Association between ABO Blood Group Phenotype and Reaction to Academic Stress in Young Medical Students

Introduction: Professional medical education needs hardwork, good physical and mental health. In previous studiesthere is no scientific consensus that a relationship existsbetween the ABO blood group and personality traits. In thiscurrent study we tried to find out association between differentblood groups and different type of stressors like physical,environmental, interpersonal and academic in young medicalstudents.Material and methods: This Descriptive Cross sectionalstudy was conducted at Rashid Latif Medical College Lahorefrom April to May 2019. A modified pre structured, valid andreliable questionnaire SSI was used to access the physical,academic, environmental, interpersonal stress, blood groupand gender of 1st year and 2nd year MBBs students. Initially220 (91 male and 129 female) were enrolled.Results: A total of 216 medical students filled in the survey outof 220 students, 126 students (n=126) were female and (n=90)were male who completed the questionnaire; the response ratewas 98.18%. Out of 216 students blood group A was 32, ABwas 42, B was 92 and O was 50. A greater variation in theresponse was observed in the physical category (St: deviation10.40), while the least variation was observed in the categoryof interpersonal (St: deviation 5.27), respondents while thevariation tends to increase in environment (St: deviation 6.78)and academic (St: deviation 7.20).Conclusion: All variables stressors like Physical, academic,environment and interpersonal are found to have negativeand insignificant relationship with dependent variable bloodgroup.

Primary intracranial malignant melanoma

Primary intracranial melanoma is an extremely rare lesion of the brain. A 28 years old lady, without any co-morbid conditions, presented with headache and left side facial numbness. MRI of brain showed a mass lesion in left middle cranial fossa extending into posterior fossa, with signals characteristics of melanoma. Histology and immunohistochemistry confirmed the diagnosis after surgical excision of that lesion. Patient remained symptom-free till the last follow-up that was four years postoperatively