Content Posted in 2017
156 socio demographic and lifestyle differences in known hypertensives and normotensives - results from community screening clinics, Seema Bhanji, Samar Zaki, Waris Qidwai, and Mohammad Ishaq
159 Pilot Study exploring the regional repolarisation instability index in relation to myocardial heterogeneity and prediction of ventricular arrhythmia and death, William B. Nicolson, Christopher D. Steadman, P. Brown, Jeilan Mohamed, S. Yusuf, S Kundu, A. J. Sandilands, P. J. Stafford, F. S. Schlindwein, G. P. McCann, and G. Andre Ng
172 Can Procalcitonin (PCT) Be Used as an Early Marker of Sepsis in Patients with Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH)?, Pranisha Gautam Goyal,; Arthur Luka,; Prashant Malhotra; Marcia Epstein; David Ledoux,; Lisa George; Erfan Hussain; Rebecca Schwartz.; Celine Rahman Dematteo; and Reuben Burshtein
25 years after Vi typhoid vaccine efficacy study, typhoid affects significant number of population in Nepal, Deepak Bajracharya, M. Imran Khan, Alfred Pach III, Parisha Shrestha, Nilesh Joshi, Shyam R. Upreti, Thomas Wierzba, Mahesh Puri, Sushant Sahastrabuddhe, and R. Leon Ochiai
45 25 gram versus 50 gram of 25% albumin in preventing renal impairment after large volume paracentesis in cirrhosis.khali, A. B. Khalid, Mumtaz J Khan, A Ghufran, Syed H Shah, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
5 year survival of a patient with malignant thymoma with superior vena caval syndrome, Saulat H. Fatimi, Sadaf Sheikh, and Saba Mansoor
5α-dihydrotestosterone down-regulates HER2 and sensitizes breast cancer cells to Herceptin-induced apoptosis in vitro, Aisha Sultana, Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi, Shaista Khan, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, and El Nasir Lalani
878 Surveillance in the service of safety, Rashid Jooma
99mTc-sestamibi imaging in the assessment of toremifene as a modulator of multidrug resistance in patients with breast cancer, Muhammad Mubashar, Kevin J. Harrington, Khurram S. Chaudhary, El Nasir Lalani, Gordon W. Stamp, Dudley Sinnett, Daphne M. Glass, and A. Michael Peters
A 10-year review of indications for penetrating keratoplasty in a tertiary care setting in Karachi Pakistan, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Salman Naveed Sadiq, Zubaida Sirang, Maheen Akhtar Syed, Mustafa Kamal, and Khabir Ahmad
A 15-year-old boy with central nervous system vasculopathy presenting with dysarthria-clumsy hand syndrome, Meredith R. Golomb, Shelly K. Weiss, Shahnaz Ibrahim, and Gabrielle A. deVeber
A 360-degree evaluation of the communication and interpersonal skills of medicine resident physicians in Pakistan, M. Tariq, John Boule, Afaq Motiwala, Nida Sajjad, and Syeda Kauser Ali
A 6-year Evaluation of 223 Tapered Dental Implants and associated prosthesis in 92 patients at a university hospital, Sana Ehsen Nagi; Farhan Raza Khan; and Khan, Rabia Ali
A 7-year-old girl with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and progressive scoliosis, Radhika Dhamija and Salman Kirmani
A baseline mixed-methods study on postpartum care among health professionals in Tanzania, Eunice Pallangyo, Columba Mbekenga, Pia Olsson, and Carina Källestål
Abbott accused of refusing access to HIV drug, Khabir Ahmad
Abdominal Cocoon: Primary Sclerosing Encapsulating Peritonitis., Fakhar Qazi and Wasim Ahmed Memon
Abdominal gunshot wounds-a comparative assessment of severity measures., Adil Aijaz Shah; Abdul Rehman Alvi; Syed Jawad Shah; Adil H. Haider; Cheryl K. Zogg; Syed Nabeel Zafar; Yousaf Bashir Hadi,; Zia Ur Rehman; and Hasnain Zafar
Abdominal lymphadenopathy: an atypical presentation of enteric fever, Nayla Ahmed, Zeb I. Saeed, and M. Tariq
Abdominal tuberculosis with massive jejunal haemorrhage, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Tanveer UI Haq, and Amyn Pardhan
A biomarker-based approach to infectious disease in the pediatric emergency department, Mayank Aranke BS and Asad Mian
Abruptio placentae—a nutritional disorder of the underdeveloped world?, Saadiya A Karim, Mohammad Khurshid, J. H. Rizvi, S. N. Jafaery, and A. M. Memon
Abscesses in the liver: amoebic or pyogenic?, Bushra Jamil and Saeed Hamid
Absence of the Y chromosome in patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia, J A Whittaker, P Davies, and Mohammad Khurshid
Abuse among school going adolescents in three major cities of Pakistan: is it associated with school performances and mood disorders?, Saleem Khawaja, Adeel Khoja, and Komal Motwani
A case of hashimoto’s encephalopathy in a patient with lithium toxicity, Saba Zaidi, Bashir A. Soomro, Dr Imran Chaudary, and Fasiha Sohail
A case of non-resolving cough and weight loss., Omer Ashraf, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Fawad Aslam, Kashif Ashraf, and Suhail Muzaffar
A case of orbital apex syndrome in a patient with malignant otitis externa, Rashid Baig, Qazi Assad khan, Mohammed Ali Sadiq, Mohammad Sohail Awan, and Khabir Ahmad
A cause for concern? an asymptomatic mesenteric lesion, Javaid Iqbal, Peter Isaacs, M Sissons, R Bury, Mohammad Khurshid, and M Akhtar
A cavitary lung lesion, Syed Fayyaz Hussain, Nawal Salahuddin, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Acceptability and psychometric properties of broset violence checklist in psychiatric care settings in China, X. Yao, Z. Li, David Arthur, L Hu, F-R An, and G Cheng
Accessibility and effectiveness of healthcare providers, Waris Qidwai
Accessibility of antenatal services at primary healthcare facilities in Punjab, Pakistan, Muhammad Ashraf Majrooh, Seema Hasnain, Javaid Akram, Arif Siddiqui, Fatimah Shah, and Zahid Memon
Accuracy of urine dipstick to predict urinary tract infections in an emergency department., Rifat Rehmani
Acetabular morphometry for determining hip dysplasia in the Singaporean population, Masood Umer, Thambyah A, and WTJ Tan
A controlled trial of family education for people with schizophrenia in Beijing, China, Z Li and David Arthur
A core competency model for chinese baccalaureate nursing graduates: a descriptive correlational study in Beijing, Fang Yu Yang, Rong Rong Zhao, Yi Si Liu, Ying Wu, Ning Ning Jin, Rui Ying Li, Shu Ping Shi, Yue Ying Shao, Ming Guo, David Arthur, and Malcolm Elliott
Acquired aplastic anemia: treatment in a developing country., Shaheena Hanif, Farah Naz, Emaduddin Siddiqui, and Jamal Raza
A Critical Review of the Theoretical Frameworks and the Conceptual Factors in the Adoption of Clinical Decision Support Systems, Khong Peck Chui Betty, Eleanor Holroyd, and Wang Wenru
A cross sectional study of newborn care practices in Gilgit, Pakistan, Gul Nawaz Khan, Zahid Memon, and Z A Bhutta
A cross sectional survey of newborn care practices in rural Sindh, Pakistan: implications for research and policy, Zahid Memon, M. Imran Khan, S Soofi, S Muhammad, and Z A Bhutta
Action research a tool to build capacity of teacher educators, Naheed Parveen Anwar
Active ageing in Pakistan: challenges and opportunities, Samina Vertejee and Noureen Nasruddin Karamali
Acute administration of rt-PA for acute stroke in Pakistani patients--what does the available evidence teach us?, Maria Khan and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Acute cerebellitis successfully managed with temporary cerebrospinal fluid diversion using a long tunnel external ventricular drain: a long-term radiological follow-up of two cases, Muhammad Waqas, Yousaf Bashir Hadi, Sadaf Sheikh, and Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Acute cerebellitis with hydrocephalus, Nida Amjad, Anwarul Haque, and Khalid Ahmed
Acute effects of hemodialysis on nitrite and nitrate: potential cardiovascular implications in dialysis patients, Nathan S. Bryan, Ashley C. Torregrossa, Asad Mian, D. Lindsey Berkson, Christian M. Westby, and Jack W. Moncrief
Acute leukaemia in pregnancy, Mohammad Khurshid and M Saleem
Acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome, Fazal Hameed Khan
Acute mesenteric ischaemia with infective endocarditis: is there a role for anticoagulation?, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Zishan Haider, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Acute mesenteric ischaemia with infective endocarditis: is there a role for anticoagulation?, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Zishan Haider, and Amir Hafeez Amir
Acute myeloid leukemia in children in Pakistan: an audit, S. Zaki, I. A. Burney, and Mohammad Khurshid
Acute-on-chronic liver failure: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) 2014., Shiv Kumar Sarin, Chandan Kumar Kedarisetty, Z Abbas, Deepak Amarapurkar, Chhagan Bihari, Albert C. Chan, Yogesh Kumar Chawla, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Hitendra Garg, Hasmik Ghazinyan, Saeed Hamid, Dong Joon Kim, Piyawat Komolmit, Suman Lata, Guan Huei Lee, Laurentius A, Lesmana L. A, Mamun Mahtab, Rakhi Maiwall, Richard Moreau, Qin Ning, Viniyendra Pamecha, Diana Alcantara Payawal, Archana Rastogi, Salimur Rahman, Mohamed Rela, Anoop Saraya, Didier Samuel, Vivek Saraswat, Samir Shah, Gamal Shiha, Brajesh Chander Sharma, Manoj j Kumar Sharma, Kapil Sharma, Amna Subhan Butt, Soek Siam Tan, Chitranshu Vashishtha, Zeeshan Ahmed Wani, Man- Fung Yuen, and Osamu Yokosuka
Acute pancreatitis due to hypertriglyceridemia, Muhammad Shahid, M S. Khan, Rifat Rehmani, S Shaukat, and L. Kamani
ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME-A CONCISE CLINICAL REVIEW, Erfan Hussain and Fahad Hamid
Acute transfusion reactions encountered in patients at a tertiary care center, Safoorah Khalid, Mohammad Usman, and Mohammad Khurshid
Acute transverse myelitis in children, Syed Asif Masood and Shahnaz Ibrahim
Adaptation of the Recent Life Changes Questionnaire (RLCQ) to measure stressful life events in adults residing in an urban megapolis in Pakistan., Azmina Artani, Shireen Shehzad, Iqbal Azam Syed, Moiz Abdul Sultan, Adeel Khoja, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Additional chromosomal abnormalities in Philadelphia-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, Naveen Naz Syed, Mohammad Usman, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Addressing Early Retention in Antenatal Care Among HIV-Positive Women Through a Simple Intervention in Kinshasa, DRC: The Elombe "Champion" Standard Operating Procedure, Michelle M. Gill, John Ditekemena, Aimé Loando, Nana Mbonze, Jo Bakualufu, Rhoderick Machekano, Cady Nyombe, Marleen Temmerman, and Franck Fwamba
A decade of experience of management of thyroglossal duct cyst in a tertiary care hospital: differentiation between children and adults, Shakeel Uz Zaman, Mubasher Ikram, Mohammad Sohail Awan, and Nabeel Humayun Hassan
Adem, diagnostic dilemma, a tertiary care hospital experience:, Rajesh Kumar and Hazim Brohi
Adenoid cystic carcinoma of breast: clinicopathologic study of seven cases, Raabia Nizamuddin, Nasir Ud Din, Romana Idress, and Naila Kayani
A description of the methods of the aspirin supplementation for pregnancy indicated risk reduction in nulliparas (ASPIRIN) study., Matthew K. Hoffman, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Bhalachandra S. Kodkany, Norman Goco, Marion Koso-Thomas, Menachem Miodovnik, Elizabeth M. McClure, Dennis D. Wallace, Jennifer J. emingway-Foday, Antoinette Tshefu, Adrien Lokangaka, Carl L. Bose, Elwyn Chomba, Musaku Mwenechanya, Waldemar A. Carlo, Ana Garces, Nancy F. Krebs, K. Michael Hambidge, Sarah Saleem, Robert L. Goldenberg, Archana Patel, Patricia L. Hibberd, Fabian Esamai, Edward A. Liechty, Robert Silver, and Richard J. Derman
Adherence to Lifestyle Advice and reatments in Pakistani Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus., Sarwar Malik, Rabia Basit, Sabahat Naz, Minaz Mawani, Qamar Masood, and J. Akhter
Adolescent Pregnancies: The case of Pakistan, Kiran Mubeen and Marina Baig
Adolescents' ideas about the health of the fetus, Grace Edwards, Martin Stanisstreet, and Edward Boyes
Adoption practices among couples with secondary infertility in Karachi: a triangulation study design, Tazeen S. Ali and Neelofar Sami
Adrenalectomy for solitary metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma post liver transplantation: case report and literature review, Imran K. Jalbani, Nazim Syed Muhammad, Usman Tariq Siddiqui, and Farahat Abbas
Adrenal insufficiency in a child with MELAS syndrome, Bushra Afroze, Nida Amjad, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Khadija Nuzhat Humayun, and Yusnita Yakob
Adult botulism, Barbara E Shapiro, Oscar Soto, Saad Shafqat, and Hal Blumenfeld
Adult onset Stills disease in a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan., Naushad Abid and A. B. Khalid
Adults' perceived prevalence of enteric fever predicts laboratory-validated incidence of typhoid fever in children, Xinguang Chen, Bonita Stanton, Al Pach, Andrew Nyamete, R. Leon Ochiai, Linda Kaljee, Baiqing Dong, Dipika Sur, S.K. Bhattacharya, Siti Sapardiyah Santoso, Magdarina Agtini, Zahid Memon, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Canh Gia Do, Lorenz von Seidlein, and John Clemens
Advance directives: a policy required in the Asian countries., Nasreen Panjwani
Advancing gaming technology in neurological Rehabilitation, Samreen Sadiq and Iqra khan
Age and site of Colonic Neoplastic Lesions: Implications of screening in South Asia., Manzoor Hussain, A. B. Khalid, Syed Ahsan Ali, Wasim Jafri, Saeed Hamid, Anam Javed, and Sana Wahab
Age-dependent rate of anaplastic transformation in low-grade astrocytoma, Saad Shafqat, Tessa Hedley- Whyte, and John W. Henson
Age estimation of a sample of pakistani population using coronal pulp cavity Index in molars and premolars on orthopantomogram, Sheikh Bilal Bada, Rabia Ghafoor, Farhan Raza Khan, and Muhammad Hasan Hameed
Aggressive embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma presenting as schwanoma : a case report, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Montasir Junaid, and Zain A. Sobani
A giant right subclavian- axillary artery aneurysm presenting as brachial plexopathy, Mahnoor Hafeez, and Ateeque Ahmed Khan
Agreement of direct antifungal susceptibility testing from positive blood culture bottles with the conventional method for candida species, Kauser Jabeen, Haresh Kumar, Joveria Farooqi, Raunaq Mehboob, Mary E. Brandt, and Afia Zafar
Airway management and postoperative length of hospital stay in patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery, Sarfraz Siddiqui, Samie Asghar, Shankar Lal, Shabbir Akhtar, and Fauzia Anis Khan
Alcohol early intervention: a nursing model for screening and intervention strategies, David Arthur
Alcohol related problems: a critical review of the literature and directions in nursing education, David Arthur
Alcohol use and immune reconstitution among HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Nairobi, Kenya, Anthony Cagle, Christine McGrath, Barbra A. Richardson, Dennis Donovan, Sameh Sakr, Nelly Yatich, Richard Ngomoa, Agnes Chepngeno Langat, Grace John-Stewart, and Michael Chung
Aleukemic myeloid sarcoma of the breast, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh and Naila Kayani
A literature review about effectiveness of massage therapy for cancer pain., Salima Somani, Saima Merchant, and Sharifa Bashir Lalani
ALK alteration is a frequent event in aggressive breast cancers, Abdul K. Siraj, Shaham Beg, Zeenath Jehan, Sarita Prabhakaran, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Fouad Al-Dayel, Asma Tulbah, Dahish Ajarim, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Almond supplementation reduces serum uric acid in coronary artery disease patients: a randomized controlled trial., Humaira Jamshed, Anwar Gilani, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Faridah Amin, Jamshed Arslan Arslan, Sumaira Ghani, and Madiha Masroor
A lost tribe in the city: health status and needs of African asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong, William Chi Wai Wong, Sealing Cheng, Eleanor Holroyd, Julie Chen, Kelley Ann Loper, Lynn Tran, and Heidi Yin Hai Miu
Alpha-methaylcayl-CoA racemase expression is associated with early lesions of prostate cancer, Hanna M Romanska, Ryszard Maranda, Piotr Marks, Boguslaw Olborski, Gordon W.H Stamp, Paul D Abel, and El Nasir Lalani
Alternate efflux pump mechanism may contribute to drug resistance in extensively drug-resistant isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis, Akbar Kanji, Rumina Hasan, Ambreen Zaver, Asho Ali, Kehkashan Imtiaz, Mussarat Ashraf, Taane G. Clark, Ruth Mc Nerney, Samreen Shafiq, and Zahra Hasan
Alumni Survey Report : 2016, Aga Khan University Alumni Affairs
Alumni Survey Report : 2016, Aga Khan University Alumni Affairs
Ambulance use in Pakistan: an analysis of surveillance data from emergency departments in Pakistan., Nukhba Zia, Hira Shahzad, Syed Muhammad Baqir, Shahab Shaukat, Haris Ahmad, Courtland Robinson, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Razzak
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in stroke survivors: what do we add to the care of our patients?, Shaista Anwar Siddiqi and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Amebic liver abscesses among neonates can mimic bacterial sepsis, Zafar Nazir and Saqib Hamid Qazi
Amebic liver abscess in children, Zafar Nazir and F Moazam
Amebic liver abscess: spare the knife but save the child, F Moazam and Zafar Nazir
A mixed methods study to assess the effectiveness of food-based interventions to prevent stunting among children under-five years in districts Thatta and Sujawal, Sindh province, Pakistan: study protocol, Sumra Kureishy; Gul Nawaz Khan; Shabina Arrif,; Khizar Ashraf; Angela Cespedes; Atif Habib; Imtiaz Hussain; Asmat Ullah; Ali Turab; Imran Ahmed; Shehla Zaidi; and Sajid Bashir Soofi
Amoebic brain abscess associated with renal cell carcinoma, Umme Hani Abdullah,; Mirza Zain Baig,; Muhammad Azeemuddin,; Mohammad Wasay,; javed Yakoob; and Mohammad Asim Beg
A multicenter matched case control study of breast cancer risk factors among women in Karachi, Pakistan., Uzma Shamsi, Shaista Khan, Sheheryar Usman, Saleem Soomro, and Iqbal Azam Syed
Anaemia in pregnancy - its cause in the underprivileged class of Karachi, Saadiya Aziz Karim, Mohammad Khurshid, A.M. Memon, and Sadiqua N. Jafarey
Anaemia in pregnancy: occurrence in two economically different clinic populations of Karachi, Saadiya Aziz Karim, Mohammad Khurshid, and Javed H. Rizvi
Anaesthetic management of patients with phaeochromocytoma and uncontrolled blood pressure, Ursula Chohan and Fazal Hameed Khan
Anaesthetic management of supratentorial tumor craniotomy using awake-throughout approach, Faraz Shafiq, Fahad Salim, Ather Enam, Jai Parkash, and Mohammad Faheem
Analysis of health care delivery systems: Pakistan versus United States., Neelam Saleem Punjani, Salima Shams, and Sahreen Malik Bhanji
Analysis of Sustained Virological Response to Pegylated Interferon & Ribavirin Treatment in Compensated Cirrhosis Due to Hepatitis C Virus, Genotype 3 Infection, Amna Subhan Butt, Wasim Jafri, Khalid Mumtaz, Saeed Hamid, Shahab Abid, Syed H Shah, Nida Jafri, javed Yakoob, and Zubair Ahmad
Analysis of the health care system of Pakistan: lessons learnt and way forward., Zohra Kurji, Zahra Shaheen Premani, and Yasmin Mithani
Analytical techniques for assaying nitric oxide bioactivity, Hong Jiang, Deepa Parthasarathy, Ashley C. Torregrossa, Asad Mian, and Nathan S. Bryan
An analysis of end of life care across a large health care system.(Critical care--outcomes: 12: 00pm-1: 45pm), Dana Lustbader, Jim D'Olimpio, Bernard Rossoff, Erfan Hussain, Mitchel Jacobs, and Elizabeth Cohn
Anaphylactic reaction after intramuscular injection of cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12): a case report, Fareena Bilwani, Salman Adil, Usman Sheikh, Ayesha Humera, and Mohammad Khurshid
An application of nursing faculty practice: clinical camps, David Arthur and Kim Usher
An assessment of implementation of community - oriented primary care in Kenyan family medicine postgraduate medical education programmes, Ian Nelligan, Jacob Shabani, Stephanie Taché, Gulnaz Mohamoud, and Megan Mahoney
An assessment of mantoux test in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in a BCG-vaccinated, tuberculosis-endemic area, Bushra Jamil, Salima Qamruddin, Arif R Sarwari, and Rumina Hasan
A national survey of New Zealand registered nurses caring attributes, professional self concept and technological influences, A O'Brien, David Arthur, M Woods, and P Watson
Anatomical variations of internal jugular vein as seen by "site rite II" ultrasound machine--an initial experience in Pakistani population, Hameedullah, M. A. Rauf, and Fazal Hameed Khan
An Audit of 4 routine chemistry analytes (Electrolytes) results in relation to external quality assurance service survey (EQAS) reports., Farooq Ghani, Jawaid jabbar, Imran Siddiqui, Amir Omair, and Ayaz Baig
An audit of head trauma care and mortality, AA Siddiqui, Hasnain Zafar, and SH. Bashir
Ancient schwannoma presenting as a thoracic mass, Muhammad Z Tahir, Saulat H. Fatimi, and S. Ather Enam
Androgen dependent down regulation of E-cadherin expression in an in vitro model of prostate cancer., Joanna Nightingale, Khurram Chaudhary, P D Abel, GWH Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Androgen-dependent regulation of human MUC1 mucin expression, Stephen Mitchell, Paul Abel, Sanjeev Madaan, James Jeffs, Khurram Chaudhary, Gordon Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Androgen dependent up-regulation of MUC1 in an in vitro model of prostate cancer, SE Mitchell, PD Abel, GWH Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Androgen receptor expressing metaplastic carcinoma cell line established from non-caucasian female patient, Nazia Riaz, Zulfiqar Naqvi, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, Shaista Masood Khan, and El Nasir Lalani
Androgen regulated gene expression in prostate cancer, GWH Stamp, PD Abel, and El Nasir Lalani
An education intervention for families of people with schizophrenia in China: development and evaluation, Z Li and David Arthur
A need to change behavior and attitudes in medical practice, Waris Qidwai
Anemia in a middle aged female with aortitis: a case report., Shabneez Hussain, Salman Naseem Adil, and Shahid Ahmed Sami
Anesthesia With Antiamoebic Effects: Can Anesthesia Choice Affect the Clinical Outcome of Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis due to Acanthamoeba spp.?, Abdul Mannan Baig and Naveed Ahmed Khan
An ethnographic investigation of the maternity healthcare experience of immigrants in rural and urban Alberta, Canada., Gina M. Higginbottom, Jalal Safipour, Sophie Yohani, Beverly O’Brien, Zubia Mumtaz, Patricia Paton, Yvonne Chiu, and Rubina Barolia
Aneurysm in the anterior inferior cerebellar artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery variant: case report and review of literature, Saad Akhtar; Abdul Azeem; , Amyna Jiwani; and Gohar Javed
Aneurysm of a patent ductus arteriosus, Maria T Siddiqui, Mubashir Z Khan, Hasanat Sharif, and Muneer Amanullah
A new hazard of medicine, Saad Shafqat
An exploration of the caring attributes and perceptions of work place change among gerontological nursing staff in England, Scotland and China (Hong Kong), Irene Schofield, Debbie Tolson, David Arthur, Sue Davies, and Mike Nolan
An exploratory study of traditional birthing practices of Chinese, Malay and Indian women in Singapore, Eliana Naser, Sandra Mackey, David Arthur, Piyanee Klainin- Yobas, Helen Chen, and Debra K. Creedy
Angioembolization in itractable epistaxis—a tertiary care experience, Maqbool Ahmed Baloch, Mohammad Sohail Awan, and Hassan Nabeel Humayun
Angiographic embolization for major trauma in a low-middle income healthcare setting--a retrospective review, Adil Aijaz Shah, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Adil Hussain Haider, Raza Sayani, Raza Hasnain Sayyed, Kamran Ali, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Zia Ur Rehman, and Hasnain Zafar
Angiographic embolization for major trauma in a resource limited healthcare setting, A.A. Shah, A.H. Haider, Z.G. Hashmi, K. Ali, M. Kisat, S.N. Zafar, Z. Rehman, R.H. Sayyed, and Hasnain Zafar
Angiographic embolization of internal carotid artery pseudo-aneurysm using a covered Jostent and histoacryl glue., Tanveer Ul Haq, Muhammad Awais, and Abdul Rehman Alvi
An incomplete vascular ring causing respiratory distress, Syeda Samar Sohail, Muhammad Tariq, and Muneer Amanullah
Aniticoagulation in patients following prosthetic heart valve replacement, RP Akhtar, AR Abid, Hasnain Zafar, and JS Khan
Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery: creating an autogenous arterial conduit for aortic implantation, Muneer Amanullah, JR Hamilton, and A Hasan
A novel EEG for alpha brain state training, neurobiofeedback and behavior change, Bruce Stinson and David Arthur
A novel method of surgical site infection surveillance after cardiac surgery by active participation of stake holders., Fatima Noman, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Shaheen Asif, Noureen Rahim, Ghufranullah Khan, and Bashir Hanif
A novel nonopioid action of enkephalins: competitive inhibition of the mammalian brain high affinity L-proline transporter, R T Fremeau, M Velaz- Faircloth, J W Miller, V A Henzi, S M Cohen, J V Nadler, Saad Shafqat, R D Blakely, and B Domin
An overview of pathophysiology, assessment and management strategies of post stroke shoulder subluxation, Sarah Razaq and Farooq Azam Rathore
Antenatal dietary education and/or balanced nutritional supplementation benefits at-risk women and infants, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Antenatal renal pelvic dilatation and foetal outcomes - review of cases from a tertiary care center in Karachi, Pakistan, Ruqiya Afroz, Shafia Shakoor, Muhammad Sohail Salat, and Shama Munim
Antenatal Umbilical Coiling Index and Newborn Outcomes: Cohort Study, Josephine Mwikali Ndolo, Sudhir Vinayak, Micah Ominde, and William Stones
Antiacanthamoebic properties of natural and marketed honey in Pakistan, Farzana Abubakar Yousuf, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Abdul Malik, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Antibiotic Effects of Loperamide: Homology of Human Targets of Loperamide with Targets in Acanthamoeba spp., Abdul Mannan Baig Dr., Zohaib Rana, and H R. Ahmad
Antibiotics in acute calculous cholecystitis — do Tokyo guidelines influence the surgeons’ practices?, Hassaan Bari, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, Amir Hafeez Shariff, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Antibiotics to promote growth in children?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Antibiotic susceptibility of Helicobacter pylori in the Chinese population, javed Yakoob, XUEGONG FAN, GUOLING HU, LI LIU, and ZHENG ZHANG
Antibodies to adhesion molecules for immunotherapy of brain tumors, S. Ather Enam
Anticipated and unanticipated complications of severe dengue in a primigravida, Madiha Hashmi, Ghulam Zainab, and Farah Khan
Anticoagulation in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: are we treating ourselves?, Mohammad Wasay and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Anticoagulation in pregnancy with mechanical heart valves: 10-year experience, Raja P Akhtar, Abdul R Abid, Hasnain Zafar, Masud A Cheema, and Jawad S Khan
Antidepressants and anxiolytics for functional dyspepsia, Shahab Abid, Khalid Mumtaz, Greger Lindberg, Wasim Jafri, javed Yakoob, Per Hellstrom, and Syed Z. Quadr
Antidiarrheal and antispasmodic activities of adiantum capillus-veneris are predominantly mediated through ATP-dependent K+ channels activation, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Waseem Hassan, Hassan Mehmood, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Antidiarrheal and antispasmodic activities of polygonum bistorta rhizomes are mediated predominantly through K+ channels activation, Muhammad Zeeshan Ali, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Hassan Mehmood, and Anwar Hassan Gilani
Antidiarrheal, antispasmodic and bronchodilator activities of pistacia integerrima are mediated through dual inhibition of muscarinic receptors and Ca++ influx, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Waseem Hassan, Hassan Mehmood, and Anwarul-Hassan Gilani
Antidiarrhoeal, antisecretory and antispasmodic activities of matricaria chamomilla are mediated predominantly through K+-channels activation, Hassan Mehmood, Siraj Munir, Uzair Ali Khalid, Mudassir Asrar, and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
Anti-inflammatory, free radical scavenging and calcium antagonist activities of corchorus fascicularis lam. crude extract, K . H . Janbaz, U . Zia, Hassan Mehmood, S . Bashir, M . I . Choudhary, and A . H . Gilani
Antimicrobial activity of tigecycline against nosocomial pathogens in Pakistan: a multicenter study, Altaf Ahmed, Afia Zafar, and Sajjad Mirza
Antimicrobial resistance in neisseria gonorrhoeae and limited treatment options, Afia Zafar and Kauser Jabeen
Antiretroviral therapy abandoned for herbal remedies, Khabir Ahmad
An unexpected case of a hydatid cyst on the mitral valve mimicking infective endocarditis, Jamal Kabeer Khan, Sheema Khan, and Saulat H. Fatimi
An unusual case of cauda equina secondary to spinal metastasis of thyroid cancer, Shabbir Akhtar and Mohammad Adeel
An Unusual Pathogen Causing Native Valve Endocarditis., Aneela Hussain, Nosheen Nasir, and Bushra Jamil
An unusual presentation of post-tuberculous bronchiectasis, Saulat H. Fatimi, Muhammad Irfan, and Ali B. Zubairi
Anxiety and depression among young adults with chest pain., Muhammad Shahid, Rifat Rehmani, and Murad M. Khan
Aortic dissection or myocardial infarction?, Saulat H. Fatimi, Maria Mahboob, and Awais Ashfaq
APACHE II analysis of a surgical intensive care unit population in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi (Pakistan), Madiha Hashmi, Ali Asghar, Saima Rashid, Fazal Hameed Khan, and Hameedullah
APACHE II scores as predictors of cardio pulmonary resuscitation outcome: Evidence from a tertiary care institute in a low-income country, Muhammad Junaid Patel, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Muhammad Furqan, Safia Awan, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Waqar Kashif, Ayesha L. Sorathia, Syed Ather Hussain, and Mohammed Umer Mir
A paradigm shift in developing countries; corrective open heart surgery during infancy has better outcome and lesser resource utilization than pre-school patients, Muneer Amanullah, S. Bayani, Roheena Panni, and Awais Ashfaq
Apigenin induces apoptosis via downregulation of S-phase kinase-associated protein 2-mediated induction of p27Kip1 in primary effusion lymphoma cells, Azhar Hussain, AS Khan, SO Ahmed, M Ahmed, LC Platanias, Khawla S Al-Kuraya, and Shahbuddin
A pilot study of a 6-week parenting program for mothers of pre-school children attending family health centers in Karachi, Pakistan., Yasmeen Khowaja, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Shela A. Hirani, Asif Raza Khowaja, Ghazala Rafique, and Judith McFarlane
Apoptosis in Acanthamoeba castellanii belonging to the T4 genotype, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr., Salma Lalani, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Approaches to improve Quality of Care (QoC) for women and newborns: conclusions, evidence gaps and research priorities, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rehana A. Salam, Zohra S. Lassi, Anne Austin, and Ana Langer
A prevalent disease missed under cover of an uncommon disorder- a learning experience in clinical practice, Sarah Razaq, Saeed Bin Ayaz, Aleem Arshad, and Hussain Rashid Ihsan
A primary health care curriculum in action: the lived experience of primary health care nurses in a school of nursing in the Philippines: a phenomenological study, David Arthur, John Drury, Maria TeresitaSy -Sinda, Ramonit Nakao, Arsenia Lopez, Grace Gloria, Rowena Turtal, and Evelyn Luna
A profile of the caring attributes of Hong Kong and Thailand psychiatric nurses, David Arthur, Colin Chong, Darunee Rujkorakarn, Doris Wong, and Nasira Wongpanarak
A proposed cascade of vascular events leading to granulomatous amoebic encephalitis, Abdul Mannan Baig and Naveed Ahmed Khan
A prospective study of maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in the setting of cesarean section in low- and middle-income countries., Margo S. Harrison, Omrana Pasha, Sarah Saleem, Sumera Aziz Ali, Elwyn Chomba, Waldemar A. Carlo, Ana L. Garces, Nancy F. Krebs, K. Michael Hambidge, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Bhala Kodkany, Sangappa Dhaded, Richard J. Derman, Archana Patel, Patricia L. Hibberd, Fabian Esamai, Edward A. Liechty, Janet L. Moore, Dennis Wallace, Elizabeth M. Mcclure, Menachem Miodovnik, Marion Koso-Thomas, Jose Belizan, Antoinette K. Tshefu, Melissa Bauserman, and Robert L. Goldenberg
A qualitative study of nursing leader's perceptions of professional empowerment amongst Pakistani nurses, S. A. Gulzar, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Samina Vertejee, Kausar Khan, Yasmin Amarsi, and Judith Macfarlane
A qualitative study using traditional community assemblies to investigate community perspectives on informed consent and research participation in western Kenya, Rachel Vreeman, Eunice Kamaara, Allan Kamanda, David Ayuku, Winstone Nyandiko, Lukoye Atwoli, Samuel Ayaya, Peter Gisore, Michael Scanlon, and Paula Braitstein
A quasi-experimental study of the relationship between lung disease knowledge and brief lung health educational sessions, Alphonso Quinones, Rachael Ali-Permell, Laura Gazarra, and Erfan Hussain
A randomised controlled trial comparing the effect of adjuvant intrathecal 2 mg midazolam to 20 micrograms fentanyl on postoperative pain for patients undergoing lower limb orthopaedic surgery under spinal anaesthesia, Francis Codero, Vitalis Mung’ayi, and Sharif Thikra
A randomised controlled trial comparing weight adjusted dose versus fixed dose prophylactic phenylephrine infusion on maintaining systolic blood pressure during caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia, Lucy Mwaura, Vitalis Mung’ayi, Jimmie Kabugi, and Samina Mir
A randomized control clinical trial of fissure sealant retention: self etch adhesive versus total etch adhesive., Nadia Aman, Farhan Raza Khan, Aisha Salim, and Huma Farid
A randomized controlled behavioral intervention trial to improve medication adherence in adult stroke patients with prescription tailored Short Messaging Service (SMS)-SMS4Stroke study., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal; Quratulain Shaikh,; Omrana Pasha; Iqbal Azam Syed; Muhammad Islam,; Adeel Ali Memon; Hasan Rehman; Masood Ahmed Akram,; Muhammad Affan; Sumaira Nazir; Salman Aziz; Muhammad Jan; Anita Andani; Abdul Muqeet; Bilal Ahmed; and Shariq Khoja
A randomized controlled trial comparing haemodynamic stability in elderly patients undergoing spinal anaesthesia at L5, S1 versus spinal anaesthesia at L3, 4 at a tertiary African hospital., Vitalis Mung’ayi, Karen Mbaya, Sharif Thikra, and Dorothy Kamya
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of oral montelukast in acute asthma exacerbation., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Nawal Salahuddin, Ali Khawaja, Safia Awan, Adil Aijaz Shah, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Shahid Javed Husain, Nisar Rao, and Javaid Khan
A rare aetiology of respiratory failure in a 10-year-old boy: inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour., Ali Khawaja, Prem Kumar Maheshwar, Anwarul Haque, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
A rare cause of recurrent wheeze and seizures., Maryam Hassan,; Saher Quraeshi; and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
A rare cause of upper airway obstruction in neonates, Rana Alia, Irfan Jeeva, Lawrence Miall, and Vernon Long
A rare haemoglobin variant identified as k woolwich in a Pakistani male, Sidra Asad Ali and Natasha Ali
Are BP readings taken after a patient-physician encounter in a real-world clinic scenario the lowest of all the readings in a clinic visit., Hunaina Shahab, Hamza Sohail Kan2 Khan, Aysha Almas, Sohail Abrar Khan, and Aamir Hameed Khan
Are our people health conscious? results of a patients survey in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, D Saleheen, S Saleem, M Andrades, and Iqbal Azam
Are physicians more technical in their approach and less humane? a call for reconsideration, Waris Qidwai
A report of 12 sporadic cases of crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever from Pakistan, Taimur Saleem, Madiha Rabbani, Nida Habib, and Bushra Jamil
A report of the development of a Chinese and British education initiative, P Burnard, David Arthur, and Z Wang
Are pre-school girls more likely to be under-nourished in rural Thatta, Pakistan?-a cross-sectional study., Rozina Nuruddin and Wilbur C. Hadden
Are robots any better in stroke rehabilitation?, Muhammad Faisal Wadiwala and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Are unhygienic practices during the menstrual, partum and postpartum periods risk factors for secondary infertility?, Tazeen S. Ali, Neelofar Sami, and Ali Khan Khuwaja
A review of comparison of complications of vaginal hysterectomy with and without concomitant surgery for SUI: A 5 years’ experience at a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan, Raheela Mohsin Rizvi, Munnazza Akhtar, and Nadeem F. Zuberi
A review of critical care management of maternal sepsis, Madiha Hashmi and Fazal Hameed Khan
A review of scleral buckle procedures performed at a tertiary care center in Karachi, Farzeen Khalid Hashmi; Umair Razaque Arain,; Azam Ali; and Khabir Ahmad
A review of the failed cases of dental implants at a university hospital in Karachi, Farhan Raza Khan, Rabia Ali, and Sana Ehsen Nagi
A review of the methodological features of systematic reviews in maternal medicine, Lumaan Sheikh, Shelley Johnston, Shakila Thangaratinam, Mark D. Kilby, and Khalid S. Khan
A risk prediction model for the assessment and triage of women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in low-resourced settings: the miniPIERS (Pre-eclampsia Integrated Estimate of RiSk) multi-country prospective cohort study, Beth A. Payne, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, J. Mark Ansermino, David R. Hall, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Shereen Z. Bhutta, Christine Biryabarema, William A. Grobman, Henk Groen, Farizah Haniff, Jing Li, Laura A. Magee, Mario Merialdi, Annettee Nakimuli, Ziguang Qu, Rozina Sikandar Sultanali, Nelson Sass, Diane Sawchuck, D. Wilhelm Steyn, Mariana Widmer, Jian Zhou, and Peter von Dadelszen
A role for science investments in advancing newborn health, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Gary L. Darmstadt
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with biventricular involvement and heart failure in a 9-year old girl., Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Mehnaz Atiq, Jamie Miller, and Joseph B. Selvanayagam
A Scottish perspective on issues surrounding the electronic record, Charles Docherty
A self-help pack for post-myocardial infarction patients in China, David R. Thompson and David Arthur
A silver lining in the dark clouds: Medical Marijuana, in the Neurological disorders and its future in Pakistan., Qamar Zaman and Maimoona Siddiqui
A species dependent response to the pro-epileptic drug pentylentetrazole in birds, Faiq Amin, Asim H. Dar, Khan Osama, Faezah Khan, Rida Mitha, Arsal Tharwani, Ghulam H, Prem Chand, and Fazal M. Arain
Aspergilloma in a patient with no previous history of chronic lung disease, Sadaf Sheikh and Saulat H. Fatimi
Aspergillus fumigatus spinal abscess in an immunocompetent child, Mohammad Faizan Zahid and Joveria Farooqi
Assessing global risk factors for non-fatal injuries from road traffic accidents and falls in adults aged 35-70 years in 17 countries: a cross-sectional analysis of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study., Parminder Raina, Nazmul Sohel, Mark Oremus, Harry Shannon, Prem Mony, Rajesh Kumar, Wei Li, Yang Wang, Xingyu Wang, Khalid Yusoff, Rita Yusuf, Romaina Iqbal, Andrzej Szuba, Aytekin Oguz, Annika Rosengren, Annamarie Kruger, Jephat Chifamba, Noushin Mohammadifard, Ebtihal Ahmad Darwish, Gilles Dagenais, Rafael Diaz, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Pamela Seron, Sumathy Rangarajan, Koon Teo, and Salim Yusuf
Assessing nursing students' basic communication and interviewing skills: the development and testing of a rating scale, David Arthur
Assessing the incremental value of blood oxygen saturation (SpO(2)) in the miniPIERS (Pre-eclampsia integrated estimate of risk) risk prediction model, Beth A. Payne, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, Dustin Dunsmuir, Garth Cloete, Guy Dumont, David Hall, Joanne Lim, Laura A. Magee, Rozina Sikandar Sultanali, Rahat Qureshi, Erika van Papendorp, J. Mark Ansermino, and Peter von Dadelszen
Assessing the need for training: general practitioners knowledge, attitude and practice concerning dengue and malaria in Karachi, Pakistan, Ali M. Thaver, Zain A. Sobani, Fahad Qazi, Maryam Khan, Afia Zafar, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Assessing women's satisfaction with family planning services in Mozambique, Leonardo Chavane, Martinho Dgedge, Patricia Bailey, Osvaldo Loquiha, Marc Aerts, and Marleen Temmerman
Assessment of cardiac function in fetuses of gestational diabetic mothers during the second trimester, Mehnaz Atiq, Anum Ikram, Batool M. Hussain, and Bakhtawar Saleem
Assessment of diabetes among tuberculosis patients presenting at a tertiary care facility in Pakistan, Muhammad Irfan, Naseem Salahuddin, Qamar Masood, Owais Ahmed, Umme Salama Moosajee, and Zahra Hasan
Assessment of four mortality prediction models in intensive care unit patients with sepsis, Bushra Jamil, Kiran Alam, Maria Khan, and Veerta Ali Ujan
Assessment of knowledge & practice of contraceptives in females of reproductive age group at a tertiary care hospital, Nabeela Fazal Babar, Mahmood Ahmed, Muhammad Babar Khan, and Muhammad Wasif Khan
Assessment of knowledge, skill and attitude of oncology nurses in chemotherapy administration in tertiary hospital Pakistan., Najma Khan, Khurshid Zulfiqar Ali Khowaja, and Tazeen Saeed Ali
Assessment of WT1 expression as a marker of treatment outcome in karyotype normal acute myeloid leukemia patients in Pakistan, Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh, and Tariq Moatter
Associated factors of stress among nursing students in their clinical settings, T Kausar, Tazeen S. Ali, and Raisa B. Gul
Association between frontal sinus morphology and cervical vertebral maturation for the assessment of skeletal maturity., Hafiz Taha Mahmood,a Mahmood; Attiya Shaikh; and Mubassar Fida
Association between hypodontia and angles malocclusion, Batool A. Haider and Syed Sheeraz Hussain
Association between Immediate Postnatal Anaemia and Risk of Developing Postpartum Depression at the Aga Khan University Hospital: A Cohort Study, John Ndungu Kimani
Association between injections and HIV incidence, Naveed janjua, Khabir Ahmed, Arshad Altaf, M. Imran Khan, and Hasan Bin Hamza
Association between vasoactive-inotropic score and mortality in pediatric septic shock, A Haque, NR Siddiqui, O Munir, S Saleem, and Asad Mian
Association of airborne Aspergillus with asthma exacerbation in Southern Pakistan., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Iqbal Azam Syed, Safia Awan, Afia Zafar, and Asifali Imam
Association of awareness about hepatitis C infection with patterns of health seeking behavior among hepatitis C patients in Karachi, Pakistan, Shahina S. Pirani, Saleema Allana, Tazeen S. Ali, and Faisal Wasim Ismail
Association of cerebral arteriovenous malformations and spontaneous occlusion of major feeding arteries: clinical and therapeutic implications, S. Ather Enam and Malik GM
Association of dietary nutrients with blood lipids and blood pressure in 18 countries: a cross-sectional analysis from the PURE study., Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Matthew McQueen, Gilles Dagenais, Andreas Wielgosz, Scott Lear, Wei Li, Hui Chen, Sun Yi, Yang Wang, Rafael Diaz, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Pamela Seron, Rajesh Kumar, Rajeev Gupta, Viswanathan Mohan, Sumathi Swaminathan, Raman Kutty, Katarzyna Zatonska, Romaina Iqbal, Rita Yusuf, Noushin Mohammadifard, Rasha Khatib, Nafiza Mat Nasir, Noorhassim Ismail, Aytekin Oguz, Annika Rosengren, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Edelweiss Wentzel-Viljoen, Thandi Puoane, Jephat Chifamba, Koon Teo, Sonia S. Anand, and Salim Yusuf
Association of hypercapnia on admission with increased length of hospital stay and severity in patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective observational study from Pakistan., Nousheen Iqbal, Muhammad Irfan, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Safia Awan, and Javaid Khan
Association of iron deficiency anemia in children with febrile convulsions, Vikash Lal, Haresh Kumar, Shahina Hanif, Om Parkash, and Suneel Arwani
Association of lichen planus with hepatitis C virus infection., Asaad Tonsi and Azam J. Samdani
Association of phosphodiesterase 4D gene with ischemic stroke in a Pakistani population, Danish Saleheen, Shabbar Bukhari, Shajjia Razi Haider, Aisha Nazir, Shaheen Khanum, Saad Shafqat, M. Kashif Anis, and Philippe Frossard
Association of post-traumatic stress disorder and work performance: A survey from an emergency medical service, Karachi, Pakistan., Salima Kerai, Omrana Pasha, Uzma R. Khan, Muhammad Islam, Nargis Asad, and junaid Razzak
Association of socio-demographic characteristics with pattern of health seeking behavior among Hepatitis C patients in Pakistan, Shahina Parani, Tazeen S. Ali, Saleema Allana, and Faisal Wasim Ismail
Association of the 9p21.3 Locus With Risk of First-Ever Myocardial Infarction in Pakistanis, Saleheen D, Myriam Alexander, Asif Rasheed, and Rashid Jooma
Association of tobacco use and other determinants with pregnancy outcomes: a multicentre hospital-based case-control study in Karachi, Pakistan., Shafquat Rozi, Zahid Ahmad Butt, Nida Zahid, Saba Wasim, and Kashif Shafique
Associations of controlling behavior, physical and sexual violence with health symptoms, Tazeen S. Ali, Aamir Abbas, and Fazal Ather
Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study., Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan, Wei Li, Viswanathan Mohan, Romaina Iqbal, Rajesh Kumar, Edelweiss Wentzel-Viljoen, Annika Rosengren, Leela Itty Amma, Alvaro Avezum, Jephat Chifamba, Rafael Diaz, Rasha Khatib, Scott Lear, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Xiaoyun Liu, Rajeev Gupta, Noushin Mohammadifard, Nan Gao, Aytekin Oguz, Anis Safura Ramli, Pamela Seron, Yi Sun, Andrzej Szuba, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Andreas Wielgosz, Rita Yusuf, Afzal Hussein Yusufali, Koon K. Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, Gilles Dagenais, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Shofiqul Islam, Sonia S. Anand, and Salim Yusuf
Associations of sleep duration and disturbances with hypertension in metropolitan cities of Delhi, Chennai, and Karachi in South Asia: cross-sectional analysis of the CARRS study., Roopa Shivashankar, Dimple Kondal, Mohammed K. Ali, Ruby Gupta, Rajendra Pradeepa, Viswanathan Mohan, Muhammad Masood Kadir, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, and Anne Peasey
Associations of the Plasticity Region ofh. pyloriin Patients with Gastroduodenal Diseases, javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, shagufta Naz, Shahab Abid, and Wasim Jafri
Associations of traffic safety attitudes and ticket fixing behaviours with the crash history of Pakistani drivers, Mohsin Durrani, Hunniya Waseem, Junaid A. Bhatti, Junaid A. Razzak, and Rizwan Naseer
Associations of urinary sodium excretion with cardiovascular events in individuals with and without hypertension: a pooled analysis of data from four studies., Andrew Mente, Martin O'Donnell, Sumathy Rangarajan, Gilles Dagenais, Scott Lear, Matthew McQueen, Rafael Diaz, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Fernando Lanas, Wei Li, Yin Lu, Sun Yi, Lei Rensheng, Romaina Iqbal, Prem Mony, Rita Yusuf, Khalid Yusoff, Andrzej Szuba, Aytekin Oguz, Annika Rosengren, Ahmad Bahonar, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Aletta Elisabeth Schutte, Jephat Chifamba, Johannes F E Mann, Sonia S. Anand, Koon Teo, and S. Yusuf
Asthma knowledge and approach among Pakistani family physicians and the impact of an educational programme., A. S. Haque, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, A. Shiraz, F. Zuberi, S. I. Karim, R. Pervez, and Mohammad Sohail Awan
A study evaluating poliovirus antibodies and risk factors associated with polio seropositivity in low socioeconomic areas of Pakistan, Atif Habib, S. Soofi, N. Ali, R.W. Sutter, M. Palansch, H. Qureshi, T. Akhtar, N.A. Molodecky, H. Okayasu, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
A study of a head teacher's perception about her role as an educational leader, Abida Begum
A study of three measures of expressed emotion in a sample of Chinese families of a person with schizophrenia, Z Li and David Arthur
A study to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and impact of packaged interventions (“Diarrhea Pack”) for prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhea in rural Pakistan, Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Tariq Samejo, Musawar Hussain, Mushtaq Mirani, Asmatullah Rehmatullah, Imran Ahmed, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
A study to evaluate the competency of ICU personnel in oxygen therapy, Alphonso A. Quinones; Rachael A. . Permel; Laura Gazarra,; Erfan Hussain; Mark Rosen; Arunabh Talwa; and Stephan Kamholz
A survey comparing the attitudes toward perinatal bereavement care of nurses from three Asian cities, Moon Fai Chan, Feng-lan Lou, and David Arthur
Asymptomatic urinary tract infection: Cause of postoperative wound infection, Irfan A. Khan and masood umer
A systematic review of epidemiological literature on the eye health of marginalized fishing populations, Khabir Ahmad; Anthony B. Zwi; Daniel J. Tarantola,; and Bal Chand
Atresia of the descending aorta in a young woman requiring bypass graft, Ammarah Mashhood, Taimur Asif Ali, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Atrial fibrillation, is warfarin the only option for stroke prevention?, Maria Khan and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Atrial myxoma: a 14 year experience, Atiya Hameedullah, Hamza Abdur Rahim Khan, Muhammad Tariq, Shiraz Hashmi, Hameed Ullah, Saulat H. Fatimi, and Sulaiman B Hasan
Atrial thrombus in a premature newborn following cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, Syed Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Nadeem Aslam, and Heeramani Lohana
Attenuation of hypotension using phenylephrine during induction of anaesthesia with propofol, Muhammad Imran, Fazal Hameed Khan, and Mansoor Ahmed Khan
Attitude and perception of physical therapists towards multidisciplinary team aproach in stroke rehabilitation, Muhammad Naveed Babur, Shiasta Habibullah, and Anam Aftab
Attitude towards gender roles and violence against women and girls (VAWG): baseline findings from an RCT of 1752 youths in Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali, Rozina Karmaliani, Judith Mcfarlane, Hussain M. A. Khuwaja, Yasmeen Somani, Esnat D. Chirwa, and Rachel Jewkes
Atypical pathogens causing community-acquired pneumonia in adults., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Afia Zafar, Nawal Salahuddin, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Shahan Waheed, and Javaid Khan
A typical pulmonary giant hydatid cyst as bilaterally symmetrical solitary cysts, Saadia Rashid and Saulat H. Fatimi
Atypical takayasu arteritis: a family with five affected siblings, Irfan Jeeva, Jamal Sajid, Osman Ali, David T Bonthron, and Philippe M Frossard
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in visceral leishmaniasis, Salman Adil, Mohammad Khurshid, and lkram A. Burney
Autologous transplant in lymphomas in current era of immunotherapy, Natasha Ali and Mohammad Khurshid
Availability, affordability, and consumption of fruits and vegetables in 18 countries across income levels: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study., Victoria Miller, Salim Yusuf, Clara K. Chow, Mahshid Dehgha, Daniel J. Corsi, Karen Lock, Barry Popkin, Sumathy Rangarajan, Rasha Khatib, Scott A. Lear, Prem Mony, Manmeet Kaur, Viswanathan Mohan, Krishnapillai Vijayakumar, Rajeev Gupta, Annamarie Kruger, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Noushin Mohammadifard, Omar Rahman, Annika Rosengren, Alvaro Avezum, Andrés Orlandini, Noorhassim Ismail, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Kubilay Karsidag, Romaina Iqbal, Jephat Chifamba, Solange Martinez Oakley, Farnaza Ariffin, Katarzyna Zatonska, Paul Poirier, Li Wei, Bo Jian, Chen Hui, LiuXu Xu, Bai Xiulin, Koon Teo, and Andrew Mente
Available interventions for prevention of cotton dust-associated lung diseases among Textile workers., Asaad Ahmed Nafees and Zafar Fatmi
Average out-of-pocket healthcare and work-loss costs of traffic injuries in Karachi, Pakistan, J. Razzak, Junaid Bhatti, Maria Memon, and Rashid Jooma
A view of HIV--infection in Karachi, Naila Kayani, Aamir Sheikh, Asif Khan, Chhotoobhai Mithani, and Mohammad Khurshid
A view of the English mental health nursing review from the South East Asian Pacific Rim, David Arthur
Avoiding Unnecessary Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology by Accuractely Predicting the Benign Nature of Thyroid Nodules Using Ultrasound, Sudhir Vinayak and Joyce Sande
Awake craniotomy for brain tumours in Pakistan: an initial case series from a developing country, Saad Akhtar Khan, Karim Rizwan Nathani, Badar Uddin Ujjan, Muhammad Nanish Barakzai, S. Ather Enam, and Faraz Shafiq
Awake craniotomy for brain tumours in Pakistan: an initial case series from a developing country, Saad Akhtar Khan; Karim Rizwan Nathani; Badar Uddin Ujjan; Muhammad Danish Barakzai,; Ather Enam; and Faraz Shafiq
Awake craniotomy in developing countries: review of hurdles, Saad Akhtar Khan, Karim Rizwan Nathani, S. Ather Enam, and Faraz Shafiq
Awareness about hepatitis C among patients suffering from hepatitis C in Karachi, Pakistan, Shahina Pirani, Tazeen S. Ali, Saleema Allana, and Faisal Wasim Ismail
Awareness about reproductive health and rights among students of a public university in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross sectional study, Naheed Nabi; Waris Qidwai; Farhat Batool,; and Iqbal Azam
Awareness about the signs, symptoms and the risk factors of stroke in patients with stroke: a multicentre study, Nausheen Farooq and Haider Darain
Awareness and Decision Making on Health Seeking and Utilization Behaviors Among Substance Abuse Youths, Ezekiel Henry Mbao, Tumbwene Mwansisya, Achilles Kiwanuka, and Hossea Rwegoshora
Awareness of the process of informed consent among family practice patients in Karachi, H. Bhurgri and Waris Qidwai
A young man with hoarseness of voice, Waris Qidwai and S. Rehman
Bacillus calmette-guerin (BCG) lymphadenitis –changing trends and management, Zafar Nazir and Saqib Hamid Qazi
Back matter, Paul David Abel and El Nasir Lalani
Bacteremia associated with central line infection by chryseomonas luteola in a case of recurrent meningiomas, Muhammad Nasim Sabir, Bushra Jamil, and Sajjad Ahmed
Bacterobilia in acute cholecystitis: bile cultures' isolates, Yousaf Bashir Hadi; Muhammad Waqas; Hafiz Muhammad Umer,; Ammar Alam; Abdul Rehman Alvi; Muhammad Rizwan Khan; and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Bacterobilia in acute cholecystitis: bile cultures' isolates, antibiotic sensitivities and antibiotic usage. a study on a Pakistani population., Yousaf Bashir Hadi,; Muhammad Waqas; Hafiz Muhammad Umer,; Ammar Alam; Abdul Rehman Alvi; and Muhammad Rizwan Khan
Banti's syndrome: case report and review of literature, S.N. Waqar, S. Jindhani, N. S. Baig, M. A. Waqar, F. W. Ismail, and M. Tariq
Banti's syndrome: case report and review of literature., Waqar, S.N.; S. Jindhani; N. S. . Baig; M. A. Waqar; Faisal Wasim Ismail; and Muhammad Tariq
Barriers and facilitators of linkage to HIV care among HIV-infected young Chinese men who have sex with men: a qualitative study, Haochu Li, Chongyi Wei, Joseph Tucker, Dianmin Kang, Meizhen Liao, Eleanor Holroyd, Jietao Zheng, Qian Qi, and Wei Ma
Barriers and perceptions regarding code status discussion with families of critically ill patients in a tertiary care hospital of a developing country: A cross-sectional study., Ahsan A. Syed, Aysha Almas, Quratulain Naeem, Umer F. Malik, and M. Tariq
Barriers, challenges and way forward for implementation of person centered care model of patient and physician consultation: a survey of patients’ perspective from Eastern Mediterranean countries, Waris Qidwai, Kashmira Nanji, Tawfik A M Khoja, Salman Rawaf, Nabil Yasin Al Kurashi, Faisal Alnasir, Mohammed Ali Al Shafaee, Mariam Al Shetti, Muntazar Bashir, Nagwa Eid Sobhy Saad, Sanaa Alkaisi, Wafa Halasa, Huda Al Duwaisan, and Amal Al- Ali
Barriers in adopting blended learning in a private university of Pakistan and East Africa: Faculty members’ perspective, Nusrat Fatima Rizvi, Saleema Gulzar, Wachira Nicholas, and Beatrice Nkoroi
Barriers to smoking cessation: results of a survey among family practice patients, Waris Qidwai
Bax Is frequently compromised in burkitt’s lymphomas with irreversible resistance to fas-induced apoptosis, Marina I. Gutiérrez, Barry Cherney, Azhar Hussain, Howard Mostowski, Giovanna Tosato, Ian Magrath, and Kishor Bhatia
Bcl-2 expression confers an androgen refractory phenotype to androgen receptor expressing prostatic cancer cells, Khurram Chaudhary, PD Abel, J Nightingale, GWH Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Behind the counter: pharmacies and dispensing patterns of pharmacy attendants in Karachi., Fauziah Rabbani, F. H. Cheema, N. Talati, S. Siddiqui, S. Syed, S. Bashir, L. Z. Zuberi, A. Shamim, and Q. Mumtaz
Behind the mud walls: the role and practice of lady health visitors in Pakistan., Michele J. Upvall, Shamim Sochael, and Antionette Gonsalves
Being a Surgeon: The Ten Commandments, Asad Raja
'Being in the know': Nurses' perspectives on the role of 'end-of-shift' verbal handover, David Antoinette, Eleanor Holroyd, Jackson Mervyn, and Cleary Sonja
Belief in charity giving (sadqa) and its role in healing: results of a survey conducted at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Rumina Tabassum, Raheela Hanif, and Fahad H. Khan
Belief in prayers and its role in healing among family practice patients visiting a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Rumina Tabassum, Raheela Hanif, and Fahad Hanif Khan
Beliefs about antidepressant medication and associated adherence among older Chinese patients with major depression: a cross-sectional survey, Yang Lu, David Arthur, Lili Hu, Gen Cheng, Fengrong An, and Zheng Li
Benchmarking of trauma care worldwide: the potential value of an International Trauma Data Bank (ITDB), Adil H. Haider, Zain G. Hashmi, Sonia Gupta, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Jean-Stephane David, David T. Efron, Kent A. Stevens, Hasnain Zafar, Eric B. Schneider, Eric Voiglio, Raul Coimbra, and Elliott R. Haut
Benchmarks of fairness for health care reform: a policy tool for developing countries, Norman Daniels, J. Bryant, R. A. Castano, O. G. Dantes, Kausar S. Khan, and S. Pannarunothai
Benefit of experimental vaccine for gastric cancer?, Khabir Ahmad
Benefit of neuroprotection in acute ischaemic stroke, shall we dare to hope?, Anjum Akhtar and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Benign granulomatous polyp obstructing the bronchus., Saulat H. Fatimi, Ali Khawaja, Ranish Deedar-Ali-Khawaja, Mehar Hoda, and Salima Ahmed Bhimani
Benign intrapulmonary teratoma, Saulat H. Fatimi and Sadaf Sheikh
Berneese periacetabular osteotomy for residual hip dysplasia in adults - a case report and review of literature, Izhar Kashif, masood umer, and Haroon Rashid
Better outcome of splenectomy in younger patients suffering from chronic immune thrombocytopenia, Sabah Saqib, Rizwan Hashim, and Hasnain Zafar
Better physician-patient communication; an important milestone in control of hypertension, a multicenter study from Karachi, Pakistan., Aysha Almas Almas, Faridah Bhamani, and Aamir Hameed
Bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt for cyanotic heart disease: surgical experience from a developing country, G. Khan, S. S. Ali, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Bilateral airway foreign body aspiration as a cause of recurrent pneumonia., Sameer Ur Rehman, Nadia Sharif, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Bilateral breast enlargement due to trichophyton rubrum, Syed Sohail Ali, Afia Zafar, Suhail Muzaffar, Fawad Aslam, and Javaid A. Khan
Bilateral cervical radiculopathy as a presentation of spinal tuberculosis: report of two cases, G R. Sherma and Rashid Jooma
Bilateral intracranial calcifications with bilateral facial cutaneous naevus: sturge weber syndrome, Muhammad Arif Saeed, Kiran Hilal, and Prem Chand
Bilateral maxillary canine-first premolar transposition in permanent dentition, Sarwat Memon and Mubassar Fida
Bilateral Moyamoya Disease in a 2-Year-Old Pakistani Male Treated with Bilateral Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis: A Positive Outcome., Shahvaiz Magsi, Adeel Khoja, Mansoor Ali Merchant Rameez, Ariba Khan, and Noman Ishaque
Bilateral radicular cyst with severe destruction of the buccal cortical plate secondary to endodontic failure, Rabia Ghafoor and Kiran Rehman
Bioinformatic Insights on Target Receptors of Amiodarone in Human and Acanthamoeba castellanii, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr., Z Rana, and H R. Ahmad
Biomedical science in brief., javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, Wasim Jafri, M W. Usman, s awan, and C. H. . Neocleou
Birth experiences of primiparous Turkish women: public and private hospitals, Filiz Okumus
Birth preparedness and complication readiness – a qualitative study among community members in rural Tanzania, Furaha August, Andrea B. Pembe, Edmund Kayombo, Columba Mbekenga, Pia Axemo, and Elisabeth Darj
Biventricular thrombus in hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with shortness of breath., abdul baqi
Biventricular thrombus in hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with shortness of breath., abdul baqi, Shahan Waheed, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, and Aamir Hameed
Blastocystis hominis and Dientamoeba fragilis in patients fulfilling irritable bowel syndrome criteria., javed Yakoob; Wasim Jafri; Mohammad Asim Beg,; Z Abbas; Shagufta Naz,; Muhammad Islam; and Rustam Khan
Bleomycin induced pneumonitis: a case successfully managed with high-dose steroids., Shahid Javed Husain, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, and Muhammad Irfan
Blinding trachoma : a disease of poverty, Khabir Ahmed, Pashtoon M. Kasi, Ahmed I Gilani, and Naveed janjua
Blood and body fluid exposure and risk to health care workers, Afia Zafar
Blood lipids in a healthy Karachi population, A Molla, W W Manser, Rukhsana Lalani, Salma Badruddin, Zainab Mohammed Alwan, and Mohammad Khurshid
Body composition at birth and its relationship with neonatal anthropometric ratios: the newborn body composition study of the INTERGROWTH-21st project, José Villar, Fabien A. Puglia, Tanis R. Fenton, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Eleonora Staines-Urias, Francesca Giuliani, Eric O. Ohuma, Cesar G. Victora, Peter Sullivan, Fernando C. Barros, Ann Lambert, Aris T. Papageorghiou, R. Ochieng, Yasmin A. Jaffer, Douglas G. Altman, Alison J. Noble, Michael G. Gravett, Manorama Purwar, Ruyan Pang, Ricardo Uauy, Stephen H. Kennedy, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Body mass index—predictor of outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting, Syed Shahabuddin, Shazia Perveen, Shumaila Furnaz, Saulat H. Fatimi, Shahid Sami, and Hasanat Sharif
Boerhaave's syndrome: a diagnostic dilemma in the emergency room, AB Zubairi, I Khalid, Saulat H. Fatimi, J Hussain, and N Salahuddin
Bomb Blast and Its Consequences: Successful Intensive Care Management of Massive Pulmonary Embolsim., Faisal Shamim, Muhammad Rizwan, and Adil Aziz
Bomb blast in a tertiary care hospital, the challenges faced during management of victims in a resource limited country, Rizwan Sultan, Hasnain Zafar, Umar B, and Khabir Ahmed
Bomb blast injuries: tertiary care hospital in-patient experience over the last 20 years, Naveed A. Pasha, Raja Samir Khan, and Shahryar Noordin
Bone strength and structural deficits in children and adolescents with a distal forearm fracture resulting from mild trauma, Joshua N. Farr, Shreyasee Amin, L Joseph Melton III, Salman Kirmani, Louise K. McCready, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Ralph Müller, and Sundeep Khosla
Bone turnover markers for osteoporosis status assessment at baseline in postmenopausal Pakistani females, Syed Talha Naeem, Ahmed Raheem, Imran Siddiqui, Riffat Hussain, Farooq Ghani, and Aysha Habib
Books vs Bombs? Humanitarian development and the narrative of terror in Northern Pakistan, Nosheen Ali
Bortezomib inhibits proteasomal degradation of IκBα and induces mitochondrial dependent apoptosis in activated B-cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Rong Bu, Azhar Hussain, KA Al-Obaisi, M Ahmed, Shahabuddin, and KS Al-Kuraya
Bortezomib-mediated expression of p27Kip1 through S-phase kinase protein 2 degradation in epithelial ovarian cancer, Shahabuddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Zeenath Jehan, Fouad Al-Dayel, Adnan Munkarah, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Bortezomib stabilizes mitotic cyclins and prevents cell cycle progression via inhibition of UBE2C in colorectal carcinoma, Prashant Bavi, Shahabuddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Zeenath Jehan, Rong Bu, Jehad Abubaker, Mehar Sultana, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa Abduljabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Sarita Prabhakaran, Azhar Hussain, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Bortezomib (velcade) induces p27Kip1 expression through S-phase kinase protein 2 degradation in colorectal cancer, Shahab Uddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Prashant Bavi, Raafat El-Sayed, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa AbdulJabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Azhar Hussain, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Botulism in children: a diagnostic dilemma in developing countries, Muhammad Rehan Khan, Prem Kumar, Shahnaz Shahid, and Anwarul Haque
Bowled over by cricket: impact of tape-ball injuries on the eyes, Salman Naveed Sadiq, Azam Ali, Bushra Usmani, and Khabir Ahmed
BRAF mutations increase response to MEK inhibition, Khabir Ahmed
Brainstem encephalitis with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, Saad Shafqat, Saima Bano Memon, Shiraz Hyder, Sheema H Hasan, and Raymond A Smego
Brainstem tuberculoma as a manifestation of paradoxical reaction in a patient with tuberculous meningitis., Farheen Niazi and Mazhar Badshah
Brain tumor stem cells: role in neurooncogenesis and therapeutic implications, Muhammad Zeeshan Ozair, Adil Hameed Khan, and S. Ather Enam
Brazil takes a step towards patent exemption for HIV drugs., Khabir Ahmed
Breast Camps for Awareness and Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Countries With Limited Resources: A Multidisciplinary Model From Kenya, Shahin Sayed, Zahir Moloo, Anthony Ngugi, Amyn Allidina, Rose Ndumia, Anderson Mutuiri, Ronald Wasike, Charles Wahome, Mohamed Abdihakin, Riaz Kasmani, Carol D. Spears, Raymond Oigara, Elizabeth B. Mwachiro, Satya V.P. Busarla, Kibet Kibor, Abdulaziz Ahmed, Jonathan Wawire, Omar Sherman, Mansoor Saleh, Jo Anne Zujewski, and Sanford M. Dawsey
Breast reconstruction at The Aga Khan University - a 10 year audit, Samiullah Abdullah; , Asif ,Ahsan; and Tahir Shafi Khan
Bridging evidence, policy, and practice to strengthen health systems for improved maternal and newborn health in Pakistan, Atsumi Hirose, Sarah Hall, Zahid Memon, and Julia Hussein
Brief report on 16th international neurology update and joint phs, pss & mdsp conference, Abdul Malik
Bringing efficiency into practice: a quality improvement initiative to reduce operating room turnaround time, Hasanat Sharif; , Noman Shehzad; Joveria Farooqi; and Sana Karim
Bronchial carcinoid presenting as multiple lung abscesses., Zeeshan Waheed, Muhammad Irfan, Saulat H. Fatimi, and Ruqaiya Shahid
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia associated with cytomegalovirus infection in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus., Muhammad Irfan, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, and S.J. Husain
Building global capacity for brain and nervous system disorders research., Linda B. Cottler,; Joseph Zunt; Bahr Weiss; Ayeesha Kamran Kamal; and Krishna Vaddipart
Bullet-induced synovitis as a cause of secondary osteoarthritis of the hip joint: a case report and review of literature, A Rehman, masood umer, Yasir J Sepah, and Muhammad A Wajid
Burden of Diabetes Mellitus and Role of Telemedicine in its Management: Narrative Review, Gulshan Bano, Savera Aziz Ali, Minaz Mawani, and Sumera Aziz Ali
Burn injury characteristics: findings from Pakistan national emergency department surveillance study, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Safia Awan, Arifa Liaquat Ali, Junaid Razzak, Adnan Hyder, and Asad Latif
Bush's AIDS funding branded “scarce”, Khabir Ahmed
Cabergoline therapy for macroprolactinoma during pregnancy: a case report., Hira Shahzad, Aisha Sheikh, and Lumaan Sheikh
Calcaneal fractures: an audit of radiological outcome., Tashfeen Ahmad, Zehra Abdul Muhammad, Bilal Humayun Matin, Azeem Tariq Malik, and S. A. Quadri
Calcium oxalate crystals in the bone marrow, Raihan Sajid, Bushra Moiz, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Jai K. Das, Rajiv Bahl, Joy E. Lawn, Rehana A. Salam, Vinod K. Paul, M Jeeva Sankar, Hannah Blencowe, Arjumand Rizvi, Victoria B. Chou, and Neff Walker
Cancer prophylaxis for women with lynch syndrome, Khabir Ahmad
Can clinical staging of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis be of any therapeutic benefit, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr. and Armaghan-e-Rehman Mansoor
Can community based interventions control hypertension in developing countries? What is the evidence from Pakistan?, Farzin Majeed and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Can contracted out health facilities improve access, equity, and quality of maternal and newborn health services? evidence from Pakistan., Shehla Zaidi, Atif Riaz, F. Rabbani, Iqbal Azam Syed, Syeda Nida Imran, Nousheen Pradhan, and Gul Nawaz Khan Nawaz Khan
Can prophylactic antibiotics for aspiration improve stroke outcomes? The PANTHERIS trial., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal and Quratulain Shaikh
Can selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) improve motor recovery after stroke? What is the role of neuroplasticity?, Farzin Majeed and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Can telemedicine improve stroke outcomes?, Quratulain Shaikh and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Can trained field community workers identify stroke using a stroke symptom questionnaire as well as neurologists? Adaptation and validation of a community worker administered stroke symptom questionnaire in a peri-urban Pakistani community., Maria Khan,; Ayeesha Kamran Kamal; Muhammad S. Ilyas; Muhammad Islam; Iqbal Azam Syed; Azam Virk,; Alia Nasir; Hasan Rehman,; Anita Arif,; Muhammad Jan,; Anjum Akhtar,; Minaz Mawani; Junaid Abdul Razzak,; and Omrana Pasha
Cardiac disease in beta-thalassaemia major: is it reversible?, Mehnaz Atiq, M. Bana, U. S. Ahmed, S. Bano, M. Hanif, M. Yousuf, Z. Fadoo, and Mohammad Khurshid
Cardiac tamponade after removal of temporary pace maker in multidiscipinary intensive care unit., Muhammad Faisal Khan and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Cardiovascular risk factors in school children from low middle income families in Karachi, Pakistan, Salma H. Badruddin, A. Molla, Mohammad Khurshid, S. Vaz, and S. Hassanali
Caregivers knowledge, practices about childhood diarrhea and pneumonia and their perceptions of lady health worker program; findings from NIGRAAN implementation research project, K Sangrasi, F. Rabbani, W Aftab, A Zahidie, S Perveen, IN Abbas, SIA Shah, and SA Qazi
Caring attributes, professional self concept and technological influences in a sample of registered nurses in eleven countries, David Arthur, S Pang, T Wong, M.F Alexander, J Drury, H Eastwood, I Johansson, K Jooste, M Naude, C.H Noh, AO' 'Brien, K.Y Sohng, G.R Stevenson, M.TSy- Sinda, S Thorne, DVan der Wa, and S Xiao
Caring in context: caring practices in a sample of Hong Kong nurses, David Arthur, Samantha Pang, and Thomas Wong
Carotid intima media thickness evaluation by ultrasound comparison amongst healthy, diabetic and hypertensive Pakistani patients., Waseem Mirza, Vaqar Bari, Mirza Kazim, Kainat Fatima, Zafar Sajjad, Aziz Jiwani, Nadeem Ahmad, Mubashir Arain, and Arif Ali
Carvedilol vs. esophageal variceal band ligation in the primary prophylaxis of variceal hemorrhage: a multicentre randomized controlled trial., Syed H Shah, Zahid Azam, Javeria Rauf, Shahab Abid, Saeed Hamid, Wasim Jafri, A. B. Khalid, Faisal Wasim Ismail, Om Parkash, Amna Subhan Butt, and Syed Mohammad Munir
Case of a young girl with hemichorea induced By oral contraceptive pills, Syeda Saba Zaidi
Case of pelvic relapse in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Karim Qamruddin, Sheema Hasan, and Mohammad Khurshid
Case report: nocardia infection associated with ectopic cushings., Azra Rizwan, Aqiba Sarfaraz, Abdul Jabbar, J. Akhter, and Najmul Islam
Case series and literature review of multiple nodular sarcoidosis., Hira Shahzad, Sameer Ur-Rehman, Kulsoom Fatima, Nadia Sharif, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Case series of naegleria fowleri primary ameobic meningoencephalitis from Karachi, Pakistan, Zeeshan Ansar, Bushra Jamil, Azra Samreen, E. Khan, Zahra Hasan, Najia Karim Ghanchi, and Afia Zafar
Case series of rare Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)., Naveed Haroon Rashid, Saba Farooq, Mohammad Ahmed, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Cases of subconjunctival hemorrhage After a joy ride, Roomasa Channa, Sana Shoukat Memon, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, and Khabir Ahmad
Catamenial pneumothorax: a case report., Hina Inam; Sumera Inam,; and Munaim Tahir
Catamenial pneumothorax associated with ascites, eosinophilic pleural effusion, and relatively low glucose content, Saulat H. Fatimi and Ranish Deedar-Ali- Khawaja
Cataract blindness and visual outcome of cataract surgery in a tribal area in Pakistan, K M. Anjum, B M. Qureshi, M A. Khan, Azam Ali, and Khabir Ahmad
Causes of neonatal mortality and its predictors at French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul, Afghanistan, Ahmad Jawed Sidiqi
CC chemokine receptor 5 Δ32 polymorphism: association analysis and allele distribution among cutaneous leishmaniasis patients from Pakistan., Mariam Sophie; Abdul Hameed,; Akhtar Muneer; Azam J. Samdani; Saima Saleem; and Abid Azhar
Cell lines as models of prostate cancer, Stephen E. Mitchell, Joanna Nightingale, Paul D. Abel, and El Nasir Lalani
Central Asia to 1700, Sarfaroz Niyozov
Central nervous system tuberculosis in children, Tipu Sultan
Central venous catheterization tip position and immediate complications: influence of various routes and skill of anesthetist, Hameedullah, Fazal Hameed Khan, Hamid I Naqvi, Shahid Mirza, M Ishaq, and Rehana S Kamal
Cephalometric evaluation of the effects of the twin block appliance in subjects with class II, division 1 malocclusion amongst different cervical vertebral maturation stages., Aisha Khoja, Mubassar Fida, and Attiya Shaikh
Cephalosporin resistant shigella flexneri from a clinical isolate--a rare finding, Nasim Sabir and Afia Zafar
Cerebellopontine angle primitive neuroectodermal tumor mimicking trigeminal schwannoma, Saad Akhtar Khan, Badar Uddin Ujjan, Adnan Salim, and Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Cerebral aspergillosis and pulmonary tuberculosis in a child with chronic granulomatous disease, Muhammed Waqas, Sidra Zafar, Tooba Rehman, Muhammed Riyaz, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in neonates, Shahnaz Ibrahim
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis with tentorial haemorrhagic infarctions in combined proteins deficiency and hyperhomocysteinemia treated with anticoagulation- limited evidence with good results: a case report, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Akbar Baig, Shahan Waheed Aga Khan University, and Munawar Khursheed
Cerebral venous thrombosis: a descriptive multicenter study of patients in Pakistan and Middle East., Bhojo A Khealani, Mohammad Wasay, Mohammed Saadah, Erum Sultana, Shahid Mustafa, Farrukh Shohab Khan, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Cerebrospinal fluid proteins in meningitis, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, TAJBIBI Z. Ali, NASEEMA M. Ali, M KHURSHIDt, and MOHAMMAD A. WAQAR
Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea and intraventricular pneumocephalus due to intermittent shunt obstruction, Rashid Jooma and D.Norman Grant
Cervical cerclage for prevention of preterm birth: a commentary, Sikolia Wanyonyi
Cervical mediastinoscopy in the diagnosis of lymphadenopathy in South Asia., Sulaiman B Hasan, Fazal Wahab Khan, Shiraz Hashmi, Ahsan Ehtesham, Rizwana Ahmed Magsi, and Syed Shahabuddin
Challenges and pitfalls in diagnosis of parosteal Osteosarcoma: a clinicopathologic study of 23 cases, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Nasir uddin, Arsalan Ahmed, Shahid Pervez, Romana Idress, Saira Fatima, masood umer, and Naila Kayani Naila Kayani
Challenges in implementing a community based trial in a rural Pakistani district: lessons learnt from project NIGRAAN, F. Rabbani, Imran Naeem, Shipton Leah, Mehboob Beenish, Zahidie Aysha, Sangrasi Kashif, Aftab Wafa, Perveen Shagufta, and Qazi Shamim Ahmad
Challenges of Mass Media Interventions Regarding Mental Health: A Community Exemplar in Kampala Uganda, M. Wankiiri and P. Petrucka
Change in serum CXCL10 levels during anti-tuberculosis treatment depends on vitamin D status, Zahra Hasan, Naseem Salahuddin, N Rao, Aqeel Mehdi, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Ali F, Ashraf M, Rahman F, Mahmood S, islam M, Dildar B, Anwer T, Oiighor F, Nadia Sharif, and Ullah A. R
Changes in Serum Lipid Profile among Patients Suffering from Chronic Liver Disease Secondary to Hepatitis C, Fakhar Qazi, Shameem Behram Khan, Anam Umar, Noor ul Saba Shaikh, and Fizza Choudhry
Changes in vascular flow after transdermal oestradiol therapy for prostate cancer: a mechanism for cardiovascular toxicity and benefit?, Jeremy L Ockrim, El Nasir Lalani, Mo Aslam, Nigel Standfield, and Paul D Abel
Changing global policy to deliver safe, equitable, and affordable care for women's cancers, Ophira Ginsburg, Rajan Badwe, Peter Boyle, and Marleen Temmerman
Characteristics and outcome of chest pain in young adults, Muhammad Shahid, Kamran Hameed, and Rifat Rehmani
Characteristics and outcome of patients with drug overdose at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi., Muhammad Shahid, Junaid Patel, Haider Naqvi Aga Khan University, and Muhammad Shoaib Khan
Characteristics of chest pain and its acute management in a low-middle income country: analysis of emergency department surveillance data from Pakistan, Nino Paichadze, Badar Afzal Khan, Nukhba Zia, Rakshinda Mujeeb, Muhammad Mujeeb Khan, and Junaid Ali Razzak
Characteristics of HIV-infected children seen in Western Kenya, W Nyandiko, A. Mwangi, S. O. Ayaya, E. C. Nabakwe, C. N. Tenge, R. C. Vreeman, and Peter Gisore
Characteristics of patients with guillain barre syndrome at a tertiary care centre in Pakistan, 1995-2003, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Aisha Rahman, Bushra Jamil, and Nadir Ali Syed
Characteristics of smokers and their knowledge about smoking at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai and N Zahid
Characterization of genomic variations in SNPs of PE_PGRS genes reveals deletions and insertions in extensively drug resistant (XDR) M. tuberculosis strains from Pakistan., Akber Kanji; Zahra Hasan; Ruth Mcnerney; Mridul Nair; Asho Ali; Kim Mallard; Taane G. Clark; Ambreen Zaver; Sana Jafri,; and Rumina Hasan
Chediak-higashi syndrome, Emaduddin Siddiqui and Shaheena Hanif
Chest radiographs in acute pulmonary embolism., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Shahid Javed Husain, Muhammad irfan, Kulsoom Fatima, Muhammad Atif Zubairi, and Muhammad Islam
Child and adolescent psychiatry training a global perspective, Ayesha I Mian, Gordana Milavić, and Norbert Skokauskas
Childhood and adolescent obesity: Primary Health Care Physicians’ perspectives from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Faiza Nasser AlOtaibi, Majeedah AlOtaibi, Shiakhah AlAnazi, Hanan Al-Gethami, Deemah AlAteeq, Rowaydah Mishiddi, and Amna Rehana Siddiqui
Childhood and adult ALL a: differences in epigenetic lesions associated with cell cycle genes, Marina I. Gutiérre, Abdul K. Siraj, Muna M. Ibrahim, Azhar Hussain, and Kishor Bhatia
Children of war: urgent action is needed to save a generation, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Children's and their teachers' perceptions of what is good and what is bad for eyes., Khabir Ahmed, Mohammad Aman Khan, Mohammad Daud Khan, Mohammad Babar Qureshi, and C Gilbert
Child vaccination in Pakistan, Syed Haider, Atif Habib, and Anita Zaidi
China set to double annual spending on HIV/AIDS., Khabir Ahmed
Choledochal cyst--a different disease in newborns and infants, Zafar Nazir and Munira Abdul Aziz
Cholestasis in pregnancy associated with ciclosporin therapy in renal transplant recipients, Clara Day, Peter Hewins, Lumaan Sheikh, Mark Kilby, Dawn McPake, and Graham Lipkin
Cholestatic jaundice associated with danazol therapy, T. Qaseem, W. Jafri, Mohammad Khurshid, and H. Khan
Chondroblastoma: a clinico-pathological analysis, Nasir-Ud Din
Chondroblastoma of the cuboid with an associated aneurysmal bone cyst: a case report, Yasir J Sepah, masood umer, Khurram Minhas, and Kamran Hafeez
Chromosomal abnormalities as a cause of recurrent abortions: a hospital experience, M. Azim, A.H. Khan, Z.L. Khilji, J.A. Pal, and Mohammad Khurshid
Chromosomal abnormalities in Pakistani children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh, Syed Sarwer Ali, Mohammad Khurshid, and Zehra Fadoo
Chromosomal abnormalities in primary myelodysplastic syndrome, Anila Rashid, Mohammad Khurshid, Usman Shaikh, and Salman Adil
Chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among Textile workers in Karachi, Pakistan., Asaad A. Nafees, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Nalini Sathiakumar
Chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori: a histopathological study of gastric mucosal biopsies, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob and Akbar Shah Hussainy
Chronic ITP: analysis of various factors at presentation which predict failure to first line treatment and their response to second line therapy, Naveen Naz Syed, Salman Adil, Muhamed Raihan Sajid, Mohammad Usman, Bushra Moiz, G N Kakepoto, and Mohammad Khurshid
Chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia: response of imatinib mesylate and significance of sokal score, age and disease duration in predicting the hematological and cytogenetic response, Mikal Usman, Naveen Naz Syed, G N Kakepoto, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Chronic tension-type headache as a risk factor of myofascial trigger points in upper trapezius muscle fibers in neck pain patients, Aisha Amin, Umer Maqsood, Farah Niaz Awan, Hafiz Sheraz Arshad, and Ali Hamza Arshad
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CISPLATIN NEPHROTOXICITY AND HYDRATION PROTOCOLS, Ahmed Usman; Heeranand Keswani; Suresh Nagdev,; Ghulam H; Tehseen Khursheed,; Anis Malik,; and Kasif Jafferi
Citicoline in the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke: an international, randomized, multicentre, placebo-controlled study (ICTUS trial) is the use of Citicoline is beneficial for acute ischaemic stroke?, Fauzia Nomani, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
City tumour board Karachi: an innovative step in multidisciplinary consensus meeting and its two years audit., Asghar Hussain Asghar, Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi, abid jamal, Ghulam H, and Sadia Rizvi
Civilian gunshot wounds to the head, A Mahmood, S Hysell, and S. Ather Enam
Classification and clinical features of headache disorders in Pakistan: a retrospective review of clinical data., Muhammed Murtaza, Mehreen Kisat, Haroon Daniel, and Aziz Sonawalla
Classroom as a site for teacher learning: Emergence of a paradigm shift in mathematics teacher education in Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Cleaning Methods for Ultrasound Probes, Waseem Akhtar Mirza, Syed Hadi Imam, Kharal Mohd Salim, Mubashir Aslam, Syed Arif Ali, I. Masroor, and M. Nadeem Ahmad
CLEAR: the intraventricular haemorrhage thrombolysis trial., Anjum Akhtar and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Clients and facilitators experiences of participating in a Hong Kong self-help group for people recovering from mental illness, Judy Leung and David Arthur
Client satisfaction: does private or public health sector make a difference? results from secondary data analysis in Sindh, Pakistan, Wajiha Javed, Arsalan Jabbar, Nelofer Mehboob, Muhammad Tafseer, and Zahid Memon
Clinical and biochemical characteristics of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Shakeel Ahmed, Syed Rehan Ali, Sidra Ishaque, and Nabil Sami
Clinical application of Nightingale’s environmental theory., Shirin Rahim
Clinical case study, Irfan Jeeva, Aditi Das, and Andy Cassels- Brown
Clinical characteristics and factors associated with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: An experience from a tertiary care center in Pakistan., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Huzaifa Ahmad, Maryam Hassan, Sajjad Sarwar, Aamir Abbas, Talha Shahzad, and Muhammad Irfan
Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors of Candidemia in Tertiary Care Hospital, Iffat Khanum, Syed Faisal Mahmood, farheen ali, Hafsa Waqar, and Safia Awan
Clinical characteristics, factors affecting sepsis outcome, Pakistan, Shahla Siddiqui, Bushra Jamil, Nosheen Nasir, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Fauzia Anis Khan, Phillippe Fossard, and Rabia Hussain
Clinical characteristics, management and outcome of major pulmonary embolism: an experience from a tertiary care center in Pakistan., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Kulsoom Fatima, Muhammad Atif, and Muhammad Ammad Saeed
Clinical characteristics of childhood cancer in emergency room in a tertiary hospital in Pakistan, Amna Jawaid, Khubaib Arif, Nick Brown, and Zehra Fadoo
Clinical characteristics, outcome and early induction deaths in patients with acute promyelocytic leukaemia: a five-year experience at a tertiary care centre, Farheen Karim, Usman Shaikh, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Clinical course and outcome of acute severe asthma (status asthmaticus) in adults., Ali Khawaja, Hira Shahzad, Murtaza Kazmi, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Clinical, lifestyle, socioeconomic determinants and rate of asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis in stroke free Pakistanis., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Farzin Majeed, Omrana Pasha, Hasan Rehman, Muhammad Islam, Iqbal Azam Syed, Muhammad Saleem Ilyas, Munawar Hussain, Kamran Masood, Bilal Ahmed, Sumaira Nazir, Zafar Sajjad, and Scott E. Kasner
Clinically significant contrast induced acute kidney injury after non-emergent cardiac catheterization--risk factors and impact on length of hospital stay., Waqar Kashif, Ali Khawaja, and Syed Ather Hussain
Clinical manifestations and outcomes of pulmonary aspergillosis: experience from Pakistan., Nousheen Iqbal, Muhammad Irfan, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Kauser Jabeen, Safia Awan, and Javaid Khan
Clinical outcomes of pneumocystis pneumonia from a tertiary care centre in Pakistan., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Hira Shahzad, and Afia Zafar
Clinical outcomes of surgically corrected atrial septal defects, Waleed Tariq Siddiqui, Shazia Parveen, Maria Tariq Siddiqui, and Muneer Amanullah
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of ischemic stroke in Pakistan, Saad Shafqat
Clinical practice guidelines on the management of variceal bleeding, Javed Iqbal Farooqi, Hasnain Ali Shah, Anwaar A. Khan, Amjad Salamat, Altaf Alam, Abbas Khan Khattak, Nazish Butt, Muhammed Salih, Sher Sher Rehman, Arif Amir Nawaz, Nasir Khokhar, Ghias-un-Nabi Tayyab, Javed Aslam Butt, Kashif Malik, Shakeel Ahmad Mirza, and Mohammad Akram
Clinical predictors of EMG-confirmed cervical and lumbosacral radiculopathy, Ali Hassan, Bilal Hameed, Islam M, Bhojo Asumal Khealan, Mustafa Khan, and Saad Shafqat
Clinical predictors of mortality in hospitalized patients with infective endocarditis at a tertiary care center in Pakistan, Sadia Arshad, Safia Awan, Syedah Saira Bokhari, and M. Tariq
Clinical presentation and outcomes of patients with biliary malignancies: the Aga Khan University experience., Shiyam Kumar, Nehal Masood, ASIM JAMAL SHAIKH DR, Azmina T. Valimuhammad, Ghulam H, Amar Lal, and Najeeb Niamatullah
Clinical profile and outcome of infective endocarditis at the Aga Khan University Hospital, M. Tariq, Bilal Karim Siddiqui, Atif Jadoon, Mahboob Alam, Sohail Abrar Khan, Mehnaz Atiq, and Raymond A Smego
Clinical profiles and outcomes of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit from the emergency department, Anwarul Haque, Naveedur Rehman Siddiqui, Sidra Kaleem Jafri, Mehar Hoda, Surraiya Bano, and Asad Mian
Clinical profiles, management and outcome of myasthenic crisis in a tertiary care center in Karachi, Pakistan, Sara , Khan; Dureshahwar Kanwar; and Sadia Nishat
Clinical reasoning and dual mental processing in diagnostic competence., M. Tariq and Syed Ahsan Ali
Clinical review of pediatric pilocytic astrocytomas treated at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Muhib A. Khan, Saniya Siraj Godil, Halima Tabani, Sukaina A Panju, and S. Ather Enam
Clinical spectrum of systemic lupus erythematosus at the Aga Khan University Hospital., K. Sulaiman, N. Sohail, A. A. Sheikh, F. Raza, F. Shahzad, A. Siddique, T. Shakir, and Fauziah Rabbani
Clinical utility of immature platelet fraction - an advanced parameter in laboratory hematology, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh and Sidra Asad Ali
Clinic based biopsy vs. theatre biopsy of bone and soft tissue extremity tumours: comparable diagnostic modalities, Waseem Ahmed, masood umer, Yasir Mohib, and Rizwan Haroon Rashid
Clinic-based biopsy with a small curette: is it a reliable and safe option in extremity tumours?, Waseem Ahmed, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Yasir Mohib, and Rizwan Haroon Rashid
Clinic-based biopsy with a small curette: is it a reliable and safe option in extremity tumours?, Waseem Ahmed, masood umer, Yasir Mohib, and Rizwan Haroon Rashid
Clinico-pathological profile and outcomes of patients with polycythaemia vera, essential thrombocythaemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis: a tertiary care center experience from southern Pakistan, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Salman Naseem Adil, Mohammad Khurshid, and Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed
Clinicopathological profile of Wilms tumor, L Paul, D Thaver, S Muzaffar, IN Soomro, Zafar Nazir, and Sheema Hasan
Clinico-pathologic features of chronic myeloid leukemia and risk stratification according to sokal score, Naveen Naz Syed, Mikal Usman, Gulnaz Khaliq, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Cloned Microglias with Novel Delivery System in Multiple Sclerosis, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr.
