D K Kochar

..Post-herpetic neuralgia is difficult to treat. Divalproex sodium (valproic acid and sodium valproate in molar ratio 1:1) has been used successfully in the management of various painful neuropathies...

..071) and it was statistically significantly (p < 0.005, 0.042, 0.000 respectively). Hence it is concluded that the change in serum magnesium level may have a bearing on the complication and morbidity in patients of diabetes mellitus...

..Peripheral blood microscopy, parasite antigen-based assays, and parasite 18s rRNA gene-based polymerase chain reaction showed the presence of P. vivax and absence of P. falciparum...

..This study was conducted to assess the effect of combination treatment of quinine and rabeprazole in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria...

..To study the effectiveness and safety aspects of sodium valproate in the management of painful neuropathy in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus...

..Various drugs are effective in the management of painful diabetic neuropathy, but none is completely satisfactory. We previously found sodium valproate to be effective and safe in a short-term study...

..According to the WHO, signs of hepatic dysfunction are unusual, and hepatic encephalopathy is never seen in malaria. However, in recent years, isolated cases have been reported from different parts of world...

..Keeping this point in view, the effect and safety aspects of sodium valproate and GTN were assessed alone as well as in combination in this study...

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..001), diabetic neuropathy (p < 0.01) and nephropathy (p < 0.001)...

..The purpose of this study is to compare the pattern of clinical and biochemical parameters such as serum bilirubin and liver enzyme levels in patients of malaria with jaundice and acute viral hepatitis...

..It is simple to administer, cheap, more effective and less toxic than other available oral drugs, and well-tolerated by patients...

..To study the clinical spectrum of brucellosis in Bikaner (Northwest India)...

..This study was conducted on 50 patients of Anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (oriental sore) to assess the efficacy of rifampicin and omeprazole through a double blind, randomised placebo control study...

..Clinical information is reported on 12 victims bitten by definitively identified E sochureki, and 2 clinical cases are described in greater detail to illustrate the severity of envenoming by this snake...

..The objective of this study is to test the effectiveness and safety aspect of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in the management of painful diabetic neuropathy as a nitric oxide (NO) donor with local vasodilating properties in spray form...

..Recently there were reports from all over India about changing spectrum of clinical presentation of severe malaria. The present study was planned to study the same in the northwest India...

..Usually, cerebral malaria is caused by P. falciparum but it has been reported recently also in P. vivax mono-infection. Epidemiologic studies and clinical descriptions of P. vivax cerebral malaria in children are rare...

..CONCLUSION: Pulmonary manifestations of brucellosis are rare. Treatment with rifampicin and doxycylin showed marked clinical and radiological improvement. All patients were completely disease-free at the end of one year follow up...

..Our objective was to describe the prevalence and clinical factors associated with impaired fasting glucose (IFG), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and diabetes (DM) among adults (>or=20 years) in large population group...

..Type 2 diabetes is not only associated with hyperglycemia but also with disorders of lipid metabolism. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of dyslipedemia with micro and macro vascular complications of diabetes...

..Knowledge of self-limiting course of neurological sequelae may be helpful in reducing economic strain of expensive investigations and treatment...

..70 +/- 13.24, 0.10 +/- 4.10 mg/dl, -0.70 +/- 4.58 mg/dl and 0.65 +/- 0.00 mg/dl, respectively. CONCLUSION: Inolter appears to be an useful adjunctive therapy to exercise and diet control in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus...

..To determine the frequency of extraintestinal manifestations in patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis...

..Therefore the term malarial hepatitis should not be taken as a misnomer...