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The Role of Oxidative Stress and Vitamin D in Aborted Women with Cytomegalovirus Raid M. H. Al-Salih; Khalid M. Dakhel; Batool A. Hussein
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.17884

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Abortion is one of the commonest reasons for acute presentation to gynecologists, recurrent spontaneousabortion due to maternal infections transmissible in uterus at various stage of gestation can be causedby a wide array of organisms including cytomegalovirus. This study included (25) aborted women, (25)non- aborted women with cytomegalovirus seropositive test as a patients groups and (25) non- abortedwomen with cytomegalovirus seronegative test as a control group. The study was designed to evaluate theconcentration of malondialdehyde (MDA) as an oxidative stress marker, the concentration of ceruloplasmin(Cp) and transferrin (Tf) as an antioxidant marker and total vitamin D in cytomegalovirus infected womenand investigate the relation between oxidative stress and total vitamin D. The results show a significantdecrease in levels of serum MDA in aborted group with CMV in comparison to non-*-aborted and controlgroups (p> 0.05), serum ceruloplasmin and transferrin significantly decrease in aborted group in contrast tonon-aborted and control groups (p > 0.05) and total vitamin D was decreased in all study groups but therewas a significant difference between studied groups (p > 0.05). The results of this study show disorder inlevels of (MDA, Cp, Tf and VD) aborted group with cytomegalovirus.
Methanol Toxicity: An Emergency Department and Toxicologist Dilemma – Methanol Case Series, Investigation of Medical Professionals’ Knowledge, and Review of The Literature Sahar Y. Issa; Maha K. Al Mazroua; Naglaa F Mahmoud
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Methanol is a clear, colorless, highly toxic alcohol widely used as paint, varnish removers, automotiveradiators, and washer fluid. Methanol intoxication incidence can be due to accidental, occupational,suicidal exposure or following an adulterated liquor’s ingestion. Methanol is not toxic itself but will bemetabolized to the exceedingly poisonous formaldehyde and formic acid. Methanol ingestion ends inwide anion-gap metabolic acidosis and devastating neurological complications, including drowsinessto coma and devastating intracranial hemorrhages. Severe toxicities can occur with an intake of 0.25ml/kg of 100% methanol. The blood level of methanol above 25 mg/dl is considered highly toxic.Methanol reaches its peak plasma levels within an hour. Treatment guidelines include antidotal therapy,hemodialysis, and metabolic acidosis correction. Due to methanol’s poisoning severity and graveoutcome of the affected cases, we had to present 4 case series for methanol intoxication, each with itsclinical manifestations and laboratory findings, to enlighten the medical practitioners about possiblecauses, presentations, and treatment modalities of such severe toxicity.Four methanol poisoning case series with different presentations were discussed in the current work.A questionnaire about methanol poisoning awareness was distributed through the ER physicians’ andnurses’ mail to investigate their ability to diagnose and treat methanol poisoning cases.More training of ER medical staff on toxicological presentations is highly recommended. Clinical andanalytical toxicologists should have a more prominent role in the management of such cases. Morelight and international publicity should be shed upon the methanol toxicity outbreaks encounteredglobally, with frequently updating the diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines following an evidencebasedapproach are highly recommended.
Comparative Study between Variable Computer Printed Documents to Identify the Type of the Producing Output Devices Abeer Sayed Abdo Borae; Yasser Fouad Abd El-Monem Al-Akid; Khaled Abd El-Azeem Mahmoud Tamim; NesrineAbd El-Rahman Mahmoud
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Background: Within the last years, forgery has markedly increased and expanded to encompasscomputers and printers’ usage, their wide evolution facilitated the production of fraudulent printeddocuments by even non-experts. The printers and photocopiers leave their imprints on the produceddocuments. Examination of printed output of a questioned document is essential as it providesinformation about the producing device.This study aims to compare the characteristics of different computer printed documents to identify thetype of the producing output devices (photocopier, inkjet, and laser printers).Methods: 132 documents were typed and printed using different models of inkjet, laser printersand photocopiers. The produced documents were examined with direct light digital microscope andultraviolet light and the printed markings were compared.Conclusion: Our results revealed that each class of the studied printing devices induced specific criteriaon the examined printed documents. These criteria are class characteristics but differ from one type ofdevice to another.