Cloning and expression of a novel Na(+)-dependent neutral amino acid transporter structurally related to mammalian Na+/glutamate cotransporters, Saad Shafqat, Balaji Tamarappoo, Michael S Kilberg, Ram S Puranam, James O. McNamara, Ana Guadaño -Ferraz, and R.T. Fremeau
Clothing-related motorcycle injuries in Pakistan: findings from a surveillance study, Uzma R. Khan, Junaid A. Bhatti, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Nukhba Zia, J. Razzak, and Rashid Jooma
Clusters of difficult client behaviour: a short report, David Arthur, J. Dowling, and R. Sharkey
c-Met inhibitor synergizes with tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-induced ligand to induce papillary thyroid carcinoma cell death, Rong Bu, Shahabuddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Saif Alsobhi, Tarek Amin, Abdurahman Al-Nuaim, Fouad Al-Dayel, Jehad Abubaker, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Coadministration of black seeds and turmeric shows enhanced efficacy in preventing metabolic syndrome in fructose-fed rats, Faridah Amin, Anwarul-Hassan Gilani, Hassan Mehmood, Bina S. Siddiqui, and Nasima Khatoon
Cochlear implant in a patient with Mondini's deformity of the cochlea: pilot patient in Pakistan, Sadaf Qadeer Ahmed, Montasir Junaid, Zainul Abedeen Sobani, N Naila, and Mohammad Sohail Awan
Cocoon abdomen - a rare cause of intestinal obstruction., Zia Ur Rehman
Co-existing spinal intradural ependymal cyst and sacral tarlov cyst in adult-onset tethered cord syndrome with syringomyelia: case report and literature review, Hamid Hussain Rai Hussain Rai, Muhammad F. Khan, S. Ather Enam, and Imtiaz Hashmi
Coexpression of activated c-met and death receptor 5 predicts better survival in colorectal carcinoma, Shahabuddin, Azhar Hussain, Maqbool Ahmed, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa Abduljabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Coinfection with Lichtheimia corymbifera and Aspergillus flavus in an Immune-Competent Patient Mimicking as Pulmonary-Renal Syndrome., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Farah Idress, Kauser Jabeen, Saima Kamal, and Afia Zafar
Combination therapy best for lung cancer?, Khabir Ahmed
Combined atrial arterial switch operation (double switch) for hearts with shone syndrome and pulmonary hypertension, A.R. Hosseinpour, Muneer Amanullah, I.R. Ramnarine, O. Stümper, D.J. Barron, and W.J. Brawn
Combined drug therapy in the management of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis due to Acanthamoeba spp., and Balamuthia mandrillaris, Huma Kulsoom, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr., Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Combining magnetic resonance spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosing focal brain lesions in children, Farah Naz Farid, Waseem Mirza, and Nauman Hashmani
Comments on the editorial on ILD published in the September 2016 issue of JPMA, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Commonest cancers in Pakistan - findings and histopathological perspective from a premier surgical pathology center in Pakistan., Zubair Ahmad, Romana Idress, Saira Fatima, Nasir Uddin, Arsalan Ahmed, Khurram Minhas, Aisha Memon, Syeda Samia Fatima, Muhammad Arif, Sheema H Hasan, Rashida Ahmed, Shahid Pervez, and Naila Kayani Naila Kayani
Commonly cited incentives in the community implementation of the emergency maternal and newborn care study in western Kenya, Peter Gisore, B. Rono, J. Nekesa-Mangeni, C. Tenge, E. Shipala, H. Mabeya, D. Odhiambo, K. Otieno, S. Bucher, C. Makokha, E. Liechty, and F. Esamai
Communication skills of family physicians in a doctor-patient consultation, Waris Qidwai, SI Karim, and FM. Irfan
Community based weighing of newborns and use of mobile phones by village elders in rural settings in Kenya: a decentralised approach to health care provision, Peter Gisore, Evelyn Shipala, Kevin Otieno, Betsy Rono, Irene Marete, Constance Tenge, Hillary Mabeya, Sherri Bucher, Janet Moore, Edward Liechty, and Fabian Esamai
Community emergency medicine: benefits and challenges of screening for elder abuse in the emergency department of a developing country, Muhammad Akbar Baig, Asad Mian, Erfaan Hussain, and Shahan Waheed
Community engagement and integrated health and polio immunisation campaigns in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan: a cluster randomised controlled trial, Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Simon Cousens, Saeed Anwar, Najib ulHaque, Imran Ahmed, Noshad Ali, Rehman Tahir, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Community mental health services: a way forward to rehabilitate chronic mentally ill client., Ambreen Tharani, Salima Farooq, and Anila Naveed
Community midwives' experiences resulting from business skills training in the Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan., Shahnaz Shahid Ali, Sadia Abbas Ali, Rozina Rukanuddin Sewani, Arusa Lakhani, Rubina Saleem, Farzana Adnan, Marina Baig, Rafat Jan, and Kiran Mubeen
Community Perspectives on Research Consent Involving Vulnerable Children in Western Kenya, Rachel Vreeman, Eunice Kamaara, Allan Kamanda, David Ayuku, Winstone Nyandiko, Lukoye Atwoli, Samuel Ayaya, Peter Gisore, Michael Scanlon, and Paula Braitstein
Comparative yield of salmonella typhi from blood and bone marrow cultures in patients with fever of unknown origin, B J Farooqui, Mohammad Khurshid, M K Ashfaq, and M A Khan
Comparing lung function of textile workers with the healthy Pakistani population., Unaib Rabbani and Asaad Ahmed Nafees
Comparison between contrast reduction versus open-surgery for the treatment of intussusception among children at French Medical Institute for Children, Afghanistan, Shirazuddin Quraishi
Comparison of a Critical Care Attending-and Fellow-Run Rapid Response Team With an Internal Medicine Hospitalist-and Resident-Run Rapid Response Team, Nick Patel, Yuval Hiltzik, and Erfan Hussain
Comparison of biomarker based Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and conventional methods in the identification of clinically relevant bacteria and yeast, Ali Kassim, Valentin Pflüger, Zul Premji, Claudia Daubenberger, and Gunturu Revathi
Comparison of Complete Versus Incomplete Stent Frame Expansion After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With Medtronic Coke Valve Bioprosthesis, Hasan Jilaihawi, Derek Chin, Tomasz J. Spyt, Jeilan Mohamed, Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera, Noor Mohamed, Johan Bence, Elaine Logtens, and Jan Kovac
Comparison of different phenotypic methods of detection of methicillin resistance in staphylococcus aureus with the molecular detection of mec-a gene, M Zeeshan, K Jabeen, E Khan, S Irfan, S Ibrahim, Z Parween, and Afia Zafar
Comparison of enteral versus intravenous potassium supplementation in hypokalaemia in paediatric patients in intensive care post cardiac surgery: open-label randomised equivalence trial (EIPS)., Naveed ur Rehman Siddiqu, Quratulain Merchant, Babar Hasan, Arjumand Rizvi, Muneer M Amanullah, Amina Rehmat, and Anwarul Haque
Comparison of foeto-maternal outcome in pregnant women with hepatitis E - A review of 12 years., Tahira Naru, Farheen Yousuf, Ayesha Malik, Sumaira Naz, and Humera Ismail
Comparison of fracture and deformation in the rotary endodontic instruments: protaper versus K-3 system, Sana Ehsen Nagi, Farhan Raza Khan, and Munawar Rahman
Comparison of keorolac with morphine for intraoperative analgesia in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy, S. S. Hasan, Fazal Hameed Khan, and M. Ahmed
Comparison of multiple obesity indices for cardiovascular disease risk classification in South Asian adults: The CARRS Study., Shivani A. Patel, Mohan Deepa, Roopa Shivashankar, Mohammed K. Ali, Deksha Kapoor, Ruby Gupta, Dorothy Lall, Nikhil Tandon, Viswanathan Mohan, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Zafar Fatmi, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, and K. M. Venkat Narayan
Comparison of need and supply of syringes for therapeutic injections in Pakistan, Adnan Ahmad Khan, Momina Saleem, Huma Qureshi, Rashid Jooma, and Ayesha Khan
Comparison of Non-ulcer Dyspepsia with H. pylori and H. pylori Infection in an Urban Cohort in Pakistan, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Shahab Abid, Z Abbas, Muhammad Islam, Saeed Hamid, Syed H Shah, and Z Ahmed
Comparison of outcomes of open reduction versus open reduction salter osteotomy for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) among children at French Medical Institute for Children, Kabul, Afghanistan, Shekaib Rahman Behroz
Comparison of polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry assays for analysing human papillomavirus infection in oral squamous cell carcinoma, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Babar Irfan, Ibrahim Zahid, Yumna Mirza, and Syed Adnan Ali
Comparison of predictive protocols in chest pain patients in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Omer Moin, Uzma Khan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Munawar Khursheed, and Junaid Razzak
Comparison of predictive protocols in chest pain patients in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Omer Moin, Uzma Rahim Khan, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Munawar Khursheed, and Junaid Razzak
Comparison of the clinical presentations of Naegleria fowleri primary amoebic meningoencephalitis with pneumococcal meningitis: a case-control study., Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Muhammad Hamza Saad Shaukat, Bilal Ahmed, Mohammad Asim Beg, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Comparison of two surveys of head injured patients presenting during a calendar year to an urban medical centre 32 years., Rashid Jooma, Shahid Ahmed, and Abdul Malik Zarden
Comparison of ureteric stone size, on bone window versus standard soft-tissue window settings, on multi-detector non-contrast computed tomography., Hussam Uddin Soomro, Hammad Ather, and Basit Salam
Comparison of Weight Adjusted Dose Versus Fixed Dose Ondansetron in Preventing Shivering following Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Deliveries, Moses Kimuri Gicheru
Competing interests of undergraduate medical education and industry: integration into longitudinal curricular themes., Shahryar Noordin and Sheilla Pinjani
Complementary and alternative medicine in oncology nursing, Salima Somani, Fauziya Ali, Tazeen S. Ali, and Nasreen Sulaiman Lalani
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Considerations for the Pharmacological Management of Elderly Patients, Sizheng Zhao, Fred Otieno, Asan Akpan, and Robert J. Moots
Compliance of medicine residents with 6-hour sepsis bundle at a tertiary care center, Ashique Ali, Hassan Ashraf Zia, and Bushra Jamil
Compliance to antipsychotic medication: a challenge for client, family and health care providers., Ambreen Tharani, Salima Farooq, Faiza Saleem, and Anila Naveed
Complications associated with cerebral venous thrombosis., Fazeel Mukhtar Siddiqui, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Complications of endotracheal intubation in mechanically ventilated patients in a general intensive care unit, Fazal Hameed Khan, Fauzia A. Khan, Robyna Irshad, and Rehana S Kamal
Complications of in-patient Cerebral Angiography: Comparison between patients with and without sub arachnoid haemorrhage., Yaseen Rauf, Usman Tariq Siddiqui, and Gohar Javed
Composite split cord malformation associated with a dermal sinus tract, dermoid cyst, and epidural abscess: a case report and review of literature, Saad Akhtar Khan, Abdul Azeem, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Muhammad Zubair Tahir
Computed tomography and ultrasonography to detect appendicitis, Junaid Abdul Razzak
Computed tomography in penetrating cranial injury by a wooden foreign body, Rashid Jooma, John R. Bradshaw, and Hugh B. Coakham
Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) in Singapore--a nursing anti-depression mental health promotion initiative, AP O'Brien and David Arthur
Computerized mental health assessment in integrative health clinics: a cross-sectional study using structured interview, Sau Fong Leung, Peter French, Caroline Chui, and David Arthur
Conceptualization of a research study: an exemplar, Saleema Allana, Khowaja Khurshid, Tazeen S. Ali, Amir Hameed Khan, and Debra Moser
Concurrent intracranial chloromas and leukemia cutis in chronic myeloid leukemia, Ateeque Ahmed Khan and Mahnoor Hafeez
Conduit from hypoplastic right ventricle to pulmonary artery in tricuspid atresia, Muneer Amanullah, Asif Hasan, and Richard Kirk
Conflict between paternalism and autonomy., Amber Hussain Sayani
Confl ict puts pressure on cancer-care resources in Lebanon, Khabir Ahmad
Confronting the ethical challenges to informed consent in emergency medicine research, Terri A. Schmidt, David Salo, Jason A. Hughes, Jean T. Abbott, Joel M. Geiderman, Catherine X. Johnson, Katie B. McClure, Mary Pat McKay, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Raquel M. Schears, and Robert C. Solomon
Congenital (infantile) fibrosarcoma of the scalp: a case series and review of literature, Nasir Ud Din, Khurram Minhas, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Naureen Mushtaq, and Zehra Fadoo
Congenital malaria, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Saira Lone, Seema Hashmi, and Shahina Hanif
Congenital pyloric atresia and epidermolysis bullosa, Zafar Nazir, Zeba B. Attar, and Farhat Moazam
Congenital vaginal obstructions: varied presentation and outcome, Zafar Nazir, Raheela M. Rizvi, Rahat N. Qureshi, Zarrish Saeed Khan, and Zarak Khan
Conjunctival malignant melanoma mimicking as a chalazion, Sana Shoukat Memon, Roomasa Channa, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, and Khabir Ahmad
Consecutive outbreaks of vibrio cholerae O139 and V. cholerae O1 cholera in a fishing village near Karachi, Pakistan, FJ Siddiqui, NS Bhutto, L von Seidlein, I Khurram, S Rasool, M Ali, Afia Zafar, JL Deen, JD Clemens, Q Nizami, and Zulfiqar Bhutta
Consensus report: preventive measures for crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever during Eid-al-Adha festival, Hakan Hakan Leblebicioglu, Mustafa Sunbu, Ziad A. Memish, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Hurrem Bodur, Aykut Ozkul, Ali Gucukoglu, Sadegh Chinikar, and Zahra Hasan
Consequences of a medical emergency among emergency room patients, Waris Qidwai, Ali SS, M Baqir, and Shahana Ayub
Conservative management of invasive cervical resorption: a case Report, Fahad Umer, Samira Adnan, and Farhan Raza Khan
Conservative surgery for osteoid osteoma of the lumbar vertebrae, Tashfeen Ahmad; Muhammad Fawwad; Ahmed Hussain,; Ambreen A. Hameed; Nabeel Manzar,; and Riaz Hussain Lakdawala
Constitutive alzheimer's-type tau epitopes in a neuritogenic rat CNS cell line, Mary P. Lambert, Shasta Sabo, Chi Zhang, S. Ather Enam, and William L. Klein
Contegra valved conduit in the paediatric population: an exciting prospect for right ventricle to pulmonary artery reconstruction; experience and outcomes at Aga Khan University, Maria Tariq Siddiqui, Asif Hasan, Shazia Mohsin, Mohammad Hamid, and Muneer Amanullah
Content validity of a tool measuring medication errors., Nishat Tabassum, Saleema Allana, Tanveer Saeed, and Jacqueline Maria Dias
Continuity of patient care among family practice patients at a teaching hospital, Waris Qidwai, J Rehman, M Khan, and Iqbal Azam
Contraceptive method choice among women in slum and non-slum communities in Nairobi, Kenya, Rhoune Ochako, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Jerry Okal, Ian Askew, and Marleen Temmerman
Control of blood pressure and risk attenuation: a public health intervention in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka: feasibility trial results., Tazeen H. Jafar, Asita de Silva, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan, Feng Liang, Pryseley N. Assam, Helena Legido-Quigley, Eric A. Finkelstein, Shah Ebrahim, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Dewan Alam, and Aamir Hameed
Control of poisoning through product labeling of hazardous chemicals, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Arshad Iqbal, and Sadaf Sheikh
Controversies of treatment modalities for cerebral venous thrombosis., Maria Khan, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, and Mohammad Wasay
Controversy around nevirapine trials continues, Khabir Ahmed
Conventional treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma for the CHOP, Khabir Ahmed
Conversion of cardiac bypass into an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit: a case from Pakistan, Riffat Rasheed, Ijaz Hidayat, Muneer Amanullah, and Babar Hasan
Coping styles and depression among patients with solid organ cancers attending two tertiary care hospitals of Karachi: a cross sectional study., Khadija Vadsaria, Adnan Jabbar, Iqbal Azam Syed, Sameera Rizvi, Ghulam Haider, and Haider Naqvi
Copper moves across membranes during angiogenesis, Khabir Ahmad
Coronary artery dissection after blunt chest trauma., Fahad Shamsi,; Javed Tai; and Syedah Saira Bukhari
Coronary heart disease and household air pollution from use of solid fuel: a systematic review., Zafar Fatmi and David Coggon
Corporal punishment: heralding discipline or psychological ill health?, Hunaina Hadi
Correlation between androgen receptor expression and FGF8 mRNA levels in patients with prostate cancer and benign prostatic hypertrophy, Q Wang, G W Stamp, S Powell, P Abel, M Laniado, C Mahony, El Nasir Lalani, and J Waxman
Correlation between central corneal thickness measurements using two uifferent ultrasonic pachymeters, Sharmeen Akram, Zarksis H, Anklesaria A, and Khabir Ahmad
Correlation of respiratory symptoms and spirometric lung patterns in a rural community setting, Sindh, Pakistan: a cross sectional survey., Imran Naeem Abbasi, Adeel Ahsan, and Asaad Ahmed Nafees
Correlation of serum cortisol levels and stress among medical doctors working in emergency departments., Ayaz Baig, Imran Siddiqui, Haider Naqvi, Salman Sabir, Jawaid Jabbar, and Muhammad Shahid
Correlation of TP53 overexpression and clinical parameters with five-year survival in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients, Syed A. Ali, Hamza A Khan, Omar Irfan, Adeel Samad, Yamna Mirza, and Mohammad Sohail Awan
Correlations of skin fold thickness and validation of prediction equations using DEXA as the gold standard for estimation of body fat composition in Pakistani children., Zainab Hussain, Tazeen H. Jafar, Maseeh uz Zaman, and Riffat Parveen Hussain
Cost effective improvement in the protocol for detection of haemoglobin variants –a step forward in quality assurance, Natasha Ali and Mohammad Khurshid
Cost of acute stroke care at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, B. A. Khealani, Z. F. Javed, N. A. Syed, Saad Shafqat, and Mohammad Wasay
Cost of treatment of deliberate self-harm, Muhammad Shahid, Murad M. Khan Dr., Haider Naqvi, and Junaid Razzak
Costs of integrating cervical cancer screening at an HIV clinic in Kenya, Elisabeth L. Vodicka, Joseph B. Babigumira, Marita R. Mann, Rose J. Kosgei, Fan Lee, Nelly R. Mugo, Timothy C. Okech, Samah R. Sakr, Louis P. Garrison Jr, and Michael Chung
Co-targeting of cyclooxygenase-2 and foxM1 is a viable strategy in inducing anticancer effects in colorectal cancer cells, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Abdul K. Siraj, Shahab Uddin, Nasser Al-Sanea, Fouad Al-Dayel, Mohammed Al-Assiri, Shaham Beg, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Course and outcome of obstetric patients admitted to a University Hospital Intensive Care Unit, F. Githae, Vitalis Mung’ayi, and William Stones
Coverage and predictors of routine immunization among 12-23 months old children in disaster affected communities in Pakistan., Shafiq Ur Rehman, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Jamil Ahmed, Zafar Fatmi, Sayed Masoom Shah, Aisha Rahman Aisha Rahman, and Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai
Coverage and quality of antenatal care provided at primary health care facilities in the ‘Punjab’ province of ‘Pakistan’, Muhammad Ashraf Majrooh; Seema Hasnain; Javaid Akram; Arif Siddiqui,; and Zahid Memon
Covering the Cover, Wei Wu, Jingdi Chen, Qianshan Ding, Dongmei Yang, Honggang Yu, and Jun Lin
Craniocerebral aspergillosis in immunocompetent hosts: surgical perspective, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Arshad A Siddiqui, S. Ather Enam, Ahmed Ali Shah, Rashid Jooma, and Saleha Anwar
Creating enabling environment for student engagement: faculty practices of critical thinking., Shanaz Hussein Cassum SC and Raisa B. Gul
Crimean congo-haemorrhagic fever treated with oral ribavirin, J.A. Khan, S. Rehman, S.P.Fisher Hoch, S. Mirza, Mohammad Khurshid, and J.B. McCormick
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus: sequence analysis of the small RNA segments from a collection of viruses world wide, R Hewson, J Chamberlain, V Mioulet, G Lloyd, Bushra Jamil, R Hasan, A Gmyl, L Gmyl, S.E Smirnova, A Lukashev, G Karganova, and C Clegg
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: experience at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Bushra Jamil, Rumina Hasan, Arif R. Sarwari, Jane Burton, Roger Hewson, and Christopher Clegg
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in a dengue-endemic region: lessons for the future., Farheen Ali, Taimur Saleem, Umair Khalid, Syed Faisal Mahmood, and Bushra Jamil
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever nosocomial infection in a immunosuppressed patient, Pakistan: case report and virological investigation, Zahra Hasan, Faisal Mahmood, Bushra Jamil, Barry Atkinson, Murtaza Mohammed, Azra Samreen, Lamia Altaf, tariq moatter, and Roger Hewson
Cross-sectional study identifying forms of tobacco used by Shisha smokers in Pakistan., Sameer ur Rehman, Mohammed Ali Sadiq, Maria Adnan Parekh, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Javaid Khan, and Philippe M. Frossard
Cross-talk between NFkB and the PI3-Kinase/AKT pathway can be targeted in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) cell lines for efficient apoptosis, Azhar Hussain, Saeeda O. Ahmed, Maqbool Ahmed, Omar S. Khan, Sally Al Abdul Mohsen, Leonidas C. Platanias, Khawla S. Al-Kuraya, and Shahab Uddin
Cryptococcus neoformans and streptococcus pneumoniae co-infection in post-traumatic meningitis in a patient with unknown HIV status, Faryal Saleem, Naima Fasih, and Afia Zafar
Cryptogenic middle cerebral artery infarction in pure red cell aplasia, Sajjad Ali, Salman Adil, Mohammad Khurshid, and Saad Shafqat
Cultural practices of rearing preterm infants: a qualitative study in a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Pakistan., Salima Sulaiman Gulamani, Ambreen Tharani, Sharifa Bashir Lalani, and Kiran Shaikh
Culture and quality care perceptions in a Pakistani hospital., Fauziah Rabbani, Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Firdous Jahan, Nadir Ali Syed, Gregory Pappas, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Curcumin induces apoptosis via inhibition of PI3′-kinase/AKT pathway in acute T cell leukemias, Azhar Hussain, M. Al-Rasheed, P. S. Manogaran, K. A. Al-Hussein, L.C. Platanias, K. Al Kuraya, and S. Uddin
Curcumin suppresses constitutive activation of NFKB and requires functional bax to induce apoptosis in burkitt’s lymphoma cell lines., Azhar Hussain, Maqbool Ahmed, Naif A Al-Jomah, Asma S Khan, Subramanian Manogaran Pulicat, Mehar Sultana, Jehad Abubaker, Leonidas C Platanias, Khawla S Al-Kuraya, and Shahab Uddin
Curcumin suppresses growth and induces apoptosis in primary effusion lymphoma, Shahab Uddin, Azhar Hussain, Pulicat S. Manogaran, Khaled Al-Hussein, Leonidas C. Platanias, Marina I. Gutierrez, and Kishor G. Bhatia
CURRENT TREATMENTS OF VITILIGO, Azam J. Samdani
Current trends in undergraduate medical and dental research: a picture from Pakistan, Waqar Jeelani, Sanaa Masood Aslam, and Asrar Elahi
Cutaneous manifestations of hyper-IgE syndrome in twins: a case report from Saudi Arabia., Azam J. Samdani and A. Tania
Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition inhibits PI3K/AKT kinase activity in epithelial ovarian cancer, Shahabuddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Lina Assad, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, Khawla S. Al-Kuraya, and Adnan Munkarah
Cyclosporin induced fatal rhabdomyolysis in a young patient with acquired aplastic anemia: a case report, M. Usman, S. N. Adil, G. N. Kakepoto, and Mohammad Khurshid
Cytokine changes in gastric and colonic epithelial cell in response to Planta ovata extract., javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Z Abbas, and Kanwal Tariq
Cytokine profiles using whole-blood assays can discriminate between tuberculosis patients and healthy endemic controls in a BCG-vaccinated population, Rabia Hussain, Arnawaz Kaleem, Firdaus Shahid, Maqboola Dojki, Bushra Jamil, Hammad Mehmood, Ghaffar Dawood, and Hazel M Dockrell
Cytoplasmic induction and over-expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in human prostate cancer: implications for prevention and treatment, S. MADAAN, P.D. ABEL, K.S. CHAUDHARY, R. HEWITT, M.A. STOTT, G.W.H. STAMP, and El Nasir Lalani
Dance of the Jakaranda, Peter Kimani
Dead on arrival in a low-income country: results from a multicenter study in Pakistan, Munawar Khursheed, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, Fatima Parukh, Asher Feroze, Syed Saad Naeem, Haseeb Khawaja, and Junaid Razzak
Dealing with a terrorist attack: a university hospital perspective, Muhammad Shahid, Rifat Rehmani, and Muhammad Saleem Khan
Decompressive surgery for malignant cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: a retrospective case series from Pakistan and comparative literature review., Emmon Raza, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Muhammad Faisa Wadiwala, Bilal Ahmed, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Defining endocarditis in congenital heart disease, Bilal K. Siddiqui, M. Tariq, Atif Jadoon, Kamran Shahid, Muhammad H. Tahir, Allan S. Multz, and Sandeep Jauhar
Delayed presentation of forgotten thyroid goiter - 25 years after thyroidectomy, Fazal Wahab Khan, Ayesha Muhammad, Mohsin Abbas, Syed Usman Bin Mahmood, Benish Fatima, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Deliberate self-harm patients visiting public and private emergency departments of Karachi, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Zaman Khan, Badar Afzal Khan, Sumaiya Tauseeq Khan, and Rooham Nakeer
Delivering healthcare services in resource constraint countries like Pakistan: sustainable options, Waris Qidwai
Demethylation of TMS1 gene sensitizes thyroid cancer cells to trail-induced apoptosis, Abdul K. Siraj, Azhar Hussain, Maha Al-Rasheed, Maqbool Ahmed, Prashant Bavi, Saif Al-Deen Sulimani Alsobhi, Abdurahman Al-Nuaim, Shahabuddin, and Khawla Al-Kuraya
Demystifying health care, Khabir Ahmed
Dengue Hemorrhagic fever complicated by intercostal artery hemorrhage., Syed Ahsan Ali, Sara Ahmed, and Mehmood Riaz
Dengue outbreak in Karachi, Pakistan, 2006: experience at a tertiary care center, Erum Khan, Jaweriah Siddiqui, Sadia Shakoor, Vikram Mehraj, Bushra Jamil, and Rumina Hasan
Dengue virus serotype 3, Karachi, Pakistan, Bushra Jamil, Rumina Hasan, Afia Zafar, Kevin R Bewley, John Chamberlain, Valerie Mioulet, Moira Rowlands, and Roger Hewson
Dengue virus serotype 3, Karachi, Pakistan, Bushra Jamil, Rumina Hasan, Afia Zafar, Kevin Bewley, John Chamberlain, Valerie Mioulet, Moira Rowlands, and Roger Hewson
De novo 11q deletion including SHANK2 in a patient with global developmental delay, Cherisse A. Marcou, April L. Studinski Jones, Marine I. Murphree, Salman Kirmani, and Nicole L. Hoppman
Depression and anxiety: a snapshot of the situation in Pakistan, Bilaal Ahmed, Syed Faaiz Enam, Zafar Iqbal, Ghulam Murtaza, and Shahid Bashir
Depression in pregnancy and the postpartum period: balancing adverse effects of untreated illness with treatment risks, Ayesha I Mian
Depression is linked to uncontrolled hypertension: a case-control study from Karachi, Pakistan., Aysha Almas, Junaid Patel, Uzma Ghori, Ambreen Ali, Ahmed Iqbal Edhi, and Mohammad Ataullah Khan
Dermatophyte growth and degradation of human stratum corneum in vitro (pathogenesis of dermatophytosis)., Azam J. Samdani
Descriptive epidemiology of Karachi road traffic crash mortality from 2007 to 2014, Rashid Jooma and Masood Ali Shaikh
Descriptive epidemiology of somatising tendency: findings from the CUPID study., Sergio Vargas-Prada, David Coggon, Georgia Ntani, Georgia Ntani, Karen Walker-Bone, Keith T. Palmer, Vanda E. Felli, Raul Harari, Lope H. Barrero, Sarah A. Felknor, David Gimeno, Anna Cattrell, Matteo Bonzini, Eleni Solidaki, Eda Merisalu, Rima R. Habib, Farideh Sadeghian, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Sudath S. P. Warnakulasuriya, Ko Matsudaira, Busisiwe Nyantumbu, Malcolm R. Sim, Helen Harcombe, Ken Cox, Leila M. M. Sarquis, Maria H. Marziale, Florencia Harari, Rocio Freire, Natalia Harari, Magda V. Monroy, Leonardo A. Quintana, Marianela Rojas, E. Clare Harris, Consol Serra, J. Miguel Martinez, George Delclos, Fernando G. Benavides, Michele Carugno, Marco M. Ferrario, Angela C. Pesatori, Leda Chatzi, Panos Bitsios, Manolis Kogevinas, Kristel Oha, Tiina Freimann, Ali Sadeghian, Roshini J. Peiris-John, Nalini Sathiakumar, A. Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Noriko Yoshimura, Helen L. Kelsall, Victor C. W. Hoe, Donna M. Urquhart, Sarah Derrett, David McBride, Peter Herbison, Andrew Gray, and Eduardo J. Salazar Vega
Designer’s microglia with novel delivery system in neurodegenerative diseases, Abdul Mannan Baig
Designing the first ever health insurance for the poor in Pakistan–a pilot project, Rashid Jooma and Sabeena Jalal
Detection of filaggrin gene mutation (2282del4) in Pakistani Ichthyosis vulgaris families., Naghma Naz and Azam J. Samdani
Detection of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Patients on Proton Pump Inhibitors, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Shahab Abid, Nida jafri, Muhammad Islam, and Z Abbas
Determinants of modern contraceptive use among sexually active men in Kenya, Rhoune Ochako, Marleen Temmerman, Mwende Mbondo, and Ian Askew
Determinants of never users of contraception-results from Pakistan demographic and health survey 2012-13, Arsalan Jabbar, Wajiha Javed, Nelofer Mehboob, and Zahid Memon
Determinants of quality of care for adolescents and young adults with chronic illnesses: a mixed methods study, Nabeel Al-Yateem, Charles Docherty, and Rachel Rossiter
Determination of delay in burn around time (TAT) of stat tests and its causes: an AKUH experience., Fareena Bilwani, Imran Siddiqui, and Sarosh Vaqar
Determining the potential scalability of transport interventions for improving maternal, child, and newborn health in Pakistan, Naeem uddin Mian, Mariam Zahid Malik, Sarosh Iqbal, Muhammad Adeel Alvi, Zahid Memon, Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry, Ashraf Majrooh, and Shehzad Hussain Awan
Developing local guidelines for management of sepsis in adults: sepsis guidelines for Pakistan (SGP), Madiha Hashmi, Fazal Hameed Khan, Sarwar Zubairi, S. Tipu Sultan, Saeeda Haider, Sadqa Aftab, Javed Husain, Anwar ul Haq, Zahid Akhtar Rao, Amin Khuwaja, Syed Farjad Sultan, Zunairah Rais, Roohina Baloch, Naseem Salahuddin, Aslam Khan, Faisal Sultan, Kamran Chima, Amjad Ali, and Gohar Ali
Developing paediatric emergency medicine—an opinion from a developing country tertiary care center, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Shahan Waheed, and Irum Qamar Khan
Developmental dysplasia of Hip--where do we stand?, masood umer and Haq Nawaz
Development and psychometric testing of an instrument to compare career choice influences and perceptions of nursing among healthcare students, Sok Ying Liaw, Ling Ting Wu, Violeta Lopez, Yeow Leng Chow, Siriwan Lim, Eleanor Holroyd, Khoon Kiat Tan, and Wenru Wang
Development and testing of an assessment tool for integrated learning, Z. Naqvi, R. Ahmed, and Bushra Jamil
Development of Mentorship Module and its Feasibility for Community Midwives in Sindh, Pakistan: A Pilot Study, Amber Hussain Sayani, Rafat Jan, Susan Lennox, and Yasmeen Jan Mohammad
Development of Predisposition,Injury,Response,Organ failure model for predicting acute kidney injury in acute on chronic liver failure., Rakhi Maiwall; Shiv Kumar Sarin; Suman Kumar; Priyanka Jain; Guresh Kumar; Ajeet Singh Bhadoria,; Richard Moreau; Chandan Kumar Kedarisetty; Z Abbas; Deepak Amarapurkar; Ankit Bhardwaj; Chhagan Bihari; Amna Subhan Butt; Albert Chan; Yogesh Kumar Chawla; Ashok Chowdhury; RadhaKrishan Dhiman; Abdul Kadir Dokmeci; Hasmik Ghazinyan H; Saeed Hamid; Dong Joon Kim; Piyawat Komolmit; George K. Lau; Guan Huei Lee; Laurentius A. Lesmana; Rajendra Prasad Mathur; Suman Lata Nayak,; Qin Ning; Viniyendra Pamecha,; Diana Alcantara- Payawal; Archana Rastogi; Salimur Rahman,; Mohamed Rela; Vivek A , Saraswat; Samir Shah; Gama Shiha; Barjesh Chander Sharma; Manoj Kumar Sharma; Kapil Sharma; Soek Siam Tan; Shivendra Singh Chandel; Chitranshu Vashishtha; Zeeshan A. Wani; Man- Fung Yuen; and Osamu Yokosuka
Development of standardized midwifery nursing reproductive health data set (MN-RHDs) for Pakistan., Rafat Jan Rukanuddin
Dexamethasone and the serious head injury, Rashid Jooma
Dhaga technique for tissue plane preservation after decompressive craniectomy: comparison of new technique with institutional standard, Gohar Javed; , Muhammad Babar Khan; Syed Ijlal Ahmed; and Manzar Hussain
DHT rescues prostate cancer cells from doxazocin induced apoptosis, M. Salagierski, Hanna M. Romanska, Rachel Bruton, Zulfiqar G. Gulzar, P D Abel, Miroslaw Sosnowski, and El Nasir Lalani
Diabetes related knowledge among residents and nurses: a multicenter study in Karachi, Pakistan., Asma Ahmed, Abdul Jabbar, Lubna Zuberi, Muhammad Islam, and Khusro Shamim
DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS CHARACTERISTICS AND DIFFERENCES IN TYPE 1 VERSUS TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS, Muhammad Owais Rashid, Aisha Sheikh, Abdus Salam, Saad Farooq, Zareen Kiran, and Najmul Islam
Diagnosis and management of pineal tumors, Rashid Jooma and Brian E. Kendal
Diagnosis of genetic defects by chromosomal analysis, Farooq Ghani, Siddiqua Maniac, Zahida Khilji, Mohammad Azim, and Mohammad Khurshid
Diagnosis of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis on Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology: A Case Report and Review of the Cytology Literature, Neeta Kumar, Shahin Sayed, and Sudhir Vinayak
Diagnosis of second mesiobuccal canal in maxillary first molars among patients visiting a tertiary care hospital., Muhammad Hasan Hameed and Farhan Raza Khan
Diagnostic accuracy of anti-endomysial antibody in celiac disease, Arslaan Javaeed, Walayat Shah, Saaniya Khan Gauri, and Rizwan Akhtar
Diagnostic accuracy of CT scan in staging resectable esophageal cancer, Rizwan Sultan, Zishan Haider, and Tabish Chawla
Diagnostic accuracy of WHO verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining causes of neonatal deaths in the urban setting of Pakistan: a hospital-based prospective study, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Shabina Ariff, Ubaidullah Khan, Ali Turab, Gul Nawaz Khan, Atif Habib, Kamran Sadiq, Zamir Suhag, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmed, Rajiv Bhal, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Diagnostic importance of bone marrow examination in non-hematological disorders, Naveen Naz Syed, Bushra Moiz, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Diagnostic MR imaging features of craniocerebral Aspergillosis of sino-nasal origin in immunocompetent patients, A. A. Siddiqui, S. H. Bashir, Ahmed Ali Shah, Z Sajjad, Rashid Jooma, and S. Ather Enam
Diagnostic perplexity of panoramic radiograph, Sheikh Bilal Bada and Rabia Ghafoor
Diagnostic TCD for intracranial stenosis in acute stroke patients: experience from a tertiary care stroke center in Karachi, Pakistan., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Hasan Rehman, Nasir Mustafa, Bilal Ahmed, Mohammad Jan, Faisal Wadivalla, and Syed Kamran
Diagnostic utility of anti-citrullinated protein antibody and its comparison with rheumatoid factor in rheumatoid arthritis, Aysha Habib, Lena Jafri, M. Ahraz Hussain, and Saliha Ishaq
Dialectics of Imagination and Experimentation: Basic Science Research in Developing Countries, HR Ahmad1 and NA Khan
Diastolic dysfunction in coronary artery disease., Sarwat Hashmi, H R. Ahmed, Hasanat Sharif, and Syedah Saira Bukhari
Diclofenac suppository as a preemptive analgesia in ultrasound-guided biopsy of prostate: randomized controlled trial., Naveed Haroon Rashid, Hammad Ather, Salma Khan, Pirkash Kumar, and Basit Salam
Did contracting effect the use of primary health care units in Pakistan?, ashar muhammad malik, Ellen Van de Poel, and Eddy Van Doorslaer
Dietary Almonds Increase Serum HDL Cholesterol in Coronary Artery Disease Patients in a Randomized Controlled Trial., Humaira Jamshed, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Romaina Iqbal, and Anwar Gilani
Differences in police, ambulance, and emergency department reporting of traffic injuries on Karachi-Hala road, Pakistan, Junaid Ali Bhatti, Junaid Razzak, Emmanuel Lagarde, and Louis Rachid Salmi
Differences in reporting of violence and deliberate self harm related injuries to health and police authorities, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Umar Farooq, Mudassir Majeed, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, Jahangir Sarwar Khan, Junaid Razzak, and Muhammad Mussadiq Khan
Differences in risk-adjusted outcome of road traffic injuries in urban tertiary care Centres of Pakistan: analysis of surveillance data, Amber Mehmood, Junaid Razzak, Mohammed Umer Mir, and Rashid Jooma
Differences in the expression of apoptotic proteins in burkitt's lymphoma cell lines: potential models for screening apoptosis-inducing agents, Jean-Pierre Doucet, Azhar Hussain, Maha Al-Rasheed, Gianluca Gaidano, Marina I Gutiérrez, Ian Magrath, and Kishor Bhatia
Differential profile analysis of urinary cytokines in patients with overactive bladder, Gamal Ghoniem, Nuzhat Faruqui, Mostafa Elmissiry, Ayman Mahdy, Hassan Abdelwahab, Mathew Oommen, and Asim B. Abdel- Mageed
Differential receptor dependencies: expression and significance of muscarinic M1 receptors in the biology of prostate cancer., Abdul Mannan Baig Dr., Vardah Effendi, Zohaib Rana, H R. Ahmad, and Farhat Abbas
Difficulties in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: cnversion versus surgeon's failure, Aun Ali, Summaya Saeed,; Rabel Khawaja; Sunil Sadruddin Samnani; and Farah Naz Farid
Diffusion imaging to assess brain-cancer treatment, Khabir Ahmed
Diffusion tensor imaging for ruptured cerebral arteriovenous malformation, Muhammad Waqas, Ayesha Siddiqui, Fatima Mubarak, and Ather Enam
Diffusion weighted image (DWI) findings in methanol intoxication., Humera Ahsan,; Muhammad Akbar; and Aamir Hameed
Dilemma in the diagnosis of mediastinal adenopathy in the South Asian population-role of CT guided biopsy, mediastinoscopy and video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS), Marium Muzaffar, Hashim M Hanif, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Disclosure of HIV status to children in resource-limited settings: a systematic review, Rachel C. Vreeman, Anna Maria Gramelspacher, Peter Gisore, Michael L. Scanlon, and Winstone M. Nyandiko
Discourse analysis of online discussion forum of undergraduate nursing student's perceptions and observations about elder abuse in society, Samina Vertejee
Discover the ibn-e-sina within you' Annual neurology research day, may 2017 Shifa international hospital, Islamabad, Faaraea Haroon
Disease outbreaks in Sudan worsen ongoing crisis, Khabir Ahmed
Dissecting aneurysm of the interventricular septum due to rupture of the sinus of valsalva, Mehnaz Atiq, Fatima Ali, and Sulaiman B. Hasan B. Hasan
Distinct gene expression profiles: nodal versus extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Z Jehan, A.K Siraj, J Abubaker, C Ruiz, R Simon, M Sultana, S Uddin, P Bavi, Azhar Hussain, S Razack, A Ezzat, F Al-Dayel, G Sauter, and K.S Al-Kuraya
Distinctive hemodynamics in the immediate postoperative period of patients with a longer cardiac intensive care stay post–tetralogy of fallot repair, Kisha A Beg, Anwarul Haque, Muneer Amanullah, and Sobia N Laique
Distribution and circumstances of injuries in squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan., Narjis Rizvi, Stephen Luby, Iqbal Azam Syed, and Fauziah Rabbani
Distribution of gastric carcinoma in an area with a high prevalence of Helicobacter pylori., javed Yakoob, syeda sadia fatima, Z Abbas, syed farrukh mustafa, Hamza Abdur Rahim Khan, muhammad faraz raghib, Safia Awan, and Zubair Ahmad
Distribution of Helicobacter pylori virulence markers in patients with gastroduodenal diseases in Pakistan., javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Z Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Zubair Ahmad, Rashida Ahmed, and Muhammad Islam
Distribution of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in adult women, M Andrades, R Paul, A Ambreen, S Dodani, RH Dhanani, and Waris Qidwai
Distribution of virulence marker of Helicobacter pylori patients with functional dyspepsia in Pakistan, javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, and Z Abbas
Distribution, Severity and Radiologic Features of Intracranial Stenosis in Asymptomatic Pakistanis., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal; Farzin Majeed; Muhammad S. Ilyas; Munawar Hussain; Kamran Masood; Bilal Ahmed; Hasan Rehman,; Zafar Sajjad; and Scott E. Kasner8
District hospital based injury data-are they an option in a developing country?, Junaid Abdul Razzak, David Marsh, and S. Stansfield
Diuretic induced hyponatremia in hypertensive patients., Aysha Almas, Nayla Ahmed, Fareed Khawaja, and Aamir Hameed
DNA methylation and carcinogenesis in digestive, javed Yakoob, FAN Xue-Gong, HU Guo-Ling, and ZHANG Zheng
Doctor! Will I be dry? Factors determining recurrence after vesicovaginal fistula repair, Atif AJaved
Doctor! will I be dry? factors determining recurrence after vesicovaginal fistula repair, Atif Javed, Aziz Abdullah, Nuzhat Faruqui, Sher Shah Syed, Binat-ul- Mehdi, and Abdul Jabbar Pirzada
Do delays in surgery affect outcomes in patients with inter-trochanteric fractures?, Adil Aijaz Shah, Santosh Kumar, Amarah Shakoor, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, and Shahryar Noordin
Does admission hyperglycemia predict intracranial and extracranial vasculopathy?, Ather Mohammed Taqui, Saqib Ali Gowani, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Shafquat Rozi, and Bhojo A Khealani
Does base deficit predict mortality in patients with severe traumatic brain injury?, Hussain Shallwani, Muhammad Waqas, Shahan Waheed, Mubbashira Siddiqui, Asher Feroze, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Does being on call the night before an exam affect the results?, Rizwan Sultan, MR khan, and Alepyah Rajabali
Does empowerment matter? Perceptions of nursing leaders in Pakistan through qualitative approach., Saleema A. Gulzar, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Kausar S. Khan Ms, Rubina Barolia, Shirin Rahim, and Aneeta Pasha
Does obesity affects early infection after total knee arthroplasty. a comparison of obese vs non obese patients, Waseem Ahmed, Riaz Hussain Lakdawala, Yasir Mohib, Aurangzeb Qureshi, and Rizwan Haroon Rashid
Does prophylactic use of dexamethasone have a role in reducing post extubation stridor and reintubation in children?, Ali Faisal Saleem, Surrayo Bano, and Anwarul Haque
Does red blood cell distribution width (RDW) improve evaluation of microcytic anaemias?, Muhammad Sajjad Baqar, Mohammad Khurshid, and A Molla
Does the afferent tubular segment in an orthotopic bladder substitution compromise ureteric antireflux properties? an experimental study in dogs, Hassan Abol- Enein, Nuzhat Faruqui, Nashwa Barakat, and Ahmed A. Shokeir
Does the degree of bladder neck coaptation matter? cystoscopic study in females with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) secondary to intrinsic sphincteric deficiency (ISD), Nuzhat Faruqui and Gamal M Ghoniem
Does tranexamic acid reduce blood transfusion following surgery for inter-trochanteric fracture? a randomized control trial, Yasir Mohib, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Moiz Ali, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi, and masood umer
Does tranexamic acid reduce blood transfusion following surgery for inter-trochanteric fracture? a randomized control trial., Yasir Mohib, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Moiz Ali, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi, and masood umer
Does upgrade to tri-ventricular pacemaker improve long-term clinical response in non-responders to biventricular cardiac resynchronization therapy?, Sharon Hw Man, Jeilan Mohamed, Shoaib Siddiqui, and G. André Ng
Does ureteral stenting prior to shock wave lithotripsy influence the need for intervention in steinstrasse and related complications?, Hammad Ather, B Shrestha, and A Mehmood
Domestic violence against infertile women in Karachi, Pakistan, Neelofar Sami and Tazeen S. Ali
Domestic violence among Pakistani women: an insight into literature, Azmat J. Khan, Tazeen S. Ali, and Ali K. Khuwaja
Do outcomes of emergency surgery differ around the globe? matched comparison of patients in a developed and an underdeveloped health care setting, Adil A. Shah, Cheryl K. Zogg, Asad Latif, Nabil Wasif, Alyssa Chapital, Robert Riviello, Abdul Rehman, Hasnain Zafar, and Adil H. Haider
Double-positive Goodpasture's syndrome with concomitant active pulmonary tuberculosis., Waqar Kashif, Sonia Yaqub, Syed Faisal Mahmood, and Junaid Patel
Down syndrome: genetically enhanced with the 21st chromosome with more special gifts than needs., Hunaina Hadi
Dowry practices and their negative consequences from a female perspective in Karachi, Pakistan —a qualitative study, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Gunnhildur Árnadóttir, and Asli Kulane
Doxazosin induces apoptosis in PTEN–positive androgen-independent PC cells via inhibition of Akt activation, Hanna M Romanska, Maciej Salagierski, Rachel Bruton, P D Abel, Marek Sosnowski, and El Nasir Lalani
Drawing a qualitative distinction of caring practices in a professional context: the case of chinese nursing, Samantha M.C. Pang, David Arthur, and Thomas K.S Wong
Drinking across China: lessons from a complex culture, David Arthur
Drug compliance after stroke and myocardial infarction: a comparative study, Hiba Arif, Bilal Aijaz, Muhammad Islam, Unber Aftab, Santosh Kumar, and Saad Shafqat
Dual targeting of mTOR activity with Torin2 potentiates anticancer effects of cisplatin in epithelial ovarian cancer, Azhar Hussain, Maha Al-Romaizan, Maqbool Ahmed, Saravanan Thangavel, Fouad Al-Dayel, Shaham Beg, Shahab Uddin, Abdul K Siraj, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Dural metastases presenting as an extradural hematoma: a rare presentation, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Muhammad Ehsan Bari, and S. Ather Enam
Dynamic hip screw fixation for inter-trochanteric fractures: determinants of outcomes, Adil Aijaz Shah, Santosh Kumar, and Abdull Rehman
Dysphagia secondary to malignant tuberculous lymphadenopathy: role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a developing country, Ranish Deedar-Ali- Khawaja, Saulat H. Fatimi, Mohammad Naeem, and Suleman Haque
Early computed tomography hypodensity predicts hemorrhage after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in acute ischemic stroke, Neeraj Dubey, Rohit Bakshi, Mohammad Wasay, and Jacek Dmochowski
Early experience of dynamic hip screw with spiral blade and locking side plate for the stabilization of trochanteric fractures., Akbar Jaleel Zubair, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Marij Zahid, masood umer, and Pervaiz Hashmi
Early ischemic stroke presentation in Pakistan., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Bhojo A Khealani, Sajjad Ahmed Ansari, Maria Afridi, and Nadir A. Syed
Early recovery in post Varicella transverse myelitis, Prem Chand, Shahnaz brahim, Syed Sohail Zaidi, and Nida Amjad
Early regression of left ventricular wall thickness following percutaneous aortic valve replacement with the CoreValve bioprosthesis., Hasan Jilaihawi, Jeilan Mohamed, Tomasz Spyt, Derek Chin, Elaine Logtens, and Jan Kovac
Earthquake relief experience of Aga Khan University trauma team, Masood Umer, Haroon Rashid, Hasnain Zafar, and Kamran Majeed
Earthquake survivors face threat from infectious diseases, Khabir Ahmed
Echocardiographic predictors of outcome in acute heart failure patients in sub-Saharan Africa: insights from THESUS-HF, Mahmoud U. Sani, Beth A. Davison, Gad Cotter, Albertino Damasceno, Bongani M. Mayosi, Okechukwu S. Ogah, Charles Mondo, Anastase Dzudie, Dike B. Ojji, Charles Kouam Kouam, Ahmed Suliman, Gerald Yonga, Sergine Abdou Ba, Fikru Maru, Bekele Alemayehu, Christopher Edwards, and Karen Sliwa
Economic burden of mental illnesses in Pakistan., ashar muhammad malik and Murad Moosa Khan
Economic development and health status among the poor in squatter settlements of Karachi., Fauziah Rabbani and Anwer T. Merchant
Ectodermal dysplasia with acanthosis nigricans (Lelis' syndrome)., Azam J. Samdani
Ectopic placement of central venous catheter, importance of x-ray chest, Nadeem A. Zaidi and Fazal Hameed Khan
Educational intervention among barbers to improve their knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS: a pilot study from a South Asian country, Mukesh Kumar Krishanani, Faridah Amir Ali, Ali Khan Khuwaja, Waris Qidwai, and Badar Sabir Ali
Educational policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested terrain in the twenty-first century, Dilshad Ashraf, Mir Afzal Tajik, and Sarfaroz Niyozov
Effectiveness of an interventional program for the management of hypertension through strengthening of the health care delivery system : a pilot study, Waris Qidwai, Khawar Kazmi, Kashmira Nanji, and Sana Anees
Effectiveness of helmets in preventing severe injuries in a setting with poorly enforced quality standards, Junaid A. Bhatti, Rashid Jooma, and Junaid A. Razzak
Effectiveness of plain X-ray in detection of fish and chicken bone foreign body in upper aerodigestive tract, Talha Ahmed Qureshi, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Muntazir Hussain, and Muhammad Wasif
Effectiveness of Vi capsular polysaccharide typhoid vaccine among children: a cluster randomized trial in Karachi, Pakistan, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Bashir Soofi, R. Leon Ochiai, Atif Habib, Shah Muhammad Sahito, S. Qamaruddin Nizam, Camilo J Acosta, John D. Clemens, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Effective testing for pulmonary tuberculosis using Xpert MTB/RIF assay for stool specimens in immunocompetent Pakistani children, Zahra Hasan, Fehmina Arif, Sadia Shakoor, Aisha Mehnaz, Alnoor Akber, Akbar Kanji, Mussarat Ashraf, and Rumina Hasan
Effect of A and B-site substitution with Pb, La and Ti on phase stabilization and multiferroic properties of BiFeO3, G. Hassnain Jaffari, Abdus Samad, Asad M. Iqbal, Shahzad Hussain, Arif Mumtaz, Mohammad Sohail Awan, M. Siddique, and S. Ismat Shah
Effect of Additional Lumbosacral Corset on the Outcome of Patients with Non-Specific Acute Low Back Pain at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Stanley Aruyaru Mwenda
Effect of a single dose of low-level laser therapy on spontaneous and chewing pain caused by elastomeric separators, Irfan Qamruddin, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Mubassar Fida, and Asma Gul Khan
Effect of body mass index on outcome of labour induction, Farheen Yousuf, Tahira Naru, and Sana Sheikh
Effect of booster doses of poliovirus vaccine in previously vaccinated children, clinical trial results 2013, Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Ondrej Mach, Tariq Samejo, Didar Alam, Zaid Bhatti, William C. Weldon, Steven M. Oberste, Roland Sutte, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Effect of Clark’s twin-block appliance (CTB) and non-extraction fixed mechano-therapy on the pharyngeal dimensions of growing children, Batool A. Haider, Attiya Shaikh, and Mubassar Fida
Effect of continuous passive motion on knee flexion range of motion after total knee arthroplasty, Naveed Baloch, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Pervaiz Hashmi, and Riaz Hussain Lakdawala
Effect of dietary garlic (allium sativum) on the blood pressure in humans - a pilot study, Waris Qidwai, Riaz Qureshi, Iqba Azam, and Syed Najmul Hasan
Effect of general anaesthesia and surgery on neutrophil function, Fauzia Khan, Rehana Kamal, C H Mithani, and Mohammad Khurshid
Effect of intraoperative use of topical mitomycin C on intraocular pressure in patients with pterygium excision, Pir Salim Mahar, Nabeel Manzar, and Khabir Ahmad
Effect of L-type calcium channel blocker (amlodipine) on myocardial iron deposition in patients with thalassaemia with moderate-to-severe myocardial iron deposition: protocol for a randomised, controlled trial, Amarah Shakoor, Maaman Zahoor, Alina Sadaf, Najveen Alvi, Zehra Fadoo, Arjumand Rizvi, Farheen Quadri, Fateh Ali Tipoo, Mohammad Khurshid, Zaffar Sajjad, Steven Colan, and Babar S Hasan
Effect of methotrexate and folinic acid on skeletal growth in mice, Iqbal P. M., Ahmed M., masood umer, Naseema Mehboobali, and Qureshi A. A.
