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Recent Publications
Immune system and kidney transplantation
(Nepal Medical Association, 2017) Shrestha, Badri Man
Abstract
The immune system recognises a transplanted kidney as foreign body and mounts immune response through cellular and humoral mechanisms leading to acute or chronic rejection, which ultimately results in graft loss. Over the last five decades, there have been significant advances in the understanding of the immune responses to transplanted organs in both experimental and clinical transplant settings. Modulation of the immune response by using immunosuppressive agents has led to successful outcomes after kidney transplantation. The paper provides an overview of the general organisation and function of human immune system, immune response to kidney transplantation, and the current practice of immunosuppressive therapy in kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
Keywords: Immune system, Kidney transplantation, Alloimmunity, Rejection, Immunosuppressive agents
Oral squamous papilloma of edentulous mouth interfering with denture retention
(Nepal Medical Association, 2017) Pandey, Nashib; Sharma, Shivalal; Shrestha, Ashish; Marla, Vinay
Abstract
Soft tissue overgrowths inside oral cavity can present with wide range of clinical manifestations and some of them can be even asymptomatic. Oral squamous papilloma is one of that asymptomatic lesion described in the literature with extremely low virulence and infectivity rate. Soft tissue overgrowths can sometimes interfere with denture retention. Here we report a case of squamous papilloma in a 60 years old edentulous female who presented with loss of denture retention.
Keywords: Denture retention; Papilloma; Sialadenoma papilliferum.
Late presentation of post diphtheritic myocarditis in a 15-year male
(Nepal Medical Association, 2017) Vinod, Kutty Sharada; Gupta, Nitin; Sahu, Harsh; Wig, Naveet
Abstract
A 15-year old male patient presented to us with dyspnoea for four days. He had a history of fever, pseudo-membranous tonsillitis and cervical adenopathy twenty-five days prior to the presentation. On examination and laboratory investigations, he had features suggestive of myocarditis with biventricular failure. There was no reliable history of immunisation and he had a positive history of contact. He was planned for anti-diphtheria toxin but before the anti-toxin could be initiated, the patient succumbed to refractory cardiogenic shock. This was a rare case of late onset diphtheritic myocarditis in an unimmunised adult. With the advent of universal immunisation, there has been a significant decline in the incidence but there is still some road to cover.
Keywords: Corynebacterium diptheriae; Diphtheria; Myocarditis.
Chorioangioma of placenta
(Nepal Medical Association, 2017) Das, Rubby; Subedi, Nilam; Gurung, Gahana
Abstract
Chorioangioma of placenta is the commonest benign tumour of the placenta. It consists of a benign angioma arising from chorionic tissue. We report a case of placental chorioangioma which was diagnosed in the post partum period in a patient with polyhydramnios who went into preterm labor and delivered a premature baby.
Keywords: Chorioangioma; Placenta; Polyhydramnios.
Identification of deceased children of Nepal airlines crash through dental age estimation
(Nepal Medical Association, 2017) Agrawal, Nitin Kumar; Dahal, Samarika; Wasti, Harihar
Abstract
Identification of victims in a disaster is a challenging process and requires use of both primary and secondary identifiers. Development of teeth is one of the routinely used methods of age estimation and helps in establishing deceased biological profile. Two children who lost their lives in 2014 in Nepal Airlines crash, were looked for the dental developmental status. One of the children had primary dentition, while the other had mixed dentition. This helped us in estimating age of these individuals reconciled with the chronological age provided by the relatives. This led to the identification of both the children, thus, emphasizing teeth as important means of identification in any disaster.
Keywords: Dental age; Dental identification; Disaster victim identification; Forensic dentistry; Forensic odontology.