Daily Archives: 07/11/2020

cases in psychiatry

Case Vignettes 1 1. Alzheimer’s Dementia 2. Delirium not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances. 3. Mental and behavioural disorder due to use of alcohol; dependence syndrome; uncomplicated withdrawal. 4. Mental and behavioural disorder due to use of alcohol; dependence syndrome – complicated withdrawal. (Delirium tremens with convulsions) 5. Mental and behavioural disorder due […]

Blood clots and covid

Blood clots continue to wreak havoc for patients with severe COVID-19 infection, and a new study explains what may spark them in up to half of patients. The culprit: An autoimmune antibody that’s circulating in the blood, attacking the cells and triggering clots in arteries, veins, and microscopic vessels. Blood clots can cause life-threatening events […]

What is Proteinuria?

What is Proteinuria? Increased excretion of proteins in the urine is called as proteinuria. Normal individuals excrete less than150 mg of total proteins per day. It consists of albumin less than 30 mg derived from serum, others mainly, Tamm-Horsfall/uromodulin secreted by thick ascending limb of Henle and early distal convoluted tubule, small molecular weight proteins […]