Effect of nutritional deficiency on the efficacy of the polio vaccines in Pakistan., Aamir Abbas and Romaina Iqbal
Effect of Puerperal Infections on Early Neonatal Mortality: A Secondary Analysis of Six Demographic and Health Surveys, Saverio Bellizzi, Quique Bassat, Howard L. Sobel, Mohamed M. Ali, and Marleen Temmerman
Effect of single dose magnesium on arrhythmias in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery, M Hamid, RS Kamal, SA Sami, F Atiq, A Shafquat, HI Naqvi, and Fazal Hameed Khan
Effect of steroids on inflammatory markers and clinical parameters in congenital open heart surgery: a randomised controlled trial, Muhammad M. Amanullah, Mohammad Hamid, Hashim M. Hanif, Marium Muzaffar, Maria T. Siddiqui, Fatima Adhi, Khabir Ahmad, Shahjahan Khan, and Zahra Hasan
Effect of surgical subspecialty training on patent ductus arteriosus ligation outcomes, Dor Markush, Kelleigh E. Briden, Michael Chung, Katherine W. Herbst, Trudy J. Lerer, Stephen Neff, Amy C. Wu, and Brendan T. Campbell
Effect of teriparatide on bone regenerate after distraction osteogenesis, masood umer, Tashfeen Ahmad, Sadia Habib, Rasham Rehman, Mahmood Ahmed, and Irfan Qadir
Effects of androgen on the androgen receptor expression in human endometrium, Ahmad Azlan Ab Aziz, E Whitney, A. Suenaga, Geoffrey H. Trew, R Margara, El Nasir Lalani, and J White
Effects of a perindopril-based blood-pressure-lowering regimen in patients with previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack (progress). How do the results affect practice in Pakistan?, Maria Khan and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Effects of a self-help pack on patients with myocardiial infarction, GAO Li, LI Zheng, David Arthur, and David Thompson
Effects of bomb blast injury on the ears: The Aga Khan University Hospital experience, Talha Ahmed Qureshi,; Mohammad Sohail Awan; Nabeel Hamayun Hassan; Agha Hussain Aftab; and Syed Adnan Ali
Effects of essential newborn care training on fresh stillbirths and early neonatal deaths by maternal education., Elwyn Chomba, Waldemar A. Waldemar A Carlo, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Imtiaz Jehan, Antoinette Tshefu, Ana Garces, Sansita Parida, Fernando Althabe, Elizabeth M. McClure, Richard J. Derman, Robert L. Goldenberg, Carl L. Bose, Nancy F. Krebs, Puspamitra Panigrahi, Pierre Buekens, Debra Wallace, Moore J., Marion Koso-Thomas, and Linda L. Wright
Effects of polypharmacy on adverse drug reactions among geriatric outpatients at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi: a prospective cohort study., Bilal Ahmed, Kashmira Nanji, Rakshinda Mujeeb, and Muhammad Junaid Patel
Efficacy of a home made quality control serum, Rukbsana Lalani, Ayesha Molla, and Mohammad Khurshid
Efficacy of internal and external quality control in chemical pathology, Rukhsana Lalani, Mirza Naqi Zafar, and Mohammad Khurshid
E-learning for research capacity strengthening in sexual and reproductive health: the experience of the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research and the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Karim Abawi, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Igor Toskin, Mario Philip Festin, Lynn Gertiser, Raqibat Idris, Hanan Hamamy, Moazzam Ali, Ameyo Masakhwe Bonventure, Marleen Temmerman, and Aldo Campana
eLearning techniques supporting problem based learning in clinical simulation, Charles Docherty, Derek Hoy, Helena Topp, and Kathryn Trinder
Elevated ex vivo monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (CCL2) in pulmonary as compared with extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, Zahra Hasan, Irfan Zaidi, Bushra Jamil, M Aslam Khan, Akber Kanji, and Rabia Hussain
Elevated serum CCL2 concomitant with a reduced mycobacterium-induced response leads to disease dissemination in leprosy, Zahra Hasan, Bushra Jamil, Irfan Zaid, S Zafar, Animesh Khan, and Rabia Hussain
Embolization of an intracranial arteriovenous malformation followed by immediate surgical resection : a case report, Imaad ur Rehman, Tanveer Ul Haq, Rashid Jooma, Muhammad Azeemuddin, and Zafar Sajjad
Emergency airway management of a patient with mediastinal mass, Anwar ul Huda, Khalid Maudood Siddiqui, and Fazal Hameed Khan
Emergency care of traumatic brain injuries in Pakistan: a multicenter study, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, Kent Stevens, Muhammad Umer Mir, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Razzak
Emergency evaluation of acute chest pain., Aysha Almas, Om Parkash, Aamir Hameed, and Muhammad Islam
Emergency evaluation of acute chest pain., Aysha Almas, Om Parkash, Aamir Hameed, and Muhammad Islam
Emergency general surgery in a low-middle income health care setting: determinants of outcomes, Adil Aijaz Shah, Asad Latif, d Cheryl K. Zogg, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Robert Riviello, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Zia Ur Rehman, Adil H. Haider, and Hasnain Zafar
Emergency medical services (EMS) training in Kenya: Findings and recommendations from an educational assessment, Benjamin Nicholson, Chelsea McCollough, Benjamin Wachira, and Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman
Emergency medicine: essential practical procedure skills, Shahan Waheed, Emaduddin Siddiqui, and Muhammad Akbar Baig
Emerging antiretroviral drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa: novel affordable technologies are needed to provide resistance testing for individual and public health benefits, Gert U. van Zyl, Lisa M. Frenkel, Michael Chung, Wolfgang Preiser, John W. Mellors, and Jean B. Nachega
Emerging Insights for Better Delivery of Chemicals and Stem Cells to the Brain., Abdul Mannan Baig Dr.
Emerging Parasitic Infection Mimicking Functional Bowel Disease, javed Yakoob; Wasim Jafri; Mohammad Asim Beg; Z Abbas; shagufta Naz,; Muhammad Islam; A. B. Khalid; Rustam Khan; and Zubair Ahmad
Emotional and Relationship Dynamics between HIV SeroDiscordance and Concordance Couples: A Narrative Literature Review and Theoretical Framework, Amani Mwakalapuka, Ipyana Mwampagatwa, Theodora Bali, Masumbuko Mwashambwa, Stephen Kibusi, and Tumbwene Mwansisya
Empyema thoracis in children: clinical presentation, management and complications, Ali Faisal Saleem, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Reema Sajjad Khan, Fazal Khan, Ahmad Vaqas Faruque, and Muhammad Arif Mateen Khan
Endocrine cell dysplasia (nesidioblastosis): a relatively unrecognized entity in Pakistan?, Nasim Sabir, Irshad Nabi Soomro, Zafar Nazir, Abdul Jabbar, and Sheema Hasan
Endodontic retreatment of a mandibular first molar with five root canal systems: an important clinical lesson, Muhammad Hasan Hameed and Fahad Umer
End of life in the intensive care unit: knowledge and practice of clinicians from Karachi, Pakistan, Nawal Salahudin, Saad Shafqat, S Mapara, S Khan, Shahla Siddiqui, Roshan Jan Manasia, and A Ahmad
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for obstructive hydrocephalus: Outcome analysis of 120 consecutively treated patients from a developing country, Muhammad Babar Khan, Muhammad Riaz, and S. Ather Enam
Enduring improvement in Oswestry Disability Index outcomes following lumbar microscopic interlaminar decompression: An appraisal of prospectively collected patient outcomes, Muhammad Babar Khan, Muhammad Umair Bashir, Rajesh Kumar, and S. Ather Enam
Engaged Online: Social Media and Youth Civic Engagement in Kenya, Samuel Kamau
Engaging with community-based public and private mid-level providers for promoting the use of modern contraceptive methods in rural Pakistan: results from two innovative birth spacing interventions, Syed Khurram Azmat, Waqas Hameed, Hasan Bin Hamza, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Ishaque, Ghazunfer Abbas, Omar Farooq Khan, Jamshaid Asghar, Erik Munroe, Safdar Ali, Wajahat Hussain, Sajid Ali, Aftab Ahmed, Moazzam Ali, and Marleen Temmerman
Enhanced disease surveillance through private health care sector cooperation in Karachi, Pakistan: experience from a vaccine trial, M. Imran Khan, Shah Muhammad Sahito, Mohammad Javed Khan, Shafi Mohammad Wassan, Abdul Wahab Shaikh, Ashok Kumari Maheshwari, Camilo J. Acosta, Claudia M. Galindo, Rion Leon Ochia, Shahid Rasool, Sheeraz Peerwan, Mahesh K. Puri, Mohammad Ali, Afia Zafar, Rumina Hasan, Lorenz von Seidlein, John D. Clemens, Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizami, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Enhancing infant/toddler adjustment during transitions to childcare: A screening and intervention tool for practitioners, Fernandez T. Mari and Kofi Marfo
Enteric cyst in the left posterior mediastinum mimicking a hydatid cyst on chest computed tomography scan, Shazib Sagheer; Abdul Malik Amir Humza Sohail,; Yousaf Bashir Hadi,; and Saulat H. Fatimi
Enteric fever: a slow response to an old plague, Carlos Franco- Paredes, M. Imran Khan, Esteban Gonzalez- Diaz, Jose I. Santos- Preciado, Alfonso J. Rodriguez Morales, and Eduardo Gotuzzo
Enteric fever in adult patients: clinical features, outcome and antibiotic susceptibility patterns, Bushra Jamil, Imran Lashari, Sabha Bhatti, and Rumina Hasan
Entral corneal thickness changes after phacoemulsification, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Muhammad Hamza, Wajiha Koomal, and Khabir Ahmad
Enuresis nocturna and the symptoms of upper airway obstruction in primary school age children : is there a relationship?, Yusuf Cetin Doganer, Aydogan Umit, Tabinda Ashfaq, Serhat Burmaoğlu, Sari Oktay, Koc Bayram, Saglam Kenan, and Waris Qidwai
Environmental education: Role of physical environment in students’ learning in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Sultan Alam
Ependymal tumors with oligodendroglioma like clear cells: experience from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Fauzan Alam Hashmi, Muhammad Faheem Khan, Saad Akhtar Khan, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Ehsan Bari, and Arsalan Ahmad
Epidemiological differences between localized and nonlocalized low back pain., David Coggon, Georgia Ntani, Karen Walker-Bone, Keith T. Palmer, Vanda E. Felli, Raul Harari, Lope H. Barrero, Sarah A. Felknor, David Gimeno, Anna Cattrell, Sergio Vargas-Prada, Matteo Bonzini, Eleni Solidaki, Eda Merisalu, Rima R. Habib, Farideh Sadeghian, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Sudath SP Warnakulasuriya, Ko Matsudaira, Busisiwe Nyantumbu, Malcolm R. Sim, Helen Harcombe, Ken Cox, Leila M.M. Sarquis, Maria H. Marziale, Florencia Harari, Rocio Freire, Natalia Harari, Magda V. Monroy, Leonardo A. Quintana, Marianela Rojas, Elizabeth Clare Harris, Consol Serra, Jose´ Miguel Martinez, George Delclos, Fernando G. Benavides, Michele Carugno, Marco M. Ferrario, Angela C. Pesatori, Leda Chatzi, Panos Bitsios, Manolis Kogevinas, Kristel Oha, Tiina Freimann, Ali Sadeghian, Roshini J. Peiris-John, Nalini Sathiakumar, A. Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Noriko Yoshimura, Helen L. Kelsall, Victor C.W. Hoe, Donna M. Urquhart, Sarah Derrett, David McBride, Peter Herbison, Andrew Gray, and Eduardo J. Salazar Vega
Epidemiological features of aplastic anaemia in Pakistan, Salman Adil, G. N. Kakepoto, Mohammad Khurshid, and I. A. Burney
Epidemiology and ethics: the people's perspective, Kausar S. Khan
Epidemiology and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a developing country-a multicenter cohort study., Minaz Mawani; Muhammad Masood Kadir; Iqbal Azam Syed; Amber Mehmood; Bryan McNally; Kent Stevens,; R. Nuruddin; Mohammad Ishaq; and J. Razzak
Epidemiology and prevalence of deep venous thrombosis in patients with spinal cord injury, Aatik Arsh, Haider Darain, and Syed Muhammad Ilyas
Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and patterns of drug resistance of salmonella typhi in Karachi, Pakistan, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Bashir Soof, R. Leon Ochiai, Mohammad Jawed Khan, Shah Muhammad Sahito, Atif Habib, Mahesh K Puri, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jin Kyung Park, Young Ae You, Mohammad Ali, S. Qamarudding Nizami, Camilo J Acosta, Richard Bradley Sack, John D Clemens, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Epidemiology, determinants and dynamics of cholera in Pakistan: gaps and prospects for future research., Maliha Naseer and Tanzil Jamali
Epidemiology of blood-borne viruses: a study of healthy blood donors in Southern Pakistan, GN Kakepoto, HS Bhally, G Khaliq, N Kayani, IA Burney, T Siddiqui, and Mohammad Khurshid
Epidemiology of dermatophyte infection. Comparison of clinical and mycological findings., Shahla Haroon and Azam J. Samdani
Epidemiology of Karachi road traffic crash mortality in 2013, Rashid Jooma and Masood Ali Shaikh
Epidemiology of stone disease across the world, Igor Sorokin, Charalampos Mamoulakis, Katsuhito Miyazawa, Allen Rodgers, Jamsheer J Jehangir Talati, and Yair Lotan
Epilepsy in pakistan: national guidelines for clinicians, Fowzia Siddiqui, Tipu Sultan, Shahid Mustafa, Sarwar Jamil Siddiqui, Shaukat Ali, and Rashid Jooma
Epilepsy in Pakistan: national guidelines for clinicians (part 2), Fowzia Siddiqui, Shaukat Ali, Mughis Sheerani, Tippo Sultan, and Rashid Jooma
Episodic antiretroviral therapy trial is halted early, Khabir Ahmad
Episodic antiretroviral therapy trial is halted early., Khabir Ahmad
Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in prostate cancer, Stephen E. Mitchell, Paul D. Abel, El Nasir Lalani, and Simon W Hayward
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of axillary vein: an imminent vascular tumor?, Ranish Deedar-Ali- Khawaja, Saulat H. Fatimi, and Syed Shahabuddin
Eradication of advanced pelvic hydatid bone disease after limb salvage surgery - 5-year follow-up: a case report, Muhammad Shahid Khan, Pervaiz Hashmi, and Dawar Khan
Erratum to: differential profile analysis of urinary cytokines in patients with overactive bladder, Gamal Ghoniem, Nuzhat Faruqui, Mostafa Elmissiry, Ayman Mahdy, Hassan Abdelwahab, and Mathew Oommen
Essential medicines management during emergencies in Pakistan, S.K.S. Bukhari; J.A.R.H. Qureshi,; Rashid Jooma; and K.M. Bile Ministry of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Establishing a hospital based fracture liaison service to prevent secondary insufficiency fractures, Shahryar Noordin, Salim Allana, and Bassam A. Masri
Establishing a successful pre-hospital emergency service in a developing country: experience from Rescue 1122 service in Pakistan., Hunniya Waseem, Rizwan Naseer, and Junaid Razzak
Establishing quality control values for hematology parameters: an insight, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh
Establishment of a comprehensive epilepsy center in Pakistan: initial experiences, results, and reflections, Muhammad Z Tahir, Z A. Sobani, S. A. Quadri, S. Nizam Ahmed, Fowzia Siddiqui, and Syed Enam Enam
Estimates of intraclass correlation coefficient and design effect for surveys and cluster randomized trials on injection use in Pakistan and developing countries, Naveed Zafar Janjua, M. Imran Khan, and John D Clemens
Estimating window period blood donations for human immunodeficiency virus type 1, hepatitis C virus, and hepatitis B virus by nucleic acid amplification testing in Southern Pakistan, Bushra Moiz, tariq moatter, Usman Shaikh, Salman Adil, N. Ali, Farheen Mahar, Naseem Shamsuddin, and Mohammad Khurshid
Estimation of GFR in South Asians: a study from the general population in Pakistan., Saleem Jessani, Andrew S. Levey, Rasool Bux, Lesley A. Inker, Muhammad Islam, Nish Chaturved, Christophe Mariat, Christopher H. Schmid, and Tazeen Jafar
Ethics and social accountability - two sides of the same coin integrating social accountability in medical education, Kausar S. Khan and Sohail Amir Ali Bawani
Ethics of AIDS drug trials on foster children questioned., Khabir Ahmed
Ethics seminars: the ethical debate on practicing procedures on the newly dead, Terri A. Schmidt, Jean T. Abbott, Joel M. Geiderman, Jason A. Hughes, Catherine X. Johnson, Katie B. McClure, Mary P. McKay, Junaid Abdul Razzak, David Salo, Raquel M. Schears, and Robert C. Solomon
Ethnopharmacological studies on chrozophora prostrata in perspective of its folkloric reputation as purgative, Usman Arshad, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Samra Bashir, Najeeb-ur- Rehman, Hassan Mehmood, and Anwar-ul-Hassan Gilani
Etiology and outcome of severe community acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adults., Ali Khawaja, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Fahad Khan Durrani, and Afia Zafar
Etiology of noninvasive ventilation in a tertiary teaching facility, Alphonso Quinones,; Jennifer Shelley; Rachael Ali Permell; and Erfan Hussain
Etiology of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in a Tertiary Setting, Alphonso A. Quinones, Rachael Permell-Ali, Mary Nelson, Roseann Russo, Steven Chang, Erfan Hussain, Arunabh MD, and Alan Fein
Eukaryotic cell encystation and cancer cell dormancy: is a greater devil veiled in the details of a lesser evil?, Abdul Mannan Baig, Naveed Ahmed Khan, and Farhat Abbas
Evaluating a Community Maternal Health Programme: Lessons Learnt, Sheetal Sharma, Padam Simkhada, Vanora Hundley, Edwin van Teijlingen, Jane Stephens, Ram Chandra Silwal, and Catherine Angell
Evaluating library service quality at the Aga Khan University library: Application of a total quality management approach, Nasra Gathoni and Thomas Van der Walt
Evaluating regional workshops on strengthening the capacity of healthcare professional associations to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5., Fauziah Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, Saba Wasim, Kadi Toure, Stephen Nurse-Findlay, and Naushaba Mobeen
Evaluating the results of mentorship training for community midwives in Sindh, Pakistan., Amber Hussain Sayani, Rafat Jan, Susan Lennox, Yasmeen Jan Mohammad, and Safia Awan
Evaluation and treatment of acute psychosis in children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): consultation–liaison service experiences at a tertiary-care pediatric institution, Eyal Muscal, Tania Nadeem, Xiofan Li, Ayesha I Mian, and Toi Blakley Harris
Evaluation of a cancer awareness campaign: experience with a selected population in Karachi, Tazeen S. Ali and Sanah Baig
Evaluation of Chronic Liver Disease: Does Ultrasound Scoring Criteria Help?, Shaista Afzal Saeed and Imrana Masroor
Evaluation of 'CKD-EPI Pakistan' equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR): a comparison of eGFR prediction equations in Pakistani population, Sibtain Ahmed, Lena Jafri, and Ayesha Habib khan
Evaluation of efficacy of self breast examination for breast cancer prevention: a cost effective screening tool, Sanah Baig and Tazeen S. Ali
Evaluation of gut modulatory and bronchodilator activities of amaranthus spinosus linn, Mueen Ahmad Chaudhary, Imran Imran, Samra Bashir, Hassan Mehmood, Najeeb-ur Rehman, and Anwarul-Hassan Gilani
Evaluation of immune response to hepatitis B vaccine in health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: an observational prospective study, Mohammad Zeeshan, Kauser Jabeen, Anita Nausheen Akbar Ali, Ailia Wilayat Ali, Saadia Z Farooqui, Vikram Mehraj, and Afia Zafar
Evaluation of inter-observer variability in the grading of oral dysplasia using two different grading systems, R.T Srinivasan, D Snead, P Matthews, H Williams, K Webster, D Griffin, El Nasir Lalani, and H Mehanna
Evaluation of multiple choice and short essay question items in basic medical sciences, Mukhtiar Baig, Syeda Kauser Ali, Sobia Ali, and Nighat Huda
Evaluation of pyeloplasty among children with pelvouretric junction stenosis at French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children, Kabul, Afghanistan, Yalda Obaidy Saie
Evaluation of solar disinfection of water intervention delivered through lady health workers in reduction of diarrheal episodes in under five children, Shabina Ariff, Ubaidullah Khan, Ali Turab, Imtiaz Hussain, Atif Habib, Tarab Mansoor, Dania Mallick, Zamir Suhag, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmed, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Evaluation of the Parasight Platform for Malaria Diagnosis, Yochay Eshel, Arnon Houri-Yafin, Hagai Benkuzari, Natalie Lezmy, Mamta Soni, Malini Charles, Jayanthi Swaminathan, Hilda Solomon, Pavithra Sampathkumar, Zul Premji, Caroline Mbithi, Zaitun Nneka, Simon Onsongo, Daniel Maina, Sarah Levy-Schreier, Caitlin Lee Cohen, Dan Gluck, Joseph Joel Pollak, and Seth J. Salpeter
Evaluation of the uptake and impact of neonatal vitamin A supplementation delivered through the Lady Health Worker programme on neonatal and infant morbidity and mortality in rural Pakistan: an effectiveness trial, Sajid Soofi, Shabina Ariff, Kamran Sadiq, Atif Habib, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmad, Masawar Hussain, Nabeela Ali, Simon Cousens, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Ever increasing need for family physicians, Waris Qidwai
Evidence and Evidence Gaps in Adolescent Health, George Patton and Marleen Temmerman
Evidence and knowledge gaps on the disease burden in sexual and gender minorities: a review of systematic reviews, Karel Blondeel, Lale Say, Doris Chou, Igor Toskin, Rajat Khosla, Elisa Scolaro, and Marleen Temmerman
Evidence based medicine: transforming research into practice, Waris Qidwai
Evidence of a M1-muscarinic GPCR homolog in unicellular eukaryotes: featuring Acanthamoeba spp bioinformatics 3D-modelling and experimentations., Abdul Mannan Baig Dr. and H R. Ahmad
Evidence of segment reassortment in crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Roger Hewson, Anatoly Gmyl, Larissa Gmyl, Svetlana E. Smirnova, Bushra Jamil, and Rumina Hasan
Exciting Times in South-Asian Midwifery, Rafat Jan and Edwin van Teijlingen
Expanding a performance improvement initiative in critical care from hospital to system., DanaL ustbader, Mitchel C. Jacobs, Erfan Hussain, Alice Greenwood, Yosef D. .Dlugacz, and Lor iStier
Expenditure tracking and review of reproductive maternal, newborn and child health policy in Pakistan., Muhammad Ashar Malik, Abdul Sattar Nahyoun, Arjumand Rizvi, Zaid Ahmad Bhatti, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Experience in 118 consecutive patients undergoing CT-guided stereotactic surgery utilizing the cosman-robert-wells (CRW) frame, Rashid Jooma and G. R. Sharma
Experience in 118 consecutive patients undergoing CT-guided stereotactic surgery utilizing the cosman–robert–wells (CRW) frame, G. R. Sherma, H. Siddiqui, and Rashid Jooma
Experience of damage control trauma laparotomy in a limited resource healthcare setting: a retrospective cohort study., Mehreen Kisat, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Zain G. Hashmi, Amyn Pardhan, Tahreem Mir, Hasnain Zafar, and Adil Aijaz Shah
Experience of nurses with using eHealth in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan: a qualitative study in primary and secondary healthcare., Saleema Aziz Gulzar, Shariq Khoja, and Afroz Sajwani
Experience of partner's violence among married women in a squatter settlement of Karachi, Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali, Neelofar Sami, and Ali Khawaja
Experience of Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) provider courses in a tertiary care centre of Pakistan, Humaira Jurair
Experiences in Care Given During Child Birth at a Referral Hospital in Kenya, Jane Kabo, A. Karani, J. Oyieke, A. B. Wakoli, and B. Cheruiyot
Experiences of adopting blended pedagogies in health assessment course in post RN baccalaureate program of nursing in Karachi, Pakistan., Shanaz Hussein Cassum SC, Saleema Allana, and Jacqueline Maria Dias
Experiments shed light on early events in HIV infection, Khabir Ahmed
Exploration of variations in positions of upper and Lower incisors, overjet, overbite, and irregularity Index in orthodontic patients with dissimilar depths of Curve of spee., Nita Kumari, Mubassar Fida, and Attiya Shaikh
Exploring community midwives' perceptions of their work experience after deployment in the rural areas of Chitral, Pakistan., Mehtab Q. Jaffer, Rafat Jan, Karyn Kaufman, Arusa Lakhani, and Shahnaz Shahid Ali
Exploring fathers' role in breastfeeding practices in the urban and semiurban settings of Karachi, Pakistan., Yasmin Mithani, Zahra Shaheen Premani, Zohra Kurji, and Shehnaz Rashid
Exploring the feasibility of utilising dual qualifications in midwifery and health visiting, Grace Edwards and Angela M. Kerrigan
Exploring the impact of gender inequities on the promotion of cardiovascular health of women in Pakistan., Rubina Barolia, Alexander M. Clark, and Gina M. Higginbottom
Exploring Unprotected Anal Intercourse among Newly Diagnosed HIV Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: An Ethnographic Study, Haochu Li, Eleanor Holroyd, and Joseph Lau
Exposure assessment of lead from food and airborne dusts and biomonitoring in pregnant mothers, their fetus and siblings in Karachi, Pakistan and Shimotsuke, Japan., Fujio Kayama, Zafar Fatmi, Akihiko Ikegami, Atsuko Mizuno, Mayumi Ohtsu, Nathern Mise, Xiaoyi Cui, Masanori Ogawa, Takako Sakamoto, Yoshiko Nakagi, Takahiko Yoshida, Ambreen Sahito, Shahla Naeem, Kulsoom Ghias, Hina Saeed Zuberi, Kanwal Tariq, Yayoi Kobayashi, and Keiko Nohara
Expression and functional analysis of voltage activated Na+ channels in human prostate cancer cell lines and their contribution to invasion in vitro, Marc E. Laniado; El Nasir Lalani; Scott P. Fraser; Julia A. Grimes,; Gurjeet Bhangal,; Mustafa B. A. Djamgoz,; and Paul D. Abel
Expression of bcl-2 in bladder neoplasms in a cell lineage associated and p53-independent event, Q-L Lu, M Laniado, P D Abel, G W H Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Expression of cyclin D1, cyclin E and p27(KIP1) in schistosomal versus nonschistosomal bladder cancer, AA Khan, Khurram Chaudhary, PD Abel, Ahmed M Shoma, M El Baz, GWH Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Expression of the androgen receptor, pAkt, and pPTEN in breast cancer and their potential in prognostication, Aisha Sultana, Romana Idress, Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi, Iqbal Azam, Shaista Khan, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, and El Nasir Lalani
Expression of urinary chemokines in patients with overactive bladder (OAB), Nuzhat Faruqui, Gamal M Ghoniem, Ayman Mahdy, and Mostafa Elmissiry
Expression or ligand activation of the androgen receptor does not influence the action of signal transduction inhibitors in prostatic cell lines, Soha El Sheikh, Paul Abel, Jan Domin, Gordon Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Extending the window for thrombolysis in acute stroke., Muhammad Faisal Wadiwala, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Extensive mediastinal aspergillosis presenting with dyspnoea and cardiac tamponade symptoms, Syed F Mustafa, Hamza AR Khan, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Extent of resection and timing of surgery in adult low grade glioma, Farhan A. Mirza and Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
External lead contamination of women's nails by surma in Pakistan: Is the biomarker reliable?, Akihiko Ikegami, Mai Takagi, Zafar Fatmi, Yayoi Kobayashi, Mayumi Ohtsu, Xiaoyi Cui, Nathan Mise, Atsuko Mizuno, Ambreen Sahito, Aneeta Khoso, and Fujio Kayama
Extra pulmonary uptake of Tc-99m-MAA perfusion lung scan as a result of right to left intra cardiac shunt, Riffat Hussain, Maseeh-uz-Zaman, Sohail Abrar Khan, and M Nadeem Ahmad
Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma: Clinico-pathologic Features and Results of Multimodal Management, Nicola Fabbri, Akshay Tiwari, and masood umer
Eye Care Service Use and Its Determinants in Marginalized Communities in Pakistan: The Karachi marine fishing communities eye and general health survey, Khabir Ahmad, Anthony B. Zwi, Daniel J. M. Tarantola, and Iqbal Azam Syed
Facial soft tissue thickness among three skeletal classes in adult Pakistani subjects, Waqar .. Jeelani, Mubassar Fida, and Attiya Shaikh
Facial soft tissue thickness among various vertical facial patterns in adult Pakistani subjects, Waqar Jeelani, Mubassar Fida, and Attiya Shaikh
Facilitators and barriers to NCD prevention in Pakistanis-invincibility or inevitability: a qualitative research study., Ambreen Gowani, Hafiz Imtiaz Ahmed, Wardah Khalid, Abdul Muqeet, Saad Abdullah, Shariq Khoja, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Factors affecting compliances with physiotherapy among stroke patients: physiotherapist's perspective: a study from Peshawar Pakistan., Rabia Basri, Maryam Naseen, and Aatika Naz
Factors affecting ventriculoperitoneal shunt survival in adult patients, Farid Khan, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Factors associated with burnout among residents in a developing country, Akbar Jaleel Zubair and Shahryar Noordin
Factors associated with burnout among residents in a developing country., Akbar Jaleel Zubair and Shahryar Noordin
Factors associated with dengue fever IgG sero-prevalence in South Kordofan State, Sudan, in 2012: Reporting prevalence ratios., Mohammed A. Soghaier, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Omrana Pasha, Iqbal Azam Syed, Mubarak M. Karsani, Mutasim M. Elmangory, Babiker A. Elmagbou, Somia I. Okoued, Sayed M. Shareef, Hayat S. . Khogali, and Emad Eltigai g
Factors associated with elevated serum cholesterol levels in well-to-do Pakistani school children, SH Badruddin, Mohammad Khurshid, A Molla, W W Manser, Rukhsana Lalani, and C W Vellani
Factors associated with failed induction of labour in a secondary care hospital, Neelofur Babar Khan, Iffat Ahmed, Ayesha Malik, and Lumaan Sheikh
Factors associated with stress among adolescents in the city of Nawabshah, Pakistan., Yasmin Parpio, Salima Farooq, Saleema Gulzar, Ambreen Tharani, Tazeen Saeed Ali, and Fawad Javed
Factors predicting in-hospital mortality in patients with cirrhosis hospitalized with gastro-esophageal variceal hemorrhage., Faisal Wasim Ismail, Khalid Mumtaz, Syed H Shah, Saeed Hamid, Z Abbas, Shahab Abid, Kashif Anis, Ashfaq Ahmad, and Wasim Jafri
Factors Predicting the Recurrence of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Patients with Cirrhosis, Sajjad Jamil, Shahid Ahmed, Adil Memon, Sara Masood, Syed H Shah, Saeed Sadiq Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Factors surrounding tools used in smoking and pregnancy research, David King and Grace Edwards
Factors that affect implementation of web-based faculty evaluation forms: residents' perspectives from a developing country., Shahnaz Ibrahim, Syeda Kausar Ali, and Shazia Sadaf
Factors that Influence Advance Directives Completion amongst Terminally Ill Patients at AKUHN, Stephen Omondi Otieno
Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya, Stephen Omondi, John Weru, Asim Jamal, and Gerald Yonga
Factor XIII deficiency in Pakistan, Aamir Nadeem Shaikh and Mohammad Khurshid
Failed back-surgery syndrome (FBSS) prediction using fuzzy inference system (FIS), Uvais Qidwai, Shahzad Shamim, Farhana Raquib, and S. Ather Enam
Failure of chemotherapy in the first reported cases of acanthamoeba keratitis in Pakistan, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Sahreena Lakhundi, Khabir Ahmad, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Familial homocystinuria, F Bilwan, NA Syed, M Usman, and Mohammad Khurshid
Family-centered rounds in Pakistani pediatric intensive care settings: non-randomized pre- and post-study design, Laila Akbar Ladak, Shahirose Sadrudin Premji, Muneer Amanullah, Anwarul Haque, Khairulnissa Ajani, and Fahad Javaid Siddiqui
Family member knowledge and expectations for functional recovery after stroke, Joel Stein, Saad Shafqat, Daniel Doherty, Elizabeth P. Frates, and Karen L. Furie
Fast dissemination of new HIV-1 CRF02/A1 recombinants in Pakistan, Yue Chen, Bhavna Hora, Todd DeMarco, Sharaf Ali Shah, Manzoor Ahmed, Ana M. Sanchez, Chang Su, Meredith Carter, Mars Stone, Rumina Hasan, Zahra Hasan, Michael P. Busch, Thomas N. Denny, and Feng Gao
Fast track extubation in adult patients on pump open heart surgery at a tertiary care hospital, Mohammad Irfan Akhtar, Hasanat Sharif, Mohammad Hamid, Khalid Samad, and Fazal Hameed Khan
Fat embolism syndrome, in a patient with Bilateral total knee replacement, Syeda Saba Zaidi and Noman Ishaque
Fatty acid synthase and AKT pathway signaling in a subset of papillary thyroid cancers, Shahab Uddin, Abdul K. Siraj, Maha Al-Rasheed, Maqbool Ahmed, Rong Bu, Jeffrey N. Myers, Abdulrahman Al-Nuaim, Saif Al-Sobhi, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, Azhar Hussain, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Fear, blame and transparency: Obstetric caregivers' rationales for high caesarean section rates in a low-resource setting, Helena Litorp, Andrew Mgaya, Columba Mbekenga, Hussein L. Kidanto, Sara Johnsdotter, and Birgitta Essén
Febrile neutropenia: median door-to-needle time-results of an initial audit., Natasha Ali, Muhammad Baqir, Aasma Hamid, and Mohammad Khurshid
FGF8 mRNA expression in benign and malignant prostate - Relationship to androgen receptor status, O Wang, El Nasir Lalani, S Powell, J Waxman, P D Abel, D Jackson, and GWH Stamp
Fiber and bulking agents for the treatment of chronic constipation, Kashmira Nanji, Bilal Ahmed, Safia Awan, Waris Qidwai, and Saeed Hamid
Fibroadenoma With Pleomorphic Stromal Giant Cells: It's Not as Bad as It Looks!, Jonathan Wawire, Kamaljeet Singh, and Margaret M. Steinhoff
Film Retakes in Digital and Conventional Radiography, Waseem Akhtar, Mubashir Aslam, Arif Ali, Kashif Mirza, and Nadeem Ahmad
First-time fathers' postnatal experiences and support needs: A descriptive qualitative study, Shefaly Shorey, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Shiho Bridge, Yap Seng Chong, Eleanor Holroyd, and Hong-Gu He
Fishbein rehired by the US national institutes of health, Khabir Ahmed
Fixation of bilateral pelvic osteotomies with external fixator in exstrophy bladder complex, Salman Riaz, Shahbaz Sarwar, and masood umer
Fludarabine induced autoimmune haemolytic anaemia in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Naveen Naz Syed and Mohammad Khurshid
Fludarabine induced immune thrombocytopenia in a patient with CD5 positive B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, M. Usman, Salman Adil, R. Sajid, and Mohammad Khurshid
Fluorescence lifetime imaging of unstained tissues: early results in human breast cancer, Paul Tadrous, Jan Siegel, Paul French, Sami Shousha, El Nasir Lalani, and Gordon Stamp
Foreign body aspiration: a life-threatening situation., Sharifa Bashir Lalani
Foreign body aspiration in adults., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Haque A. S, Husain S. J, and Javaid Khan
Foreign nationals with HIV face deportation from the UK, Khabir Ahmad
Formative research and development of an evidence-based communication strategy: the introduction of Vi typhoid fever vaccine among school-aged children in Karachi, Pakistan, Alfred Pach, Ghurnata Tabbusam, M. Imran Khan, Zamir Suhag, Imtiaz Hussain, Ejaz Hussain, Uzma Mumtaz, Inam ul Haq, Rehman Tahir, Amjad Miran, Aisha Yousafzai, Sushant Sahastrabuddhe, R Leon Ochiai, Sajid Soofi, John D. Clemens, Michael O. Favorov, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Foundation clinical nursing skills, Charles Docherty and Jacqueline McCallum
FoxM1 and its association with matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) signaling pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma, Maqbool Ahmed, Shahabuddin, Azhar Hussain, Aisha Alyan, Zeenath Jehan, Fouad Al-Dayel, Abdulrehman Al-Nuaim, Saif Al-Sobhi, Tarek Amin, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Frequency and characteristic features of portal hypertensive gastropathy in patients with viral cirrhosis., Shahid Ahmed, Khalid Mumtaz, Umair Syed Ahmed, Syed H Shah, Shahab Abid, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Frequency and determinants of intracranial atherosclerotic stroke in urban Pakistan., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Asif Rasheed, Khalid Mehmood, Muhammad Murtaza, Moazzam Zaidi, Maria Khan, Nabi Shah, Maria Samuel, Bilal Ahmed, Emmon Raza, Naveeduddin Ahmed, Jamal Ara, Tasnim Ahsan, Syed M. Munir, Shoukat Ali, Karim U. Maki, Muhammad M. Ahmed, Abdul R. . Memon, and Danish Saleheen
Frequency and determinants of vaginal infection in postpartum period: a cross sectional survey from low socioeconomic settlements, Karachi, Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali, Fariyal F. Fikree, Mohammad H. Rahbar, and Sadia Mahmud
Frequency and mortality associated with hyperglycemia in critically Ill children, Sabeen Abid Khan, Mohsina Noor Ibrahim, and Anwarul Haque
Frequency and outcome of meningitis in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Pakistan, Amna Jawaid, Surriya Bano, Anwarul Haque, and Khubaib Arif
Frequency and predictors of recurrence of bladder tumour on first check cystoscopy - a tertiary care hospital experience, Muhammad Farhan, Nazim Syed Muhammad, Jibran Ahmed, and Hammad Ather
Frequency and sensitivity pattern of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing isolates in a tertiary care hospital laboratory of Pakistan, Kauser Jabeen, Afia Zafar, and Rumina Hasan
Frequency of abnormal pap smears and assessment of risk factors for cervical cancer in an out-patient clinic, Firdous Jahan, Naheed Nabi, Waris Qidwai, and Iqbal Azam
Frequency of cannabinoids use among the oil tanker and truck drivers., Farooq Ghani, Jawaid Jabbar, Imran Siddiqui, Aysha Habib Khan, and Tahseen Kazmi
Frequency of cardiorenal syndrome type-I in hospitalized children with acute heart failure in a tertiary-care hospital, Mehjabeen Zaidi, Arshalooz Jamila Rehman, Anwarul Haque, Saleem Akhtar, and Prem Kumar Maheshwar
Frequency of chromosomal abnormalities in Pakistani adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh, Salman Adil, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, and Mohammad Khurshid
Frequency of color blindness in pre-employment screening in a tertiary health care center in Pakistan, Shaukat Ali Chhipa, Farzeen K. Hash, Shehreen Ali, Mustafa Kama, and Khabir Ahmed
Frequency of electrolyte derangement after transurethral resection of prostate: need for postoperative electrolyte monitoring, Wajahat Aziz and Hammad Ather
Frequency of fab subtypes in acute myeloid leukemia patients at Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Mahadev Sajanmal Harani, Salman Adil, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, G N Kakepoto, and Mohammad Khurshid
Frequency of hereditary thrombophilia: an AKUH experience., Safoorah Khalid, Raihan Sajid, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Frequency of hypercalcemia in patients of multiple myeloma in Karachi., Shireen Mansoor, Imran Siddiqui, Salman Adil, Ghulam Nabi Kakapeto, and Zafar Fatmi
Frequency of irregular red cell alloantibodies in patients with thalassemia major: a bicenter study, Fareena Bilwani, Ghulam Nabi, Salman Adil, Mohammad Usman, Farrukh Hassan, and Mohammad Khurshid
Frequency of isolation of shigella serogroups/serotypes and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in children from slum areas in Karachi, Afia Zafar, Nasim Sabir, and Zulfiqar Bhutta
Frequency of metabolic syndrome in psychiatric patients, is this the time to develop a standardized protocol to reduce the morbidity from an acute care psychiatry unit., Tariq Munshi, Archana Patel, Mir Nadeem Mazhar, and Emaduddin Siddiqui
Frequency of miller fisher variant of guillain barré syndrome at a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Kiran Waqar, Sadaf Nasir, Khalid Sher, Meraj Fatima, and Abdul Malik
Frequency of non-motor symptoms in parkinson disease: experience from Pakistan, Saira Saad, Ali Zohair Nomani, Mazhar Badshah, and Aamir Afzal
Frequency of peripheral smear review in era of automation, Natasha Ali, Sidra Asad Ali, Imran Ahmad, and Mohammad Khurshid
Frequency of sensorineural hearing loss in chronic suppurative otitis media, Syed Sajjad Ali Zaidi; Hamdan Ahmed Pasha,; Anwar Suhail,; and Talha Ahmed Qureshi
Frequency of worsening liver function in severe dengue hepatitis patients receiving paracetamol: A retrospective analysis of hospital data., Ahsan Ali Syed, Faisal Aslam, Haris Hakeem, Faraz Siddiqui, and Noreen Nasir
Frequent hypomethylation of PTGS2 gene promoter in human term placenta, Nuruddin Mohammad, Ahmed Yaqinuddin, Fatima Kakal, Lumaan Sheikh, Rahat Qureshi, and Mehreen Soman
Frequent PIK3CA gene amplification and its clinical significance in colorectal cancer, Zeenath Jehan, Prashant Bavi, Mehar Sultana, Jehad Abubaker, Rong Bu, Azhar Hussain, Ghazi Alsbeih, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa Abduljabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Shahabuddin, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Frequent silencing of fragile histidine triad gene (FHIT) in burkitt’s lymphoma is associated with abberent hypermethylation, Azhar Hussain; Marina I. Gutiérrez; Georgina Timson; Abdul K. Siraj; Clara Deambrogi; Maha Al-Rasheed,; Gianluca Gaidano; Ian Magrath; and Kishor Bhatia
From diploma to baccalaureate, Singapore nursing in transition, perspectives from the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (ALCNS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), AP O'Brien and David Arthur
From Hallaj to Heer: Poetic knowledge and the Muslim tradition, Nosheen Ali
From persecution to resilience: examining the mental health supports for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth across the globe, Shervin Shadianloo, Shirley Alleyne, and Ayesha I Mian
