The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
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A dengue outbreak has recently hit the Indian capital. We studied the clinical profile of adult patients. Five hundred and sixty patients of dengue infection were admitted in a specially created ward according to the criteria laid down by WHO. ⋯ Eleven patients died, three due to DIC, one of intracranial haemorrhage and seven due to massive gastric haemorrhage. Rest of the patients recovered completely. Thus we can conclude that recent outbreak in Delhi was of dengue fever with haemorrhage and mortality was very low in patients who came early to the hospital.
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J Assoc Physicians India · Mar 1998
Simultaneous radiochemotherapy in the treatment of inoperable, locally advanced head and neck cancers.
The results of radiation therapy alone in locally advanced head and neck cancers are dismal with 5 year locoregional control rates not exceeding 15%. The addition of concomitant chemotherapy with cisplatin and more recently carboplatin has shown promising results. Twenty patients of inoperable stage III and IV oral or oropharyngeal cancers were treated with concomitant chemoradiation with carboplatin 300 mg/m2 i.v. on days 1, 21 and 42 of radiation therapy. ⋯ The treatment was well tolerated with only 2 patients requiring treatment interruptions for mucositis. Longer follow up would reveal any improvement in overall survival. The relative ease with which carboplatin/RT was administered suggests that other agents might be added as well.