ABSTRACT
Background: Tuberculosis Meningitis [TBM] can lead to hydrocephalus and complicate the management
Objective: To determine the frequency of hydrocephalus in cases of tuberculosis meningitis
Methodology: This was a cross sectional study conducted from1st January to 30thSeptember 2017 in Department of Neurology, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore. The detailed demographic data was collected. The cases of TBM were selected on clinical and laboratory diagnosis and then they underwent CT scan of brain [plain] and diagnosis of TBM was made in BMRC scale. Data was entered in SPSS version 23 and analyzed
Results: In present study, there were total 100 cases of TBM, out of which 60 [60%] were males and 40 [40%] females with mean age of 47.23+/-10.39 years. There were 6 [6%] cases in stage I, 65 [65%] in II and 29 [29%] in stage III of TBM. Hydrocephalus was observed in 48 [48%] of the cases. There was no significant difference in terms of gender and age groups with p values of 0.67 and 0.58 respectively. The results were significantly higher in those that had stage III of TBM where it was seen in 19 [65.52%] out of 29 cases as compared to 27 [41.54%] cases in stage II and 2 [33.33%] in stage I of their respective groups with p value of 0.02
Conclusion: Hydrocephalus is seen nearly in half of the cases with TBM and it is significantly high in cases that had stage III of TBM
ABSTRACT
Background: Osteoporosis among peptic ulcer disease is one of the complications usually reported
Objective: To determine the frequency of osteoporosis in patients with peptic ulcer disease
Methodology: It was a descriptive, cross sectional study that was conducted at Medical Department Lahore General Hospital, Lahore from 1st January to 30thAugust 2017. In this study the cases of age 18 years or more diagnosed with peptic ulcer disease on history and then confirmed on upper GI endoscopy, were included. These cases were then assessed on DEXA scan and osteoporosis was labelled as yes where there was score of less than 2.5. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 19
Results: In this study there were total 60 cases out of which 28 were males and 32 females. The mean age was 43.23+/-8.13 years. The mean duration of PUD was 3.2+/-0.31 years and mean T score was 1.2+/-0.8. Osteoporosis was seen in 4 [6.67%] of cases. Osteoporosis was more seen in females affecting 03 [9.38%] cases of their respective groups [p= 0.02]. There was no significant difference in terms of duration of PUD with osteoporosis [p= 0.86]
Conclusion: Osteoporosis is recently studied complication of peptic ulcer disease and is not very common, but still present among many cases of peptic ulcer disease as shown by this study