Fruit, vegetable, and legume intake, and cardiovascular disease and deaths in 18 countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study., Victoria Miller, Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan, Gilles Dagenais, Rajeev Gupta, Viswanathan Mohan, Scott Lear, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Aletta E. Schutte, Edelweiss Wentzel-Viljoen, Alvaro Avezum, Yuksel Altuntas, Khalid Yusoff, Noorhassim Ismail, Nasheeta Peer, Jephat Chifamba, Rafael Diaz, Omar Rahman, Noushin Mohammadifard, Fernando Lana, Katarzyna Zatonska, Andreas Wielgosz, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Romaina Iqbal, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Rasha Khatib, Annika Rosengren, V Raman Kutty, Wei Li, Jiankang Liu, Xiaoyun Liu, Lu Yin, Koon Teo, Sonia Anand, and Salim Yusuf
Fulminant invasive aspergillosis of the mediastinum in an immunocompetent host: a case report., Muhammad Tariq Shakoor, Samia Ayub, Zunaira Ayub, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Functional and radiological outcome of Intramedullary nailing vs. plate fixation for humeral shaft fractures. Does treatment method bring any difference?, Pervaiz Hashmi and Yasir Mohib
Functional, cognitive and psychological outcomes, and recurrent vascular events in Pakistani stroke survivors: a cross sectional study., Maria Khan, Bilal Ahmed, Maryam Ahmed, Myda Najeeb, Emmon Raza, Farid Khan, Anoosh Moin, Dania Shujaat, Ahmed Arshad, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Functional outcome of anorectal malformations and associated anomalies in era of krickenbeck classification, Saqib Hamid Qazi, Ahmad Vaqas Faruque, Muhammad Arif Mateen Khan, and Umama Saleem
Functional outcomes after successful lower extremity arterial injuries repair, Zia Ur Rehman, Ziad Sophie, and Lekhraj. Mal
Functional outcomes after successful lower extremity arterial injuries repair, Zia Ur Rehman, Ziad Sophie, and Lekhraj. Mal
Functional recovery after rehabilitation for cerebellar stroke, P. J. Kelly, J. Stein, Saad Shafqat, C. Eskey, D. Doherty, Y. Chang, A. Kurina, and K. L. Furie
Functional recovery following rehabilitation after hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke, Peter J Kelly, Karen L Furie, Saad Shafqat, Nikoletta Rallis, Yuchiao Chang, and Joel Stein
Functional recovery in brain hemorrhage versus infarction: distinct trajectories of cognitive and motor recovery during inpatient rehabilitation, Saad Shafqat, Karen L Furie, A Kurina, and J Stein
Fungal endocarditis presenting with right lumbar pain and femoral artery ischemia – An unusual case report, Shahan Waheed, Muhammad Akbar Baig, Muhammad Waqas Khan, Fareed Ahmed Sheikh, and Nadeem Ullah Khan
Fury over release of AIDS prisoners, Khabir Ahmed
Future prospects for the utility of interferon assays in tuberculosis diagnosis, Taimur Saleem, Madiha Syed, and Bushra Jamil
Fuzzy control of the baseline activity within the basal ganglia of rat brain, M.Z. Ozair, S. Enam-Ur-Rehman, and S. Ather Enam
Fuzzy prediction for failed back surgery syndrome, Uvais Qidwai, Shahzad Shamim, and S. Ather Enam
Ganglionic plexus ablation during pulmonary vein isolation--predisposing to ventricular arrhythmias?, Faizel Osman, Suman Kundu, Jiun Tuan, Jeilan Mohamed, Peter J. Stafford, and G. Andre' Ng
Gastric juice for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients on proton pump inhibitors, javed Yakoob, Shahid Rasool, Z Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, and Zubair Ahmad
Gastric MALT lymphoma: a rarity, Shahid Pervez, Naureen Ali, Hina Aaqil, Khalid Mumtaz, and Syed Siddiq Ullah
Gastric stromal tumors: clinical presentations, diagnosis and outcome, Dildar Hussain, Hasnain Zafar, and Asad Jamil Raja
Gastric teratoma — a rare benign tumour of neonates, Shah Masabat Saleem, Shabbir Hussain, and Zafar Nazir
Gastric variceal bleed in a patient without liver cirrhosis: an unusual cause of haematemesis., Faisal Wasim Ismail, Mumtaz J Khan, Chawla T, and Wasim Jafri
Gender differences in factors associated with prehospital delay among acute coronary syndrome patients in Pakistan., Saleema Allana, Khurshid Khowaja, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Debra Kay Moser, and Aamir Hameed
Gender Differences in Risk Factors, Mortality, and Length of Stay of Patients Discharged From a Pakistani Stroke Unit: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study, Farzin Majeed, Bilal Ahmed, Maria Khan, Shaista Anwar Siddiqi, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Gendered disparities in quality of cataract surgery in a marginalised population in Pakistan: The Karachi marine fishing communities eye and general health survey, Khabir Ahmad, Anthony B Zwi, Daniel J. M. Tarantol, Abdul Qadeem Soomro, Rashid Baig, and Iqbal Azam Syed
Gender sensitization among health providers and communities through transformative learning tools: experiences from Karachi, Pakistan., Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Sayyeda Reza, Masood Afzal, and Fauziah Rabbani
Gender: shaping personality, lives and health of women in Pakistan, Narjis Rizvi, Kausar S. Khan, and Babar T. Shaikh
Gender: shaping personality, lives and health of women in Pakistan., Narjis Rizvi, Kausar S. Khan, and Babar T. Shaikh
Genetic determinants of major blood lipids in Pakistanis compared with europeans clinical perspective, Danish Saleheen, Nicole Soranzo, Asif Rasheed, and Rashid Jooma
Genome wide expression analysis of Middle Eastern colorectal cancer reveals FoxM1 as a novel target for cancer therapy, Shahabuddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Jehad Abubaker, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa Abdul Jabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Zeenath Jehan, Prashant Bavi, Abdul K Siraj, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Geographic access to working family planning centers and unintended pregnancies among married women: a community based nested case control study., Sumera Aziz Ali, Sarah Saleem, Neelofar Sami, Mir Shabbar, Muhammad Ahmed, Shafquat Rozi, Robert L. Goldenberg, Margo S. Harrison, and Omrana Pasha
Geriatric emergency general surgery: survival and outcomes in a low-middle income country, Adil A. Shah, Adil H. Haider, Robert Riviello, Cheryl K. Zogg, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Asad Latif, Arturo J.Rios Diaz, Zia Rehman, and Hasnain Zafar
Getting It Right the First Time: Defining Regionally Relevant Training Curricula and Provider Core Competencies for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education on the African Continent, Margaret Salmon, Megan Landes, Cheryl Hunchak, Justin Paluku, Luc Malemo Kalisya, Christian Salmon, Mundenga Mutendi Muller, Benjamin Wachira, James Mangan, Kajal Chhaganlal, Joseph Kalanzi, Aklilu Azazh, Sara Berman, El-Sayed Zied, and Hein Lamprecht
Giant aortic root aneurysm associated with postductal coarctation of aorta, Raquib Ahmed Faruqui, Fazal Wahab Khan, Benish Fatima, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Giant cell tumour of the sacrum: function-preserving surgery with extended curettage and ilio-lumbar fusion, Riaz Hussain Lakdawala, Tashfeen Ahmad, and S. Ather Enam
Giant ganglioneuroma in a 5-year child, Hamza Abdur Rahim Khan, Fazal Wahab Khan, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Giant haemangioma of nasopharynx: a rare case outcome., Haissan Iftikhar and Moghira Siddiqui
Giant multiple intra-abdominal hydatid cysts, Naila Nadeem, Hassan Khan, Saulat H. Fatimi, and Mohammad Nadeemd Ahmad
Giant osteosarcoma of chest wall requiring resection and pneumonectomy, Saulat H. Fatimi, Ranish Deedar Ali Khawaja, and Zain Majid
Giant pseudoaneurysm of the aortic arch and successful surgical repair, Saulat H. Fatimi, Salma Abbas, Hashim M Hanif, and Marium Muzaffar
GI symptoms in diabetes mellitus: An out-patient study in a tertiary care, Rizvi A, Shahab Abid, Nadim Jafri, Siddiqi FJ, Islam N, Saeed Hamid, Syed H Shah, javed Yakoob, and Wasim Jafri
Glaucoma admissions and surgery in public sector tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan: results of a national study, Muhammad Babar Qureshi, Muhammad Daud Khan, Mahnaz Naveed Shah, and Khabir Ahmed
Global burden, distribution, and interventions for infectious diseases of poverty, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta; Johannes Sommerfeld; Zohra S. Lassi,; Rehana A. Salam; and Jai K Das
Global child and adolescent mental health: a culturally informed focus, Lisa M. Cullins and Ayesha I Mian
Global collaboration between Tanzania and Japan to advance midwifery profession: A case report of a partnership model, Yoko Shimpuku, Shigeko Horiuchi, Sebalda C. Leshabari, Dickson Mkoka, Yasuko Nagamatsu, Miwako Matsutani, Hiromi Eto, Michiko Oguro, Yukari Yaju, Mariko Iida, Columba Mbekenga, Lilian Mselle, and Agnes Mtawa
Global fund suspends grants to Burma, Khabir Ahmed
Global gene expression profiling in infants with acute respiratory syncytial virus broncholitis demonstrates systemic activation of interferon signaling networks, Kristine L. Bucasas, Asad Mian, Gail J. Demmler- Harrison, Alison C. Caviness, Pedro A. Piedra, Luis M. Franco, Chad A. Shaw, Yijie Zha, Xueqing Wang, Molly S. Bray, Robert B. Couch, and John W. Belmont
Globalization and teachers’ life and work: Case studies from rural Tajikistan, Sarfaroz Niyozov
Globalization's effects on teachers' life and work: Case studies from rural, mountainous Tajikistan, Sarfaroz Niyozov
Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Robert E. Black
Glucose monitoring in pregnancy complicated by diabetes., Aisha Sheikh and Abdul Jabbar
Goa proposes mandatory HIV tests before marriage., Khabir Ahmad
Good knowledge about hypertension is linked to better control of hypertension; a multicentre cross sectional study in Karachi, Pakistan., Aysha Almas, Saniya Siraj Godil, Saima Lalani, Zahra Aziz Samani, and Aamir Hameed
Graduate nursing education in China, Haiou Zou, Zheng Li, and David Arthur
Granular cell tumors of the urinary bladder, Farhat Abbas, Amanullah Memon, Tanya Siddiqi, Naila Kayani Naila Kayani, and Nazim Ali Ahmad
Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor for mobilizing bone marrow stem cells in the sub acute stroke. How safe is the use of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in sub-acute stroke? Is this stem cell trial of recovery enhancement beneficial?, Fauzia Nomani and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis: ghost response of an immunocompromised host?, Abdul Mannan Baig
Graphic tobacco health warnings: which genre to choose?, sobani Z, nizami S, Raza E, ulAin Baloch N, and Khan JA
Guidelines for the Initial Management of Adults with Sepsis/Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock: 2015, Erfan Hussain, Bushra Jamil, and Naseem Salahuddin
Guillain–barré syndrome in Pakistan: similarity of demyelinating and axonal variants, Saad Shafqat, B A Khaelani, F Awan, and S.E Abedin
Gullain barré syndrome: complications, commonly acquired nosocomial infections and antibiotic susceptibilities at Pakistan institute of medical sciences, Islamabad, Ali Zohair Nomani, Uzma Jamil, Mansoor Iqbal, Sumaira Nabi, Haris Majid Rajput, Misbah Ahmed, and Mazhar Badshah
H1N1 2009 in Karachi: a situational analysis, Bushra Jamil and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Haemodynamic response to tracheal intubation via intubating laryngeal mask airway versus direct laryngoscopic tracheal intubation, Naveed Tahir Siddiqui and Fazal Hameed Khan
Haemorrhagic manifestations and utility of haematological parameters in dengue fever: a tertiary care centre experience at Karachi, Natasha Ali, Mohammad Usman, Naveen Syed, and Mohammad Khurshid
Hair dye poisoning and rhabdomyolysis., Munira Bokutz, Nosheen Nasir, Syed Faisal Mahmood, and sara sajid
Hairy cell leukemia: clinical presentation and long term follow up after treatment with 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CdA), Fareena Bilwani, Mohammad Usman, Salman Adil, Ghulam N. Kakepoto, and Mohammad Khurshid
Hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreak reported in Singapore, Khabir Ahmed
Harnessing the power of the grassroots to conduct public health research in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study from western Kenya in the adaptation of community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches, Allan Kamanda, Lonnie Embleton, David Ayuku, Lukoye Atwoli, Peter Gisore, Samuel Ayaya, Rachel Vreeman, and Paula Braitstein
Harvard accused of delaying HIV treatment programme., Khabir Ahmed
HDL cholesterol--how do I raise my patients good cholesterol?, Quratulain Shaikh and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Headphones: a potential threat to the blessing of hearing., Hunaina Hadi
Healing during physician-patient consultation, Waris Qidwai, SS Ali, S Ayub, and S Ayub
Healing of cornea following an electric burn, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Farheen Shaikh, and Khabir Ahmad
Health and money in Afghanistan, Khabir Ahmed
Health, attitudes and beliefs of working women, K. Mubarak, Saad Shafqat, U. Malik, R. Pirzada, and A.F. Qureshi
Health care personnel and workplace violence in the emergency departments of a volatile metropolis: results from Karachi, Pakistan, Waleed Zafar, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Kiran Ejaz, Muhammad Umer Shehzad, Uzma Rahim Khan, Seemin Jamali, and Junaid Razzak
Health management information system: a tool to gauge patient satisfaction and quality of care., Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Health promotion, disease prevention and periodic health checks: perceptions and practice among family physicians in Eastern Mediterranean region, Waris Qidwai, Kashmira Nanji, Tawfik A M Khoja, Salman Rawaf, Nabil Yasin Al Kurashi, Faisal Alnasir, Mohammed Ali Al Shafaee, Mariam Al Shetti, Muntazar Bashir, Nagwa Eid Sobhy Saad, Sanaa Alkaisi, Wafa Halasa, Huda Al l-Duwaisan, Amal Al - Ali, and Taghreed M. Faraha
Health seeking behavior of couples with secondary infertility, Neelofar Sami and Tazeen S. Ali
Health service utilization for perceived postpartum morbidity among poor women living in Karachi, Fariyal F. Fikree, Tazeen S. Ali, Jill M. Durocher, and Mohammad H. Rahbar
Health workers for change: a tool for promoting behaviour change among health providers., Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Fauziah Rabbani, and M. Rahim
Health workers’ perspectives, knowledge and skills regarding community case management of childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia: a qualitative inquiry for an implementation research project “Nigraan” in District Badin, Sindh, Pakistan, Fauziah Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, Wafa Aftab, Aysha Zahidie, Kashif Sangrasi, and Shamim Ahmad Qazi Ahmad Qazi
Heavily thickened pericardium with constrictive pericarditis., Abid Laghari and Javed Tai
Helicobacter pylori outer membrane protein and virulence marker differences in expatriate patients, javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, Wasim Jafri, and R KHAN
Helicobacter pylori outer membrane protein Q genotypes and their susceptibility to anti-adhesive phytotherapeutic agents., javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Kanwal Tariq, Saima Azhar Saleem, Safia Awan, Abdul Malik, Saeed Hamid, Rustam Khan, and Wasim Jafri
Helicobacter pylori Virulence Marker from an Area of High, javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Z Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, Rustam Khan, and Zubair Ahmad
Hematological and nonhematological toxicities of imatinib mesylate in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia and gastrointestinal stromal tumor, Mohammad Usman, Naveen Naz Syed, Ghulam Nabi Kakepoto, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Hematologic and cytogenetic findings in eleven chronic myelogenous leukemia patients treated with imatinib mesylate at a tertiary care hospital, M. Usman, G. N. Kakepoto, Salman Adil, R. Sajid, S. Arain, and Mohammad Khurshid
Hemimegalencephaly with intractable epilepsy: A case report, Prem Chand, Muhammad Faraz Raghib, and Muhammad Sohail Salat
Heparin in the treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis., Saad Shafqat, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, and Mohammad Wasay
Heparin resistance during pediatric cardiac surgery: an unanticipated challenge for an anesthesiologist., Mohammad Irfan Akhtar, Shabbir Akhtar, and Shahid Ahmed Sami
Hepatic encephalopathy in chronic liver disease: predisposing factors in a developing country., Fakhar Qazi, Shameem Behram Khan, and Anam Umar
Hepatic steatosis and hepatitis C., Faisal Wasim Ismail and Saeed Hamid
Hepatitis B and C: prevalence and social factors associated with, Wasim Jafri, nida jafri, javed Yakoob, Muhammad Islam, SFA Tirmizi, T. Jafar, S Akhtar, Saeed Hamid, Shahab Abid, Syed H Shah, and Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizami
Hepatitis C in Pakistan - a neglected challenge, Waris Qidwai, Ammad Fahim, and Shahan Waheed
Hepatitis C virus seroprevalence in the general female population of 9 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, Gary M. Clifford; Tim Waterboer; Bolormaa Dondog; You Lin Qiao; Dimitri Kordzaia; Doudja Hammouda; Namory Keita; , Nahid Khodakarami; Syed Ahsan Ali; Ang Tshering Sherpa; and Witold Zatonski
Hepatocellular carcinoma in pakistan: where do we stand?, Amna Subhan Butt, Z Abbas, and Wasim Jafri
Hepatocyte-specific gene expression from integrated lentiviral vectors, Kathryn L Nash, Bushra Jamil, Alison J Maguire, Graeme J.M. Alexander, and Andrew Lever
Herbal treatment for HIV/AIDS not recommended, Khabir Ahmed
Hereditary hemochromatosis., Om Parkash and Muhammad Akram
Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy II, a rare disease in a large Pakistani family, Fazal M. Arain and Prem Chand
Hernia of morgagni presenting as constipation in a 65-year-old male, Hamza A Khan, Adeel Samad, Omar A Khan, Farida K Chagan, Jamal K Khan, and Saulat H. Fatimi
HGF/c-met pathway has a prominent role in mediating antiapoptotic signals through AKT in epithelial ovarian carcinoma, Rong Bu, Shahabuddin, Prashant Bavi, Azhar Hussain, Fouad Al-Daye, Samir Ghourab, Maqbool Ahmed, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Hibernoma larynx with large multinodular goitre: unusual airway challenge, Haissan Iftikhar and Moghira Siddiqui
Hidden voices of hermaphrodites., Zohra Asif Jetha, Nasreen Sulaiman Lalani, and Gulnar Akber Ali
High Clarithromycin Resistance and a Low Rate of Recurrence and Reinfection, Shahab Abid, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Z Abbas, k Mumtaz, Saeed Hamid, and R Ahmad
High Clarithromycin Resistance and a Low Rate of Recurrence and Reinfection of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Pakistan, Shahab Abid, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Z Abbas, Khalid Mumtaz, Saeed Hamid, and Rashida Ahmed
High-dose chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer, Khabir Ahmed
Higher event rate in patients with known CAD despite a normal myocardial perfusion scan, Maseeh uz Zaman and Nosheen Fatima
Higher scrotal uptake ratio of (99m)Tc-MDP on bone scans in newly diagnosed prostate cancer : a reliable indicator of pelvic node metastasis., Maseeh uz Zaman, Nosheen Fatima, Zafar Sajjad, Ibrahim Hashmi, and Khalid Khan
High HIV incidence among persons who inject drugs in Pakistan: greater risk with needle sharing and injecting frequently among the homeless., Rab Nawaz Samo, Arshad Altaf, Ajmal Agha, Omrana Pasha, Shafquat Rozi, Ashraf Memon, Saleem Azam, Meridith Blevins, Sten Vermund, and Sharaf Ali Shah
High normal levels of albuminuria and risk of hypertension in Indo-Asian population., Saleem Jessani, Andrew S. Levey, Nish Chaturvedi, and Tazeen Jafar
High PATI score is associated with increase mortality in patients with penetrating abdominal injuries; a retrospective review, Syed Zohaib Gulzar Naqvi, Shahrukh Effendi, and Hasnain Zafar
High Prevalence of Clarithromycin Resistance among Patients with Helicobacter pylori Infection, Shahab Abid, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Z Abbas, and K Mumtaz
High prevalence of fatty acid synthase expression in colorectal cancers in middle eastern patients and its potential role as a therapeutic target, Shahab Uddin, Azhar Hussain, Maqbool Ahmed, Jehad Abubaker, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa AbdulJabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
High Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infections By Multiple Strains in Patients with Dyspepsia from a Developing Country, Shahab Abid, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Khalid Mumtaz, Nida Jafri, Z Abbas, Syed H Shah, Saeed Hamid, and Rashida Ahmed
High Prevalence of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Monoinfection and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hepatitis-B Co-infection as Assessed by Shear Wave Elastography: Study at a Teaching Hospital in Kenya, Samuel Gitau, Sudhir Vinayak, Micah Ominde, Rodney Adam, and Reena Shah
High prevalence of mTOR complex activity can be targeted using torin2 in papillary thyroid carcinoma, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Prashant Bavi, Saeeda O. Ahmed, Saif S. Al Sobhi, Fouad Al-Dayel, Shahab Uddin, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
High rate of non-susceptibility to metronidazole and clindamycin in anaerobic isolates: data from a clinical laboratory from Karachi, Pakistan, Sadia Omer Sheikh, Kauser Jabeen, Saba Qaiser, Syed Tanwir Ahsan, Erum Khan, and Afia Zafar
High resolution melting: a useful field-deployable method to measure dhfr and dhps drug resistance in both highly and lowly endemic Plasmodium populations, Yaye Dié Ndiaye, Cyrille K. Diédhiou, Amy K. Bei, Baba Dieye, Aminata Mbaye, Nasserdine Papa Mze, Rachel F. Daniels, Ibrahima M. Ndiaye, Awa B. Déme, Amy Gaye, Mouhamad Sy, Tolla Ndiaye, Aida S. Badiane, Mouhamadou Ndiaye, Zul Premji, Dyann F. Wirth, Souleymane Mboup, Donald Krogstad, Sarah K. Volkman, Ambroise D. Ahouidi, and Daouda Ndiaye
Hip arthroscopy: Indications, outcomes and complications, Mujahid Jamil, Wael Dandachli, Shahryar Noordin, and Johan Witt
Hip fracture surgery: Does time of the day matter? A case-controlled study, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Akbar Jaleel Zubair, M. Umer Slote, and Shahryar Noordin
Hip fracture surgery: does type of anesthesia matter?, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Adil Aijaz Shah, Amarah Shakoor, and Shahryar Noordin
Hip fragility fractures: anaemia, calcium and vitamin d supplementation., Iqra Khan, Ambreen Jawaid, Khabir Ahmad, and Shahryar Noordin
Hip reconstruction osteotomy by Ilizarov method as a salvage option for abnormal hip joints, masood umer, Haroon Rashid, Hafiz Muhammad Umer, and Hasnain Raza
Histiocyt ic sarcoma of the flax cerebri with Distant metastasis, Ateeque Ahmed Khan and Mahnoor Hafeez
Histological pattern of ovarian neoplasma., Zubair Ahmad, Naila Kayani, Sheema H. Hasan, Suhail Muzaffar, and Muhammad Shafiq Gill
Historical influences on utilising upright positions for birth in Africa, Eunice Atsali and Grace Edwards
History of epilepsy surgery, S. Ather Enam
HIV antibody seroprevalence and associated risk factors in sex workers, drug users, and prisoners in Sindh, Pakistan, S Baqi, N Nabi, SN Hasan, AJ Khan, O Pasha, N Kayani, RA Haque, IU Haq, Mohammad Khurshid, Hoch S Fishe, SP Luby, and JB. McCormick
HIV drug companies must meet needs of children, Khabir Ahmed
HIV-I infection in a family blood donor, S A Mujeeb, Naila Kayani, and Mohammad Khurshid
HIV-negative children’s experiences and opinions towards parental HIV disclosure: a qualitative study in China, Haochu Li, Xiaoming Li, Lai Sze Tso, Shan Qiao, Eleanor Holroyd, Yuejiao Zhou, and Zhiyong Shen
HMFG1 antigen: a new marker for carcinomatous meningitis, R P Moseley, K Oge, Saad Shafqat, C M Moseley, N M Sullivan, and R A Badley
Holism in Osteopathy – Bridging the gap between concept and practice: A grounded theory study, Paul W.D. Turner and Eleanor Holroyd
Holter monitoring in the diagnosis of stroke mechanism, Saad Shafqat, P J Kelly, and Karen L Furie
Home-based early intervention and the influence of family resources on cognitive development., Carla M. Bann, Jan L. Wallander, Barbara Do, Vanessa Thorsten, Omrana Pasha, Fred J. Biasini, Roopa Bellad, Shivaprasad Goudar, Elwyn Chomba, Elizabeth McClure, and Waldemar A. Waldemar A. Carlo
Homozygous frame shift mutation in ECM1 gene in two siblings with lipoid proteinosis., Azam J. Samdani, Abid Azhar, Syed M. Shahid, Syeda N. . Nawab, Rozeena Shaikh, Shah A. Qader, Qaisar Mansoor, Bahram K. Khoso, and Muhammad Ismail
Hong Kong patients experiences of intensive care after surgery: nurses and patients views, Frandia Y.K. Wong and David Arthur
Hookworm infestation as a cause of melena and severe anaemia in farmer, Marvi Tariq, Syeda Maria Muzammil, Fareed Ahmed Sheikh, and K. M. Inam Pal
Hospital-based trauma quality improvement initiatives: first step toward improving trauma outcomes in the developing world, Zain G. Hashmi, Adil H. Haider, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Mehreen Kisat, Asad Moosa, Farjad Siddiqui, Amyn Pardhan, Asad Latif, and Hasnain Zafar
Hospital management training for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: time for a change?, Fauziah Rabbani, Farah Naz Hashmani, Aftab A. Ali Mukhi, Xaher Gul, Nousheen Pradhan, Peter Hatcher, Mounir Farag, and Farhat Abbas
Hospital preparedness in community measles outbreaks-challenges and recommendations for low-resource settings, Sadia Shakoor, Fatima Mir, Anita Zaidi, and Afia Zafar
How Canada can help global adolescent health mature, Ashley Vandermorris and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
How does self-efficacy affect performance of learner?, Farhan Saeed Vakani, Mughis Sheerani, Azam Afzal, and Almas Amin
How early do antibiotics have to be to impact mortality in severe sepsis? A prospective, observational study from an emergency department., Shahla Siddiqui, Nawal Salahuddin, Adeel Raza, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
How Queensland newspapers reported public sector information reform, Rhonda Breit, Richard Fitzgerald, Shuang Liu, and Regan Neal
How should physicians practically approach symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis?, Maria Khan and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
How VATS has changed the management of spontaneous pneumothorax in the 21st century, Saulat H. Fatimi, Hashim Muhammad Hanif, Sana Mansoor, and Marium Muzaffar
How vital are the vital signs? a multi-center observational study from emergency departments of Pakistan., Amber Mehmood, Siran He, Waleed Zafar, Mirza Noor Ali Baig, Fareed Ahmed, and Junaid Razzak
How vital are the vital signs? a multi-center observational study from emergency departments of Pakistan., Amber Mehmood, Siran He, Waleed Zafar, Noor Baig, Fareed Ahmed Sumalani, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
H. pylori Infection in Children: Population-Based Age-Specific Prevalence and Risk Factors in a Developing Country, Wasim Jafri, javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, S Siddiqui, Nasim Jafri, Safia Awan, and Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizami
Human brain-specific L-proline transporter: molecular cloning, functional expression, and chromosomal localization of the gene in human and mouse genomes, Saad Shafqat, M Velaz- Faircloth, V A Henzi, K D Whitney, T L Yang Feng, M F Seldin, and R T Fremeau
Human Cytomegalovirus: a neglected public health area of significant relevance to women, the foetus and new born. Time for action!, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Saira Ibrahim, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, Paul Moss, and El-Nasir Lalani
Human MUC1 mucin: a potent glandular morphogen, Mark Hudson, Gordon Stamp, Khurram S. Chaudhary, Robert Hewitt, Andrew Stubbs, Paul Abel, and El Nasir Lalani
Human ophthalmomyiasis externa caused by the sheep botfly oestrus ovis: a case report from Karachi, Pakistan, Naima Fasih, Kanza Noor Qaiser, Syeda Aisha Bokhari, Bushra Jamil, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Human papillomavirus infection and p53 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma, Adnan M Ali, Mohammad Sohail Awan, and Shahid Pervez
Hydatid cyst disease of the thorax, Saulat H. Fatimi, Naima Waqar Butt, Taimur Saleem, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Hygiene practices during menstruation and its relationship with income and education of women in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali, Rozina Karmaliani, Abdul Salam, Rozina Ladak, Harris Nancy, Elizabeth McClure, and Robert L Goldenberg
Hypermanganesemia with dystonia, polycythemia and cirrhosis (HMDPC) due to mutation in the SLC30A10 gene, Khairunnisa Mukhtiar, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Karin Tuschl, and Phillipa Mills
Hypertensive Crisis, Burden, Management, and Outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi., Aysha Almas, Ayaz Ghouse, Ahmed Raza Iftikhar, and Munawar Khursheed
Hypertensive supratentorial intracerebral Hemorrhage: early surgery and functional Outcome; a tertiary care hospital experience from Karachi, Pakistan., Muhammad Imran, Atiq Ahmed Khan, Syed Ijlal Ahmed, Shiraz Ahmed Ghouri, Muhammad Osama Farooqi, Alizay Rashid Khan, and Majid Chandio
Hypofibrinogenaemia as a cause of bleeding in chronic myeloid leukaemia, J A Whittaker and Mohammad Khurshid
Hypomagnesaemia in postoperative patients: an important contributing factor in postoperative mortality, MN Siddiqui, Hasnain Zafar, R Alvi, and M. Ahmed
HYPOTHESIS Versus HYPERTHESIS, Abdul Mannan Baig and Naveed Ahemd Khan
Hypoxaemia during endotracheal suctioning in ventilated intensive care patients. a comparison of two techniques of pre-oxygenation, RS Kamal, Fazal Hameed Khan, FA Khan, and Shameem Hirjee
Iatrogenic insertion of impression mould into middle ear and mastoid and its retrieval after 9 years: a case report, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Moghira Iqbal, and Zakariya Imam Sardar
Idarucizumab: a novel antidote for reversal of dabigatran., Abdul Rehman Alvi; Muhammad Awais,; and Noor Ul-Ain Baloch
"If really we are committed things can change, starting from us": Healthcare providers' perceptions of postpartum care and its potential for improvement in low-income suburbs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Eunice Pallangyo, Columba Mbekenga, Carina Källestål, Christine Rubertsson, and Pia Olsson
Illuminating the dark side--vitamin D status in different localities of Karachi., Romaina Iqbal, Lena Jafri, Ali Haroon, and Aysha Habib
Image-scoring system for crown–rump length measurement, Sikolia Wanyonyi, R. Napolitano, E. O. Ohuma, L. J. Salomon, and A. T. Papageorghiou
Images in cardiovascular medicine. Cardiac tuberculoma., Jeilan Mohamed, Matthias Schmitt, Gerry McCann, Joan Davies, Joseph Leverment, and Derek Chin
Images in Pathology-cough, fever and a cavitary lung lesion-an intrapulmonary teratoma, JA Khan, F Aslam, Saulat H. Fatimi, and R Ahmed
Imaging and intervention for coronary artery disease following irradiation of malignant thymoma, Saulat H. Fatimi, Salima Ahmed Bhimani, Ranish Deedar-Ali- Khawaja, and Ali Khawaja
Imaging and intervention of traumatic right upper lobe bronchial avulsion, Ranish Deedar-Ali- Khawaja, Saulat H. Fatimi, and Moazzam Zaidi
Imatinib challenge dismissed in India, Khabir Ahmad
Immature B cell malignancies synthesize VEGF, VEGFR-1 (Flt-1) and VEGFR-2 (KDR), Adila El-Obeid, Nadia Sunnuqrut, Azhar Hussain, Khalid Al-Hussein, Marina I Gutiérrez, and Kishor Bhatia
Immune response profile in patients with active tuberculosis in a BCG vaccinated area, Rabia Hussain, Zahra Toossi, Ramli Hasan, Bushra Jamil, G Dawood, and Jerrold Ellner
Immune responses to Vi capsular polysaccharide typhoid vaccine in children 2 to 16 years old in Karachi, Pakistan, and Kolkata, India, R. Leon Ochiai, M. Imran Khan, Sajid B. Soofi, Dipika Sur, Suman Kanungo, Young Ae You, Atif Habib, Shah Muhammad Sahito, Byomkesh Manna, Camilo J. Acosta, Mohammad Ali, Sujit K. Bhattacharya, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, and John D. Clemens
Immunocytochemical detection of E-cadherin - towards a standardised protocol for antigen retrieval., DJ Hodgson, SE Mitchell, PD Abel, and El Nasir Lalani
Immunogenicity and safety of the Vi-CRM197 conjugate vaccine against typhoid fever in adults, children, and infants in south and southeast Asia: results from two randomised, observer-blind, age de-escalation, phase 2 trials, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Maria Rosario Capeding, Ashish Bavdekar, Elisa Marchetti, Shabina Ariff, Sajid B Soofi, Alessandra Anemona, Atif Habib, Edison Alberto, Sanjay Juvekar, Rana M Qasim Khan, Rachid Marhaba, Noshad Ali, Nelia Malubay, Anand Kawade, Allan Saul, Laura B Martin, and Audino Podda
Immunomodulatory Effects of Psyllium Extract on Helicobacter pylori Interaction With Gastric Epithelial Cells., javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Z Abbas, and Kanwal Tariq
Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID), Shahid Pervez, Khalid Mumtaz, Syed Siddiq Ullah, Nake Akhtar, Naureen Ali, and Hina Aaqil
Impact and correlation of environmental conditions on pollen counts in Karachi, Pakistan., Anjum Perveen, Muneeba Khan, Shaista Zeb, and Asif Ali Imam
IMPACT : Issue 10, Patients Behbud
IMPACT : Issue 9, Patients Behbud
Impact of a community-based perinatal and newborn preventive care package on perinatal and neonatal mortality in a remote mountainous district in Northern Pakistan, Zahid Memon, Gul N Khan, Sajid B Soofi, Imam Y Baig, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Impact of Afghan refugees on the infectious disease profile of Pakistan: beyond economy., Ali Jawaid, Abdul lMueed Zafar, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Impact of antibiotic restriction on broad spectrum antibiotic usage in the ICU of a developing country, Shahla Siddiqui, Kashif Hussein, Roshan Manasia, Aijaz Samad, Nawal Salahuddin, Afia Zafar, and M. Qamarul Hoda
Impact of a predefined hospital mass casualty response plan in a limited resource setting with no pre-hospital care system, Adil Aijaz Shah, Abdul Rehman, Raza Hasnain Sayyed, Adil Hussain Haider, Amber Bawa, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Zia-ur-Rehman, Kamran Ali, and Hasnain Zafar
Impact of cable television on lives of patients visiting a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Kashmira Nanji, and Madeeha Anwar Adam
Impact of caregiving on various aspects of the lives of caregivers, Babar Irfan, Omar Irfan, Ahmed Ansari, Waris Qidwai, and Kashmira Nanji
Impact of International Quality Improvement Collaborative on Congenital Heart Surgery in Pakistan, Amina Khan, Ahmed Abdullah, Huzaifa Ahmad, Arjumand Rizvi, Sehrish Batoo, Kathy J Jenkins, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Anwarul Haque, Nadeem Aslam, Fauzia Minai, and Babar Hasan
Impact of rising caesarean rate on stillbirths in Merseyside, Zarko Alfirevic and Grace Edwards
Impact of service provision platforms on maternal and newborn health in conflict areas and their acceptability in Pakistan: a systematic review, Zohra S. Lassi, Wafa Aftab, Shabina Ariff, Rohail Kumar, Imtiaz Hussain, Nabiha Musavi, Zahid Memon, Sajid B. Soofi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Impact of structured meetings on the learning of faculty members, Ambreen Usmani, Rehana Rehman, Shazia Babar, and Azam Afzal
Impact of working status on their lives: a survey of working women at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Shahan Waheed, Salma Ayub, and Iqbal Azam
Impacts of signal free corridors on the incidence of road traffic accidents in Karachi, Salman Zubair, Jamil H. Kazmi, Rashid Jooma, Syed Shahid Ali, and Zeeshan Akhtar
Impaired splenic function in systemic amyloidosis: diagnostic importance of peripheral blood film, F. Bilwani, Salman Adil, G. N. Kakepoto, Mohammad Khurshid, and A. Ahmed
Imparting research ethics in emergency medicine-a perspective from the developing world, Shahan Waheed, Muhammad Akbar Baig, and Asad Mian
Implementation of brain trauma foundation guidelines in children with acute traumatic brain injury in tertiary-care hospital in Pakistan, Anwarul Haque and S. Ather Enam
Implementation of good clinical practice guidelines in vaccine trials in developing countries, Camilo J. Acosta, Claudia M. Galindo, R. Leon Ochia, M. Carolina Danovaro- Holliday, AnneLaure- Page, Vu Dinh Thiem, Yang Jin, M. Imran Khan, Shah Muhammad Sahito, Hasan Bin Hamza, Jin Kyoung Park, Hyejon Lee, Hans Bock, Remon Abu Elyazeed, M. John Albert, Carlos Ascaso, Tonette Q. Robles, Mohammad Ali, Philip Ngai, Mahesh K. Puri, Young MoKoo, Magdarina D. Agtin, Rooswanti Soeharno, Dong Bai-qing, Danièl Kohl, Zhi- -YiXu, Bernard Ivanoff, Luis Jodar, Tikki Pang, Zulfiqar Bhutta, and John D. Clemens
Implementation of HIV Drug Resistance Testing in Kenya, Horacio Duarte, Ingrid Beck, James Munyao, Molly Levine, Catherine Kiptinness, Bhavna Chohan, Samah Sakr, Michael Chung, and Lisa Frenkel
Implementation of maximum surgical blood ordering schedule and an improvement in transfusion practices of surgeons subsequent to intervention, Farheen Mahar, Bushra Moiz, Mohammad Khurshid, and Tabish Chawla
Implementation of the World Health Organization Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 centers across multiple economic strata: effect on care process measures, Angela Lashohe, Eric B. Schneider, Catherine Juillard, Kent Stevens, Elizabeth Colantuoni, William R. Berry, Christina Bloem, Witaya Chadbunchachai, Satish Dharap, Sydney Dy, Gerald Dziekan, Russell L. Gruen, Jaymie A. Henry, Christina Huwer, Manju Joshipura, Edward Kelley, Etienne Krug, Vineet Kumar, Patrick Kyamanywa, Alain Chichom Mefire, Marcos Musafir, Avery Nathens, Edouard Ngendahayo, Thai Son Nguyen, Nobhojit Roy, Peter Pronovost, Irum Qumar Khan, Junaid Abdul Razzak, James Turner, Mathew Varghese, Rimma Zakirova, and Charles Mock
Implementation of warning tool to improve maternal newborn health outcomes in a developing country, Sana Sheikh, Rahat Qureshi, Sidrah Nausheen, and Rozina Sikandar Sultanali
Implication of internet growth on enhancing health of disadvantaged groups in China: a global perspective, Claudia K.Y. Lai, David Arthur, and Wing W.H. Chau
Implications for the practice of a patient expectation and satisfaction survey, at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, R. H. Dhanani, and F. M. Khan
Implications of inhibition of cycloxygenase-2 on the expression of MUC1 mucin in tumour cell lines: possible impact on tumour invasion, Sanjeev Madaan, Paul Abel, Amin A Nanji, Gordon Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Implications of use of contaminated drugs: a developing world scenario, Afia Zafar, Rumina Hasan, and Nasim Sabir
Importance of measuring non-HDL cholesterol in type 2 diabetes patients., Nanik Ram; Bilal Ahmed; Fauzan Hashmi,; and ABDUL Jabbar
Importance of physical activity in women, Minaz Mawani
Improved accessibility of emergency obstetrics and newborn care (EmONC) services for maternal and newborn health: a community based project, Ali Turab, Shabina Ariff, Atif Habib, Imran Ahmed, Masawar Hussain, Akhtar Rashid, Zahid Memon, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Soofi, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Improved postpartum care after a participatory facilitation intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a mixed method evaluation, Eunice Pallangyo, Columba Mbekenga, Pia Olsson, Christine Rubertsson, and Carina Källestål
Improvement in peer assessment rating scores after nonextraction, premolar extraction, and mandibular incisor extraction treatments in patients with class i malocclusion., Adeel Tahir Kamal, Attiya Jawaid Shaikh, and Mubassar Fida
Improvement in quality of lifesix months after primary total hip arthroplasty in a Pakistani population, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi,; Syed Usman Bin Mahmood,; Moiz Ali; and Shahryar noordin
Improvement in quality of lifesix months after primary total hip arthroplasty in a Pakistani population, Akber Jalil Zuberi; Syed Usman Bin Mahmood,; Moiz Ali; and Shahryar noordin
Improvement in quality of lifesix months after primary total hip arthroplasty in a Pakistani population., Akbar Jaleel Zubair; Syed Usman Bin Mahmood,; Moiz Ali; and Shahryar Noordin
Improvements needed in care for patients with epilepsy, Khabir Ahmed
Improving and Sustaining ICT Skills of Health Researchers in Kenya Through a Three-Tiered Approach of Online Learning, Hands-On Workshops, and Personalized Mentoring, A. Osoti, J. Kinuthia, Michael Chung, E. Opiyo, R. Oboko, C. Chepken, S. Fueller, D. Masuda, M. Dunbar, and D. Masys
Improving community case management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in district Badin, Pakistan through a cluster randomised study--the NIGRAAN trial protocol, Fauziah Rabbani, Aftab A. Ali Mukhi, Shagufta Perveen, Xaher Gul, Saleem Iqbal Perwaiz, Shamim Ahmed Qazi, Iqbal Azam Syed, Khalid Hussain Shaikh, and Wafa Aftab
Improving medication adherence in stroke patients through Short Text Messages (SMS4Stroke)-study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal; Quratulain Nauman Shaikh,; Omrana Pasha; Iqbal Azam Syed; Muhammad Islam; Adeel Ali Memon,; Hasan Rehman,; Muhammad Affan,; Sumaira Nazir; Salman Aziz,; Muhammad Jan; Anita Andani; Abdul Muqeet; Bilal Ahmed,; and Shariq Khoja
