Unraveling the disease of hepatitis was like a Sherlock Holmes mystery as physicians throughout the last century searched for the identity of these silent killers involved in endemic and epidemic diseases afflicting millions of persons. Hepatitis, a silent and mysterious killer for many centuries, is derived from the Greek...

Enteric fever is a potentially fatal multi-systemic febrile disease caused by Salmonella.  Salmonella are gram-negative, rod-shaped facultative intracellular anaerobic bacteria with more than 2500 serotypes that cause a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Clinically, Salmonella can be divided into 2 distinct categories. The first group being the non-typhoidal species...

Despite advances in medical care, febrile neutropenia (FN) remains a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in oncology and haematology units worldwide. In local surveys spanning from 1990 to 2009, the overall mortality associated with post-chemotherapy FN remained unchanged, ranging between 3.0% and 8.8%, similar to results from European...

Branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) is the second most frequent vascular disorder of the eye, and it can lead to a decrease in vision. One of the main causes for the vision decrease is the development of macular edema (ME), which has been reported to be present in 60%...

Inferior myocardial infarction classically manifests as ST elevations in inferior leads, together with ST changes in other leads that may be the result of concomitant ischaemia of other zones or a reciprocal image. It is exclusively caused either by left circumflex artery (LCX) or right coronary artery (RCA) occlusion,...