BACKGROUND Our purpose was to record the incidence of heterotopic ossification (HO) following hip replacement by different variables to identify patient groups that are likely to develop HO in the absence of a prophylactic protocol. METHODS Radiographically, we studied 651 patients having undergone hip joint replacement, evaluating three kinds of implants: ceramic-ceramic-coupled total hip re...

PURPOSE To compare mid-term outcomes of hemi-resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) and total resurfacing arthroplasty (TRA). METHODS Seven men and 5 women (16 hips) aged 33 to 72 (mean, 50) years underwent HRA, whereas 7 men and 3 women (16 hips) aged 23 to 52 (mean, 40) years underwent metal-on-metal TRA; all were for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. In the HRA and TRA groups respectively, 10 and...

Introduction: There is variability of data regarding seroprevalence and coinfection of hepatitis viruses. Our objective was to determine the magnitude, pattern and coinfection of hepatitis viruses in clinically suspected cases of acute infectious hepatitis. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the Department of Microbiology at Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, over a period ...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) contribute to excessive health care costs through increased patient morbidity and mortality. Thus, there is an urgent need to create awareness among physicians towards ADR monitoring. The present study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of fifth semester undergraduate students and prescribers (interns, junior residents and senio...

Background: Surgical techniques and rehabilitations after total hip arthroplasty (THA) play a significant role in theimprovement of pain and limping. This study aimed to assess hip abductor muscle’s diameter and its strength after 6months postoperative THA performed by Hardinge approach.Methods: After obtaining the patients’ demographic characteristics, the preoperative values...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical outcome of anterolateral minimally invasive approach versus conventional posterior approach for total hip replacement against femoral neck fractures in elderly patients. METHODS The retrospective study was carried out on 42 patients who suffered from displaced femoral neck fractures (19 cases of Garden type III, 23 cases of Garden type IV) treated by total hi...

A 60 year old women, a resident of Delhi, presented to the medical outdoor department of Lady Hardinge Medical College with complaints of recurrent fever accompanied by chills, rigor, headache, and malaise. She had no complaints suggestive of respiratory or urinary tract involvement. She had been treated with antimalarials (chloroquine and sulfadoxinepyrimethamine), however, she continued to be...

‘There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. Debility is gradually converted into strength, disease into healthfulness . . . the unaccountable irrationalities of illtemper, that make hell of domestic life, into a calm and considerable evenness of temper . . .’. So wrote the po...

Enteric fever, though classically caused by Salmonella belonged to biotype II. enterica, Serotype typhi, isolation of Salmonella enterica Serotype paratyphi A has also been reported. Since 1996, an In the year 2002 and 2003, we isolated 3 and 4 strains of S. increasing trend in isolation of S. paratyphi A causing enteric paratyphi A respectively. A sudden and dramatic rise in the fever has been...

A 60 year old women, a resident of Delhi, presented to the medical outdoor department of Lady Hardinge Medical College with complaints of recurrent fever accompanied by chills, rigor, headache, and malaise. She had no complaints suggestive of respiratory or urinary tract involvement. She had been treated with antimalarials (chloroquine and sulfadoxinepyrimethamine), however, she continued to be...