Accidental childhood poisoning in Ramadi city

A prospective study of 239 cases of accidental childhood poisoning admitted to Ramadi Maternity and Children Hospital in Ramadi City. Over 75% of cases were within 1-3 year age group with an equal male:female ratio. Kerosene was the most common substance ingested [45.6%], followed in decreasing order by drugs [30.96%], chemicals [12.13%], and unknown [11.3%]. Ingestion occurred with no symptoms in 25.5%, and mild-moderate and server clinical manifestations were 70.5% and 4.0% respectively. Twenty-eight [11.7%] of cases required antidotes. There was 1 fatal case. It is concluded that accidental childhood poisoning is an important cause of morbidity in Ramadi City. Appropriate preventive measures are recommended

study on the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in Al-Anbar governorate

Two antituberculosis, 6- and 9- month regimens were evaluated on 96 patients, from Al-Anbar governorate, with active tuberculosis. The patients received one of the two regimens and this was determined by the availability of drugs. 20 patients received the 9- month regimen [2SRH/7RH] which was based on daily administration of rifampicin [R, 600mg], isoniazid [H, 300mg] with addition of streptomycin [S, 0.75-1g] during the first two months. 76 patients received 6- month regiment [2SRHZ/4RH] which was based on the supplement of pyrazinamide [Z, 2g] during the first two months. 79 [82.3%] of patients were cured, with cure-rate of [85.5%] and [70%], defaulters 5 [6.6%] and 4 [20%], failure cases 5 [6.6%] and 1 [5%], and death 1 [1.3%] and 1 [5%] for the 6- and 9- month regimens respectively. It is concluded that the addition of pyrazinamide and giving treatment for 6 months rather than 9 months makes the treatment superior to the classical 9- month regimen without pyrazinamide in terms of efficacy and compliance

Myocardial protection: an approach with alterations in cations and trace elements in rats

This study was undertaken to investigate the cation and trace element changes in experimentally induced myocardial isehaemia like lesion evoked by isoprenaline. Rats were treated with 30 mg/kg S.C isoprenaline alone or in combination with the calcium entry blocker felodipine 1 mg/kg i.p or the free radical scavenger superoxide 15000 U/kg i.p. Our results showed that the isoprenaline-produced hypocupraernia and hypozincaemia, and the cardiac damage is accompanied by calcium overload, magnesium and zinc depletion, Felodipine and superoxide disinutase altered these changes in different manners. We conclude that manipulations of cardiac cations and trace elements can provide myocardial protections in experimental model of cardiac ischaemia induced by isoprenaline