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Byline: Prahlad. Sethi, R. Rajeswari, Nitin. Sethi Clinically, the cause for stroke cannot be determined in around 30-45% of cases even after extensive investigations.[1] The most common causes for the [...]

The Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) is committed to the concept of fair competition. It advocates for two equally skilled and matched athletes to keep bouts fair, competitive, entertaining, and, most importantly, safe for all combatants. Numerous studies have proven that transgender women may have a competitive athletic advantage against otherwise matched cis-gender women. Likewise, transgender men may suffer a competitive disadvantage against cis-gender men. These differences – both anatomic and physiologic – persist despite normalization of sex hormone levels and create disparities in competitive abilities that are not compatible with the spirit of fair competition. More importantly, allowing transgender athletes to compete against cisgender athletes in combat sports, which already involve significant risk of serious injury, unnecessarily raises the risk of injury due to these differences. Hence the ARP does not support transgender athlete competition against cisgender athletes in combat sports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liddle’s syndrome is a rare cause of secondary hypertension (HTN). Basic characteristics of this disease are HTN, reduced concentration of aldosterone and renin activity, as well as increased excretion of potassium, leading to hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis. The cause of Liddle syndrome is missense or frame shift mutations in SCNN1A, SCNN1B, or SCNN1G genes that encode epithelial sodium channel subunits. We report an interesting case of uncontrolled HTN in a 60-year-old male, who presented with features of hypertensive encephalopathy, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis. He had a family history of resistant HTN. On extensive evaluation, diagnosis of Liddle syndrome was suspected, and genetic analysis revealed novel mutation in SCNN1G gene in this patient.

Byline: Prahlad. Sethi, Nitin. Sethi Dear Editor, In the space of a few weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way neurology is practiced around the world. In order to [...]

Byline: Jayashree. Sood, Pradeep. Bhatia, J. Johnson, Jaya. Lalwani, Nitin. Sethi The growth in anaesthesia speciality has been contemporaneous with the advancement in surgical techniques. Although various anaesthesia subspecialities have [...]