Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1177/00494755251413142
Dhananjaya Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Michael Cotton
{"title":"Beyond cost-saving: Adding value to frugal and context-specific innovations in global surgery.","authors":"Dhananjaya Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Michael Cotton","doi":"10.1177/00494755251413142","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251413142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"234-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145935898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1177/00494755261416600
Kevin Joseph R, Prabhav Aggarwal, Sonal Saxena
{"title":"A case of multiple gastrointestinal pathogens in a HIV-negative child: A diagnostic clue to combined immunodeficiency.","authors":"Kevin Joseph R, Prabhav Aggarwal, Sonal Saxena","doi":"10.1177/00494755261416600","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755261416600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"401-403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146031442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00494755251395926
Yarlagadda Yashwanth Kumar, Uday Shamrao Kumbhar, Chellappa Vijayakumar, Oseen Shaikh, Harichandrakumar K T
Endoscopy remains the gold standard investigation for assessing the severity of corrosive digestive injuries. Our prospective observational study aimed to validate the 'Med-Tu chart' for the evaluation of corrosive injury, where endoscopy is not available, and found it to have an acceptable diagnostic accuracy in detecting the severity of corrosive ingestion.
{"title":"Clinical Utility of 'Med-Tu Chart' for the assessment of severity of corrosive ingestion: A prospective observational study.","authors":"Yarlagadda Yashwanth Kumar, Uday Shamrao Kumbhar, Chellappa Vijayakumar, Oseen Shaikh, Harichandrakumar K T","doi":"10.1177/00494755251395926","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251395926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endoscopy remains the gold standard investigation for assessing the severity of corrosive digestive injuries. Our prospective observational study aimed to validate the 'Med-Tu chart' for the evaluation of corrosive injury, where endoscopy is not available, and found it to have an acceptable diagnostic accuracy in detecting the severity of corrosive ingestion.</p>","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"249-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145566073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sweat: An under-recognized cause of pigmentary changes in the tropics.","authors":"Hima Gopinath, Vijayasankar Palaniappan, Nerukonda Pavani, Kaliaperumal Karthikeyan","doi":"10.1177/00494755251403800","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251403800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"440-442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145670854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00494755251398114
Isaac Ks Ng, Charisse Wn Loh
Bicytopenia is not uncommonly encountered in clinical practice; it may reflect either marrow failure or a consumptive process such as haemolysis with thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). We describe a case of a patient with bicytopenia caused by severe Vitamin B12 deficiency, where there is laboratory evidence that is suggestive of haemolysis in what is known as pseudo-TMA phenomenon. Lack of awareness of this entity may lead clinicians to misdiagnose such cases as microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia (MAHA) or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), which could lead to inappropriate immunomodulatory treatment or plasmapheresis being administered. To distinguish between true MAHA/TTP and pseudo-TMA from severe vitamin B12 deficiency, reticulocyte and vitamin B12 levels are useful tests in the first instance, while ADAMTS13 activity is the definitive test to diagnose TTP if suspected.
{"title":"Bicytopenia with haemolysis: Think severe vitamin B12 deficiency-associated thrombotic microangiopathy.","authors":"Isaac Ks Ng, Charisse Wn Loh","doi":"10.1177/00494755251398114","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251398114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bicytopenia is not uncommonly encountered in clinical practice; it may reflect either marrow failure or a consumptive process such as haemolysis with thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). We describe a case of a patient with bicytopenia caused by severe Vitamin B12 deficiency, where there is laboratory evidence that is suggestive of haemolysis in what is known as pseudo-TMA phenomenon. Lack of awareness of this entity may lead clinicians to misdiagnose such cases as microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia (MAHA) or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), which could lead to inappropriate immunomodulatory treatment or plasmapheresis being administered. To distinguish between true MAHA/TTP and pseudo-TMA from severe vitamin B12 deficiency, reticulocyte and vitamin B12 levels are useful tests in the first instance, while ADAMTS13 activity is the definitive test to diagnose TTP if suspected.</p>","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"338-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145597802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1177/00494755251397147
Isaac Ks Ng, Wilson Gw Goh
{"title":"Antidotes to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.","authors":"Isaac Ks Ng, Wilson Gw Goh","doi":"10.1177/00494755251397147","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251397147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"432-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1177/00494755251404264
Preethi Shilpa, Charan Bala, Sahithi Konduru, Oseen Shaikh
{"title":"An unusual case of myiasis at the feeding jejunostomy stoma site.","authors":"Preethi Shilpa, Charan Bala, Sahithi Konduru, Oseen Shaikh","doi":"10.1177/00494755251404264","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251404264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"358-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145709910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1177/00494755251403044
Kaninika Sanyal, Hitakshi Goel, Mrinalini Kotru
{"title":"Starvation marrow in the tropics: Gelatinous bone marrow transformation as an underdiagnosed but reversible cause of pancytopenia.","authors":"Kaninika Sanyal, Hitakshi Goel, Mrinalini Kotru","doi":"10.1177/00494755251403044","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251403044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"380-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145688386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1177/00494755251411745
Dheeraj Sharma
{"title":"Bias in epidemiology: Evolution of concepts and implications for research validity.","authors":"Dheeraj Sharma","doi":"10.1177/00494755251411745","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00494755251411745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49415,"journal":{"name":"Tropical Doctor","volume":" ","pages":"247-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145907244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}