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G Mohanty

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Ictal deafness--a report of three cases.

Though negative phenomena like motor inhibition, blindness or aphasia are described as an ictal manifestation of seizures, ictal deafness has not been reported so far. We observed transient ictal deafness in three cases of partial seizures. One of them had seizure spread to the temporal lobe to produce a complex partial seizure. Two of them have CT-detected lesions in the left temporal/parietal area. The other one had left temporal focus on EEG with a normal imaging study. The mechanism of such ictal negative phenomena is unclear. An epileptic focus around the primary auditory cortex, dampening its receptive ability may manifest as cortical deafness.

Adolescent↗

Immunopathological changes in kidney in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Fifteen (34.8%) of 43 patients of falciparum malaria screened for urinary abnormalities showed significant proteinuria (greater than 150 mg/24 h), haematuria (greater than 1/HPF) and casts, with or without azotaemia. Light microscopic examination of renal biopsy tissue from 12 patients revealed mesangial and endothelial proliferative change in 8, and acute tubular necrosis in one patient. Immunofluorescence showed IgM alone, or IgG and IgM along with C3, in 7 patients within the mesangium or along the capillary walls. Repeat kidney biopsy after 6 wk in 5 patients revealed no residual pathology indicating the reversible nature of the lesions.

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Cryptosporidiosis in children of eastern India.

Cryptosporidium infection was found in association with acute diarrhoeal disease in ten patients (13%) of a total of 77 children below the age of 8 years admitted over a period of 1 year to Bhubaneswar Capital Hospital, Orissa state, India. Contrary to another report from South India, there were no asymptomatic cryptosporidium oocyst excretors detected either in the matched control group of 42 children without diarrhoea or in a group of 113 healthy school children investigated. A clustering of seven cases occurred in the months of the rainy season and of three cases in the winter months. Nine out of 63 children (14.3%) below the age of 2 years were infected. Seven of the ten infected children were significantly below their expected weight-for-age, but the mean weight-for-age did not differ from those of the uninfected children. The possible epidemiological factors in the transmission of cryptosporidium are discussed.

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