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Epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection in India
(1996)
The average estimated carrier rate of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in India is 4%, with a total pool of approximately 36 million carriers. Wide variations in social, economic, and health factors in different regions may explain ...
Prospective controlled study of post-transfusion hepatitis after cardiac surgery in a large referral hospital in India.Live
(1992)
We studied the risk of post-transfusion hepatitis (PTH) in recipients of blood collected from voluntary donors screened for HBsAg. Two hundred and fifty patients without any previous history of liver disease or transfusion ...
Genotype determination of hepatitis C virus from northern India: identification of a new subtype.J Med Virol.
(1996)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome, with many variants showing only 68-79% overall sequence homology. This has led to problems in diagnosis of ...
A preliminary open trial on interferon stimulator (SNMC) derived from Glycyrrhiza glabra in the treatment of subacute hepatic failure
(1993)
The efficacy of the interferon stimulator named Stronger Neo Minophagen-C (SNMC) derived form the plant G. glabra was studied at a dose of 40 or 100 ml daily for 30 days followed by thrice weekly intravenously for 8 wk in ...
Etiological role of hepatitis E virus in sporadic fulminant hepatitis
(1994)
Non-A, non-B hepatitis viruses have been implicated as the etiological agent(s) in up to 60% of patients with fulminant hepatitis. These agents are reported to induce a higher mortality than other causes of fulminant ...
A prospective randomized study to evaluate propranolol in patients undergoing long-term endoscopic sclerotherapy
(1994)
J Hepatol. 1993 Sep;19(2):291-300.Click here to read Links A prospective randomized double-blind study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of propranolol in patients with portal hypertension undergoing long-term endoscopic ...
Pancreatic abscess: is there a role for conservative therapy?
(1993)
Pancreatic abscess is a serious complication of acute pancreatitis and non-operative management has been reported to carry a mortality of nearly 100%. We present five patients with pancreatic abscess, who were successfully ...
Diagnosis of hepatitis C virus-associated chronic liver disease in India: comparison of HCV antibody assay with a polymerase chain reaction for the 5' noncoding region.
(1994)
The relative value of an anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) serological assay and reverse transcriptase-nested polymerase chain reaction assays (RT-PCR) were investigated for the constant 5' putative noncoding region of HCV for ...
Biliary strictures on ERCP: a study in northern India.
(1994)
Case records of 82 patients with biliary stricture diagnosed on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) during a 7-years period (1983-89) were analysed for its aetiology, clinical presentation, laboratory ...
HBV–status in professional blood donors in north India.Trop Gastroenterol
(1992)
Present study demonstrates the efficacy and significance of routine screening assays used for HBsAg testing in donor blood in different blood banks of Delhi city. Blood from professional donors already screened in blood ...