Background: Octreotide and terlipressin are two pharmacologic drugs used as an adjuvant therapy in the treatment of acute esophageal variceal bleeding. Large enough clinical trial data is not available, in comparing the efficacy of octreotide versus terlipressin as an adjunct to...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i32B31748
Introduction: Stroke is the one of the common health problems world-wide causing significant morbidity and mortality. Various scales are framed and validated for use in stroke trials and clinical use. Most widely used scale for stroke assessment is NIHSS scale but this scale is i...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i39A32157
With the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV2, the incidence of the disease is increasing each day with a higher infectivity rate and unpredictable morbidity and mortality. The second wave in India has higher morbidity and mortality compared to the previous...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i46B32926
Background: Obesity is a compounded, multifactorial, and largely curable disease, affecting over a third of the public community today. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared obesity as a global epidemic, also stressing that in many cases it remains an under-recognized...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i43B32527
Apoplexy of the Pituitary gland is rarely seen critical disorder marked by acute throbbing of head / altered mental status / visual disturbances /decreased consciousness, due to sudden haemorrhagic changes of the pituitary or infarction of the same. There are numerous factors whi...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i37A31973
Background: Ageing is a global fact affecting both developed and developing countries.It brings out various catabolic changes in body resulting in frailty(i.e. the person is not able to with stand minor stresses of the environment, due to reduced reserves in psychologicalreserve...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i32B31763
We present a case of term pregnancy which presented with chief complaint of Breathlessness, chest pain as well as a one day history of vomiting. She tested positive for COVID19 through reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction of nasopharyngeal swab and the symptoms were at...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i45A32750