Volume 14, Issue 3

Bhagya Venkanna Rao

pp. 161 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.32 · 2021

Anaemia is the condition where the oxygen-carrying capacity of RBC decreased. Prevalence is very high in India and other developing countries. Reasons vary from poorer socio-economic status, lower education among women, …

Sarfaraz Mohammed, Aksa Maria Thomas, Anju Joy, Annura Ann Abraham, Devathi Sravya, Doddayya Hiremath

pp. 162–168 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.33 · 2021

Background:World Health Organization (WHO) has defined drug utilization in 1977 as marketing, distribution, prescription and use of drugs in a society with special emphasis on the resultant medical and social consequence…

Sarang P, Adwaitha R, Heera Lakshmi A, Teena Susan Alex, Soumya MK

pp. 169–173 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.34 · 2021

Aim:The aim of the study is to assess the predictors of recurrent stroke and to analyze the significance of golden hour among the stroke patients in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods:A prospective observati…

Shintu Shaji, Syamaprasad Thachethukunnil Vinayakumar, Shilpa Shaji

pp. 174–179 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.35 · 2021

Background: The etiology of urinary tract infection (UTI) and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern vary from time to time and across different areas in India. This study is designed to analyse the resistance of uropathog…

Anaswara V, Sujith S Nair, Aswathy Sivaprasad, Priyan Joy, Vivek V Nath

pp. 180–184 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.36 · 2021

Aim:The aim of study is to measure pain intensity using pain scale in post-surgical patients and to evaluate the analgesics prescribed to them for the pain relief. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study…

Vineela Chadalavada, Lingamguntla Chelmi Kumar, Edururi Navya Sri Reddy, Mandhapati Vaikunta Varma

pp. 185–190 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.37 · 2021

Objectives: Medicines play a crucial role in today's modern lifestyle. It is a known fact that it would be difficult to find a house without medicines. The World health organisation reports that 50% of medicines fall und…

Satya Sree Rallabandi, Sai Samanth Makula, Vasudeva Murthy Sindgi, Bandari Jagadeesh Babu, Usha Sree Puneem

pp. 191–197 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.38 · 2021

Aim:To monitor the nature and incidences adverse effects of both antipsychotics and antidepressants medicines in the psychiatry outpatient department.Objectives:Reporting the incidences of adverse effects and to establis…

Shiv Kumar, Ashish Kumar

pp. 198–204 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.39 · 2021

Aim:To assess the prescribing pattern of antibiotics among the inpatients of different wards of hospital, to assess the appropriateness of restricted antibiotics use associated with diagnosis and bacteriological finding,…

T Deeksha, M Ashok Kumar, Gouri Suresh

pp. 205–210 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.40 · 2021

Background:Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding is irregular uterine bleeding that occurs in the absence of recognizable pelvic pathology, general medical disease or pregnancy. Bleeding may be excessively heavy or light and ma…

Vikas Sakhamuri, Sindhu Vaishnavi Valicherla, Sai Vasudev Kona, Hemanth Gopinath Besabathini

pp. 211–213 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.41 · 2021

Antipsychotics are the group of drugs chiefly used in the management of Schizophrenia. They are classified into two generations i.e., first and second generations. First-generation drugs were greatest expected to cause e…

Vinushree BN, Patchigolla Ganesh, Sai Kumar Javvaji

pp. 214–218 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.42 · 2021

The occurrence of opportunistic infection is largely seen in immunocompromised patients. Varicella infection is one such infection caused by Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) – a human neurotropic virus which primarily presen…

Jain S, Mohapatra L, Mundada P, Raj P

pp. 219–221 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.43 · 2021

The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction is defined as a transient immunological reaction, classically seen in patients during antimicrobial treatment of syphilis. Clinically, it manifests within 24 h with short-term constitution…

Lakshmi Narasimha Gunturu, Kalpana Pamayyagari, Girirajasekhar Dornadula

pp. 222–223 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.44 · 2021

Drug induced adverse drug reactions are more common in long term therapy particularly in immune compromised patients. Some of the drugs causes Redistribution of body fat (Lipodystrophy) in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (H…

Binu Mathew, Sunitt Thomas, Shiv Kumar, Doddaya Hiremath, Rita Doggalli

pp. 224–226 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.45 · 2021

Ceftriaxone is a third generation cephalosporin antibiotic, used commonly due to their broad spectrum of activity. As the therapeutic use of cephalosporin are increasing, reports of hypersensitivity reactions are also on…

Amit Kumar, P. Sindhusha, P. J. N. Satyavathi, A. Vanajakshi, S. Annapoorna

pp. 227–229 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.46 · 2021

Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) is a rare cancerous tumor of bone or soft tissue that usually occurs mostly in young adults (teens through mid-20s). It is very rare to diagnose ES in pregnancy. Only a few cases have been reported i…

Nishi Sheth, Dhruv Zaveri, Hemraj Singh Rajput

pp. 230–232 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.14.3.47 · 2021

Prednisolone is a corticosteroid, it works on immune system to relieve swelling, redness, and inflammation.it is a choice of drug for arthritis, cancer, asthma, allergic condition, bell’s palsy, Nephrotic syndrome and di…