We report a case of ischiopagus tetrapus conjoined twins with one pascombined birth weight of 5,000 grams. There was no history of twin in the family. During hospitalization, the conjoined twins suffered from sepsis due to ascending infection from cloacal portion. At the age of 17 days, an exploratory laparatomy and divided colostomy was performed. The postoperative complications were bleeding …
Corneal ulcers is one of the difficult case to handle, most of them causes a blindness. It needs an antibiogram in order to choose drug of choice, however, it takes time. So sensitivity patterns is important as guidance to choose an initial antibiotic treatment to the patient. Sensitivity test of 42 isolates from 33 corneal ulcer patients against 12 antibiotics have been done, using disc diffus…
The clinical diagnosis of thalassemia syndrome is not difficult to establish with relatively simple Investigations, but molecular study is needed to determine the genotype and for the prenatal diagnosis. In the molecular study, the DNA should be first amplifed and among the amplification techniques polymerase chain reaction is the simplest and the most rapid one. The procedure can in vitro ampl…