV) was used to study seroepidemiology in 40 healthy subjects and 227 consecutive patients with liver diseases in an endemic area. Fifty-two of the liver diseases patients (22.9 percent) had acute hepatitis E. In contrast, none of the 40 healthy subjects were positive for IgM anti-HEV, validating the ELISA assay. Twenty-three of 25 (92%) patients with epidemic non-A, non-B hepatitis were confirmed as having acute hepatitis E. Only 1 of the 10 patients with sporadic, fulminant hepatic failure of non-A, non-B, non-C etiology was positive for IgM anti-HEV. Five (31.2%) of the 16 patients with acute hepatitis in HBsAg carriers were positive for IgM anti-HEV. One patient with acute hepatitis B was coinfected with acute hepatitis E. Acute hepatitis was a disease of the adult population, with peak attack rates in the second and third decades of life. This disease was seen in only 4 (16%) of the 25 patients with acute viral hepatitis occurring below 14 years of age. Cholestasis was predominant in 25% of patients, enzyme elevation was monophasic, and all patients had clinical and biochemical recovery from the disease. The data suggest that the majority of patients with acute sporadic non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis in India have hepatitis E. However, fulminant hepatic failure to sporadic nature is rarely from hepatitis E

Budd-Chiari syndrome: long-term effect on outcome with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

BACKGROUND: The long-term outcome of Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) is not well studied. To address this, the records of 47 consecutive patients with BCS evaluated in one center from January 1989 to April 2004, were analyzed