A Correlation Study between Fingerprints and Lip Prints among Twins M.Sugatha; R.Jenifer Jacquiline; M.Taqiuddinkhan
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Introduction: Fingerprints and Lip prints has its reliability for its uniqueness and can be used solelyas an aid in identification for civil and criminal cases. Hence a correlation between the fingerprints andlip prints can bring up a new approach or idea in the field of Forensic Medicine for solving medicolegalcases. The present study was conducted on 25 pairs of twins with the main objective to find any existingcorrelation between fingerprints and lip prints and to determine the most predominant finger print andlip print pattern among Twin A and Twin B individually.Materials and Methods: The study was done is subjects age ranging from 6-18 years. A proforma withsubject particulars and consent form was prepared. Lip prints were obtained in a drawing chart, themiddle part of the lower lip was analysed based on Suzuki and Tsuchihashi classification. Fingerprint ofleft thumb finger was obtained in a white paper and analysed based on Henry’s system of classification.Results: The present study showed that there was no significant correlation between the Lip prints andFingerprints in Twins with p value >0.001. Among twin A and twin B the most predominant Lip printpattern was Type I’ and the Fingerprint pattern was Loop pattern respectively.Conclusion: Lip prints and Fingerprints are two important parameters for an individual in identification.There are various studies till now in individuals but very few in twins. So, in this study we made anattempt to find the correlation between the parameters, whether they were existing or not and found thatthere was no significant correlation yet can be used as a separate tool. Hence it is essential to performfurther studies on a larger group and create a database for getting accurate results.
Demographic Study of Blunt Trauma Chest in Varanasi Region Roopam Mourya; S.K.Pandey; S.K. Bhartiya
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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The mortality rate of chest trauma is 10%. Incidence has significantly increased due to development ofrapid mode of transport, new high speed vehicles, ignorance of road safety measures, fall from height,fall on road injuries due to construction activities violence ,fall from under construction building.Human fatality associated with chest injuries worsening each year.This drew the impact on reducing burden of chest trauma ,prevention and its measures at social, medical,economical, and governmental. So that understanding the problem is the one of the first step towardsawareness and averting the problem.Present study has been undertaken to analyse the most neglected aspect of human suffering . It is aneffort to know the pattern of blunt trauma chest and to elucidate the multi-factorial causations leadingto rise in everyday blunt trauma cases.Here in this paper 300 cases of chest injuries by blunt forces are studied for their epidemiological,demographic aspects. Majority of them are adult/middle ages male between 41 -50 years of age ,mostof them are caused by road traffic accidents. Male to female ratio is 7.1:1.Majority of the cases arehappened on highway.
Legal Aspects of Maternity Nursesperforming Childbirth Assistance Measures in the Framework of Carrying Out Doctor’s Duties Against the Birth Process in Breach Locations Makhfudli; Gregory Agung Himawan; Nisa AmaliyaVariansyah; MokhamadKhoirul Huda
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Health is a human right, meaning that everyone has the same rights in obtaining access to healthservices and professionalism from health workers. Nurses are the most numerous health workers inIndonesia. Nursing staff who perform nursing actions must be following the competence of nurses andLaw Number 38 of 2014 concerning Nursing. The purpose of writing this article is to find out how thelegal aspects of maternity nurses who carry out delivery assistance actions carry out the doctor’s dutiesin the Breach delivery process By using the normative juridical research method, it can be concludedthat the competence of the maternity nurse is to assist childbirth but does not have the authority toprovide delivery assistance, especially in cases with fatal risks that can cause death to the mother andfetus. When referring to the criminal provisions of Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health Workers,Article 84 paragraph (1), any Health Worker who commits serious negligence resulting in serious injuryto the Health Service Recipient shall be sentenced to a maximum imprisonment of 3 (three) years. Thenin paragraph (2), namely If the gross negligence as referred to in paragraph (1) results in death, eachHealth Worker shall be sentenced to a maximum imprisonment of 5 (five) years.
Isolation and Identification of Salmonella typhimurium in an Umbilical Area from Chicks in Kerbala City Mustafa Mahmood NaemaAl-taeeand; Sahar Mahdi Hayyawi Al-Rubay
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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One hundred samples ofumbilicus were taken from chicks .Out of these, 27 (27%) were positive.The most common of bacterial isolates were Salmonella typhimurium. The biochemical tests for allisolates, whether from chicks, showed a positive test to check the production of hydrogen sulfide gas,the fermentation of glucose sugar, the use of citrate as a source of carbon, non-lactose fermentedandnegative for urease enzyme, the result found the most common infection in the cold weather February, they were found nine isolates (33.33%) more than other groups as 29.63%, 14.82 %and 11.11%,for January , November , December and October , respectively. The resultswere found a total of 27isolates were Salmonella spp., on the other hand 11 isolates wereidentified as Salmonella typhimurium(40.74%) by Vitek 2 compact system, , All Salmonella spp. showed high susceptibility againstNitrofurantoin, 27 (100%) and ciprofloxacin24 (88.8%), whereas they were highly resistance againstAmoxicillinCefotaxime, and Vancomycin 24 (88.8% ).. Chicks with umbilical area were found toharbor different pathogens and they are considered a source of infection during successive days in thelife of broilers chickens.
