scholarly journals Response to comments on: Clinical profile and prevalence of conjunctivitis in mild COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care COVID-19 hospital: A retrospective cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Neiwete Lomi ◽  
K Sindhuja ◽  
MohamedI Asif ◽  
Radhika Tandon
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Clinical Profile ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals A study of clinical profile of patients with Dengue fever at a tertiary care hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sreenivasulu T. ◽  
Jahnavi K.
Keyword(s):  
Dengue Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Clinical Profile ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Presenting Symptoms

Background: Dengue is the most common fever. Among all flavi-viruses, it is the most common. It can cause around 50-100 million infections. Every year 2-5 lakh cases of Dengue hemorrhagic fever occur. The objective of the research was to study clinical profile of patients with Dengue fever at a tertiary care hospital.Methods: Present study was cross sectional study. The patients were interviewed and examined at one point of time and later they were never followed which is similar to the cross-sectional study design. Present study was carried out in the hospital. This was done in the department of General Medicine of a tertiary care hospital. Present study was carried out over a period of one year.Results: In the present study, there were 78 males and 22 females. The sex ratio was 3.5:1. Maximum number of males (29.5%) was in the age group of 15-25. Among females, the maximum (40.9%) were in the age group of 26-35 years and 46-55 years (9%). The most common presenting symptom was fever in all cases followed by headache in 90%. Among bleeding manifestations, epistaxis, gum bleeding and hematuria (15%) were the common symptoms. Most patients presented with generalized lymphadenopathy in 52%. 56 patients showed only hepatomegaly and 46 splenomegaly, and 30 patients showed hepato splenomegaly. 99 showed leucopenia and 10 were anemic and 25 showed platelet count less than 1,50,000cells/cumm.Conclusions: Males were commonly affected. Younger age group of 15-25 was most commonly affected and fever and headache were the most common presenting symptoms. These findings help physicians in early diagnosis of dengue by suspecting these features as of dengue and can prevent morbidity and mortality associated with dengue.

scholarly journals Clinical Profile of Hoarseness of Voice: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Deosthale ◽  
Asha Jadia Soni ◽  
Sonali Prabhakar Khadakkar ◽  
Mateen Khursheed Wani ◽  
Kanchan Sandeep Dhote ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Histopathological Examination ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Clinical Profile ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Predisposing Factor ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Male Preponderance

Abstract Introduction Hoarseness is a symptom with a varied etiology ranging from inflammatory condition, benign lesions to malignant lesions. Benign conditions are more common than malignant. Proper knowledge of clinical profile and evaluation is necessary to treat the cause. Objective It was conducted with the aim to study the clinical profile of patients with hoarseness of voice. Materials and Methods It was a descriptive cross-sectional study of 2 years conducted at Department of ENT at Tertiary Health Care Hospital, India. Patients aged above 10 years presenting with hoarseness of voice were included in the study. After detailed history related to sociodemographic particulars, clinical examinations including Hopkin’s rod examination in all patients and direct laryngoscopy, and radiological and histopathological examination were performed whenever indicated. Results Out of total 100 patients, maximum patients (32%) were in the age group of 21 to 30 years. There was slight male preponderance with male:female ratio of 1.17:1. Laborer (29%) was the major group affected in terms of occupation. Most common predisposing factor was smoking (35%). Commonest etiology for hoarseness of voice was chronic laryngitis (20%). Conclusion Hoarseness of voice as a symptom should never be ignored as its etiology may range from simple infection to malignancy. At our tertiary care center majority of patients come from rural area. Most of the etiological factors found in our study were treatable medically or surgically. Early diagnosis is the key to improve the outcome of treatment.

scholarly journals Iatrogenic bladder injuries during obstetric and gynecological surgeries-does it demand prophylactic presence of an urologist?

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1570
Author(s):  
Sankareswari R. ◽  
Ghurunaath T. R. ◽  
Ramya Sreevarshni Shunmugha Sundharam
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Bladder Wall ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Clinical Profile ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Bladder Injuries

Background: Iatrogenic bladder injuries (IBI) are more common during obstetric and gynaecological procedures averaging 2.6 IBIs per 1000 surgeries. The objective of the study was to estimate the incidence of IBIs during OBG procedures in a tertiary care hospital at Puducherry. To study the proportion and clinical profile of the IBIs where the management of an urologist was indicated intra-operatively.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry by analysis of records of OBG surgeries conducted during the 5 years’ period from 2011 to 2015. The occurrence of IBIs during obstetric and gynaecological surgeries was estimated and the records of those with injuries were analysed retrospectively.Results: The overall incidence of Iatrogenic Bladder Injuries (IBI) among the OBG surgeries was 1.33% (n=19). Iatrogenic Bladder Injuries (IBI) frequently happened during Gynaecological procedures (73.7%, n=14) than during Obstetric procedures (26.3%, n=5). The incidence of bladder injuries intra-operatively was more frequent during dissection of bladder (57.9%, n=11) and opening the abdomen (36.8%, n=7). The requirement of urologist was more felt during posterior bladder wall injuries (26.3%, n=5).Conclusions: The occurrence of IBIs was more common during Gynaecological procedures than during obstetric procedures. Most of the gynaecological procedures especially hysterectomies require the expertise presence of an urologist.

scholarly journals Clinical profile of seizure disorder in hospitalized patients in tertiary care center - A prospective cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
A Alagu Thiyagarajan ◽  
CJ Selvakumar ◽  
YA Nathan Jenix ◽  
Ramesh Duraisamy
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Seizure Disorder ◽  
Clinical Profile ◽  
Tertiary Care Center ◽  
Treatment Gap ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Knowledge regarding people affected with epilepsy is essential for accurate planning and management of patients. This study was conducted to study clinical profile of seizure disorder in the patients hospitalized in a tertiary care hospital of Tamil Nadu. Aims and Objectives: To study clinical profile of seizure disorder in patients hospitalized in Coimbatore government medical college hospital. Materials and Methods: This study was a single center hospital based cross-sectional study of the clinical profile of seizure disorder in hospitalized patients at tertiary care center of Tamil Nadu, Neurology department the 2 years from 2018 to 2020. All the patients presenting with complaints of seizures were included in this study. Results: This study included a total of 321 patients with epilepsy. Their ages ranged between 10 and 100 years. 180 of the study population were males and 141 were female patients. 30% of patients had new onset seizures. Fever precipitated seizure in 16% of the subjects. Excitation, sleep deprivation, fever, watching television, and head trauma showed a strong association with generalized epilepsy. The majority of the patients had generalized tonic-clonic seizure, followed by focal neurological deficit. 98% of patients responded to treatment and they did not had recurrent episodes of seizure. Conclusion: The sample size of our cohorts is relatively small. It is possible that some prognosis factors may be missed due to the small sample size. Further studies with a larger sample cohort are required. Uneducated and low socioeconomic make people vulnerable to seizures because of lack of awareness, poor compliance to medicines, not detection of seizure provoking factor, repeated exposure to seizure provoking factor, prevalence of alcoholism, and thus lowering seizure threshold. There is a treatment gap still because of epilepsy and appropriate usage of resources will help to reduce this treatment gap and decreases epilepsy associated morbidity and mortality.

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