Improving outcome in pediatric intensive care unit in Academic Hospital in Pakistan, Anwarul Haque and Surraiya Bano
Improving perinatal outcomes through access to quality prenatal screening and diagnosis; what we need to know, Sikolia Wanyonyi
Improving the teaching skills of residents as tutors/facilitators and addressing the shortage of faculty facilitators for PBL modules., Wasim Jafri, Khalid Mumtaz, William P. Burdick, Page S. Morahan, Rosslynne Freeman, and Tabassum Zehra
Impulsivity in patients with attempted suicide presenting at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Ayesha Abdul Hameed, Haresh Kumar, Sarika Bai, Azra Shaheen, Ravi Athwani, and Mohammad Munir Hamirani
Incidence and epidemiology of cerebral venous thrombosis., Fazeel Mukhtar Siddiqui and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Incidence of pneumothorax in mechanically ventilated patients in general intensive care unit, GA Hamdani and Fazal Hameed Khan
Incidence, outcome and risk factors for sepsis- a two year retrospective study at surgical intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in Pakistan, Ali Asghar, Madiha Hashmi, Saima Rashid, and Fazal Hameed Khan
Incidental metastatic mediastinal atypical carcinoid in a patient with parathyroid adenoma: a case report., Zareen Kiran,; Asma Ahmed; Owais Rashid; Saira Fatima; Faizan Malik; Saulat H. Fatimi; and Mubasher Ikram
Increased Asian collaboration in fight against avian flu, Khabir Ahmed
Increased expression of efflux pump genes in extensively drug-resistant isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis, Akbar Kanji, Rumina Hasan, Ying Zhang, Wanliang Shi, Kehkashan Imtiaz, Kiran Iqbal, Samreen Shafiq, and Zahra Hasan
Increased expression of HLA DR2 in acquired aplastic anemia and its impact on response to immunosuppressive therapy, M. Usman, Salman Adil, Tariq Moatter, F. Bilwani, S. Arian, and Mohammad Khurshid
Increased level of morning surge in blood pressure in normotensives: a cross-sectional study from Pakistan, Aysha Almas, Fatehali Tipoo Sultan, and Khawar Kazmi
Increased level of morning surge in blood pressure in normotensives: a cross-sectional study from Pakistan, Aysha Almas, Fatehali Tipoo Sultan, and Khawar Kazmi
Increased level of morning surge in blood pressure in normotensives: across-sectional study from Pakistan., Aysha Almas, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, and Khawar Kazmi
Increased mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-induced gene expression of interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-6 in patients with diabetes, Kiran I. Masood, Muhammad Irfan, Qamar Masood, Bushra Jamil, Shoaib Rao, Maryam Rahim, and Zahra Hasan
Increased Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori 23s rRNA Gene Mutations in, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Z Abbas, Shahab Abid, Rustam Khan, Nida Jafri, and Zubair Ahmad
Increased reversal of drug resistance with low dose combination of modulators in drug resistant cancer cell lines, M Mubashar, Khurram Chaudhary, El Nasir Lalani, Gordon Stamp, and AM Peters
Increased reversal of drug resistance with low dose combination of modulators in drug resistant cancer cell lines, M Mubashar, Khurram Chaudhary, El Nasir Lalani, Gordon Stamp, and A M Peters
Increased risk of cervical canal infections with intracervical foley catheter, S Siddiqui, NF Zuberi, Afia Zafar, and RN Qureshi
Increase in organization index predicts atrial fibrillation termination with flecainide post-ablation: spectral analysis of intracardiac electrograms, Jiun Tuan, Faizel Osman, Jeilan Mohamed, Suman Kundu, Rajkumar Mantravadi, Peter J. Stafford, and G. André Ng
Increasing HIV-1 pretreatment drug resistance among antiretroviral-naïve adults initiating treatment between 2006 and 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya, Michael Chung, Silverman Rachel, Beck Ingrid, Yatich Nelly, Dross Sandra, Jennifer McKernan-Mullin, Stephen Bii, Kenneth Tapia, Joshua Stern, Chohan Bhavna, Samah R. Sakr, and James N. Kiarie
Increasing usage of rapid diagnostics for dengue virus detection in Pakistan, Zahra Hasan, Saher Razzak, Muhammad Farhan, Maryam Rahim, Nazneen Islam, Azra Samreen, and E. Khan
India's new patent bill threatens generic industry, Khabir Ahmed
Indications of enucleations and eviscerations performed at a tertiary eye care unit: a case series., Rashid Baig, Maheen Akhtar Syed, Khabir Ahmad, and Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry
Indigenously developed close delivery system for oral iodine-131 therapy: nominal cost but phenomenal protection., Imran A Shah
Infections in post stroke setting: a study from The neurology section of Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Rizwana Shahid, Azra Zafar, and Mohammad Wasay
Infections in systemic lupus erythematosus, Bushra Jamil
Infectious disease: Polio eradication hinges on child health in Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Infective endocarditis: a five-year experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, M. Tariq, Mahboob Alam, Gulminay Munir, M.Ata Khan, and Raymond A Smego
Infective endocarditis in patients with congenitally malformed hearts: characterization of the syndrome in a developing country, Bilal K. Siddiqu, M. Tariq, Atif Jadoon, Ghulam Murtaza, Asim Syed, M. Bilal Abid, Maria Qamaruddin, Mehnaz Atiq, and Raymond A. Smego
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the lung in an adolescent boy, S Sheikh, Saulat H. Fatimi, and N Yaqoob
Influence Of Proton Pump Inhibitors On Rapid Urease Test In The Diagnosis Of Helicobacter Pylori Infection In Pakistan, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Nadim Jafri, Z Abbas, Shahab Abid, Saeed Hamid, Muhammad Islam, and K Anis
Influence of sub-specialty surgical care on outcomes for pediatric emergency general surgery patients in a low-middle income country, Adil A. Shah, Amarah Shakoor, Cheryl K. Zogg, Tolulope Oyetunji, Awais Ashfaq, Erin M Garvey, Asad Latif, Robert Riviello, Faisal G Qureshi, Arif Mateen, Adil H. Haider, and Hasnain Zafar
Informal support to first-parents after childbirth: a qualitative study in low-income suburbs of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Columba Mbekenga, Andrea B. Pembe, Kyllike Christensson, Elisabeth Darj, and Pia Olsson
Information exchange is two way, H Zia, JA Razzak, and Hasnain Zafar
Informed consent, privacy and confidentiality practised by doctors of a tertiary care hospital in a developing country, Waris Qidwai, Rumina Tabassum, Fahad Hanif Khan, Salman Javed, Syed Mustafa Ali, and Kashmira Nanji
Inhibition of c-MET is a potential therapeutic strategy for treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Shahabuddin, Azhar Hussain, Maqbool Ahmed, Fouad Al-Dayel, Rong Bu, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Inhibition of fatty acid synthase suppresses c-Met receptor kinase and induces apoptosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Shahabuddin, Azhar Hussain, Maqbool Ahmed, Rong Bu, Saeeda O. Ahmed, Dahish Ajarim, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3’-kinase/AKT –signaling promotes apoptosis of primary effusion lymphoma cells, Shahab Uddin, Azhar Hussain, Khaled A. Al-Hussein, Pulicat S. Manogaran, Amitha Wickrema, Marina I. Gutierrez, and Kishor G. Bhatia
Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase induces preferentially killing of PTEN-null T leukemias through AKT pathway, Shahab Uddin, Azhar Hussain, Khaled Al-Hussein, Leonidas C. Platanias, and Kishor GBhatia
Inhibitor of P-glycoprotein increases chemosensitivity, Khabir Ahmad
In-hospital outcome in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ich), Faraz Ahmed, Mazhar Badshah, and Sumaira Nabi
Initial experience with an intensive care hyperglycemia protocol in a Saudi Arabian intensive care unit., Iqbal Mobeen, Rifat Rehmani, Mohammad Hijazi, Ayman Abdulaziz, and Sayed Kashif
Initial results of Pakistan's first road traffic injury surveillance project, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, J. Razzak, Rashid Jooma, and Uzma R. Khan
Injuries among children in Karachi, Pakistan--what, where and how., Junaid Razzak, Stephen Luby, L. Laflamme, and Habib Chotani
Injuries due to fall make summer time power outages a potential public health issue, Muhammad S. Shamim, Uzma R. Khan, Junaid Razzak, and Rashid Jooma
Injury prevention and control: National Action Plan for NCD Prevention, Control and Health Promotion in Pakistan., Sania Nishtar, Khalif Bile Mohamud, Junaid Razzak, Abdul Ghaffar, Ashfaq Ahmed, Shahzad Ali Khan, and Yasir Abbas Mirza.
Injury prevention and other international public health initiatives, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Scott M. Sasser, and Arthur L. Kellermann
Innovations in cardiovascular care: historical perspective, contemporary practice, recent trends and future directions, Hasanat Sharif and Mayera Tufail
iNOS expression is not regulated by ligand activation of the androgen receptor or bcl-2 in a prostate cancer cell line model, J Moledina, SS ElSheikh, P D Abel, Gordon Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Insecurity and lack of funds hamper progress on Afghan health service, Khabir Ahmed
In sickness and in health till death do us part, Asad Mian and Rakhshee Niazi
Inspiring health worker motivation with supportive supervision: a survey of lady health supervisor motivating factors in rural Pakistan, Fauziah Rabbani, Leah Shipton, Wafa Aftab, Kashif Sangrasi, Shagufta Perveen, and Aysha Zahidie
Integrated management of childhood illness strategy implementation in a rural district of Pakistan through the lens of planners and implementers., Nousheen Pradhan, Nick Brown, Neelofar Sami, and Narjis Rizvi
Integrated Strategies to Address Maternal and Child Health and Survival in Low-Income Settings: Implications for Haiti, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Integration of health promotion into nursing practice: a case study in Pakistan., Muneerah Vastani, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, and Pammla M. Petrucka
Interaction and cognitive engagement in online discussions in professional development leadership and management course at a private nursing institution, Nimira Asif, Samina Vertejee, and Sharifa Bashir Lalani
Inter-facility transfer of surgical emergencies in a developing country: effects on management and surgical outcomes, Salma Khan, Hasnain Zafar, Syed Nabeel Zafar, and Naveed Haroon
Interferon lambda-3 polymorphism and response to pegylated interferon in patients with hepatitis D, Z Abbas; javed Yakoob; Muhammad A. Umer,; Minaam Abbas; and Saeed Hamid
Interferon lambda-3 rs12979860 variants and response to pegylated interferon in chronic hepatitis-c genotype-3, Zaigham Abbas, Javed Yakoob, Muhammad A. Umer, Ali A. Azeem, Saeed S. Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Interferonγ /IL10 ratio defines the disease severity in pulmonary and extra pulmonary tuberculosis, Bushra Jamil, Firdaus Shahid, Zahra Hasan, Nosheen Nasir, Tashmeem Razzaki, Ghaffar Dawood, and Rabia Hussain
International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary of 36 countries, for 2004-2009., Rosenthal vd, Bijie H, Maki DG, Mehta Y, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
International Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines 2016: the perspective from low-income and middle-income countries, Gentle S. Shrestha, Arthur Kwizera, Ganbold Lundeg, John I. Baelani, Luciano C. P. Azevedo, Rajyabardhan Pattnaik, David Misango, and Rashan Haniffa
Inter-observer variability in diagnosing radiological features of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; a preliminary single centre study comparing observers from different specialties and levels of training, Usman T Siddiqui, Anjum F. Khan, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Rana Shoaib Hamid, Muhammad Mehboob Alam, and Emaduddin Siddiqui
Interpersonal verbal and physical abuse against female nurses and doctors in Karachi, Pakistan., Azmat Jehan Khan, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, and Tazeen Saeed Ali
Interplay of chemo attractant peptides (cathelicidin and chemerin) with vitamin-D in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Rabia Hussain, Nisar Ahmed Rao, Narius Virji, Bushra Jamil, and Muhammad Irfan
Interrupted aortic arch complicated with takotsubo cardiomyopathy mimicking aortic dissection., Farhala Mari Baloch, javed majid tai, Aamir Hameed, and abdul baqi
Intertrochanteric hip fractures in octogenarian patients: do we need to rethink fixation strategy?, Shahryar Noordin, Tashfeen Ahmad, and Idrees Shah
Intertrochanteric hip fractures in octogenarian patients: do we need to rethink fixation strategy?, Shahryar Noordin, Shahbano 1, Tashfeen Ahmad, and Idrees Shah
Intervention programme does not improve screening rates, Khabir Ahmad
Interventions for improvement in unsafe injection practices in Pakistan, Khabir Ahmed, Naveed Zafar Janjua, Hasan Bin Hamza, and M. Imran Khan
Interventions to Address Maternal and Childhood Undernutrition: Current Evidence, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Das J. K
Interventions to close the divide for women with breast and cervical cancer between low-income and middle-income countries and high-income countries, Lynette Denny, Silvia de Sanjose, Miriam Mutebi, Benjamin O. Anderson, Jane Kim, Jose Jeronimo, Rolando Herrero, Karen Yeates, Ophira Ginsburg, and Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Interventions to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Africa: a network meta-analysis, Edward J. Mills, Richard Lester, Kristian Thorlund, Maria Lorenzi, Katherine Muldoon, Steve Kanters, Sebastian Linnemayr, Robert Gross, Yvette Calderon, K Rivet Amico, Harsha Thirumurthy, Cynthia Pearson, Robert H. Remien, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Lehana Thabane, Michael Chung, Ira B. Wilson, Albert Liu, Olalekan A. Uthman, Jane Simoni, David Bangsberg, Sanni Yaya, Till Bärnighausen, Nathan Ford, and Jean B. Nachega
Intimal dissection following percutaneous transluminal carotid angioplasty for fibromuscular dysplasia, Rashid Jooma, J. R. Bradshaw, and H. B. Griffith
Intimate partner violence and mental health effects: a population-based study among married women in Karachi, Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali, Ingrid Mogren, and Gunilla Krantz
Intra abdominal hypertension; incidence, prevalence and outcomes in a mixed intensive care unit: prospective cohort study, Ghulam Murtaza, K. M. Inam Pal, Mohammad Raheel Nawaz, Zunaira Nawaz, Reham Koondhar, and Sana Nasim
Intra-articular distal radius fractures: postoperative roentgenographic and functional outcomes, Muhammad Shahid Khan, Shahryar noordin, and Pervaiz Hashmi
Intracranial hypertension and optic nerve sheath fenestration, Irfan Jeeva
Intracranial metastases: management guidelines and decision making, S. Ather Enam and Jack P. Rock
Intracranial neoplasms during the first year of life: analysis of one hundred consecutive cases., Rashid Jooma and Hayward, Richard
Intracranial tumors in neonates: a report of seventeen cases, Rashid Jooma; Brian E. Kendall,; and Richard D. Hayward
Intracranial tumour in an infant presenting as iron deficiency anaemia, Rashid Jooma and Iqtidar H. Bhatti
Intracranial tumours in the first year of life, Rashid Jooma and B. E. Kendall
Intraoperative air embolism originating from a pulmonary vein., Maria Siddiqui, Shahid Ahmed Sami, Mehnaz Atiq, and Muneer M Amanullah
Intra-thecal antibiotics for post-operative gram negative meningitis and ventriculitis., Saad Akhtar Khan; Muhammad Waqas; Shamim, Shahzad; and Rashid Jooma
Intrauterine growth retardation and placental vacuolization as presenting features in a case of GM1 gangliosidosis, Nicola Brunetti- Pierri, Asad Mian, Rebecca Luetchke, and Brett H. Graham
Intravesical foreign body: tertiary care center experience from Pakistan., Hussam Uddin Soomro,; Imran K. Jalbani; and Nuzhat Faruqui
Intussusception among children less than 2 years of age: findings from pre-vaccine introduction surveillance in Pakistan, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai; Rozina Thobani; Saqib Hamid Qazi; Nasir Saddal; , Catherine Yen; Negar Aliabadi; and Syed Asad Ali
Invasion in malignant glioma, T Mikkelsen, S. Ather Enam, and MR. Rosenblum
Invasive retroperitoneal infection due to basidiobolus ranarum with response to potassium lodide--case report and review of the literature, Zafar Nazir, R Hasan, S Pervaiz, M Alam, and F Moazam
Inverse correlation between high-level expression of cyclin E and proliferation index in transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, A A Khan, P D Abel, K S Chaudhary, Z Gulzar, G W H Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Investigating factors associate to nurses’ attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care, Moon Fai Chan, Feng-lan Lou, David Arthur, Feng-lin Cao, Lai Har Wu, Ping Li, Miharu Sagara- Rosemeyer, Loretta Yuet Foon Chung, and Li Lui
In-vitro comparison of micro-leakage between nanocomposite and microhybrid composite In class v cavities treated with The self-etch technique, Syeda Mahvish Hussain and Farhan Raza Khan
In vitro studies for the modulation of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) mediated multidrug resistance in cancer, M. Mubashar, Khurram Chaudhary, Kevin J. Harrington, El Nasir Lalani, Gordon Stamp, and A M Peters
Ion channels in prostate cancer, Marc E. Laniado, El Nasir Lalani, and Paul David Abel
Iron chelation in patients with transfusion dependent thalassemia: an insight on response to deferasirox, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh and Salman Naseem Adil
Iron Deficiency Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age, an Important Public Health Problem: Situation Analysis, Minaz Mawani, Savera Aziz Ali, Gulshan Bano, and Sumera Aziz Ali
Iron deficiency anemia as a risk factor for simple febrile seizures, Tipu Sultan, Abdul Islam Hanif Hanif, and Shaila Ali
Iron regulates apoptotic pathway, Khabir Ahmad
Irritable bowel syndrome: in search of an etiology: role of Blastocystis hominis., javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, NADIM JAFRI, RUSTAM KHAN, Muhammad Islam, M. ASIM BEG, and VIQAR ZAMAN
Irritable bowel syndrome: is it associated with genotypes of Blastocystis hominis., javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, mohammad asim beg, Z Abbas, Shagufta Naz, Muhammad Islam, and Rustam Khan
Irritable bowel syndrome: the need to exclude Dientamoeba fragilis, javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, Nadim Jafri, Rustam Khan, Muhammad Islam, Muhammad ASIM BEG, and VIQAR ZAMAN
Is anemia an accurate predictor of vitamin A status in Pakistani children?, A Molla, Mohammad Khurshid, AM Molla, Salma Badruddin, Kristy Hendricks, and John D. Snyder
Is an excretory urogram mandatory in patients with small to medium-sized renal and ureteric stones treated by extra corporeal shock wave lithotripsy?, Hammad Ather, Nuzhat Faruqui, Sobia Akhtar, and M Nasir Sulaiman
Is antimicrobial photodynamic therapy a useful therapeutic protocol for oral decontamination? a systematic review and meta-analysis, Sergio Varela Kellesarian, Faisal Qayyum, Paula C. De Freitas, Zohaib Akram, and fawad Javed
Is carcinoma breast a different disease in Pakistani population?, Rashida Ahmed, Hizbullah Shaikh, and Sheema H Hasan
Ischemic Strokes: Observations from a Hospital Based Stroke Registry in Bangladesh., Nirmalenduk Bikash Bhowmik; Aamir Abbas; Mohammad Saifuddin; Md. Rashedul Islam; Rumana Habib; Aminur Rahman; Md. Amirul Haque,; Zahid Hassan; and Mohammad Wasay
Is cricket the magic glue that unites South Asia?, Saad Shafqat and Nadir Bharucha
Is Eradication of Heliobacter pylori Related to Its Genotypes and Density in Dyspeptics?, javed Yakoob and Wasim Jafri
Is Furazolidone Therapy for Helicobacter pylori Effective and Safe? Reply, Z Abbas, javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, Muhammad Islam, Zahid Azam, and Imran Hilal
Is Grown Up Congenital Heart (GUCH) disease different in a developing country?, Syed Shahabuddin; Shiraz Hashmi; Syed Ezze Rakhshan,; Jamal Kabeer Khan; Shahid Ahmed Sami; and Muneer Amanullah
Is HAS-BLED score better than CHADS2 and HEMOR2RHAGES schemes in assessing 1 year risk of major bleed in atrial fibrillation patients?, Syed Habibullah Kamran and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Is laparoscopic pyeloplasty a comparable option to treat ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO)? a comparative study, Mazhar Ali Memon, Syed Raziuddin Biyabani, Rajab Ghirano, Wajahat Aziz, and Khurram Mutahir Siddiqui
Is laparoscopic pyeloplasty a comparable option to treat ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO)? a comparative study., Mazhar Ali, Syed Raziuddin Biyabani, Rajab Ali Ghirano, Wajahat Aziz, and Khurram Mutahir Siddiqui
Is nalidixic acid screening still valid for the detection of reduced susceptibility of fluoroquinolone with salmonella typhi?, Seema Irfan, Kauser Jabeen, Umair Anwar Jilani, Bushra Ahmed, Jaishri Mehraj, Tanwir Ahsan, and Afia Zafar
Isolated cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient, Irfan Qadir, Farheen Ali, Umair Zafar Malik, and masood umer
Isolated deep venous thrombosis--case series, literature review and long term follow up., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Ahmed Itrat, Sana Shoukat, Asumal Khealani, and Kamran Kamal
Isolated tuberculosis of C2 spinous process., Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Muhammad Z Tahir, and Rashid Jooma
Isolation and prayer as means of solace for Arab women with breast cancer: An in-depth interview study, Ghada Najjar Assaf, Eleanor Holroyd, and Violeta Lopez
Isoniazid induced acute pancreatitis in a young girl, Ali Faisal Saleem Dr, Saba Arbab, and Farah Qamar Naz
Is prophylactic administration of steroids of benefit to children undergoing cardiac surgery?, Muneer Amanullah, Asif Hasan, Jo Roe, and Joel Dunning
Is Risk Malignancy index a useful tool for predicting malignant ovarian masses in developing countries?, Aliya Aziz and Nida Najmi
‘I stayed with my illness’: a grounded theory study of health seeking behaviour and treatment pathways of patients with obstetric fistula in Kenya, Anne Khisa, Grace M. Omoni, Isaac K. Nyamongo, and Rachel F. Spitzer
Is the fertile period reduced in patients with inflammatory bowel disease?, J. J. Wu, javed Yakoob, L. A. . Norris, and Keeling PW.
Is There a Cholinergic Survival Incentive for Neurotropic Parasites in the Brain?, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr.
Is there a difference in early perioperative morbidity in transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) versus TURP with cystolitholapaxy and TURP with inguinal herniorrhaphy?, Hammad Ather, Nuzhat Faruqui, Fuad Abid, and M Nasir Sulaiman
Is there any benefit of drain placement on postoperative complications in patients undergoing the sistrunk procedure?, Talha Ahmed Qureshi, Anwar Suhail, Syed Sajjad Ali Zaidi, and Wasif Siddiqui
Is the “South Asian Phenotype” unique to South Asians?: comparing cardiometabolic risk factors in the CARRS and NHANES Studies., Shivani A. Patel, Roopa Shivashankar, Mohammed K. Ali, R. M. Anjana, M. Deepa, Deksha Kapoor, Dimple Kondal, Garima Rautela, V. Mohan, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Zafar Fatmi, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Nikhil Tandon, and CARRS Investigators
itamin D status and periodontal disease among pregnant and non-pregnant women in an underdeveloped district of Pakistan, Farhan Raza Khan, Tashfeen Ahmad, Rabia Hussain, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Itopride for gastric volume, gastric emptying and drinking capacity in functional dyspepsia., Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, maseeh uzzaman, Rakhshanda Bila, safia awan, and Aamir Abbas
Journey from black to pink gums: management of melanin induced physiological gingival hyper pigmentation, Huma Farid, Muhammad Saad Shinwari, Farhan Raza Khan, and Farzin Tanwir
Joy, struggle and support: Postpartum experiences of first-time mothers in a Tanzanian suburb, Columba Mbekenga, Kyllike Christensson, Helen I. Lugina, and Pia Olsson
Juvenile ewing sarcoma presenting as a pelvic mass, Tahira Naru, Fauzia Haq Nawaz, and Javed Rizvi
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia, Emaduddin Siddiqui and Shaheena Hanif
Kano to recommence vaccination against poliomyelitis, Khabir Ahmed
Kazakhstan health workers stand trial for HIV outbreak, Khabir Ahmad
Kernohan–woltman notch phenomenon:Case report and Review of literature, Fareed Ahmed, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Sidra Asad Ali
Kimura's disease of head and neck : a rare case presentation, Talha Ahmed Qureshi, Moghira Siddiqui, and Muhammad Tariq
Kimura’s disease of head and neck: a rare case presentation, Talha Ahmed Qureshi, Moghira Siddiqui, and Muhammad Tariq
Knowledge about sexually transmitted infections among young Pakistani men, Waris Qidwai
Knowledge and beliefs among health care workers regarding hepatitis B infection and needle stick injuries at a tertiary care hospital, karachi, Faiza Habib, Durreshahwar K Khan, Shan-E Abbas, Faiza Bhatti, and Afia Zafar
Knowledge and perceptions of polio and polio immunization in polio high-risk areas of Pakistan, Atif Habib, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Noshad Ali, Imtiaz Hussain, Farhana Tabassum, Zamir Suhag, Saeed Anwar, Imran Ahmed, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Knowledge and practice of physicians regarding medical imaging in Kabul, Afghanistan, Mer Mahmood Shah Hoshang
Knowledge and trends of caffeine consumption Among medical and non medical students of Lahore Pakistan, Mubashir Ahmad, Rashk E Hinna, and Ahmad Tayyab
Knowledge, attitude and practice of epilepsy among schoolteachers in Pakistan, Syed Wasim Akhtar Wasim Akhtar and Zarine Mogal
Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding handling, storage, and purification of water among people living in a semi-urban community before and after the intervention at Karachi, Pakistan, Salima Farooq, Yasmin Parpio, Tazeen S. Ali, Nafeesa Dhalvani, and Fazal Ather
Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding immunization among family practice patients, Waris Qidwai, Syed Sohail Ali, Semi Ayub, and Salma Ayub
Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding obesity among patients, at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Waris Qidwai and Iqbal Azam
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Mid-Level Providers regarding Post Abortion Care in Sindh, Pakistan, Marina Baig, Rafat Jan, Arusa Lakhani, Sadia Abbas Ali, Kiran Mubeen, Shahnaz Shahid Ali, and Farzana Adnan
Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding respiratory symptoms among textile workers of Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional survey., Aneeta Khoso and Asaad A. Nafees
Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding sleep and sleep hygiene among patients presenting to out-patient and emergency room services at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Maryam Baqir, Syed Muhammad Baqir, and Seerat-uz-Zehra
Knowledge, attitude and use of labour pain relief methods among women attending antenatal clinic in Nairobi, Vitalis Mung’ayi, D. Netyton, and Robinson Karuga
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of medical students regarding needle stick injuries, Taimur Saleem, Umair Khalid, Sidra Ishaque, and Afia Zafar
Knowledge of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors and coronary intervention among university students., Aysha Almas, Aamir Hameed, and Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan
Knowledge of patients' visual experience during cataract surgery: a survey of eye doctors in Karachi, Pakistan, Mohammad Zain Tauqir, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Sehreen Mumtaz, and Khabir Ahmad
K Wire fixation of supra-condylar humerus fractures in children. Is ulnar nerve at risk?, Waseem Ahmed, Haroon Rashid, Yasir Mohib, and Rizwan Haroon Rashid
Laboratory testing of clinically approved drugs against Balamuthia mandrillaris, Huma Kulsoom, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr., and Naveed Ahmad Khan
LABRAD : Vol 42, Issue 2 - October 2016, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi
LABRAD : Vol 42, Issue 3 - December 2016, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi
LABRAD : Vol 43, Issue 1 - March 2017, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi
Lack of androgen receptor expression correlates with high expression of ALDH1 and poor overall and 5-year disease free survival in patients with invasive breast cancer, Nazia Riaz, Romana Idress, Sadia Habib, Syed Zulfiqar Naqvi, Shaista Masood Khan, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, and El Nasir Lalani
Lack of benefit of granulocyte macrophage or granulocyte colony stimulating factor in patients with febrile neutropenia, T. Siddiqui, I. A. Burney, A. Salam, G. N. Kakepoto, Mohammad Khurshid, and R. A. Smego
Lack of sleep and its association with academic progress of undergraduate students of foundation university medical college, islamabad, Pakistan, Omair Ali Khan, Mahnoor Khalid, Usman Ali, Abdur Rehman Butt, Mahnoor Zafar, and Mahnoor Sherazi
Lack of trauma services add to quake survivors’ plight, Khabir Ahmad
Lady health workers programme in Pakistan: challenges, achievements and the way forward, Assad Hafeez, Bile Khalif Mohamud, Mobasher Riaz Shiekh, Syed Ayyaz Imran Shah, and Rashid Jooma
Language of instruction and learners’ participation in mathematics: Dynamics of distributive justice in the classroom, Anjum Halai and Irfan Muzaffar
Laparoscopic-assisted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube insertion in the immediate post-partum period for head and neck cancer, Adil Aijaz Shah, Shabbir Akhtar, Nadeem Zuberi, Kamran Ali, Dania Aijaz Shah, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY: OUTCOME OF FIRST 202 CASES IN A DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN GILGIT, Ghulam H, Dildar Hussain, Seema Waheed, Rehman Shah, Ali Ahmad Khan, Mumtaz Ibrahim, and Syed Mahboob Ali Shah
Laparoscopic management of an ovarian ectopic pregnancy: case report, Y. Patel, Sikolia Wanyonyi, and F. S. Rana
Laparoscopic splenectomy for haematological disorder: our experience, Hasnain Zafar, Aamir Hameed, Amyn Pardhan, Ghulam Murtaza, and Samia Mazahir
Large-scale pathology-based cancer data--a reflection of population-based cancer data., Yasmin Bhurgri, Sheema H Hasan, Shahid Pervez, Akbar Shah Hussainy, Suhail Muzaffar, and Mohammad Khurshid
Laser treatment of laryngeal papillomatosis in a young child: anaesthetic and surgical management, Faisal Shamim, Durriya Raza, and Mubasher Ikram
Lasik in hyperopic eyes with congenital nystagmus: a case report, Sharmeen Akram, Zarksis H, and Khabir Ahmad
Late onset oesophageal perforation due to gunshot injury of chest: successful non-operative management in a young child, Asad Mian, Saima H. Khan, and Naeem -uz-Zafar Khan
Late-onset primary gastric outlet obstruction—an unusual cause of growth retardation, Zafar Nazir and Muhammad Arshad
Late presentation of posterior urethral valves, Imran Khan Jalbani and Syed Raziuddin Biyabani
Lawsuit against HIV/AIDS funding policy, Khabir Ahmed
Leadership in healthcare is a neglected issue: a call for action, Waris Qidwai
Lead exposure assessment among pregnant women, newborns, and children: case study from Karachi, Pakistan., Zafar Fatmi, Ambreen Sahito, Akihiko Ikegami, Atsuko Mizuno, Xiaoyi Cui, Nathan Mise, Mai Takagi, Yayoi Kobayashi, and Fujio Kayama
Learning environment and emotional well-being: a qualitative study of undergraduate nursing students., Ambreen Tharani, Yusra Husain, and Lan Warwick
Learning opportunities through camping for mental health nursing, David Arthur and Ron Sharkey
Learning the hard way: when a CT scan misleads your diagnosis., Roger Gill, Fatima Mannan, Amber Bawa, and Hasnain Zafar
Lecture based versus peer assisted learning: quasi-experimental study to compare knowledge gain of forth year medical students in community health and nutrition course, Seema Daud, Abdul Majeed Chaudhry, and Syeda K. Ali
Lecture duration: A risk factor for quality teaching and learning in Higher Education, Chika Eze and Edward Misava
Left atrial volumes and associated stroke subtypes., Quratulain Shaikh,; Bilal Ahmed; Maryam Ahmed,; Jamal Hussain Mahar,; Masood Ahmad,; Ayesha Ahmed,; Farzin Majeed; Fariha Sadiq Ali,; Maria Khan; and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Lentiviral vector mediated gene transfer to the liver: transcriptional targeting of heterologous genes depends upon choice of both promoter and enhancer, Kathryn L. Nash, Bushra Jamil, Graeme J Alexander, and Andrew M. Lever
Leptin-R and its association with PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma, Shahabuddin, Prashant Bavi, Abdul K Siraj, Maqbool Ahmed, Maha Al-Rasheed, Azhar Hussain, Mohammed Ahmed, Tarek Amin, Ali Alzahrani, Fouad Al-Dayel, Jehad Abubaker, Rong Bu, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Leptin receptor expression and its association with PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Shahabuddin, Rong Bu, Maqbool Ahmed, Azhar Hussain, Dahish Ajarim, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Leptin receptor expression in Middle Eastern colorectal cancer and its potential clinical implication, Shahabuddin, Prashant Bavi, Azhar Hussain, Ghazi Alsbeih, Nasser Al-Sanea, Alaa Abdul Jabbar, Luai H. Ashari, Samar Alhomoud, Fouad Al-Dayel, Maqbool Ahmed, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Lesionectomy versus electrophysiologically guided resection for temporal lobe tumors manifesting with complex partial seizures, Rashid Jooma and MICHAEL D. PRIVITERA
Lessons and implications from a mass immunization campaign in squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan: an experience from a cluster-randomized double-blinded vaccine trial, M. Imran Khan, Rion Leon Ochiai, Hasan Bin Hamza, Shah Muhammad Sahito, Atif Habib, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Naveed Sarwar Bhutto, Shahid Rasool, Mahesh K Puri, Mohammad Ali, Shafi Mohammad Wasan, Mohammad Jawed Khan, Remon Abu- Elyazeed, Bernard Ivanoff, Claudia M Galindo, Tikki Pang, Allan Donner, Lorenz von Seidlein, Camilo J Acosta, John D Clemens, Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizam, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Lessons learnt: pilot of mid rotation feedback., Tabassum Zehra and Shazia Sadaf
“Let’s work: involving nursing students in the care of elderly people at nursing home”., Mehtab Qutbuddin Jaffer and Shanaz Hussein Cassum SC
Letter by Jeilan et al regarding article, "Longitudinal strain delay index by speckle tracking imaging: a new marker of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy"., Jeilan Mohamed, Jiun H. Tuan, and G. Andre' Ng
Leukaemia classification: a study of the accuracy of diagnosis in 456 patients, J A Whittaker, J Withey, D.E.B. Powell, T.E. Parry, and Mohammad Khurshid
Level of preparedness of patients for medical emergency, Waris Qidwai, SS Ali, M Baqir, and S Ayub
Libyan officials stand trial for torture of health professionals, Khabir Ahmed
Life in death, Fareed Hassaan, Asad Mian, and Sidra Asad Ali
Life style related risk factors for cardiovascular disease among patients at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, AR Mangi, and R Bux
Lifetime prevalence of emotional/psychological abuse among qualified female healthcare providers., Azmat Jehan Khan, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Nargis Asad, and Farhana Madhani
Ligand activation of the androgen receptor downregulates E-cadherin-mediated cell adhesion and promotes apoptosis of prostatic cancer cells, Joanna Nightingale, Khurram S Chaudhary, Paul D Abel, Andrew P Stubbs, Hanna M Romanska, Stephen E Mitchell, Gordon W H Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Lipids and membranes in the organic matrix of urinary calcific crystals and stones, S. R. Khan, F. Atmani, P. Glenton, Z.-C. Hou, D. R. Talham, and Mohammad Khurshid
Lipoid proteinosis in two brothers with multiple organ involvement from Saudi Arabia., Yasser Al-Bitar and Azam J. Samdani
Living near high-voltage power lines could cause leukaemia, Khabir Ahmed
Living with globalization: a menace or a chance?, Fauziah Rabbani, Babar T Shaikh, and Sarah Wamala
LOAD: a pilot study of the safety of loading of aspirin & clopidogrel in acute ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack. Is the loading dose of aspirin and clopidogrel a good alternative for patients with acute ischaemic stroke and TIA? How this will impact our clinical practice?, Fauzia Nomani, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Lobular carcinoma in situ linked to breast-cancer risk, Khabir Ahmad
Locking compression plate in musculoskeletal oncology'a nriend in need', masood umer, Kashif Abbas, Shahid Khan, and Haroon ur Rashid
Long scarf injuries, A. A. Siddiqui, Shamim Mushtaq Shamim Mushtaq, Rashid Jooma, and S. Ather Enam
Long-term correction of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency by WPRE-mediated overexpression using a helper-dependent adenovirus, Asad Mian, W.Michael lMcCormack, Viraj Mane, Soledad Kleppe, Philip Ng, Milton Finegold, William E. O'Brien, John R. Rodgers, Arthur L. Beaude, and Brendan Lee
Long-term effect of carotid surgery in asymptomatic stenosis., Muhammad Faisal Wadiwala and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Long-term impact of the Kenya postelection crisis on clinic attendance and medication adherence for HIV-infected children in western Kenya, Rachel B. Yoder, Winstone Nyandiko, Rachel Vreeman, Samwel O. Ayaya, Peter Gisore, Paula Braitstein, and Sarah E. Wiehe
Long-term outcome of primary external dacryocystorhinostomy, Rashid Baig, Qazi Assad Khan, and Khabir Ahmad
Long-term outcomes of acute myeloid leukemia in adults in Pakistan, G. N. Kakepoto, S. N. Adil, Mohammad Khurshid, I. A. Bumey, and S. Zaki
Long-tunneled versus short-tunneled external ventricular drainage : prospective experience from a developing country, Muhammad Zubair Tahir, Z Abbas, Muhammed Murtaza, and S. Ather Enam
(Looks can be deceiving): adrenal teratoma causing diagnostic difficulty, Mehwash Nadeem, Hammad Ather, M Nasir Sulaiman, and Shahid Pervez
Loss of consciousness in Bathrooms, Mohammad Wasay
Low blood pressure syndrome: a myth or a reality? results of a patient's survey at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai and Bheesham Tara Chand
Low cost quality initiatives for management of neurosurgical patients in developing nations: perspective from a tertiary care centre in Pakistan, Hamid Hussain Rai Hussain Rai, Muhammad Waqas, and Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Low dose albumin for the prevention of renal impairment following large volume paracentesis in cirrhosis., Waqar Hussain, Abdullah Bin Khalid, Tayyab Usmani, Aiman Ghufran, and Syed H Shah
Lower effectiveness of divalproex versus valproic acid in a prospective, quasi-experimental clinical trial involving 9,260 psychiatric admissions, Adel A. Wassef, Diane E. Winkler, Ann L. Roache, Vivian Boma Abobo, Lina M. Lopez, John P. Averill, Ayesha I Mian, and John E. Overall
Lower-limb alignment and posterior tibial slope in Pakistanis: a radiographic study, Mujahid Jamil Khattak, Masood Umer, Edward T Davis, Munira Habib, and Mehmood Ahmed
Lower red cell transfusion rates with use of tranexamic acid in single-stage bilateral total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective audit, Muhammad Aziz; Salman Bin Mahmood,; Riaz Hussain Lakdawala; and Tashfeen Ahmad
Low-level lead exposure and blood lead levels in children: a cross-sectional survey, Aysha Habib, Amanullah Khan, Farooq Ghani, and Mohammad Khurshid
Low prevalence of asthma among textile workers in Karachi, Pakistan., Sana Tanzil and Asaad A. Nafees
Lung as source of Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in septic shock, Hans J. Lee, Erfan Hussain, Maowen Hu, and Edmund J. Miller
Lung-derived macrophage migration inhibitory factor in adult patients with septic shock, and its role in cardiocirculatory depression, Hans Lee, Kaie Ojamaa, Greg Ruskin, Erfan Hussain, Maowen Hu, Xinchun Lin, Christine Metz, Yousef Al-Abed, and Edmund Mille
Lymphangioma circumscriptum: report of three cases from Saudi Arabia., Azam J. Samdani, Sami Hassan Bana, and Tania Azam
Madurella mycetomatis as an agent of brain abscess: case report and review of literature, Fatima Mir, Sadia Shakoor, Mumtaz Jamshed Khan, Khurram Minhas, Afia Zafar, and Anita Zaidi
Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography in diagnosis of biliary disorders in children - Sharing our experience., Fahad Ali, Waseem Akhter, and Muhammad Arshad
Magnetic resonance imaging of intracranial extramedullary haematopoiesis in β-thalassemia: a case report, Mahnoor Hafeez and Ateeque Ahmed Khan
Major thoracic vessels and cardiac trauma: case series from a center in a developing country, Saulat H. Fatimi, Hashim M Hanif, Anum Awais, Ghina Shamsi, and Marium Muzaffar
Making lectures memorable: a cognitive perspective, Azam Afzal and Shazia Babar
Malabsorption of nutrients in children with diarrhoea due to unknown aetiologies, Ayesha Molla, Mohammad Khurshid, Abdul Majid Molla, and Makhduma Khatun
Malaria induced adult respiratory distress syndrome, Fazal Hameed Khan, Nadeem A Zaidi, RS Kamal, and K Chowdhary