The Effect of Hypertension as a Comorbid Factor on the Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Cholecystectomy Albertus Magnus Arya Abisatya; Diah Purwaningsari; Wahyu Prasasti Mutiadesi; Redemptus Yudadi
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Background: One of the gold standard procedures for cholelithiasis is cholecystectomy. Cholecystectomyhas numerous variated Length of stay results relies upon every nation and medical clinic. Hypertensionis perhaps the most widely recognized comorbid factors and are thought to impact prolonged length ofstay.Aim of Research: To study the effect of hypertension as a comorbid factor on the length of stay in patientsundergoing cholecystectomy in Dr. Ramelan Naval Hospital Surabaya from June 2019-September 2020.Method of Research: This is an analytic descriptive research with retrospective study. The samplingtechnique used in this research is total sampling. The data were collected from medical record data ofpatients at the Internal Medicine and Digestive Surgery Polyclinic.Result of Research: The number of patients who underwent cholecystectomy with hypertensionwho underwent a length of stay > 5 days were 36 people (83.7%). The result from the CoefficientContingency test shows that there is a correlation between hypertension as a comorbid factor and thelength of stay (p<0,0001).Conclusion: This research shows that there is comorbidity such as hypertension affects the length ofstay in cholecystectomy.
Prostate Specific Antigen as Predictive Factor for Androgenemia in Women Ali Mohammed Mooshly AL-Bahadly; Maytham Khazza Kadhim AL-Behadili; Mohammed Shakir Atiyah
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Background: Sex hormones of steroid origin - androgens, play an important role in the life of thebody. They are involved in the regulation of bone maturation, gonadotropin secretion and the synthesisof high-density lipids, the production of β-endorphins. Along with the anabolic effect, androgensregulate libido and sexual potency, stimulate the function of the sebaceous glands and hair follicles.At physiological concentrations, androgens participate in the regression mechanism of the follicle inthe ovaries and provide pubic hair and inguinal hair growth .The present study was conducted withthe aim the possibility of using PSA for the diagnosis of hyper androgenic conditions in women. Thestudy included 105 girls aged 17–26 were examined. The concentration in the peripheral blood ofPSA and a androgens, testosterone and DHEA-S, were determined. In addition, the concentration ofthe transport proteins of androgens SHBG and albumin was investigated. The calculation of (FT) and(BT) was carried out according to special computer programs. The aim of this work was diagnostics ofhyperandrogenic conditions in women. The result shows that the concentration of PSA increases withan increase in T peripheral blood, the concentration of PSA increases with an increase in DHEA-S inperipheral blood and the concentration of PSA increases with an decrease in SHBG in peripheral blood.In conclusion, we found that there is a relationship between androgen levels and PSA concentration inperipheral blood, and PSA is a valuable marker in the diagnosis of hyperandrogenism in women.
The Effect of ARV on Rate of HIV Vertical Transmission from Exclusive Breastfeeding Mothers: A Systematic Review Amanah Fatmadani Suwarno; Dwiyanti Puspitasari; Pudji Lestari
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Objective: To give a visualization and explanation whether the use of ARV during exclusivebreastfeedingperiod is able to reduce the rate of transmission during exclusive breastfeeding.Methods: Systematic review of cross-sectional studies, case control, cohort studies, and prospectivestudies using Pubmed, LWW Journals, and Science Direct for literature search. Literature publishedbetween 2010 and 2020 are researched. Results are recorded using PRISMA, MMAT is used for biasriskevaluation.Results: A total of 2090 breastfed infants were included among the 2 studies. The first journal includedwas by Coovadiaet al.2012 was a 3rd phase clinical regarding the use of extended NVP on HIV exposedinfants were exclusive breastfed, concluded that the transmission rate for the group that receivedextendedNVP was only 1.1%. Rutagweraet al. 2019, focused on the shedding of HIV virus into thebreastmilk which is why this study used breastmilk as their sample4,6. Rutagweraet al. 2019. foundalmost 80% of their subjects shed HIV virus into their breastmilk6. This number is correlated to thetransmission of HIV vertically in breastfeeding mother.Conclusion: To conclude, the use of ARV does affect the rate of transmission of HIV from mother tochild during breastfeeding.