A prospective study was carried out on 52 patients with allergic rhinitis, during March 1993-January 1995. This was to analyse the occurrence of bronchial asthma among them and to correlate the symptoms, signs and pathological findings of allergic rhinitis with that of bronchial asthma in those patients with both the disorders. The therapeutic benefits with regard to the symptoms of bronchial asthma in these patients were assessed after treatment of their nasal allergy for a period of at least four months. A definite aetio-clinico-pathological correlation could be established between allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma and it could be concluded from the study that prompt attention to nasal symptoms in cases with co-existent bronchial asthma helps to a large extent in curbing the symptoms of the latter.

Gastric pull-up is a reliable method of one-stage reconstruction following total laryngopharyngoesophagectomy (TLPE). However, the technique of blunt finger dissection for extrapleural extraction of the oesophagus is liable to produce chest complications like pneumothorax. We report a series of 45 patients who underwent gastric pull-up using the technique of oesophageal extraction by stripping which produced virtually no thoracic complications. This simple technique has greatly reduced morbidity associated with gastric pull-up.

Software development and operations are increasingly adopting cloud-native environments. The popularity of development practices such as DevSecOps is one of the reasons for this change. It is identified that monitoring is one essential practice in DevSecOps and currently, a wide variety of tool offerings are available on the market to address this new transformation. However, an automated monitoring solution that covers both the infrastructure and application level is not available yet. We have developed a repeatable solution based on the popular microservice architectural style that monitors the cloud-native infrastructure and application level to address this gap. Furthermore, we have also added automation capability to this monitoring solution for easy deployment and event-triggered alerting. In the future, we plan to do a detailed evaluation and extend the proposed solution with more data collection features in order to enhance the monitoring solution.

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