Malignant ectopic thyroid tissue with distant metastasis: a case report, Shehla Tabassum, Najmul Islam, Saulat H. Fatimi, Mubasher Ikram, Arsalan Ahmed, and Maseehuz Zaman
Malignant glioma, S. Ather Enam, JP Rock, and MR. Rosenblum
Malignant otitis externa: cranial nerve palsies, skull-base erosions and prognosis, Shaheryar Ahmed Rajput, Asif Arain, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Shabbir Akhtar, and Mohammad Adeel
Malrotation after reamed intramedullary nailing with and without a fracture table for closed fractures of the femoral, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi, and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Malrotation after reamed intramedullary nailing with and without a fracture table for closed fractures of the femoral shaft, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi, and masood umer
MALT lymphoma of the base of the tongue: a rare case entity, Haissan Iftikhar, Moghira Siddiqui, and Khurram Minhas
MALT lymphoma of the base of the tongue: a rare case entity, Haissan Iftikhar, Moghira Siddiqui, and Khurram Minhas
Mammographic density and ageing: A collaborative pooled analysis of cross-sectional data from 22 countries worldwide, Anya Burton, Gertraud Maskarinec, Beatriz Perez-Gomez, Celine Vachon, Hui Miao, Martín Lajous, Ruy López-Ridaura, Megan Rice, Ana Pereira, Maria Luisa Garmendia, Rulla M. Tamimi, Kimberly Bertrand, Ava Kwong, Giske Ursin, Sudhir Vinayak, Rose Ndumia, and Shivaani Mariapun
Mammographic density assessed on paired raw and processed digital images and on paired screen-film and digital images across three mammography systems, Anya Burton, Graham Byrnes, Jennifer Stone, Rulla M. Tamimi, John Heine, Celine Vachon, Vahit Ozmen, Ana Pereira, Maria Luisa Garmendia, Christopher Scott, John H. Hipwell, Caroline Dickens, Joachim Schüz, Mustafa Erkin Aribal, Kimberly Bertrand, Ava Kwong, Graham G. Giles, John Hopper, Beatriz Pérez Gómez, Marina Pollán, Soo-Hwang Teo, Shivaani Mariapun, Nur Aishah Mohd Taib, Martín Lajous, Ruy Lopez-Riduara, Megan Rice, Isabelle Romieu, Anath Arzee Flugelman, Giske Ursin, Samera Qureshi, Huiyan Ma, Eunjung Lee, Reza Sirous, Mehri Sirous, Jong Won Lee, Jisun Kim, Dorria Salem, Rasha Kamal, Mikael Hartman, Hui Miao, Kee-Seng Chia, Chisato Nagata, Sudhir Vinayak, Rose Ndumia, Carla H. van Gils, Johanna O. P. Wanders, Beata Peplonska, Agnieszka Bukowska, Steve Allen, Sarah Vinnicombe, Sue Moss, Anna M. Chiarelli, Linda Linton, Gertraud Maskarinec, Martin J. Yaffe, Norman F. Boyd, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, and Valerie A. McCormack
Management and outcomes of intramedullary spinal cord tumors: a single center experience from a developing country, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Muhammad Waqas, S. Ather Enam, and Baila Shakaib
Management of diabetic patient’s undergoing major surgery using glucose insulin potassium infusion, Fazal Hameed Khan and RS Kamal
Management of hyperlipidaemia in general practice, Waris Qidwai
Management of myelomeningocele, A Sattar M. Hashim, Shahid Ahmed, and Rashid Jooma
Management of penetrating injury to thoracic inlet and lower neck with retained foreign body using video assisted thoracoscopic surgery, Muhammad Adeel Samad, Hamza Abdur Rahim Khan, Faiza Urooj, Usman Ali Hyder, Fazal Wahab Khan, Saulat H. Fatimi, and Jamal Kabeer Khan
Management of simultaneous bilateral femur fractures in a tertiary care hospital: a retrospective review, masood umer, Syed Zohaib Gulzar Naqvi, Raza Askari, and Umair Ashraf
Management of sinonasal tumors: prognostic factors and outcomes-a 10 year experience, Maliha Kazi, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Junaid M, Qadeer S, and Nabeel Humayun Hassan
Management of uncommon adult low-grade glial tumors, S. Ather Enam and JP Rock
Managing soft tissue sarcomas in a developing country: are prognostic factors similar to those of developed world?, Irfan Qadir; masood umer; Hafiz Muhammad Umer,; Nasir uddin; Farrok A. Karsan; and Sharoz Rabbani
Mapping knowledge on controlling and avoiding healthcare acquired infections, C.O Egbu, Charles Docherty, D Hoy, G O’Brien, C.L Liyanage, and E. Curran
Mapping publication status and exploring hotspots in a research field: chronic disease self-management, Yang Lu, Zheng Li, and David Arthur
Mapping the geography of child mortality: a key step in addressing disparities, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Markers of metastatic potential in prostate cancer using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Khushali Kotedia, Calvin Ryan, Hanna M Romanska, El Nasir Lalani, and I.Jane Cox
Mass casualty incidents – evolution of management plan in a tertiary care hospital using post event analysis, Raza Sayyed, Hasnain Zafar, and M S Effendi
Massive haemoptysis as an unusual symptom in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma, Saulat H. Fatimi, Ranish Deedar Ali Khawaja, Zain Majid, Shifa Sohail, and Mahwash Kamal
Massive hemoptysis as a rare presentation of metastatic choriocarcinoma., Husain SJ., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, YUNUS SJ, and JAMIL SJ
Massive primary postpartum haemorrhage: setting up standards of care, Lumaan Sheikh, Nadeem F. Zuberi, Rubab Riaz, and Javed H. Rizvi
Massive pulmonary embolism presenting as seizures, Shahrukh Hashmani, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Murtaza Kazmi, and Amammarah Yasmeen
Massive transfusion for trauma care in a lower middle income country– a necessity or luxury?, A.A. Shah, A.H. Haider, Z.G. Hashmi, M. Kisat, S.N. Zafar, A. Tareen, Z. Rehman, R.H. Sayyed, and Hasnain Zafar
Massive transfusion for trauma in a lower middle income country., Abdul Rehman Alvi; Adil A; Shah AA, Sayyed; Tareen Adil; Zia Ur Rehman; Bushra Moiz; and Hasnain Zafar
Massive unilateral chylous pleural effusion: a rare initial presentation of Behcet's disease., Husain Husain S J,
Maternal and fetal complications of antiphospholipid syndrome: a case report with long-term follow-up, Tahira Naru, Mohammad Khurshid, and Zafar Nazir
Maternal and fetal outcome in renal transplant recipients, Wajeeha Syed and Lumaan Sheikh
Maternal Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Reduces Vertical Cytomegalovirus Transmission But Does Not Reduce Breast Milk Cytomegalovirus Levels, Jennifer A. Slyker, Barbra Richardson, Michael Chung, Claire Atkinson, Kristjana H. Ásbjörnsdóttir, Dara A. Lehman, Michael Boeckh, Vincent Emery, James Kiarie, and Grace John-Stewart
Maternal mortality: are we ready to meet the millennium development goals?, Waris Qidwai and Tabinda Ashfaq
Maternal near miss in low-resource areas., Robert L. Goldenberg, Sarah Saleem, Sumera Aziz Ali, Janet L. Moore, Adrien Lokangako, Antoinette Tshefu, Musaku Mwenechanya, Elwyn Chomba, Ana Garces, Lester Figueroa, Shivaprasad Goudar, Bhalachandra Kodkany, Archana Patel, Fabian Esamai, Paul Nsyonge, Margo S. Harrison, Melissa Bauserman, Carl L. Bose, Nancy F. Krebs, K. Michael Hambidge, Richard J. Derman, Patricia L. Hibberd, Edward A. Liechty, Dennis D. Wallace, Jose M. Belizan, Menachem Miodovnik, Marion Koso-Thomas, Waldemar A. Carlo, Alan H. Jobe, and Elizabeth M. McClure
Maxillary first molar with five canals, Fahad Umer
Measurement of ESAT6-induced IFNγ responses adjunct with CXCL9 increases the rate of diagnosis of active tuberculosis in an endemic region, Zahra Hasan, Nisar Rao, Naseem Salahuddin, Mussarat Ashraf, Muniba Islam, and Bushra Jamil
Measurement of the professional self-concept of nurses: developing a measurement instrument, David Arthur
MEASURES OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS FOR CHILD, javed Yakoob and Safia Awan
Measuring the professional self concept of nurses: a critical review, David Arthur
Mechanical thrombectomy versus intrasinus thrombolysis for cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: a non-randomized comparison., Fazeel M. Siddiqui; Chirantan Banerje; Susanna M. Zuurbier; Qing Hao; Chul Ahn; Glenn L. Prid; Mohammad Wasay; Charles B.L.M. . Majoie; David Liebeskind; ,Mark Johnson; and Jan Stam
Meckel's Diverticulum: A Case Report of Overt Obscure GI Bleed with Combine Gastric and Pancreatic Heterotopic Tissues., Fakhar Qazi, Om Parkash, Kamran Siddiqui, and Zafar Nazir
Media created violence: a social determinant of mental health., Shamshad Begum, Shaneela Sadruddin Khowaja, and Gulnar Ali
Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma., Niaz Hussain Soomro, Sanaullah Junejo, Aneeqa Ahsan Zafar, Shirin Siddiqi, and Ghulam H
Medical education and training: responding to community needs., Fauziah Rabbani, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Qamar Mahmood, Kausar S. Khan Ms, Syed Muhammad Israr, and Yousuf Memon
Medical education: let's change the emphases, Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Medication safety and transfusion errors in the ICU and beyond., Erfan Hussain and Emily Kao,
Medicinal uses of honey: results of a survey of patients visiting family doctors at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, S Waheed, Salma Ayub, and Iqbal Azam
Meeting the challenge: implementing the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in a culturally diverse country., Grace Edwards, Jane Abdulali, and Rajakumari Ravi Kumar
MELD score: utility and comparison with King's College criteria in non-acetaminophen acute liver failure., Om Parkash, Khalid Mumtaz, Saeed Hamid, Syed Hasnian ALi Shah, and Wasim Jafri
Menke's kinky hair syndrome--a rare medical condition., Yaseer Al-Bita, Azam J. Samdani, and Tania Azam
Mental Disorders and Associated Factors among Adolescents in Juvenile Detention, Stewart Mbelwa
Mental health nurses attitudes to HIV and AIDS: a short report, David Arthur, T McCann, K. Usher, and A Williams
Mental health of African asylum-seekers and refugees in Hong Kong: using the social determinants of health framework, William Chi Wai Wong, Sealing Cheung, Heidi Yin Hai Miu, Julie Chen, Kelley Ann Loper, and Eleanor Holroyd
Mental Health Problems and Associated Socio-Ecological Factors Among HIV-Positive Young Migrant Men Who Have Sex with Men in China, Haochu (Howard) Li, Joseph T. F. Lau, Eleanor Holroyd, and Xiaoming Li
MERS-CoV - are we on the verge of a pandemic?, Bushra Jamil and Kiren Habib
Metabolic syndrome and its predictors in an urban population in Kenya: A cross sectional study, Geoffrey Omuse, Daniel Maina, Mariza Hoffman, Jane Mwangi, Caroline Wambua, Elizabeth Kagotho, Angela Amayo, Peter Ojwang, Zul Premji, Kiyoshi Ichihara, and Rajiv Erasmus
Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast, an intriguing rarity., Naila Kayani, Fozia Rauf, and Yasmin Bhurgri
Metastasis in meningioma, S. Ather Enam, S Abdulrauf, B Mehta, GM Malik, and A Mahmood
Metastatic Cutaneous Crohn's Disease: A Case Report., Amna Subhan Butt, Fakhar Qazi, and sadia tabassum
Methylation Levels of CADM1, MAL, and MIR124-2 in Cervical Scrapes for Triage of HIV-Infected, High-Risk HPV-Positive Women in Kenya., De Vuyst Hugo, Franceschi Silvia, Plummer Martyn, Nelly R. Mugo, Samah R. Sakr, Chris J. L. M. Meijer, Daniëlle A. M. Heideman, Vanessa Tenet, Peter J. F. Snijders, Albertus T. Hesselink, and Michael Chung
Microalbuminuria in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus; the tip of iceberg of diabetic complications., Tauseef Ahmad, Imran Ulhaq, Minaz Mawani, and Najmul Islam
Microbial colonizers in leprosy skin ulcers and intensity of inflammation, Adriaan Willem Sturm, Bushra Jamil, Keith P W J McAdam, K Z Khan, S Parveen, T J Chiang, and Rabia Hussain
Microbiological profile and factors predicting mortality in patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, Khalid Mumtaz, Saeed Hamid, Zaigham Abbas, Bushra Jamil, Rumina Hasan, Shahab Abid, Hasnain Ali Shah, and Wasim Jafri
Microorganisms causing urinary tract infection (UTI) & their susceptibility among children aged 0 to 5 years at French Medical Institute for Children, Kabul Afghanistan, Jalil Ahmad Sestani
Mid aortic syndrome correction: anaesthetic considerations and management, Mohammad Irfan Akhtar, Mohammad Hamid, Muneer Amanullah, Mubashar Khan, Shahabuddin, and Mansoor Ahmed Khan
Midterm results of bovine jugular vein conduit for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction, Shazia Samad Mohsin, Maria Tariq Siddiqui, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Mehnaz Atiq, and Muneer Amanullah
Midwifery education and maternal and neonatal health issues: challenges in Pakistan, Rafat Jan Rukanuddin, Tazeen S. Ali, and Beth McManis
Migrant caregiving for family members with mild cognitive impairment: an ethnographic study, Siena C. Ramsay, Jed Montayre, Victoria Egli, and Eleanor Holroyd
Minimally invasive treatment of ureteropelvic junction obstruction: optimizing outcomes with concomitant cost reduction, Faiz H. Mumtaz; Sashi S. Kommu; Emad Siddiqui,; Pieter J. Le Roux; Giles Hellawell; and Ashok K. Hemal
Minimally symptomatic severe hypercalcaemia in a patient with parathyroid carcinoma., Aisha Sheikh and Najmul Islam
Missing dimensions in addressing child malnutrition in Pakistan : lessons from the tawana experience, Kausar S. Khan, Ghazala Rafique, and Sohail Amir Ali Bawani
Missing in UK nursing: a structured conceptualisation of nursing care as a pre-requisite to electronic records, Charles Docherty and M Kellagher
Mitral annulus myxoma extending into left atrium and left ventricle with severe mitral regurgitation as a pre-operative finding, a rarity, Hamza Abdur Rahim Khan, Atiya Hameedullah, Omar Irfan, Muhammad Tariq, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Mitral valve replacement in systemic lupus erythematosus associated libman–sacks endocarditis, Anam Akhlaq, Taimur A. Ali, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Mixed salmonella infection: a case series from Pakistan, Binish Arif Sultan, Naima Fasih, Saba Qaiser, Erum Khan, Afia Zafar, and Seema Irfan
Mobile Health (mHealth) Technology for the Management of Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia: Slow Start but Loads of Potential., Hasan Rehman, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Pamela B. Morri, Saleem Sayani, Anwar T. . Merchant, and Salim S. Viran
Mode of coronary revascularization and short term clinical outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease, Ashique Ali Khoso, K. Kazmi, Saqiba Tahir, Hasanat Sharif, and Safia Awan
Modification and implementation of NCCN guidelines on prostate cancer in the Middle East and North Africa region., Waleed A. Hassen, Farrok A. Karsan, and Farhat Abbas
Modified early warning (MEW) score: a low cost tool in predicting in-hospital outcomes of acutely ill medical patients, Bushra Jamil, Mehreen Anis, Annie Merchant, Najeeha Talat, Zunirah Ahmed, and Ashique Ali
Modulation of cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions by MUC1 mucin and its effects on cellular proliferation, MJH Hudson, GWH Stamp, T Oates, and El Nasir Lalani
Molecular analysis of six factor xiii-a-deficient families in Southern Pakistan, Shazia Aslam, G R Standen, Mohammad Khurshid, and F Bilwani
Molecular characterization of neurotransmitter transporters, Saad Shafqat, M Velaz- Faircloth, A Guadaño- -Ferraz, and R T Fremeau
Molecular cloning and expression of human tumor-associated polymorphic epithelial mucin, Sandra J. GendlerS,; Carole A. Lancaster; Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou; Trevor Duhig,; Nigel Peat; Joy Burchell; L Pemberton; El Nasir Lalani; and Wilson D
Molecular confirmation of the causes of inherited visual impairment in Northern Pakistan., Mehreen Adhi, Yasmin Rashid, Syed Hussain Jafr, Chris F. Inglehearn, and Martin Mc Kibbin
Molecular diagnostic assays detection of crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Azra Samreen, Lamia Altaf, Bushra Jamil, tariq moatter, and Zahra Hasan
Molecular studies of ichthyosis vulgaris in Pakistani families., Azam J. Samdani, Naghma Naz, and Nuzhat Ahmed
Monitoring and reporting transfusion reactions as a quality indicator – a clinical audit, Shabneez Hussain, Bushra Moiz, Fatima Azra Ausat, and Mohammad Khurshid
Monochorionic twin pregnancies: a systematic approach to diagnosis and management, Sikolia Wanyonyi
Monocyte chemo-attractant proteins (MCP): potential group of biomarkers for diagnosis and monitoring of overactive bladder (OAB), Gamal M Ghoniem, Nuzhat Faruqui, Ayman Mahdy, Mostafa Elmissiry, and Asim B Abdel- Mageed
Morbidities of cervical cerclage: experience at a tertiary referral center, Saba Mubasshir, Shama Munim, and Ghulam Zainab
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY ASSESSMENT IN ACUTE HEPATITIS-E., L. Kamani; Saeed Sadiq Hamid; Faisal Wasim smail,; Syed Waqas Haider; Safia Awan; Ashfaq Ahmed; and Wasim Jafri
Morbidity of colostomy reversal, Salma Khan; Abdul Rehman Alvi; , Zara Awan; and Naveed Haroon Rashid
More deaths from Rift valley fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Khabir Ahmed
“More than meets the eye” non secretory myeloma presenting as cidp in a patient with longstanding diabetic polyneuropathy. a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge., Farheen Niazi and Arsalan Ahmad
Morning report is an effective teaching activity: residents and faculty perspectives, M. Tariq, Shahab Abid, and Wasim Jafri
Mortality Across Two ART Trials Enrolling at ≤200 vs ≤350 CD4 cells/uL in Kenya, Rachel A. Silverman, Michael Chung, James N. Kiarie, Nelly Yatich, Julia Njoroge, Catherine Kiptiness, Samah Sakr, Grace John-Stewart, and Lisa Frenkel
Mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged <5 years in>Pakistan, Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Mohiuddin, Adam L. Cohen, Ahmed Khalid, Usma Mehmood, Farnaz Naqvi, Nargis Asad, Khatidja Pardhan, Kim Mulholland, Rana Hajjeh, Anita K.M. Zaidi, and Saad Shafqat
Mortality in Sepsis and its relationship with Gender., Nosheen Nasir, Bushra Jamil, Shahla Siddiqui, Fauzia A. Khan, and Rabia Hussain
Motivating and demotivating factors for community health workers engaged in maternal, newborn and child health programs in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review., Leah Shipton, Aysha Zahidie, and F. Rabbani
Motivation of clinical faculty towards teaching and learning., M. Tariq and Syed Ahsan Ali
Moving ahead: what will a renewed Countdown to 2030 for Women and Children look like?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Mickey Chopra
Moving backwards, moving forward: the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to life in New Zealand, Jed Montayre, Stephen Neville, and Eleanor Holroyd
Moyamoya disease: a clinical spectrum, literature review and case series from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan., Sana Shoukat, Ahmed Itrat, Ather M. Taqui, Moazzam Zaidi, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Moyamoya disease: an elusive diagnosis, K. B. Asumal, N. Akhtar, N. A. Syed, Saad Shafqat, and S. M. Baig
Moyamoya disease presenting with intracranial haemorrhàge, Ali Akbar Zehri, Aftab Qureshi, and Rashid Jooma
MP18.19: First surgical series of 100 radical retropubic prostatectomies from Pakistan, Farhat Abbas, Nuzhat Faruqui, and A. Razzak Nasir
MRSA becomes growing problem in US emergency departments, Khabir Ahmad
MSF concerned about access to drugs in Guatemala, Khabir Ahmed
MSF tuberculosis report criticises DOTS strategy, Khabir Ahmed
MSF tuberculosis report criticises DOTS strategy, Khabir Ahmed
MUC1: a genetic susceptibility to infertility?, Andrew W Horne, John O White, Raul A Margara, Ross Williams, Robert ML Winston, and El Nasir Lalani
MUC1 expressed in PanC1 cells decreases adhesion to type 1 collagen but increases contraction in collagen lattices, M. J. Hudson, G. W Stamp, M. A. Hollingsworth, M. Pignatelli, and El Nasir Lalani
MUC1 in normal and impaired spermatogenesis, Folker E. Franke, Sigurd Kraus, Claus Eiermann, Katharina Pauls, El Nasir Lalani, and Martin Bergmann
Multicomponent intervention versus usual care for management of hypertension in rural Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial., Tazeen H. Jafar, Imtiaz Jehan, H. Asita de Silva, Aliya Naheed, Mihir Gandhi, Pryseley Assam, Eric A. Finkelstein, Helena Legido Quigley, Marcel Bilger, Aamir Hameed, John David Clemens, Shah Ebrahim, Elizabeth L. Turner, and Anuradhani Kasturiratne
Multidisciplinary approach to the prenatal diagnosis and post natal management of a large suprasellar arachnoid cyst: a case report., Omar Irfan, Heera Nand, Sarfraz Karim, Shabina Arif, and Aneela Darbar
Multidisciplinary management of adult orbital rhabdomyosarcoma, Laura Bagdonaite, Irfan Jeeva, Bernard Y P Chang, George Kalantzis, and Nabil Hindy
Multifocal venous thrombosis in behcet’s disease, Lena Jafri, Nosheen Nasir, and Aysha Almas
Multilevel modeling of binary outcomes with three-level complex health survey data., Shafquat Rozi, Sadia Mahmud, Gillian Lancaster, Wilbur Hadden, and Gregory Pappas
Multiple cerebral hydatid cysts in 8-year-old boy: a case report and literature review of a rare presentation, Muhammad Babar Khan, Muhammad Riaz, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Mumps myocarditis: a forgotten disease?, Sheraz Hussain, Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Arshalooz J. Rahman, Mehnaz A. Atiq, and S. H. Ibrahim
Muscle paralysis in thyrotoxicosis., Fraz Anwar Siddiqui, and Aisha Sheikh
Muslim scholars' knowledge, attitudes and perceived barriers towards polio immunization in Pakistan., Muhammad Umair Khan, Akram Ahmad, Saad Salman, Maria Ayub, Talieha Aqeel, Noman-ul Haq, and Muhammad Ubaid Khan
Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages, David Stucki, Daniela Brites, Leïla Jeljeli, Mireia Coscolla, and Gunturu Revathi
Myelofibrosis in severe vitamin D deficiency rickets, Mehnaz Atiq, Zehra Fadoo, Fouzia Naz, and Mohammad Khurshid
“My hands are tied”: Nurses’ perception of organizational culture in Kenyan private hospitals, Gladys Mbuthia, Sharon Brownie, and Eleanor Holroyd
Myocarditis complicating Plasmodium vivax malaria., Noreen Nasir, Saima Lalani, Zahra Aziz Samani, and Aysha Almas
My patient had a small vessel stroke, are two antiplatelet agents better than one?, Muhammad Faisal Wadiwala and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
My patient has a lot of variability in his blood pressure measurements? Should I be worried? What can I do which may be better?, Quratulain Shaikh and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
My patient has an elevated hs-CRP. What does this mean? What should I do now?, Maria Khan, Emmon Raza, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
My patient has carotid stenosis. should he get stenting or endarterectomy?, Quratulain Shaikh, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
My patient has intracranial stenosis, does he need an intracerebral stent? Results of the SAMMPRIS study., Muhammad Faisal Wadiwala, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
My patient just had a transient ischaemic attack. Can I predict his risk for stroke? Is stroke inevitable or preventable?, Maria Khan and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
My philosophy of teaching and learning., Amber Hussain Sayani
Myths & fallacies about health & disease among patients presenting to family physicians at the Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Naureen Alim, and Iqbal Azam
Myths regarding treatment of hepatitis: the vicious cycle of increasing morbidity, Waris Qidwai, Naureen Alim, and Iqbal Azam
Myxoid liposarcoma originating in the anterior mediastinum, Mohammad Harisullah Khan, Ramsha Kashif, Hamza Abdur Rahim Khan, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis associated with public water supply, Pakistan, 2014, Najia Ghanchi, Erum Khan, Azam Khan, Wali Muhammad, Faisal Riaz Malik, and Afia Zafar
Nail as a foreign body in a neonate, an unusual presentation at an unusual age, Sayyeda Ghazala Irfan Kazi, Muhammad Irfan Habib, Badar Afzal, Irum Qamar Khan, Emaduddin Siddiqui, and Maryam Aftab
Nalidixic acid screening test in detection of decreased fluoroquinolone susceptibility in salmonella typhi isolated from blood, Afia Zafar, NG Ibrahim, T Ahsan, Z Abbas, A Zaidi, and Rumina Hasan
Nanotechnology and its implication in medical science, Syed Ahsan Ali and M. Tariq
Narcotic analgesics for acute migraine in the emergency room: are we meeting headache societies' guidelines?, Mohammad Wasay, Khawaja Slaman Zaki, Saqib Uddin Khan, and Rifat Rehmani
National estimates of predictors of outcomes for emergency general surgery, Adil Aijaz Shah, Adil Hussain Haider, Cheryl K. Zogg, Diane A. Schwartz, Elliott R. Haut, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Eric B. Schneider, Catherine G Velopulos, Shafu Shahid, Hasnain Zafar, and David T. Efron
National Health Accounts: lessons for Pakistan., ashar muhammad malik
Nature, scope and use of economic evaluation of healthcare programmes: with special reference to Pakistan., Muhammad Ashar Malik, Saleem Perwaiz Iqbal, and Farina Abrejo
ncreased Asian collaboration in fight against avian flu, Khabir Ahmed
Near complete aortic transection and its successful repair using a novel cardiopulmonary bypass technique, Dania Aijaz Shah, Adil Aijaz Shah, Syed Jawad Shah, Muhammad Naseer Khan, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Necrotizing fasciitis in neonates, Zafar Nazir
Necrotizing fasciitis of the breast, Saira Nizami, Kamran Mohiuddin, Mohisin-e-Azam, Hasnain Zafar, and Muhammad Ashraf Memon
Need for multilevel strategies and enhanced acceptance of contraceptive use in order to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in a Muslim society: a qualitative study of young adults in urban Karachi, Pakistan., Syed Farid-ul-Hasnain, Eva Johansson, Saleema Aziz Gulzar, and Gunilla Krant
Needle stick injuries--risk and preventive factors: a study among health care workers in tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan., Asad Ali Khan Afridi, Ameet Kumar, and Raza Sayani
Neonatal and perinatal infections, Amira M. Khan, Shaun K. Morris, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism in Pakistan, Murntaz Lakhani, Mohammad Khurshid, Shehla H. Naqvi, and Mohammad Akber
Neoplastic growth of cerebral cavernous malformation presenting with impending cerebral herniation: a case report and review of the literature on de novo growth of cavernomas., Arshad Sidiqui and Rashid Jooma
Nephrolithiasis after bariatric surgery: a review of pathophysiologic mechanisms and procedural risk., Umer Hasan Bhatti, Andrew J. Duffy, Kurt Eric Roberts, and Amir Hafeez Shariff
Neuroblastoma screening in Canada, Khabir Ahmed
Neurocytoma in the cerebellum: case report, S. Ather Enam, Mark L. Rosenblum, and Khang-Loon Ho
Neurodevelopment, nutrition, and inflammation: the evolving global child health landscape, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Richard L. Guerrant, and Charles A. Nelson
Neurofibromatosis type 2 patient presenting with medulloblastoma, Jan Kalimullah, Abdul Malik Amir Humza Sohail, Rai Dilawar Shahjehan, Sabeehuddin Siddique, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Neuroimmunology: An expanding frontier in 21st century neurology, Mohammad Saeed and Arsalan Ahmad
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: exploration of the expanded nurses roles: advocate and educator in severe drug induced syndromes, David Arthur and K Usher
Neurological disorder burden in Faisalabad, Punjab-Pakistan:data from the major tertiary carecenters of the city, Ghulam Hussain, Asif Shahzad, Haseeb Anwar, Shahid Mahmood Baig, Asghar Shabbir, and Jose-luis Gonzalez De Aaguilar
Neurological health profile in pakistan – A health systems based needs assessment, Tauhid Awan, Arsalan Ahmad, Ather Javed, Mohammad Wasay, Muhammad Babar Khan, and Haroon Awan
Neurologic complications of bacterial meningitis, Emaduddin Siddiqui
Neurology Training in Pakistan, Sarwar Jamil Siddiqui
Neurology training in Pakistan: perspectives From physicians in a neurology unit working At different levels, Ali Zohair Nomani, Haris Majid Rajput, and Misbah Ahmed
Neurorobotics in Pakistan, S. Ather Enam and Muhammad Waqas
Neurosarcoidosis presenting as psychiatric Symptoms: a diagnostic challenge, Farheen Niazi and Tariq Hussain
Neurosurgeons and electrocautery, S. Ather Enam
Neurosurgery training in Pakistan: Follow-up survey and critical analysis of National Training Programmes., Dr Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Mehboob Alam, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Mohsin Qadeer
Neurosurgical training in Pakistan, S. Ather Enam
Neutrophil function in chronic granulocytic leukaemia before and after busulphan treatment, J A Whittaker, Mohammad Khurshid, and H R Hughes
New agent overcomes resistance to imatinib, Khabir Ahmed
New and contemporary markers of prognosis in nonmuscle invasive urothelial cancer, Hammad Ather and Syed M Nazim
Newborn care practices in low socioeconomic settlements of Karachi, Pakistan, Fariyal F. Fikree, Tazeen S. Ali, Jill M. Durocher, and Mohammad Hossein Rahbar
New genetic clues to predict response to tamoxifen, Khabir Ahmed
New HIV/AIDS vaccine enters phase II trials, Khabir Ahmed
New leadership model for family physicians in the Eastern Mediterranean region: a pilot study across selected countries, Salman Rawaf, Waris Qidwai, TAM Khoja, Kashmira Nanji, NY Kurashi, F Alnasir, MA Al Shafaee, M Al Shetti, M Bashir, NES Saad, S Alkaisi, W Halasa, H Al-Duwaisan, A Al-Ali, TM Farahat, M Tarawneh, A Khathami, A Abutiheen, Iqbal Azam Syed, and A Swaka
New mechanism for COX1 in ovarian cancer, Khabir Ahmed
New Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus as an Unusual Presentation of a Suspected Organophosphate Poisoning, Shahan Waheed, Amber Sabeen, and Nadeem Ullah Khan
New progress in treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer, Khabir Ahmed
Newsdesk-Foreign national with HIV face deportation from the UK, Khabir Ahmed
Newsdesk-SARS case was influenza H5N1, Khabir Ahmed
New tuberculosis drug enters human trials, Khabir Ahmed
New WHO antenatal care model—quality worth paying for?, Andrew Weeks and Marleen Temmerman
Nigella sativa oil reduces extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)-like behavior in haloperidol-treated rats, Tafheem Malik, Sheema H. Hasan, Shahid Pervez, Tasneem Fatima, and Darakhshan J Haleem
Nigella sativa oil Reduces extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)-like behavior in haloperidol-treated rats, Tafheem Malik, Sheema Hasan, Shahid Pervez, Tasneem Fatima, and Darakhshan Jabeen Haleem
Nigella sativa oil reduces extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)-like behavior in haloperidol-treated rats, Tafheem Malik, Sheema Hasan, Shahid Pervez, Tasneem Fatima, and Darakhshan Jabeen Haleem
Nigella sativa oil reduces extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)-like behavior in haloperidol-treated rats, Tafheem Malik, Sheema H Hasan, Shahid Pervez, and Darakhshan Haleem
Nipple adenoma of breast: a masquerader of malignancy, Kanwal Aftab and Romana Idress
Nitric oxide and its metabolites in the critical phase of illness: rapid biomarkers in the making, Asad Mian, Mayank Aranke, and Nathan S. Bryan
Nitric oxide metabolites as biomarkers for influenza-like acute respiratory infections presenting to the emergency room, Asad Mian, Federico R Laham, Andrea T Cruz, Harsha Garg, Charles G Macias, A. Chantal Caviness, and Pedro A Piedra
NMDA encephalitis in an elderly with poor prognosis, Farheen Niazi, Abdul Hameed, Tariq Hussain, Sarah Faiz, and Hassan Atique
Non-cardiac surgery in patients with prosthetic heart valves: a 12 years experience, Raja Parvez Akhtar, Abdul Rehman Abid, Hasnain Zafar, Syed Javed Raza Gardezi, Abdul Waheed, and Jawad Sajid Khan
Non communicable diseases in Pakistan: burden, challenges and way forward for health care authorities, Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma
Non-compaction of the left ventricle and associated ventricular septal defect., Abid Laghari, Javed Tai, and Sumaira Saleem
Non-invasive parameters for the detection of variceal bleed in patients of liver cirrhosis, an experience of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Anam Umar, Fakhar Qazi, Rukhsana Abdul Sattar, and Beena Umar
Nontyphoidal salmonella disease: current status of vaccine research and development, Sharon M. Tennant, Calman A. MacLennan, Raphael Simon, Laura B. Martin, and M. Imran Khan
Nosocomial buffalopoxvirus infection, Karachi, Pakistan, Afia Zafar, Robert Swanepoel, Roger Hewson, Mazhar Nizam, Altaf Ahmed, Akhtar Husain, Antoinette Grobbelaar, Kevin Bewley, Valerie Mioulet, Barry Dowsett, Linda Easterbrook, and Rumina Hasan
Nosocomial infections in the ICU: pens and spectacles as fomites, Haris Farooq Murad and Khawaja Muhammad Inam Pal
Nosocomial outbreak of hepatitis E infection in Pakistan with possible parenteral transmission, A. R. Saddiqui and Rashid Jooma
Novel Chemotherapeutic Strategies in the Management of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis Due to Naegleria fowleri, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr. and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Novel de novo SCN2A mutation in a child with migrating focal seizures of infancy, Radhika Dhamija, Elaine Wirrell, Germano Falcao, Salman Kirmani, and Lily C. Wong-Kisiel
Novel means of spread of bloodborne infections in Pakistan, Khabir Ahmed; Naveed janjua; Hasan Bin Hamza,; and M. Imran Khan
Nuclear FoxO3a expression is associated with lymph node negative, ER+ invasive ductal carcinomas, Gulisa Turashvili, E. Fridman, H. Romanska, Eric W-F Lam, J. Skarda, P. Murray, Zdenek Kolar, and El Nasir Lalani
Nurses and neuroleptic medication: applying theory to a working relationship with clients and their families, K.J. Usher and David Arthur
Nurses attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care, Chan Moon Fai and David Arthur
Nurses' knowledge of evidence-based guidelines for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in critical care areas: a pre and post test design, SM Meherali, Y Parpio, Tazeen S. Ali, and F Javed
Nurse teachers’ conceptions and practices of written feedback in Karachi., Sobia Idrees, Raisa B. Gul, Ambreen tharani, and Syeda Kauser Ali
Nursing competencies: personal characteristics contributing to effective nursing performance, Zhi-xue Zhang, Weety Luk, David Arthur, and Thomas Wong
Nursing education, profession and practice in Bishkek, Kyrgyz republic: a situation analysis., Salima Somani and Rozina Karmaliani Professor
Nutritional parameters predicting postoperative infections, Jamsheer Talati, M. Shameem, and Mohammad Khurshid
Nutritional status and physical abuse among the children involved in domestic labour in Karachi Pakistan: a cross-sectional survey., Saima Zainab and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Nutritional status of children admitted for diarrhoeal diseases in a referral hospital in western Kenya, I. Marete, J. Simba, Peter Gisore, C. Tenge, D. Bosire, A. Mwangi, and F. Esamai
Nutrition: How will the next 'Decade of Nutrition' be different from the past one?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Nutrition in intensive care in adults review of the literature and development of evidence based feeding protocols., Sarah Ikram; Erfan Hussain,; and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Obesity and its relation with diabetes and hypertension: a cross-sectional study across 4 geographical regions., Shivani A. Patel, Mohammed K. Ali, Dewan Alam, Lijing L. Yan, Naomi S. Levitt, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, William Checkley, Yangfeng Wu, Vilma Irazola, Laura Gutierrez, Adolfo Rubinstein, Roopa Shivashankar, Xian Li, J. Jaime Miranda, Muhammad Haider Chowdhury, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee, Thomas A. Gaziano, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Prabhakaran Dorairaj
Obesity, an emerging epidemic in Pakistan-a review of evidence., Sana Tanzil and Tanzil Jamali
Objective cure of urinary retention following laparoscopic hysterectomy for a large uterine fibroid, Ayman Mahdy, Nuzhat Faruqui, and Gamal Ghoniem
Obstetric cerebral venous thrombosis, Bhojo Khealani, Uzma U Mapari, and Rozina Sikandar Sultanali
Occlusal outcome of non-extraction and all first premolars extraction treatment In patients with class-I malocclusion., Adeel Tahir Kamal, Attiya Shaikh, and Mubassar Fida
Occupational health of self-employed skilled labourers and daily-wage workers in Pakistan., Noor Ul-Ain Baloch, Abdul Rehman Alvi, and Muhammad Awais
Ocular manifestation, complications and aetiological factors in Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis, Shaukat Ali Chhipa, Sadia Masood, Yasir Salarzai, Qazi Assad Khan, Khabir Ahmad, and Sara Sajid
Oesophageal duplication cyst presenting as haemoptysis, Noureen Afzal, Syeda Ezz-e-Rukhshan Adil, Ammara Mushtaq, Arshalooz Rahman, and Muneer Amanullah
Oligonucleotide ligation assay detects HIV drug resistance associated with virologic failure among antiretroviral-naive adults in Kenya, Michael Chung, Ingrid A. Beck, Sandra Dross, Kenneth Tapia, James N. Kiarie, Barbra A. Richardson, Julie Overbaugh, Samah R. Sakr, Grace C. John-Stewart, and Lisa M. Frenkel
Omitting histopathology in wrist ganglions. a risky proposition, Akbar Jaleel Zubairi, Santosh Kumar, Yasir Mohib, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, and Shahryar Noordin
Oncology curriculum in developing countries and the lessons to be learned, Irfan Jeeva, Rakesh Jayasawal, Naveen Kermani, and Pankaj Pauri
One year symptom severity and health-related quality of life changes among Black African patients undergoing uterine fibroid embolisation, Charles Mariara, Timona Obura, Nigel Hacking, and William Stones
On-table extubation after open heart surgery in children: an experience from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country., Mehar Hoda, Anwarul Haque, Fareena Aijaz, Mohammad I. Akhtar, Amina Rehmat, Muneer M Amanullah, and Babar S. Hasan
Operative management of patients with non-spinal metastatic bone disease. does it actually improve quality of life?, masood umer; Yasir Mohib; and Hafiz Muhammad Umer,
Operative management of patients with non-spinal metastatic bone disease. Does it actually improve quality of life?, masood umer, Yasir Mohib, and Hafiz Muhammad Umer
Operative management of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures, Mujahid Jamil Khattak, Shakir Syed, and Riaz Hussain Lakdawala
Operative treatment of bilateral hip dislocation in children with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, S Asif, masood umer, and Rashid Baig
Opportunistic health promotion among family practice patients at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Amina Adil, and Iqbal Azam
Opportunities and Challenges in Realizing Universal Access to Obstetric Ultrasound in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sikolia Wanyonyi, Charles Muriuki Mariara, Sudhir Vinayak, and William Stones
Optimization of low pre-operative hemoglobin reduces transfusion requirement in patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate, Hammad Ather, Nuzhat Faruqui, and F. Abid
Optimizing breast cancer diagnosis in Kenya: Importance of standardization of technical methodologies for comparative breast cancer data., Shahin Sayed, Zahir Moloo, Ronald Wasike, Rajendra Chauhan, Sudhir Vinayak, Joseph Karanu, Peter Bird, Wambui Njoroge, Ancent Nzioka, Andrew Gachii, David Chumba, James Obondi Otieno, Musa Mohamed, Ammar Al-Ammary, Omar Sherman, Satya Prasad, Catherine Kyobutungi, and Mansoor N. Saleh
Optimum number of procedures required to achieve procedural skills competency in internal medicine residents, M. Tariq, Nizar Bhulani, Asif Jafferani, Quratulain Naeem, Syed Ahsan Ali, Afaq Motiwala, Jan van Dalen, and Saeed Hamid
Orbital cellulitis masquerading as Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis: a case report, M. R. Shaikh, Syed Muhammad Baqir, and N. Zakir
Organisational barriers to effective pain management amongst oncology nurses in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Alqahtani, Linda Katherine Jones, and Eleanor Holroyd
Organize or die: Exploring the political and organizational activities, Fulgence Saronga and Shine Swai
OSATS for total knee replacement: assessment of surgical competence in the operating room, Shahryar noordin and Salim Allana
Osseous spinal sarcoidosis: an unusual but important entity to remember., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Mughis Sheerani, Ahmed Suleman Haque, Humera Ahsan, and Kulsoom Fatima
Osteoid osteoma of acetabulum a rare presentation, Irfan Ashraf; Sidra Kanwal,; and Pervaiz Hashmi
Our experience with van nes rotationplasty for locally advanced lower extremity tumours, Raza Askari, masood umer, Mohsin-e-Azam, and Haroon Rashid
Outcome and cost effectiveness of autobiographically guided surgical clip placement for tumor localization in patients undergoing neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer., Imrana Masroor, Sana Zeeshan, Shaista Afzal Saeed, Saira Naz, Madeeha Ali, Khabir Ahmad, and Shaista Khan
Outcome and factors associated with hospital mortality in patients with impaired left ventricular function undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: where do we stand?, Mubashir Zareen Khan, S Perveen, JA Ansari, SA Sami, S Furnaz, and Saulat H. Fatimi
Outcome of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a single center experience, M. Usman, I. Burney, A. Nasim, Salman Adil, A. Salam, T. Siddiqui, and Mohammad Khurshid
Outcome of home mechanical ventilation, N Salahuddin, K Haider, SJ Husain, S Siddiqui, Fazal Hameed Khan, and R. Manasia
