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Item Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome.(1991-02-01) Arora, A; Sharma, M PItem Acute symptomatic seizures due to single CT lesions: how long to treat with antiepileptic drugs?(2002-06-23) Thussu, A; Arora, A; Prabhakar, S; Lal, V; Sawhney, I M SThe duration of anti epileptic drug therapy for single small enhancing CT lesions (SSECTL) presents a major dilemma. We studied the efficacy of short duration (6 months) antiepileptic drug therapy as compared to long duration (2 years) drug therapy. Seventy three patients presenting with seizures and showing SSECTL on cranial CT scans (plain and contrast) were randomized into group A (6 months therapy) and group B (2 years therapy). There were 47 patients in group A and 26 patients in group B. Patients were followed up for one year after withdrawal of anti epileptic drugs. CT Head (plain and contrast) was repeated after 3 months, or earlier in cases of recurrence to rule out reinfection. 53.2% in group A and 53.8% in group B showed complete resolution and were seizure free on one year follow up. Punctate residual calcification was seen in 46.8% in group A and 46.2% in group B. Eight patients (17%) in group A and three (11.5%) in group B had a recurrence. The difference in recurrence of seizure between the two groups was not statistically significant (p<0.77) in the calcified lesion subset. Since none of the patients in total resolution subset showed recurrence, the difference between calcified and total resolution subset was highly significant. The study shows that a short duration (6 months) AED therapy in patients with total resolution of lesion on follow up scan, may be adequate in comparison to those who have calcific speck as a residue. However, a longer duration of therapy in case of calcific group probably does not alter their chances of recurrence.Item Albendazole therapy for solitary persistent cysticercus granuloma.(2001-03-17) Thussu, A; Arora, A; Lal, V; Prabhakar, S; Sawhney, I MUse of Albendazole therapy for the treatment of patients having persisting intracranial solitary cysticercus granuloma is controversial. Most of the times these patients are treated empirically with variety of drugs for variable period. Some authors advocate biopsy before definitive treatment. 25 patients having radiologicaly persistent solitary cysticercus granuloma (>6 months) were given 15 days course of oral albendazole (15 mg/kg body wt). Cranial CT scan was repeated one month after the completion of albendazole therapy. It was evaluated for complete resolution, partial response (> 50% decrease in size of lesion) or no change as compared to previous scan. 12 patients (48%) showed complete resolution, 4 patients (16%) showed a partial response, while 9 patients (36%) did not show any change on follow up. Albendazole therapy may be useful for patients having persistent cysticercus granuloma.Item Aluminium phosphide poisoning autopsy findings.(2005-01) Jain, Ashok Kumar; Nigam, Manish; Garg, S D; Dubey, B P; Arora, AAt prospective study to observe the gross and histopathological findings in Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning was undertaken on medicolegal autopsy cases brought to the department of Forensic Medicine. Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. The study was undertaken, as Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning has become the commonest poisoning in central India over the last few years. 50 chemically confirmed autopsy cases were included in the present study and were examined grossly in detail and samples of tissue from various organs were stained by haemotoxylin eosin and observed microscopically. Several gross autopsy findings have been observed and are included in this paper. The present study is the largest autopsy series reported on Aluminum Phosphide, which includes the histopathological findings of various organs. and observations made earlier by the workers have also been compared.Item Amoebic liver abscess in pregnancy.(2000-01-03) Gangwal, P; Gupta, M D; Agarwal, A; Arora, A; Das, K; Choudhary, V; Kar, PItem Antiphospholipid syndrome presenting as superficial venous thrombosis.(1998-07-03) Jain, M; Jain, S K; Arora, A; Yaduvanshi, AItem Art of teaching.(1983-10-01) Ahuja, M M; Dhar, S N; Sapru, R P; Prakash, C; Natarajan, V; Arora, A; Garg, A; Anand, M P; Bisht, D BItem Biliary strictures on ERCP: a study in northern India.(1994-11-01) Tandon, R K; Mehrotra, R; Arora, A; Acharya, S K; Vashisht, SCase records of 82 patients with biliary stricture diagnosed on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) during a 7-years period (1983-89) were analysed for its aetiology, clinical presentation, laboratory abnormalities and radiological characteristics. The aetiology was found to be benign in 59 and malignant in 23 patients. Forty seven percent of all strictures were post cholecystectomy strictures (PCS). Presence of mucosal irregularity and incomplete stricture were commoner with malignancy. Malignant biliary strictures (MBS) were commonly seen in males, occurred at older age, had short history, had higher alkaline phosphtase and serum bilirubin values when compared to patients with benign biliary strictures (BBS).Item Bullous retinoschisis(All India Ophthalmological Society, 2019-10) Handa, S; Arora, A; Kumar, N; Bansal, RItem Corneal changes in pseudo-exfoliation.