Hyperglycemic ketoacidosis with diazinon poisoning.

The toxic manifestations of organophosphates including diazinon have been nicely described by many authors after their use as pesticides during the last three decades, but there is no report to show ketoacidosis with organophosphate compounds while literature is available mentioning the absence of ketois with these compounds. This report describes a case of hyperglycemic ketoacidosis after diazinon poisoning of a 13 year old girl student

Pulmonary aspergillosis: a case report

A case of aspergilloma is described in an asthmatic farmer previously treated for pulmonary TB. Clinically there was amphoric breathing in the right apex and the chest x-ray showed a typical appearance of a rounded shadow with a halo around it. Diagnosis was confirmed by culturing. A fumigatus from the sputum on two occasions

use of wayne's scoring index and free triiodothyronine [T3] for the diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis

The estimation of triiodothyronine T[3], thyroxine T[4], free thyroxine index [FTI] levels in 243 euthyroid and 129 hyperthyroid individuals between the ages of 18-60 years from southern Iraq. The study included both males and females. Wayne's Index was used for establishing the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism. Twenty-two selected hyperthyroid cases with FTI values of normal range were shown to be cases of T[3] thyrotoxicosis. On the basis of our study we recommend that Wayne's scoring index should be used for the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism, clinically, especially when supportive laboratory investigation are not satisfactory. This appears reliable, since the convenient laboratory tests for estimation of FTI levels supported, and was found commensurate with the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism in only 82% of our cases