In order to investigate the prognostic value of possible risk factors for Dupuytren's diathesis, clinical parameters on disease presentation in an operated group of patients were compared with self-reported recurrence after a minimum 2 years follow-up. In order of significance, the following factors were found to be significantly correlated with disease recurrence : age of onset under 50 years ...

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic infection more common in south India. Most of the cases are asymptomatic but rarely patient can develop complications like renal failure, acute liver pancreatitis, ARDS and bleeding diathesis. Haemorrhage has been reported multiple sites, which most pulmonary haemorrhage. Here we report case 53-year-old male presenting with febrile illness seizures. CT brain revealed...

Received November 2009 Accepted July 2010 INTRODUCTION Since 1980, the extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) has become the gold standard option for treatment of renal and ureteral calculi. But SWL is not without complication and has its own contraindications. Of absolute contraindication for SWL is bleeding tendency. Here, we report a case with bleeding diathesis who underwent SWL without...