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BACKGROUND : Blunt abdominal trauma is the 3rd most common form of injury in road traffic accidents after orthopaedic injuries and head injuries and the victims mostly are young, productive adults and hence it has got enormous 8 socio-economic impact. METHOD : Aprospective detailed study and analysis of 125 cases of abdominal trauma those admitted in this tertiary care centre over a period of 2 years from 2017 -2019 was undertaken with the review of the medical literature. RESULTS : Blunt injury abdomen is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in young age patients with Road traffic accident being the most commoncause.Males are affectedmore thanfemales.Inourstudy,Liverismost commonlyinvolvedorganthanspleenwhichis contrasttoliterature. CONCLUSION : Early diagnosis reduces the mortality rates and safety measures in roads prevent the injuries , both play a major role in good outcome.
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Pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important communicable diseases in the world. India is the highest PT TB burden country accounting for one-fifth (21%) of the global incidence (9.4 million cases). This problem is further magnified by the after-effects of the disease—post-tubercular bronchiectasis (PTBX). As a result, the sufferers run from pillar to post with sinister symptomatology. Some of them are retreated with antituberculous treatment, although there is no definite indication. Katuri Medical College is situated in the rural Guntur surrounded by number of dusty industries like granite, quarrying, cotton crop and mills, tobacco, capsicum crop, spices besides being an agricultural area on the brink of mighty Krishna River flowing at a length of more than 700 km through three states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. As a result the flora and fauna is complex. Workers in this area report with variegated granulomatous lung diseases to the faculty of Pulmonology. Over and above the incidence of smoking in both sexes is rampant. The final outcome in all these morbidities is bronchiectasis. Quite a few of them have had treatment for pulmonary TB in the past. With this background the present study was undertaken to find out the vagary of post-tubercular bronchiectasis ruling out the extrinsic atmospheric factors.