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Introduction: We came across patients inquiring with oncologists about cheap copy medicines. These were of recently licensedinnovator drugs that should have been available from original company holding their patents. In fact these copy medicines weremanufactured in our neighboring countries and made available in India. We investigated further and this manuscript puts together thestartling information that we were able to find regarding the thriving grey market for fake generic medicines.
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We report a case of neutropenic enterocolitis diagnosed on computerized tomography abdomen in a 56-year-old man having high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. After appropriate management, the patient recovered completely.
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use , Cyclophosphamide/adverse effects , Doxorubicin/adverse effects , Enterocolitis, Neutropenic/chemically induced , Humans , Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/drug therapy , Male , Middle Aged , Prednisone/adverse effects , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Vincristine/adverse effectsSubject(s)
Disease Outbreaks , Female , Humans , Incidence , India/epidemiology , Male , Risk Assessment , Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne/diagnosisSubject(s)
Animals , Humans , Musa , Potassium Deficiency/blood , Risk Factors , Stroke/diet therapySubject(s)
Animals , Endothelial Growth Factors/pharmacology , Fibroblast Growth Factors/pharmacology , Humans , Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/pharmacology , Lymphokines/pharmacology , Neovascularization, Physiologic/drug effects , Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/pharmacology , Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A , Vascular Endothelial Growth FactorsABSTRACT
Serum total Amylase and its heat stable fraction (HSF) were studied in 10 healthy controls, and 20 patients of Viral hepatitis. A highly significant (p < 0.001) elevation in the levels of total and HSF of Serum amylase was found in acute viral hepatitis, mainly due to the HSF which originates from hepatitis. The levels declined significantly after 10 days when the disease regressed and there was evidence of improvement in clinical and functional status of the liver. Hence an estimation of total and HSF of Serum amylase proved to have some diagnostic and prognostic importance.