Aim of this study is to ascertain the drug prescribing pattern of the patients with Tinea infections attending a tertiary care teaching centre. This retrospective study conducted at a tertiary care teaching hospital in the Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka for a period of one year. 158 prescriptions were audited to find generic/ brand names of drugs, number of drugs, dosage, forms, frequency...

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For patients with epilepsy, the goal of treatment is to achieve seizure freedom with minimal or no adverse events. Around 60%-70% of newly diagnosed patients will achieve this goal with single antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy, and there is universal agreement that prescription of a single agent constitutes best practice for such patients. For the 30%-40% of patients with poorly controlled epile...

Abstract Background Different studies investigating generalized genetic epilepsy (GGE) have shown that achieving 5 years of remission, early seizure and needing antiseizure medication (ASM) monotherapy may predict favorable long-term outcomes. Results This is a retrospective analytical cohort study. Records patients with GGE diagnoses at large center in Cairo served as the data source. 630 (297...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a variable disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of anomalies, including hyperandrogenemia, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, body adiposity, low-grade inflammation and increased cardiovascular disease risks. Recently, a new polytherapy consisting of low-dose flutamide, metformin and pioglitazone in combination with an estro-progestagen resulted in the r...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence of adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs (AED) in chronic epileptic patients in mono or polytherapy. METHOD We evaluated consecutive patients that met the following inclusion criteria: age of 18 years or older, diagnosis of epilepsy for at least one year, stable dose of AED for at least three months. Patients were asked if they had any adverse event re...

We studied the outcome of 79 pregnancies in 44 Saudi women who had epilepsy. Their mean age was 28+/-6.5 years and the number of pregnancies studied varied from one to six. Nineteen subjects had generalized seizures, 16 had partial seizures and nine were unclassified. The commonest drug prescribed was carbamazepine and the majority of the women (61%) were on monotherapy. The seizures were contr...

Aim: This study aims to investigate whether there is an increase in carotid-intima media thickness (C-IMT) epilepsy patients using antiepileptic drugs when compared the normal control group and a difference we them as monotherapy polytherapy.
 Material Method: 68 people were included prospective cross-sectional study. 38 30 healthy groups that matched terms of demographic characteristics&#...

Leprosy, a chronic granulomatous infectocontagious disease transmitted by Mycobacterium leprae, continues to be prevalent today, especially in underdeveloped countries and its paucibacillary form with a single lesion is being treated with rifampicin (600mg), ofloxacin (400mg) and minocycline (100mg) administered as a single dose (ROM scheme). Thus, the objective of the present study was to inve...

Objective: To study the Inter – relationship between Quality of life and Cognitive dysfunction in People with Epilepsy to identify factors that influence Cognition QOL PWE. Methods: We analyzed were independently associated QOLIE-31, MMSE MOCA scores which included demographic clinical variables using Chi square, ANOVA Multivariate regression analysis. Pearson coefficient calculator know inte...