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P Banerjee

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Polyradiculopathy complicating acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A patient who presented with a symmetrical polyradiculopathy 6 months before the onset of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is described. This case shows that bone marrow aspiration should be considered in such presentations when no other cause has been identified, even if the CSF is not initially diagnostic and the full blood count appears normal.

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Prevalence of hepatitis B infection in the general population: a rural community based study.

BACKGROUND: Available seroprevalence studies of hepatitis B in Indian population has limitations. A community based door to door epidemiological study was conducted between December 1997 and January 1988 to look for the dynamics of hepatitis B exposure in a single village of West Bengal. METHODS: In all, 960 inhabitants out of 1261 (according to 91 census) in a village of Birbhum district in West Bengal were interviewed and their blood were tested by ELISA for HBV exposure. Odds ratio was calculated to estimate the relative risks for each potential factor facilitating virus transmission. RESULTS: Participation rate in the present study was 76.1%. Over all HBsAg carrier rate was found to be 5.3%. Only 2/51 (3.9%) carriers were HBeAg positive. Injection by glass syringe (odds ratio = 3.01), age < 20 years (odds ratio = 1.41) and male sex (odds ratio = 1.57) were significant risk factor. CONCLUSION: The results of this rural, predominantly poor, agrarian worker based community data reveals a fairly large reservoir of infection (5.3%). It is mainly built-up early in life. Injection practices need to be safer in addition to HBV vaccination to fight this menace.

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Anticoagulant therapy in acute myocardial infarction.

In 265 patients of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) heparin followed by warfarin sodium was used routinely whenever there was no contraindication to the drug. Patients were followed up to 2 years with weekly estimation of prothrombin time. Another 265 patients of AMI having identical clinical profiles were taken as control and neither any anticoagulant nor any antiplatelet agent was used in them. Both groups were also treated with identical coronary dilators whenever needed. 2 years cardiac mortality was 11.6% in the control group and 5.9% in the anticoagulant therapy (ACT) recipient group (P less than 0.05). Incidence of reinfarction (RMI) was 14.4% during the period in the control group whereas it was only 6.7% in the ACT group (P less than 0.05). The incidence of intracranial events were also more frequent in control group (8.4%) compared to ACT group (3.1%) (P less than 0.05). However on further analysis of intracranial events, it was found that haemorrhagic intracranial events were slightly more frequent in ACT (2.3%) than in the control group (2%), but this difference was statistically insignificant (P greater than 0.05); non-haemorrhagic intracranial events were however significantly less in ACT group (1.96%) compared to the control group (6%) (P less than 0.05). There was no major or fatal extracranial haemorrhagic complication in either group. Only minor extracranial haemorrhages were more commonly observed in the ACT group (4.3%) compared to the control group (1.2%) (P less than 0.05).

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Insecticidal susceptibility status of Anopheles stephensi (Liston) in selected areas of Calcutta (West Bengal).

Susceptibility tests were carried out with insecticides like Organochlorine Organophosphorus and Synthetic pyrethroids using the WHO test kits against Anopheles stephensi larvae and adults, collected from malaria endemic wards of Calcutta in December, 1995 and January, 1996 Anopheles stephensi adults were found resistant to DDT, Propoxure, Malathion but susceptible to Fenthion and Deltamethrin.

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