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Autoimmune hepatitis is defined as chronic liver disease of unknown aetiology with aberrant auto-reactivity and genetic predisposition, characterized by female predominance, circulating auto-antibodies, hypergammaglobulinemia and association with HLA DR3 and HLA DR4. We present two patients with autoimmune hepatitis. The first patient is a young lady who was diagnosed with autoimmune chronic hepatitis. The second patient, on the other hand, is an elderly gentleman who presented to us with autoimmune hepatitis related decompensated cirrhosis of liver.
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Tuberculosis is a great burden on global health specially in developing country such as India.This disease has a wide spectrum of presentation most commonly pulmonary. Tuberculosis can involve almost every part of the body but the disease manifestation mainly depends upon the patient health status, bacterial virulence and lastly the environment of the patient. Along with involvement of lungs it can also involve pleura, lymph nodes, skin, uterus, follapian tubes, ovary, meninges, spine, bones, and rarely it can also involve the brain parenchyma leading to brain abscess formation. It’s a rare clinical entity only diagnosed on imaging and when diagnosed should be treated accordingly.
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Pyknodysostosis is a defective bone disease that is responsible in many bone deformities. We report a case with recurrent urti, growth retardation, facial dysmorphism, delayed eruption of teeth & inability to gain weight properly since childhood and successful treatment of the patient by supportive measures.