Publications by authors named "Subodh Adhikari"

Introduction: Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (J-ALS) is extremely rare neurodegenerative motor neuron disorder that begins in early childhood or adolescence, before the age of 25 years old. It is characterized by gradual disease progression with comparison to adult-onset ALS and is often linked to genetic mutations.

Case Presentation: A 16-years-old female presented with long history of generalized weakness since age of 10 years, followed by bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, bulbar symptoms, and limb spasticity.

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Introduction: Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP), a rare genetic disorder is characterized by features of hypoparathyroidism due to tissue resistance to effect of parathyroid hormone (PTH).

Case Presentation: A 1-year-old girl, the first child of healthy non-consanguineous parents with no family history of similar conditions or skeletal deformities, presented with small bumps on her leg, wrist, and periumbilical region for 6 months. Lab results revealed high serum phosphate, low vitamin D, normal calcium, and elevated PTH levels.

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Introduction And Importance: Stroke, a global health concern, often results from embolic events of cardiac origin. Coxsackie B virus (CBV) myocarditis, a common cause of viral heart infections, can lead to cardiac thrombi formation, subsequently causing devastating complications such as embolic stroke. The authors present a rare case of a 26-year-old male who experienced an embolic stroke following CBV myocarditis and cardiomyopathy.

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Introduction: Vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is essential for controlling the ongoing cases of this disease. Citrobacter infections of the bones and joints are extremely uncommon. Thromboembolism and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) are very rare complications.

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Intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn's disease are chronic granulomatous diseases with similar clinical presentations and can mimic one another. Their treatment modalities are completely different; however, sometimes it is challenging to differentiate them. We report a case of a 51-year-old female presenting with abdominal pain and on-and-off diarrhea for 4 years with weight loss.

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  • Hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease causing liver complications like rupture, which can occur either due to trauma or spontaneously.
  • A 19-year-old male with acute abdominal pain was diagnosed with a ruptured hydatid cyst through a CT scan, leading to an exploratory surgery where cysts were evacuated.
  • The case highlights that ruptures are rare but serious; timely surgical intervention and albendazole treatment are essential to prevent life-threatening complications.
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Introduction: Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome (MRKHS) is a rare congenital disorder with an incidence of 1 in 5000 females. It is characterized by uterovaginal aplasia with normal secondary sexual characteristics and genetic karyotype 46XX. The exact etiology of MRKH syndrome is not known.

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Climate change is expected to alter pressure from insect pests and the abundance and effectiveness of insect pollinators across diverse agriculture and forestry systems. In response to warming, insects are undergoing or are projected to undergo shifts in their geographic ranges, voltinism, abundance, and phenology. Drivers include direct effects on the focal insects and indirect effects mediated by their interactions with species at higher or lower trophic levels.

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  • Ongoing environmental changes impact pest populations, with potential variations in response between invasive and naturalized species; a study compared the invasive aphid Metopolophium festucae cerealium with its naturalized relatives across 141 winter wheat fields in the Pacific Northwest over four years.
  • Key climatic factors like cumulative precipitation and temperature were analyzed alongside landscape factors, revealing that M. festucae cerealium thrived in wetter conditions, while the naturalized species favored warmer temperatures; this suggests increased precipitation may benefit the invasive species.
  • The findings indicate that earlier sampling periods correspond with higher abundance of M. festucae cerealium, highlighting the need for adaptive pest management strategies in response to its establishment and potential impact on crops.
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Simultaneous high-speed stereo-particle image velocimetry, OH planar-laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF), and PLIF measurements in a vitiated bluff body combustor are considered. An ex situ, simultaneous, time-resolved laser sheet intensity profile correction procedure is introduced. This procedure is easily implemented experimentally and is capable of correcting multiple sheets at the same time.

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Intestinal duplications are rare congenital anomaly found in pediatric age group. Although, ileum is the most common site, there are cases of colonic duplications even in the adult. We report a case of 43 years woman presented with chronic constipation, intermittent colicky abdomen pain and a cystic lump in left abdomen diagnosed as tubular duplication cyst of descending colon.

