Browsing by Author "Arora, Sunil"

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    Diagnostic efficacy of FNAC by liquid based technique versus conventional smear in lung and mediastinal masses
    (Medip Academy, 2020-07) Singh, Rekha; Mittal, Vani; Bali, Irbinder Kour; Arora, Sunil; Kumar, Raj
    Background: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) has proven to be less costly and less invasive procedure than biopsy for diagnosing benign and malignant lesions. Of the two methods liquid based cytology (LBC) and conventional cytology (CC), LBC has been standardized as more efficacious in reporting in Gynaecological cases. But, this is still lacking in non-gynaecological cases and many studies are now focusing on studying LBC due to its proven advantages in Pap smear evaluation.Methods: An observational study of 72 patients with lung mass and 11 with mediastinal mass was done for a period of six months in a tertiary care hospital in Gurugram to compare the diagnostic efficacy of LBC and CC in fine needle aspirates from lung/mediastinal mass.Results: Of the 83 cases, reporting of LBC was adequate in 75 cases and CC in only 53 cases. LBC was better when differentiating malignant and benign lesions than CC. CC smears had better cellularity in comparison to LBC smears (36%), but rest cytological features of cytoplasmic detailing, cell architecture, less background debris and blood were all more appreciable in LBC smears than CC preparations.Conclusions: LBC is a better method than conventional smear for smear preparation and processing of aspirates obtained from lung and mediastinal mass.
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    HBV specific T-cell responses in hepatitis B.
    (2011-10) Rana, Deepa; Menachery, John; Chawla, Yogesh; Duseja, Ajay; Dhiman, Radha; Arora, Sunil
    Background: Cellular immune responses seem to prevail in acute hepatitis, whereas chronically infected patients demonstrate generally suppressed cellular immune responses and significantly greater antibody responses. Aim: To study hepatitis B virus (HBV) specific T cell proliferative responses in HBV related liver diseases. Methods: We analyzed the T lymphocyte proliferative responses to the nonspecific mitogen phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and the HBV specific hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) by calculating T cell proliferation index in 10 acute viral hepatitis (AVH) patients, 19 chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients, 10 HBV cirrhotics, 10 inactive carriers and 10 healthy controls using MTT assay. Results: The mean proliferation index (PI) to PHA was highest in healthy controls (133.2 + 58.1) and lowest in cirrhotics (44.1 + 46.9) with all other groups falling in between. On comparing the mean T cell responses to HBcAg, AVH patients had the highest mean response (186.48 + 116.37) followed by CHB (137.9 + 134.3), inactive carriers (63.2 + 41.2) and cirrhotics (55.5 + 42.7). Conclusions: Patients with AVH had the highest T cell response to HBcAg, which probably explains the clearance of virus in these patients, in contrast to patients with cirrhosis who had the lowest T cell response.
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    Solitary Angiokeratoma Of The Tongue Masquerading As Papilloma - A Rare Case Report And Literature Review
    (Indian Society for Health and Advanced Research, 2024-03) Satpathi, Sudipta; Khanna, Puja; Aggarwal, Sakshi; Mishra, Tanika; Arora, Sunil; Sen, Rajeev; Jakhar, Rohit Kumar
    The presence of dilated and congested blood vessels in the super?cial dermis, accompanied by thickening of the stratum corneum and the prickly layer characterizes angiokeratomas. Solitary angiokeratomas of the tongue are an exceptionally rare phenomenon, with fewer than 10 documented cases in the English medical literature. This report describes a case of this unusual presentation in a 10-year-old boy, initially misdiagnosed as papilloma on clinical examination. Incisional biopsy initially suggested lymphangiomatous hamartoma, while the de?nitive diagnosis of solitary angiokeratoma of the tongue was established only with excisional biopsy.
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    Study of desmoglein 1 and 3 antibody levels in relation to disease severity in Indian patients with pemphigus.
    (2006-05-13) Kumar, Bhushan; Arora, Sunil; Kumaran, Muthu Sendhil; Jain, Rajesh; Dogra, Sunil
    OBJECTIVES: To conduct a cross-sectional study to compare Dsg1 and Dsg3 antibody levels independently with severity of disease activity in pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF). METHODS: Blood samples from 44 patients with pemphigus (PV-38, PF-6) were analyzed using ELISA. The severity of skin and mucosal disease was graded using a score from 0 to 3. RESULTS: A statistically significant correlation between increase in Dsg 3 antibody titres with severity of oral involvement and Dsg 1 titres with severity of skin involvement was found in both PV and PF patients (p < 0.01). However, we were unable to demonstrate a relationship between increased titres of Dsg1 and Dsg 3 antibodies with oral and skin involvement respectively. CONCLUSION: This study suggests that the severity of skin and oral disease in pemphigus is determined by the quantities of Dsg1 and Dsg3 antibodies respectively.
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    Time trends of paediatric HIV infection in North India.
    (2008-03-21) Sehgal, Shobha; Datta, Usha; Arora, Sunil; Singh, Surjit
    Paediatric HIV infection continues to pose a serious threat in the developing world. While in the developed world, mother to child transmission has been reduced to less than 3%, in India no regular zidovudine (azidothymidine) intervention programmes operate. Some 20 million babies are born each year and the number of infected babies could be >50,000 per year. The present study was designed to assess the change, if any, in the time trends of HIV infection in children over the last 15 years as observed at the surveillance centre attached to Nehru Hospital, Chandigarh. All patients reporting to the surveillance centre at the PGIME&R, Chandigarh were subjected to a detailed history and screened for HIV by the three tests protocol recommended by the WHO. In babies under 18 months of age, viral load assay or DNA analysis was done to confirm infection. Timetrends were ascertained over a 15-year period to assess the impact of information, education and communication programme launched by National AIDS Control Organisation. Data indicates that the total number of HIV positive cases increased 10-fold over the last 10 years. During 1991, 41 cases were recorded; the number increased to 439 in year 2001, and 574 in 2004 (r=0.98). A similar trend was observed in the paediatric age group. During the initial 5 years ie, 1987 to 1992 only 7 paediatric cases were documented positive while the number increased to 45 in the year 2001 to 64 in the year 2004 with a cumulative figure of 323 children. Linear regression analysis showed a highly significant trend (r=0.94). Out of the 323 cases, 44.6% were symptomatic. Maximum number of babies were observed in the age group of 3-5 years. Thirty-nine patients (12%) had acquired the infection through blood. Thus the information, education and communication programme has had very little impact on the HIV epidemic and it calls for urgent antiretroviral intervention in antenatal mothers to control the emerging paediatric HIV epidemic.