(1987-03-01) Krishnan, M M; Arora, AItem Cure in a case of primary hepatic lymphoma.(2000-12-23) Murthy, S A; Singh, B; Bhalla, S; Arora, A; Vohra, R; Aggarwal, SPrimary hepatic lymphoma is rare malignancy. Cures in this disease are uncommon. We report a young male who was diagnosed as a case of primary lymphoma of the liver in 1992. He was treated with chemotherapy only, which included CHOP (Cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, Vincristine and Prednisolone) - six cycles; and IMVP-16 (Ifosfamide, Methotrexate and Etoposide) -four cycles. The patient is now disease free and alive for more than five years.Item Diagnostic accuracy of IgM antibody detection in typhoid by a modification in Widal test.(1992-09-01) Jindal, N; Aggarwal, I B; Arora, A; Arora, SSpecific IgM antibodies were detected indirectly in sera of patients of typhoid by observing fourfold or more fall in the agglutinin titres after treatment of the serum with 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) for removal of IgM antibodies. Significant fall in titres was observed in 94 per cent patients of bacteriologically confirmed typhoid and 67 per cent patients in whom a diagnosis of typhoid was based only on a significant Widal test result. Patients of non-typhoid febrile illnesses showed either no fall or an insignificant fall in their titres. The detection of specific IgM antibodies by this simple modification of Widal test thus seems to enhance the sensitivity and specificity of the test.Item Dieulafoy's lesion: a rare cause of massive upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage.(1991-01-01) Arora, A; Mehrotra, R; Patnaik, P K; Pande, G; Ahlawat, S; Bhargava, D KOut of 900 cases of Upper Gastrointestinal haemorrhage seen during 1985-1989, 6 (0.67%) cases had Dieulafoy's lesion as the causative factor. All patients presented with massive upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. The mean age of the patients was 46.3 year (32-60 yrs) and 4 were males and 2 females. No consistent associated medical factors could be identified. The diagnosis was established by emergency endoscopy which showed an active arterial spurter in 4 patients and located the bleeding site to be close to the fundus in other 2 patients. Injection sclerotherapy tried in 3 patients was not successful. Four patients had bleeding lesion along the greater curvature close to the fundus and two had on posterior wall but all within 6 cm. of gastroesophageal junction. All patients underwent curative emergency surgery with wedge resection of the lesion. We conclude that Dieulafoy lesion should be suspected in a patient with massive, recurrent and obscure upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Emergency endoscopy for diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention can cure the lesion which is potentially fatal if untreated.Item Electrocardiography case presentation – A case of Pseudo Wellens Waves.(2015-09) Arora, R; Arora, A; Puri, AItem Emergency endoscopy and portal hypertension.(1990-05-01) Arora, A; Bhargara, D KItem Endocarditis due to Chryseobacterium meningosepticum.(2007-04-22) Bomb, K; Arora, A; Trehan, NChryseobacterium meningosepticum is a gram negative rod widely distributed in nature. It is known to cause meningitis in neonates and premature infants. Adult infections are not common and are usually nosocomially acquired. We report an unusual case of native valve endocarditis in a 58-year-old man due to this organism. A high degree of suspicion and correct identification and sensitivity testing is required to diagnose infections by this rare isolate.Item Endoscopic polypectomies in upper gastrointestinal tract.(1990-01-01) Bhargava, D K; Arora, A; Chopra, PNine polyps retrieved from the upper gastrointestinal tract by endoscopic polypectomy in nine patients are reported. Polyps were removed from the distal esophagus (1), stomach (7) and duodenum (1). Dysphagia, obstructive jaundice and upper gastrointestinal bleeding were the presenting features in four patients. In five patients gastric polyps were detected incidentally at endoscopy. Of the nine polyps, six were adenomas, two were hyperplastic polyps and one in the esophagus was inflammatory. All the polyps could be retrieved completely and there were no complications. Thus polyps do occur in the upper gastrointestinal tract in India; their electrosurgical removal is easy and safe and allows histopathological examination of the entire polyp.Item Enterogenous intramedullary cyst.(1994-02-01) Jain, A K; Sethi, S; Arora, A; Tuli, S M; Singh, R PItem Familial hyperphosphatasemia.(2000-11-24) Gupta, P; Arora, A; Luthra, J S; Kumar, A; Rathour, D PItem Fecal chymotrypsin assay in chronic pancreatitis.(1991-01-01) Arora, A; Tandon, R K
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