Browsing by Author "Ranasinghe, G.W."

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    Apical cardiomyopathy : an important differential diagnosis in ischaemic chest pain
    (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 1996) Seneviratne, S.L.; Premawardhena, A.P.; Ranasinghe, G.W.; Gunatilake, S.B.; de Silva, H.J.
    Reports the cases of 1) a 54 year old man admitted with angina like pain of 3 hours. ECG showed deep ngative T waves in the anterolateral leads. But no septal Q waves. 2) a seventy year old man admitted with retrosternal chest pain and dyspnoea of 6 hours. ECG was as above. There were further investigations. Both patients had symptoms suggestive of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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    Twenty-seven venous cutdowns to treat pseudostatus epilepticus
    (Elsevier-W.B. Saunders, 1997) Gunatilake, S.B.; de Silva, H.J.; Ranasinghe, G.W.
    Pseudoseizures are often misdiagnosed. We report a patient with pseudostatusepilepticus who has had 27 venous cutdowns on different occasions when she wasadmitted to hospital with repeated seizures