iosr-JDMS   Volume-16 ~ Issue-3 ~ March-2017

Abstract: Iodine is an important micro-nutrient required for human nutrition. Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) are one of the major worldwide public health problems of today which causes wide spectrum of disabilities. It includes impairment of reproductive functions, lowering of IQ levels in school age children, goiter, deaf mutism, mental defects, weakness and paralysis of muscles as well as lesser degree of physical dysfunction. Children below 12 years of age who visited the Pediatric Out-Patient Department (OPD) and in-patient department (IPD) of a tertiary care hospital in South India were included if they had clinical suspicion of thyroid dysfunction. Among the 48 patients enrolled............

Key words:-Thyroid, Hypothyroidism, Pediatrics

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Abstract: Malnutrition is a serious problem in patients with gastrointestinal tract diseases. In those who have to undergo surgery for the malnutrition is a thorn in the flesh for patient as well as the surgical team. In recent years it has dawned that perioperative nutritional intervention in the form of oral or enteral feeding is far superior to the post operative total parenteral nutrition (TPN) therapy. Though the west has set specific guidelines for nutritional supplementation for gastrointestinal surgical patients, such practices have thus far been found wanting in India. The study enrolled 56 patients divided into two groups with one group receiving commercially available nutritional............

Keywords: Nutritional supplementation, gastrointestinal malignancies, enteral feeding, malnutrition universal screening tool

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Abstract: Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) previously called wound infection is defined as that infection presenting up to 30 days after a surgical procedure if no prosthesis is placed and up to 1 year if a prosthesis is implanted in the patient.It has been reported to be second only to urinary tract infection as the commonest hospital acquired infection and actually the most commonly encountered form of nosocomial infection in surgical practice. The commonest organisms causing SSI have been reported to be gram positive cocci and gram negative bacilli..............

Keywords: Surgical site infection, Tertiary, Nigeria.

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Abstract: Background:Helicobacter Pylori (H. Pylori) infection is a major gastric infection worldwide and has been associated with many hematologic disorders. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the association between H.Pylori infection and vitamin B12 levels among Sudanese population. Materials and Methods: 120 samples were collected for this study (60 samples fromH.Pylori positive patients and 60 samples from apparently healthy individuals as controls).All samples were assessed for hematological parameters and vitamin B12 using Electrochemiluminescence immune assay.............

Keywords: CBC,H.Pylori,Sudanese,Vitamin B12.

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