Dr. Ranjit's Blog

Nocardiosis need prolonged treatment for cure and prolonged incubation for its culture growth. A patient was admitted to the nephrology ward of TUTH with diagnosis of Nephrotic syndrome. He had pulmonary symptoms of fever, cough, chest pain and abscess in right thigh. He was under...

Pan drug resistance organism having OXA-48 drug resistance pattern in ICU of Nepal   A patient was admitted in ICU with the diagnosis of septic shock. His multiple samples were sent to the laboratory for multiple times. Klebsiella pneumonia was isolated in his sputum sample...

Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar gravis causing death of a 5 years old child within 4 hours of hospital admission. We already had diagnosed three different cases of diphtheria in Nepal from two different places when a fourth case presented to us. We had a female patient...

Disseminated Strongyloidiasis  with Hyperinfection syndrome:- A  first case at TUTH, Nepal. There was a patient admitted in the nephrology ward, TU Teaching Hospital with respiratory distress. He was previously diagnosed as Nephrotic syndrome for which he was under steroid therapy. His sputum sample was sent to Microbiology...

An elderly female presented to the ophthalmology Department, TUTH, Kathmandu, Nepal with red painful eyes. She was treated for all viral, fungal, bacterial keratitis without any improvement. As the patient had severe pain with ring ulcerative lesion of cornea, ophthalmologists suspected it to be Acanthamoeba...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) – A Index(first) Case at Tribhuvan University and Teaching Hospital (TUTH)   I with my colleague were working in our microbiology laboratory, TUTH, Nepal on a case of taeniasis when a patient came to us. He was referred from surgery OPD for...

We have diagnosed four cases of Paragonimiasis, one of them was a patient who had suffered since 2 years, done all investigation including bone marrow, spend 2 lakhs, visited different hospital of Nepal from Gulmi-palpa-butwal-bharatpur and finally to Kathmandu (TUTH) and have taken anti-tubercular drug despite all...

Hello to all of you! I will post about various interesting cases that I encountered with along with other medical infotainment.