Eclipta alba can be found growing wild in fallow lands of Bangladesh where it is considered as a weed by farmers. Traditional medicinal systems of the Indian subcontinent countries as well as tribal practitioners consider the plant to have diverse medicinal values and use it commonly for treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, respiratory tract disorders (including asthma), fever, hair loss an...

Liver involvement is often observed in several hematological disorders, resulting in abnormal liver function tests, abnormalities in liver imaging studies, or clinical symptoms presenting with hepatic manifestations. In hemolytic anemia, jaundice and hepatosplenomegaly are often seen mimicking liver diseases. In hematologic malignancies, malignant cells often infiltrate the liver and may demons...

Patients with liver diseases have a higher risk of hemostatic disorders. Meanwhile, despite well-established opinion on low thromboses in cirrhosis, thromboembolic events cannot be totally ruled out these patients. Increased risks thrombotic and venous thromboembolism cirrhosis are accounted for by external (immobilization, surgeries, infections, comorbidities) internal factors (reduced synthes...

Disorders of the hepatobiliary system are relatively common extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). These disorders are sometimes due to a shared pathogenesis with IBD as seen in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and small-duct primary sclerosing cholangitis (small-duct PSC). There are also hepatobiliary manifestations such as cholelithiasis and portal vein thromb...

Objective: HIV-infected patients are at an increased risk of developing Hepatic Steatosis (HS), which may progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. The aim of this study was to evaluate HS in Japanese HIV-infected patients using a novel technique called Controlled Attenuation Parameter (CAP). Methods: Sixty HIV-infected outpatients were included in this study and underwent transient elastograph...

Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in the year 1905 for his discoveries in relation to tuberculosis, which at that time was one of the most important diseases and was responsible for numerous deaths. For Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Koch was able to show that the bacterium follow his postulates, which means that the pathogen can be found only in diseased animals and n...

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a clearly recognized and potentially life threatening complication after solid organ or bone marrow transplantation. It comprises a spectrum of diseases ranging from infectious mononucleosis and lymphoid hyperplasia to highly aggressive lymphoma. The disease has increased clinical importance in view of the constantly rising number of organ ...

It has been well recognized that individuals having a healthy body can only properly afford to perform all the activities leading to happiness, heaven and salvation and for the preservation of health, an alertness to wards Ahar (food) is essential as it is a basic factor for the attainment of all of them, Considering the utility of Ahar, Charak had stated that is sustains the life of living bei...

Nowadays data mining is a very popular technique and has been successfully applied in medical area. Classification is a essential approach in data mining. One of the classification methods is a Artificial Neural Networks. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) generally achieve high accuracy of classification. However, knowledge acquired by ANN is incomprehensible for humans. This fact is causing a se...

Background: Studies with the latest technologies such as endoscopy with magnification and chromo endoscopy showed that various endoscopic aspects are clearly related to infection by Helicobacter pylori (HP). The description of different patterns of erythema in gastric body under magnification of images revived interest in identifying these patterns by standard endoscopy. Aim: Validate endoscopi...