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Mayweed chamomile () is a globally invasive, troublesome annual weed but knowledge of its genetic diversity, population structure in invaded regions and invasion patterns remains unstudied. Therefore, germplasm from 19 populations (sites) from three geographically distinct invaded regions: the Walla Walla Basin (located in southern Washington) and the Palouse (located in both northern Idaho and eastern Washington), Pacific Northwest, USA and Kashmir Valley, India were grown in the greenhouse for DNA extraction and sequencing. A total of 18 829 single-nucleotide polymorphisms were called and filtered for each of 89 samples.

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Background: Colorectal malignancy is a very common disease of the gastrointestinal tract. Surgery following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy has been found to improve the survival of the patients with colorectal carcinoma. Research on bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction following colorectal surgery remains limited in Nepal.

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Background: The Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy surgery provides the mainstay of treatment in cases of bile duct injury following cholecystectomy.The aim of this study is to assess the quality of life in patients who underwent surgical repair of bile duct injury following cholecystectomy.

Methods: The prospective cross sectional study was conducted in Gastrointestinal Surgery Unit, Bir Hospital, National Academy of Medical Sciences.

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Background: Malnutrition is a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality following gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) and Body Mass Index (BMI) are the two well-validated tools that are readily available and do not add financial burden to the patients. The study aimed to analyze NRI and BMI as a preoperative nutritional indicator of postoperative complications following GI surgeries.

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  • Industrialized farming leads to simpler agricultural landscapes with less biodiversity and weaker species interactions, particularly impacting beneficial insects like bees.
  • Research focused on the Northern Great Plains has shown that tilled organic fields have more flower density and richer diversity compared to no-till conventional fields, although bee diversity remains relatively high across both farming systems.
  • Despite natural habitats not improving overall bee abundance, large-bodied bees benefit from these habitats, indicating that organic farming practices may enhance flower resources and plant-pollinator networks in simplified agricultural areas.
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We report on the development of a robust fiber-coupled long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) hyperspectral sensor suite for accurate and reliable non-contact surface temperature measurements in propulsion systems with limited optical access. We first experimentally investigate various state-of-the-art LWIR optical fibers and identify the ideal fiber for efficient coupling and transmission of LWIR signals. The effects of the fiber material, structure, bending, and thermal heating on LWIR fiber transmission are characterized.

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Background: Cephus cinctus infestation causes $350 million in annual losses in the Northern Great Plains. We compared infestation and parasitism of C. cinctus in spring (including Kamut; Triticum turgidum ssp.

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Geographical variation in the interacting traits of plant-pollinator mutualism can lead to local adaptive differentiation. We tested Darwin's hypothesis of reciprocal selection as a key driving force for the evolution of floral traits of an alpine ginger (Roscoea purpurea) and proboscis length of a tabanid fly (Philoliche longirostris). We documented the pattern of trait variation in R.

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Lung cancer is the leading contributor to cancer deaths in the developing world. Within countries, significant variability exists in the prevalence of lung cancer risk, yet limited information is available whether some of the observed variability is associated with differences in the consumption pattern of local tobacco products with differing potency. We recruited 606 lung cancer cases and 606 controls from the B.

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Premise Of The Study: Interactions that limit lifetime seed production have the potential to limit plant population sizes and drive adaptation through natural selection. Effects of insect herbivory to apical meristems (apical meristem mining) on lifetime seed production rarely have been quantified experimentally. We studied Cirsium altissimum (tall thistle), whose meristems are mined by Platyptilia carduidactyla (artichoke plume moth), to determine how apical damage affects plant maternal fitness and evaluate both direct and indirect mechanisms underlying these effects.

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Background: Neurotoxicity is a dose-limiting side-effect of vincristine therapy. Blindness is a rare central neurotoxicity of vincristine with few case reports.

Case Report: In the present article, we report a rare case of vincristine-induced blindness in a patient with diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

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