Outcome of judet's quadricepsplasty for knee contractures and the effect of local infiltration of epinephrine on reducing blood loss, Akbar Jaleel Zubair, Haroon Rashid, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Moiz Ali, and Pervaiz Hashmi
Out come of mechanical ventilation in Pakistan, Fazal Hameed Khan, FA Khan, RI Khan, and RS Kamal
Outcome of surgical treatment of esophageal atresia and it’s associated factors among newborns at FMIC Hospital Kabul Afghanistan, Bashir Akbary
Outcome of triple procedure in older children with developmental dysplasia of hip (DDH), Masood Umer, Haq Nawaz, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, and Mahmood Ahmed
Outcomes and associated factors of neonatal intestinal obstruction (NIO) at French Medical Institute for Children, Kabul, Afghanistan, Mohammad Omar Bahram
Outcomes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Mohamed Hasham Varwani
Outcomes of caudal block in children undergone lower umbilical surgeries at French Medical Institute for Mother and Child Health, Kabul, Afghanistan, Ahmad Rashad Akbari
Outcomes of internal hemipelvectomy for pelvic tumors: a developing country’s prospective, masood umer, Rizwan Haroon Rashid, Yasir Mohib, and Haroon Rashid
Outcomes of splenectomy for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in adults: a developing country perspective., Amyn Pardhan, Aamir Hameed, Hasnain Zafar, Samia Mazahir, and Ghulam Murtaza
Outcomes of the Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) application during ventilation among children at French Medical Institute for Children, Kabul, Afghanistan, Khesrow Afghanyar
Outcomes of turco’s procedure for idiopathic clubfoot among children at French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children from January 2011 to July 2016, Salahuddin Siraj
Outrageous state, sectarianized citizens: Deconstructing the ‘Textbook Controversy’ in the Northern Areas, Pakistan, Nosheen Ali
Overcrowding in the emergency departments: challenges and opportunities for improvement, Muhammad Akbar Baig, Asad Mian, Fatima Najeeb, and Hira Shahzad
Over expression of fatty acid synthase in Middle Eastern epithelial ovarian carcinoma activates AKT and its inhibition potentiates cisplatin induced apoptosis, Shahabuddin, Zeenath Jehan, Maqbool Ahmed, Aisha Alyan, Fouad Al-Dayel, Azhar Hussain, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S Al-Kuraya
Over-expression of FoxM1 offers a promising therapeutic target in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Shahabuddin, Azhar Hussain, Maqbool Ahmed, Khawar Siddiqui, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant Bavi, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Over-the-counter availability of antimicrobial agents, self-medication and patterns of resistance in Karachi, Pakistan, Adriaan Willem Sturm, Rvander Pol, AJ Smits, Fmvan Hellemondt, S W Mouton, Bushra Jamil, A M Minai, and G.H.M.A. Sampers
Overview of coronary heart disease risk initiatives in South Asia., Ankur Kalra, Deepak L. Bhatt, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Kunal Suri, Sundeep Mishra, Romaina Iqbal, and Salim S. Virani
Overview of surgical management of infectious non-suppurative brain lesions (part 1), Shahzad Shamim, S. Ather Enam, Rushna Pervez Ali, Syed Faizan Ali, and Mohammad Wasay
Overview of surgical management of infectious non-suppurative brain lesions (part 2), Shahzad Shamim, S. Ather Enam, Syed Faizan Ali, Rushna Pervez Ali, and Mohammad Wasay
P0023 human papillomavirus and p53 mutation in oral cavity cancers of Pakistani patients: correlation with histological variables and disease outcome, S.M.A. Ali, Mohammad Sohail Awan, and Shahid Pervez
P23. Prediction of preeclampsia during early pregnancy in primiparas with soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and placental growth factor, Dileep K. Rohra, Amna Zeb, Rahat Qureshi, Syed Iqbal Azam, Nilofer Baber, Hina Saeed Zuberi, and Rozina Sikandar Sultanali
P2-498 Parents' perceptions and practices regarding consanguinity related to β-thalassaemia: a matched case control study, M Beg, R Siddiqui, Khabir Ahmad, and Khadija Humayun
Paediatric external ventricular drains: experience from a tertiary care hospital of a developing country, Abbas Qalab; Rayaan Asad; Mahnaz Hakeem,; Maria Ahmad; Anwar Haq; and Aneela Darbar
Paediatric innovation in Pakistan: our experience and a call to action, Walid Farooqi, Faysal Subhani, and Asad Mian
Paediatric rheumatology clinic outcome at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, UK, Irfan Jeeva, A Hardisty, S Kolb, J Hoole, V Long, and M Wood
Paediatric stool cultures: seasonal variation in bacterial pathogens isolated in Karachi, Pakistan, Mahboob Alam, Muna Ahmed, Syed Sohail Ali, Muslim Atiq, Yasir Naeem Akhtar, Aamir Ansari, Fahd Abdullah Chaudhry, Hamid Bashir, Syed Farid-ul-Husnain, and Afia Zafar
Paediatric traumatic brain injury: presentation, Badar Uddin Ujjan, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Babar Khan, Dr Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Paediatric traumatic brain injury: Presentation, prognostic indicators and Outcome analysis from a tertiary care center in a developing country., Badar Uddin Ujjan, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Babar Khan, Dr Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Pain assessment and management in different wards of a tertiary care hospital, Anwar ul Huda, Mohammad Hamid, Saboor Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Baqir, and Aysha Almas
Pain control for uterine fibroid embolisation : An initial experience in East Africa., Gilbert Mwaka, Vitalis Mung’ayi, Nigel Hacking, and William. Stones
Pakistan: a cirrhotic state?, Khabir Ahmed
Pakistan: a cirrhotic state?, Khabir Ahmed
Pakistan human resources for health assessment, 2009, A. Hafeez, Z Khan, K.M. Bile, Rashid Jooma, and M Sheikh
Pakistani physicians and the repatriation equation, Saad Shafqat and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Pakistan National Nutrition Survey, 2011, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sajid Bashir Soofi, S. Shujaat H Zaidi, Atif Habib, and mtiaz Hussain
Pakistan recognises burden of non-communicable disease, Khabir Ahmed
Pakistan struggles to eradicate polio, Khabir Ahmad
Palliative care: an alien concept in Pakistan., Nadia Pyarali Mulji and Sumaira Sachwani
Palliative medicine consultation impacts DNR designation and length of stay for terminal medical MICU patients., Dana Lustbader, Renee Pekmezaris, Michael Frankenthaler, Rajni Walia, Frederick Smith, Erfan Hussain, Barbara Napolitano, and Martin Lesser
Papua New Guinea Midwives Perspectives of the Effect of a Targeted Village Birth Attendant Education Program, Julie Kep Kamblijambi and Eleanor Holroyd
Paradoxical Thrombus 'Caught in the Act': Case Report and Review of the Literature., Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan; Sorcha Allen,; Mohammad Sharif,; and Farouk Mookadam,
Paradoxical Thrombus 'Caught in the Act': Case Report and Review of the Literature., Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Sorcha Allen, Mohammad Sharif, and Farouk Mookadam
Parathyroid hormone and its receptor gene polymorphisms: implications in osteoporosis and in fracture healing, Shahryar Noordin and Julie Glowacki
Particulate forms of APP in the extracellular milieu of cultured cells, K Barber, S. Ather Enam, S Bodovitz, M Falduto, D Frail, and WL Klein
Partner Disclosure and Early CD4 Response among HIV-Infected Adults Initiating Antiretroviral Treatment in Nairobi Kenya, T. Tony Trinh, Nelly Yatich, Richard Ngomoa, Christine J. McGrath, Barbra A. Richardson, Samah R. Sakr, Agnes Langat, Grace C. John-Stewart, and Michael Chung
Partnership in Action: A Case Study in Nursing Workforce and Leadership Development in East Africa, Sharon Brownie
Partograph initiation and completion: a criteria-based audit study in Uganda, Ziidah Namwaya, Susan Birungi, Elizabeth Namutebi, Elizabeth Ayebare, Mariam Namutebi, Sarah Muwanguzi, Enid Mwebaza, and Rebecca Smyth
Patent ductus arteriosus: an uncommon cause of tracheobronchial compression in infants, Mehnaz Atiq, S. Alvi, Zafar Nazir, and Saulat Fatimi
Paternalistic model of medical practice, Waris Qidwai
Pathogenesis of amoebic encephalitis: Are the amoebae being credited to an ‘inside job’ done by the host immune response?, Abdul Mannan Baig
Pathogen reduction technology in transfusion: where do we stand?, Mohammad Khurshid and Bushra Moiz
Pathophysiology of cerebral venous thrombosis--an overview., Ahmed Itrat, Sana Shoukat, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Patient attendants views on their role in doctor–patient consultation, Waris Qidwai, Maria Khan, and Iqbal Azam
Patient autonomy: reflections from a developing country, Waris Qidwai
Patient complaints among emergency room patients at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Muhammad Baqir, Syed Sohail Ali, and Semi Ayub
Patient compliance among family practice patients, Waris Qidwai, N Noor, and SI. Azam
Patient education and mind diversion in supportive care., Salima Sadruddin, Rafat Jan, Adnan Jabbar, Kashmira Nanji, and Ambreen Tharani
Patient expectations from an emergency medical service, Waris Qidwai, SS Ali, M Baqi, and S Ayub
Patient knowledge and expectations for functional recovery after stroke, Joel Stein, Saad Shafqat, Daniel Doherty, Elizabeth P. Frates, and Karen L. Furie
Patient misunderstanding of commonly used overactive bladder (OAB) questionnaires: a prospective study, Nuzhat Faruqui, D. H. Kim, Ayman Mahdy, B. N. Almosaieed, and Gamal M Ghoniem
Patient referral patterns at a family practice centre in Karachi, Waris Qidwai and Malika Maqbool
Patients’ attitudes and perceptions regarding person centered care: results of a survey from an urban city of Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Zehra Kazmi, and Kashmira Nanji
Patients' insight of interpreting prescriptions and drug labels--a cross sectional study., Muhammad Junaid Patel, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Farheen Ali, Zehra Kazmi, Safia Awan, and Ayesha Sorathia
Patients' satisfaction and spectacle independence after cataract surgery with multifocal intraocular lens implantation in a tertiary care hospital, Rashid Baig; Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry; Saajan Kukreja,; Sidra Shakil; and Khabir Ahmad
Patients' views about physicians' spiritual role in medical practice, Waris Qidwai and Arsalan Tayyab
Patients’ visual experience during phacoemulsification cataract surgery and associated fear, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Amash Aqil, Kanza Aziz, Ammar Asrar Javed, Mohammad Zain Tauqir, and Khabir Ahmad
Pattern of chromosomal abnormalities in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Safoorah Khalid, Mohammad Usman, Salman Adil, Ambreen Ayub, and Mohammad Khurshid
Pattern of drugs of abuse identified in chemical samples, Farhan Javed Dar, Aysha Habib, Imran Siddiqui, and Farooq Ghani
Pattern of dyslipoproteinemia in selected population of Karachi, Erum Khan, Ayesha Molla, Naila Kayani, and Mohammad Khurshid
Pattern of eye diseases at the primary health centers in a Pakistani district, Khalil A. Lakho,; Mohammad Babar Qureshi; Mohammad Aman Khan; Mohammad Daud Khan; and Khabir Ahmad
Pattern of health care utilization and determinants of care-seeking from GPs in two districts of Pakistan., Naveed Z Janjua, Mohammad I Khan, Hussain R Usman, Iqbal Azam, Moazzam Khalil, and Khabir Ahmad
Pattern of presenting complaints recorded as near-drowning events in emergency departments: a national surveillance study from Pakistan., Siran He, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, Nukhba Zia, Uzma Rahim Khan, Khusro Shamim, and Adnan Ali Hyder
Pattern of relapse in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in a tertiary care unit, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Sayyeda Ghazala Kazi, Muhammad Irfan Habib, Khalid Mehmood Ahmed Khan, and Nukhba Zia
Patterns, control and complications of diabetes from a hospital based registry established in a low income country., J. Akhter, Asma Ahmed, Minaz Mawani, Laila Lakhani, Ayaz Kalsekar, shehla Tabassum, and Najmul Islam
Patterns of spread and recurrence of glioma: studies by neuroimaging, S. Ather Enam, AD Eisenberg, D Norman, and ML Rosenblum
Patterns of tuberculosis in the central nervous system, Soobia Raza, Aliyah Sadaf, Faisal Fecto, Rushna Pervez Ali, Ehsan Bari, and S. Ather Enam
Patterns of use and non-use of the services of hakim practitioners among patients in Karachi, Waris Qidwai
Paucity of trauma literature from a highly burdened developing country, Rizwan Sultan and Hasnain Zafar
Pediatric emergency medicine--an evolving sub-speciality in Pakistan, Emaduddin Siddiqui and Junaid Razzak
Pediatric endotracheal intubations for airway management in the emergency department., Bano Surraiya, Akhtar Saleem, Nukhba Zia, Uzma Rahim Khan, and Anwarul Haq
Pediatric laparoscopic surgery; initial experience from Pakistan; first 100 cases in single center, Hassan Ishaq; Saqib Hamid Qazi; Sohail Dogar; Muhammad Younus Khan Durrani,; and Ahmad Vaqas Faruque
Pediatric laparoscopic surgery; initial experience from Pakistan; first 100 cases in single center, Hassan Ishaq, Saqib Hamid Qazi, Sohail Dogar, Muhammad Younus Khan Durrani Khan Durrani, and Ahmad Vaqas
Pediatric urolithiasis: to cut or not to cut, Farhat Moazam, Zafar Nazir, and Aamir M. Jafarey
Peer pressure and family smoking habits influence smoking uptake in teenage boys attending school: multilevel modeling of survey data., Shafquat Rozi, Sadia Mahmud, Gillian Lancaster, and Nida Zahid
Peer review audit of trauma deaths in a developing country, AA Jat, MR Khan, Hasnain Zafar, AJ Raja, Q Hoda, R Rehmani, RH Lakdawala, and S. Bashir
Peer violence perpetration and victimization: prevalence, associated factors and pathways among 1752 sixth grade boys and girls in schools in Pakistan., Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Judith Mcfarlane, Rozina Somani, Hussain Maqbool Ahmed Khuwaja, Shireen Shehzad, Tazeen Saeed Ali, S. A. Gulzar, Yasmeen Hassan Somani, Esnat D. Chirwa, and Rachel Jewkes
Penetrating pharyngeal injuries in children: trivial trauma leading to devastating complications, Zubair Luqman, Muhammad Arif Mateen Khan, and Zafar Nazir
Penile constrictive band injury, Zafar Nazir, Khalid Rasheed, and Farhat Moazam
Perceived stress and support of the Chinese postpartum ritual "doing the month", SK Leung, David Arthur, and IM Martinson
Perception about family physicians: results of a survey of patients visiting specialist clinics for treatment, S. A. Huda, Z. A. A. Samani, and Waris Qidwai
Perceptions about female sexuality among young Pakistani men presenting to family physicians at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai
Perceptions of eye health in schools in Pakistan, Khabir Ahmad
Perceptions of learners about peer assisted learning and lectures, Seema Daud and Syeda Kausar Ali
Perceptions of medical students regarding dimensions of environmental wellness, Shahjahan Katpar, Rakhshaan Khan, Rabia Siddiqu, Mehwish Hussain, and Rehana Rehman
Perceptions of Parents With Preterm Infants Hospitalized in Singaporean Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Yang, Yen Yen; He Hong-Gu; Lee Soke Yee; Eleanor Holroyd; Shorey Shefaly; and Koh Serena
Perceptions of the impact of an advanced training programme on the management skills of health professionals in Gauteng, South Africa, Judith Mutyabule, F. Senkubuge, D. Cameron, V. Pillay, and P. Petrucka
Perceptions of undergraduate nursing students regarding active learning strategies, and benefits of active learning., Shams Ul Huda, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Kashmira Nanji, and Shanaz Hussein Cassum SC
Perceptions on bioethics among general practitioners in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Hafeez Qureshi, Iqbal Azam, Syed Sohail Ali, and Semi Ayub
Perceptions on bioethics among patients presenting to family physicians at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Waris Qidwai, Hafeez Qureshi, Syed Sohail Ali, Mahboob Alam, and Syed lgbal Azam
Perceptions regarding helmet use: a cross-sectional survey of female pillions in Karachi, Pakistan, Maryam Saeed, Selma Marie Siddiqui, Uzma Rahim Khan, and Mamta Swaroop
Percutaneous coronary intervention in unprotected left main coronary artery disease., hafeez .ahmed, JAVED MAJID TAI, and SAJID DHAKAM
Perforated sub-hepatic appendix; rare presentation of a common disease., Huzaifa Ali Jaliawala, Fatima Mannan, Roger Gill, and Abdul Rehman Alvi
Perinatal outcome of twin pregnancies according to chorionicity: an observational study from tertiary care hospital, Shazia Masheer, Humaira Maheen, and Shama Munim
Perinatal outcomes in pregnancy with asthma., Rashid Jooma, Rashid Zaheer Syed, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Muhammad Ahsan Zafar, and Rahat Qureshi
Perinatal women's perceptions about midwifery led model of care in secondary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan., shahnaz shahid Ali ali, Rafat Jan, Rahat Qureshi, and Salma Rattani
Periocular infantile haemangioma and the role of propranolol., Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Mustafa Kamal, and Khabir Ahmad
Peri-operative determinants of prolonged CICU stay after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in elderly at a private tertiary care hospital: a case control study, Fazal Khan; Shiraz Hashmi; SYed Saad Naeem,; Benish Fatima; Hashim Hanif; Mubashir Zareen Khan; and Saulat Hasnain Fatimi
Perioperative steroids for lumbar disc surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials., Muhammad Waqas; Hussain Shallwani,; Muhammad Shahzad Shamim; and Khabir Ahmed
Peripartum cardiomyopathy: ten year experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan., Abid Laghari, Aamir Hameed, and K. Kazmi
Persistent albuminuria as a surrogate marker of chronic kidney damage among newly diagnosed hypertensives: Prevalence and risk factors in an urban population in Karachi, Pakistan., Muslima Ejaz, Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammed Mubarak, Tazeen Jafar, Juanita Hatcher, and Tazeen Jafar
Persistent fetal lobulation of kidney mimicking renal tumour, Syed Muhammad Nazim, Muhibullaha Bangash, and Basit Salam
Personal cleansing and dressing, Charles Docherty, K. Lang, and J Timmons
Perspectives on the practice of vaginal birth after caesarean section in East Africa, Sikolia Wanyonyi, A. M. Mukaindo, and William Stones
Perspectives regarding antenatal care, delivery and breast feeding practices of women from Baluchistan, Pakistan., Aneeta Khoso, Ayesha Zahid Khan, Sayeeda Amber Sayed, and Ghazala Rafique
Petroclival meningioma presenting with pathological laughter, Saad Shafqat, MS Elkind, EA Chiocca, M Takeoka, and WJ Koroshetz
Pharmacological agents for reducing the haemodynamic response to tracheal intubation in paediatric patients: a systematic review, M Nazir, Bushra Salim, and F A. khan
Pharmacological basis for the medicinal use of polyherbal formulation and its ingredients in cardiovascular disorders using rodents, A Malik, Malik Hassan Mehmood, H Channa, MS Akhtar, and AH Gilani
Pharmacological basis for the medicinal use of Rhus coriaria in hyperactive gut disorders, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Arham Shabbir, Hassan Mehmood, and Anwarul Hassan Gilani
Pharmacological studies on antidiarrheal, gut modulatory, bronchodilatory and vasodilatory activities of myrica nagi, Ambreen Aleem, Khalid Hussain Janbaz, Hassan Mehmood, Samra Bashir, Fayez Jawed, Najeeb-ur-Rehman, and Anwarul-Hassan Gilani
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Phase 2 comparison of a novel ammonia scavenging agent with sodium phenylbutyrate in patients with urea cycle disorders: safety, pharmacokinetics and ammonia control, Brendan Lee, William Rhead, George A. Diaz, Bruce F. Scharschmidt, Asad Mian, Oleg Shchelochkov, J.F. Marier, Martin Beliveau, Joseph Mauney, Klara Dickinson, Antonia Martinez, Sharron Gargosky, Masoud Mokhtarani, and Susan A. Berry
Phloroglucinol (spasfon) in Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Wasim Jafri, javed Yakoob, S Hussain, Nadim Jafri, and Muhammad Islam
Phosphorylated IκBα predicts poor prognosis in activated B-cell lymphoma and its inhibition with thymoquinone induces apoptosis via ROS release, Azhar Hussain, Shahab Uddin, Maqbool Ahmed, Fouad Al-Dayel, Prashant P. Bavi, and Khawla S. Al-Kuraya
Phosphorylated tau epitope of alzheimer's disease is coupled to axon development in the avian central nervous system, Whitney Pope, S. Ather Enam, Nitin Bawa, Barney E. Miller, Hossein A. Ghanbari, and William L Klein
Phosphorylation of both EGFR and ErbB2 is a reliable predictor of prostate cancer cell proliferation in response to EGF, Soha Salama El Sheikh, Jan Domin, Paul Abel, Gordon Stamp, and El Nasir Lalani
Photo quiz: young girl with cough, headache, and visual loss., Aisha Ilyas, Naima Fasih, Kauser Jabeen, ehsan Bari, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Phylloides tumors in adolescent girls and young women in Pakistan., Naila Kayani, Amna Khurshid, and Yasmin Bhurgri
Physical exercise as a key health determinant among patients, Waris Qidwai, Danish Saleheen, Sadia Saleem, Marie Andrades, and Iqbal Azam
Physical violence and its associated factors among married women in Multan, Southern Punjab, Pakistan, Shafquat Inayat, Shahina Pirani, Tazeen S. Ali, Uzma Rahim Khan, and Josefin Särnholm
Physician assisted suicide perceptions among patients presenting to family physicians at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, H. Qureshi, S. S. Ali, M. Alam, and S. I. Azani
PI3’/AKT pathway plays a critical role in the survival of DLBCL, S Uddin, Azhar Hussain, PS Manogaran, AK Siraj, N Al-Jomah, VL Atizado, A Moorji, H El-Solh, P Bavi, and K Al-Kuraya
PIH2 lead detoxifying effect of vitamin C in traffic police subjects, A.H. Gilani, O. Fazal, A.J. Shah, Hassan Mehmood, and S.A. Tariq
Pituitary adenomas: presentations and outcomes in a South Asian country, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Muhammad Ehsan Bari, and Rashid Jooma
Platelets and leucocyte counts in pregnancy, Saadiya Aziz Karim, Javaid H. Rizvi, Iffat Rizwana, Mohammad Khurshid, and Sadiqua N. Jafarey
Play distraction versus pharmacological treatment to reduce anxiety levels in children undergoing day surgery: a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial, N Yateem, M Brenner, A Shorrab, and Charles Docherty
Pneumonia caused by nocardia caviae in a healthy neonate, Perween Mufti and Bushra Jamil
Pneumoperitoneum following mechanical ventilation in a child, Fazal Hameed Khan and Nadeem Ahmad
Pneumoperitoneum, pneumoretroperitoneum, pneumomediastinum and extensive subcutaneous emphysema in a patient with ulcerative colitis: a case report., Usman T Siddiqui, Hira Shahzad, and Asad Raja
PNEUMOTHORAX RATES DURING CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER PLACEMENT BY JUNIOR RESIDENTS IN A SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: 513., Altieri-Perez, R; Shakir, H; Goverman J; Bank, M A; Hanna, A; Hussain, E; Cohn, E; and Jacobs, M C
PO10.19 clinical spectrum of pseudo seizures at a tertiary care hospital Karachi: a video EEG based study, Nadeem Ahmed Memon, Bhojo A. Khealani, Fazal Karim, Mustafa Khan, Nadir Ali Syed, and Saad Shafqat
PO5.53 critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy: experience at a tertiary care center in Pakistan, Ghulam Shabbir, Ali Mehmood Raufi, Mustafa Khan, Nawal Salahuddin, and Saad Shafqat
Poetry, power, protest: Reimagining Muslim nationhood in Northern Pakistan, Nosheen Ali
Point-of-care lactate measurement in resource-poor settings, Muhammad Khan, Nick Brown, and Asad Mian
Point of Care Ultrasound: A WFUMB Position Paper, Christoph F. Dietrich, Adrian Goudie, Liliana Chiorean, Xin Wu Cui, Odd Helge Gilja, Yi Dong, Jacques S. Abramowicz, Sudhir Vinayak, Susan Campbell Westerway, Christian Pállson Nolsøe, Yi-Hong Chou, and Michael Blaivas
Policy makers perceptions regarding performance of the lady heath worker programme: is there a know-do gap? findings from the NIGRAAN project, F. Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, I. N Abbas, Wafa Aftab, Kashif Sangrasi, L Shipton, and Aysha Zahidie
Polio - an endemic disease in Pakistan: literature review., Savera Aziz Ali, Nadir Suhail, Hunaina Hadi, Mohsina Hussain, Marium Manji, Jaweria Bano, Abdul Salam, Sajida Naseer, and Sumera Aziz Ali
Polio eradication and health systems in Karachi: vaccine refusals in context, Rashid Jooma, Emma Varley, NAINA QAYYUM1, SONIA RODRIGUES, AKASHA Sarwar, and PATRICIA OMIDIAN
Polio spreads to western darfur, Khabir Ahmed
Polio travel restrictions: a sledgehammer to crack a nut?, Rashid Jooma
Polio vaccination campaign starts in Yemen, Khabir Ahmed
Polio vaccination to restart in Kano state, Khabir Ahmed
Political determinants of health: lessons for Pakistan, Rashid Jooma and Guido Sabatinelli
Political violence and religious extremism: what can be done to help children in need?, Siham Muntasser, Ayesha I Mian, and Mark Chenven
Polycythemia vera and idiopathic erythrocytosis: comparison of clinical and laboratory parameters, M. Usman, F. Bilwani, G. N. Kakepoto, Salman Adil, R. Sajid, and Mohammad Khurshid
Ponderal index, Jabeen Fayyaz
Pontine hemorrhage due to chondrosarcoma of the skull base, Maliha Iqbal Jumani, Roomasa Channa, Sayed Nabeel Zafar, and S. Ather Enam
Poor glycaemic control is the major factor associated with increased frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with diabetes mellitus, Shahab Abid, Wasim Jafri, Firdous Jahan, Fauziah Rabbani, Najmul Islam, Masood H. Khan, and Rana Masood
Population-attributable estimates for risk factors associated with hepatitis B and C: policy implications for Pakistan and other South Asian countries., Bilal Ahmed, Tooba Ali, Huma Qureshi, and Saeed Hamid
Population-based resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates to pyrazinamide and fluoroquinolones: results from a multicountry surveillance project, Matteo Zignol, Anna S. Dean, Sönke Andres, Natavan Alikhanova, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Daniela Maria Cirillo, Andrei Dadu, Andries Dreyer, Michèle Driesen, Christopher Gilpin, Rumina Rumina, Zahra Hasan, Sven Hoffner, Ashaque Husain, Alamdar Hussain, Nazir Ismail, Mostofa Kamal, Mikael Mansjö, Lindiwe Mvusi, Stefan Niemann, Shaheed V. Omar, Ejaz Qadeer, Leen Rigouts, Sabine Ruesch Gerdes, Marco Schito, Mehriban Seyfaddinova, Alena Skrahina, Sabira Tahseen, William A. Wells, Ya Diul Mukadi, Michael Kimerling, Katherine Floyd, Karin Weyer, and Mario C. Raviglione
Population beliefs about the efficacy of injections in Pakistan's Sindh province, Naveed Z. Janjua; Yvan J. Hutin; , Saeed Akhtar; and Khabir Ahmad
Population genetics and drug resistance markers: an essential for malaria surveillance in Pakistan, Afsheen Raza and Mohammad Asim Beg
Population impact of Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine, M. Imran Khan, Rion Leon Ochiai, and John D Clemens
POS03.127: Histologic tumor grade as an independant prognostic factor in Paksitani males with prostate cancer, Farhat Abbas, Nuzhat Faruqui, K. Sikander, and Iqbal Azam
Post-abortion family planning counselling practice among abortion service providers in China: a nationwide cross-sectional study, Longmei Tang, Shangchun Wu, Jiong Li, Kun Wang, Jialin Xu, Marleen Temmerman, Wei-Hong Zhang, and INPAC Consortium
Post-chemotherapy neuroblastoma-like differentiation in ewing sarcoma of humerus: report of a rare case with review of literature, Nasir Ud Din, Amna Qasim, Zubair Ahmad, and Sheema H Hasan
Posterior mediastinal branchial cleft cyst: an unusual site, Abdul Rashid, Vaqas Ahmad, Saqib Qazi, Abdul Gaffar Billoo, Sajida Rashid, and Ali Faisal Saleem
Postoperative wound leak and anterior chamber reaction in patients undergoing phacoemulsification cataract surgery with sutured and sutureless corneal incisions, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Sameer Khan, and Khabir Ahmad
Postpartum contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning in five low-income countries., Omrana Pasha, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Archana Patel, Ana Garces, Fabian Esamai, Elwyn Chomba, Janet L. Moore, Bhalchandra S. Kodkany, Sarah Saleem, Richard J. Derman, Edward A. Liechty, Patricia L. Hibberd, K. Michael Hambidge, Nancy F. Krebs, Waldemar A. Carlo, Elizabeth M. McClure, Marion Koso-Thomas, and Robert L. Goldenberg
Postpartum depression and related psychosocial variables in Hong Kong Chinese women: findings from a prospective study, Sharron S.K Leung, Ida M. Martinson, and David Arthur
Postpartum depression in Asian cultures: a literature review, PiyaneeK Klainin and David Arthur
Postpartum experiences of first-time fathers in a Tanzanian suburb: a qualitative interview study, Columba Mbekenga, Helen I. Lugina, Kyllike Christensson, and Pia Olsson
Potential of black pepper as a functional food for treatment of airways disorders, Abdul Rehman, Hassan Mehmood, Muhammad Haneef, Anwarul Hassan Gilani, Maimoona Ilyas, Bina Shaheen Siddiqui, and Mansoor Ahmed
Practical Neurology linked to the curriculum: an online resource, Dilraj Sokhi, Alice Brockington, and Christine Lo
Practices of faculty members regarding teaching and learning strategies in nursing education., Shams Ul Huda, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Kashmira Nanji, and Shanaz Hussein Cassum SC
Practices of tracheal suctioning technique among health care professionals: literature review, Rozina Khimani, Fauziya Ali Dr., Sama Rattani, and Mohammad Sohail Awan
Precipitating factors and the outcome of hepatic encephalopathy in liver cirrhosis., Dileep K. Rohra, jaipal, Ameer A. Khowaja, Khalid Mahmood, and Kanya Lal Ahuja
Precision medicine and low- to middle-income countries., Abdul Rehman Alvi; Muhammad Awais; and Noor Ul-Ain Baloch,
Predicting outcomes of decompressive craniectomy: use of rotterdam computed tomography classification and marshall classification, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Faaiz Enam, Dr Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, and Khabir Ahmad
Predicting postoperative cardio-pulmonary complications by a test of stair climbing, Nawal Salahuddin, Saulat H. Fatimi, Shehzad Huda, Mohammad Islam, and Azam Shafquat
Predictors for permanent pacemaker requirement after transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the CoreValve bioprosthesi, Hasan Jilaihawi, Derek Chin, Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera, Jeilan Mohamed, Tomasz Spyt, G. Andre' Ng, Johan Bence, Elaine Logtens, and Jan Kovac
Predictors for the development of post-thrombotic syndrome in patients with primary lower limb deep venous thrombosis: a case-control study., Nadeem Ahmed Siddiqui, Ziad Sophie, Farhan Zafar, Delvene Soares, and Iram Naz
Predictors of ischemic versus hemorrhagic strokes in hypertensive patients., Bhojo A Khealani, Nadir A. Syed, Sabeen Maken, Uzma U. Mapari, Bilal Hameed, Sajjad Ali, Rizwana Qureshi, Naveed Akhter, Ali Hassan, Aziz Sonawalla, Shahid M. Baig, and Mohammad Wasay
Predictors of Poor Outcome in Hospitalized Chronic Liver Disease Patients., Fakhar Qazi, Shahab Abid, Safia Awan, and faiza farooq
Predictors of sepsis in moderately severely injured patients: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank, Mehreen Kisat, Cassandra V. Villegas, Sharon Onguti, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Asad Latif, David T. Efron, Elliott R. Haut, Eric B. Schneider, Pamela A. Lipsett, Hasnain Zafar, and Adil H. Haider
Pregnancy complications kill 70 000 teenagers a year, Khabir Ahmed
Pregnancy dermatoses: A three-year study, Azam J. Samdani
Preliminary study of effecacy of doxazosin as a medical expulsive therapy of distal ureteric stones in a randomized, Ali Akbar Zehri, Hammad Ather, Farhat Abbas, and Syed Raziuddin Biyabani
Premature abandonment of global vitamin A supplementation programmes is not prudent!, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Shawn K. Baker
Prenatal chromosomal diversification of leukemia in monozygotic twins, Helena Kempski, Karen A. Mensa- Bonsu, Lyndal Kearney, G. Reza Jalali, Ian Hann, Mohammad Khurshid, and Mel Greaves
Preoperative cardiac evaluation in proximal femur fractures and its effects on the surgical outcome., Kashif Abbas, masood umer, and Raza A Zaidi
Preparing for the next natural disaster – need for a WHO coordinating centre, Mohammad Wasay and Saad Shafqat
Presenting features, treatment patterns and outcomes of patients with breast cancer in Pakistan: Experience at a university hospital, Kumar s, Shaikh A. J, Rashid YA, Masood N, Mohammed ATV, Malik UZ, and Ghulam H
Prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in a rural setting in Pakistan, Khabir Ahmed; Khan, Mohammad Daud; Muhammad Babar Qureshi; and Shahnawaz Munami
Prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in a rural setting in Pakistan, Khabir Ahmed; Khan, Mohammad Daud; Shahnawaz Munami; Muhammad Babar Qureshi; and Raza Ali Shah
Prevalence and causes of wrong time medication administration errors: experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan., Salimah Taufiq
Prevalence and determinants of blood pressure screening in Pakistan, Khabir Ahmad and Jafar, Tazeen
Prevalence and determinants of unintended pregnancies amongst women attending antenatal clinics in Pakistan, Atif Habib, Camille Raynes- Greenow, Sidrah Nausheen, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Muhammad Sajid, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, and Kirsten I Black
Prevalence and determinants of unintended pregnancy: systematic review, Sumera Aziz Ali, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, and Waris Qidwai
Prevalence and factors associated with maternal postpartum haemorrhage in Khyber agency, Pakistan, N Gani and Tazeen S. Ali
Prevalence and factors associated with postpartum vaginal infection in the Khyber agency federally administered tribal areas, Pakistan, Nasreen Ghani, Rafat Jan Rukanuddin, and Tazeen S. Ali
Prevalence and perceptions about consanguineous marriages among patients presenting to family physicians, in 2001 at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Waris Qidwai, Iqbal Azam, and Faisal M Khan
Prevalence and predictors of smoking in Pakistan: results of the National Health Survey of Pakistan, Khabir Ahmed; Fahim Jafary; Imtiaz Jehan; Juanita Hatcher; Abdul Qayum Khand , Khan; Nish Chaturvedi; and Tazeen Jafar
Prevalence, determinants, and management of chronic kidney disease in Karachi, Pakistan - a community based cross-sectional study., Saleem Jessani, Rasool Bux, and Tazeen Jafar
Prevalence of and reasons for domestic violence among women from low socioeconomic communities of Karachi, Tazeen S. Ali and Gavino I. Bustamante
Prevalence of Bladder Dysfunction in Children with Primary Nocturnal Enuresis Presenting to the Hospital, Nikita Pravin Jethwa
Prevalence of body-focused repetitive behaviors in three large medical colleges of Karachi: a cross-sectional study., Efaza Umar Siddiqui, Syed Saad Naeem, Haider Naqv, and Bilal Ahmed
Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy among individuals screened positive for diabetes in five community based eye camps in northern Karachi Pakistan, Jamal-u- Din, Mohammad Babar Qureshi, Akhtar Jamal Khan, Mohammad Daud Khan, and Khabir Ahmed
Prevalence of early childhood disability in a rural district of Sind, Pakistan, Shahnaz Ibrahim and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Prevalence of gastric varices and results of sclerotherapy with N-butyl 2 cyanoacrylate for controlling acute gastric variceal bleeding., Mumtaz J Khan; Shahid Majid,; Syed H Shah; Kashif Hameed; Ashfaq Ahmed; Saeed Hamid; and Wasim Jafri
Prevalence of Hepatic Steatosis as Diagnosed on Unenhanced Abdominal CT, Naushad H. Karim Sokwalla
Prevalence of hepatitis B and C viral infections in Pakistan: findings of a national survey appealing for effective prevention and control measures, H Qureshi, K.M. Bile, Rashid Jooma, S.E Alam, and H.U.R. Afrid
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in lymphoproliferative disorders, F. Bilwani, Y. Zaidi, G. N. Kakepoto, Salman Adil, and Mohammad Khurshid
Prevalence of Hepatitis D in Hbsag Positive Patients Visiting the Liver Clinics in Pakistan, Naresh Seetlani, Z Abbas, S Naqvi, javed Yakoob, and Wasim Jafri
Prevalence of hepatitis G virus in Pakistani children with transfusion dependent beta- thalassemia major, Tariq Moatter, Salman Adil, S Haroon, S Azeemuddin, Farrukh Hassan, and Mohammad Khurshid
Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection in Pakistani patients with oral cancer, Mohammad Sohail Awan
Prevalence of interpersonal sexual abuse among married female nurses and doctors in Karachi, Pakistan., Azmat Jehan Khan, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, and Nargis Asad
Prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia in children of the urban slums of Karachi, Ayesha Molla, Mohammad Khurshid, and A. Majid Molla
Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among dentists in teaching hospitals in Karachi, Muhammad Hasan Hameed, Rabia Ghafoor, Farhan Raza Khan, and Sheikh Bilal Bada
Prevalence of non-Helicobacter pylori duodenal ulcer in Karachi, Pakistan., javed Yakoob, Wasim Jafri, nadim jafri, Muhammad Islam, Shahab Abid, Saeed Hamid, Syed H Shah, and Hizbullah Shaikh
Prevalence of non Helicobacter pylori species in patients presenting with dyspepsia., javed Yakoob, Z Abbas, Rustam Khan, Chagufta Naz, Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Islam, Safia Awan, Fatima jafri, and Wasim Jafri
Prevalence of perceived heavy postpartum hemorrhage and its associated factors among married mothers in squatter settlements of Karachi, Tazeen S. Ali and Fazal Ather
Prevalence of thalassemia minor trait in Pakistani population presented at Akuh for complete blood count estimation (CBC)., Alia Shaikh and Mohammad Khurshid
Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in socioeconomically disadvantaged localities in Quetta, Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Mohammed Babar Qureshi, Muhammad Aman Khan, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Khabir Ahmad, and Mohammad Daud Khan
Prevelacne of pressure ulcers in patients with spinal cord injury; a retrospective study, Aatik Arsh, Haider Darain, Syed Muhammad Ilyas, and Amir Zeb
Preventable lifestyle risk factors for non-communicable diseases in the Pakistan Adolescents Schools Study 1 (PASS-1)., Ali Khan Khuwaja, Saleem Khawaja, Komal Motwani, Adeel Khoja, Iqbal Azam Syed, Zafar Fatmi, Badar Sabir Ali, and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Preventing neural tube defects by folic acid fortification of flour, Rashid Jooma
Preventing neural tube defects by folic acid fortification of flour, Rashid Jooma
Preventing peer violence against children: methods and baseline data of a cluster randomized controlled trial in Pakistan., Judith Mc Farlane, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Hussain Maqbool Ahmed Khuwaja, Saleema Gulzar, Rozina Somani, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Yasmeen Hassan Somani, Shireen Shehzad, Ryan D. Krone, Rene M. Paulson, Atta Muhammad, and Rachel Jewke
Preventive gabapentin versus pregabalin to decrease postoperative pain after lumbar microdiscectomy: a randomized controlled trial, Mohsin Qadeer, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Jawad Rashid, S. Ather Enam, Salman Sharif, and Ghulam Murtaza
Preventive gabapentin versus pregabalin to decrease postoperative pain after lumbar microdiscectomy: a randomized controlled trial, Mohsin Qadeer, Muhammad Waqas, M J. Rashid, S. Ather Enam, Salman Sharif, and Ghulam Murtaza
Preventive gabapentin versus pregabalin to decrease postoperative pain after lumbar microdiscectomy: a randomized controlled trial, Mohsin Qadeer, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Jawad Rashid, Ather Enam, Salman Sharif, and Ghulam Murtaza
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri, Karachi, Pakistan., Sadia Shakoor; Mohammad Asim Beg,; Syed Faisal Mahmood; Rebecca Bandea; Rama Sriram; Fatima Noman; Farheen Ali,; Govinda S. Visvesvara; and Afia Zafar
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis: amoebicidal effects of clinically approved drugs against Naegleria fowleri, Abdul Mannan Baig, Huma Kulsoom, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis: Neurochemotaxis and Neurotropic Preferences of Naegleria fowleri., Abdul Mannan Baig Dr.
Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis Preventive Nose Plugs: Prophylaxis Against Naegleria fowleri, Abdul Mannan Baig Dr.
Primary anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma in adults. case report and review of literature, Usama Khalid Choudry, Saad Akhtar Khan, Amjad Qureshi, and Muhammad Ehsan Bari
Primary angiosarcoma of breast, Saroona Haroon, Naveen Faridi, and Faisal Rashid Lodhi
Primary billiary cirrhosis (antimitochondrial antibody negative) leading to secondary amyloidosis., Om Parkash and Aysha Almas
Primary care in Pakistan: issues, challenges and opportunities, Waris Qidwai
Primary care research, Michael Kidd, Garth Manning, Amanda Howe, Waris Qidwai, John W. Beasley, and Chris van Weel
Primary care research: opportunities and challenges, Waris Qidwai
Primary drug resistance to anti-tuberculous drugs in Karachi, Arshad Javaid, Nadim Rizvi, Mosavir Ansari, Ashraf Sadiq, Iqbal Sher Burki, Nadeem ur Rehman, Rumina Hasan, and Afia Zafar
Primary drug resistance to antituberculous drugs in NWFP Pakistan, Arshad Javaid, Abdul Ghafoor, Abdul Rab, Anila Basit, Zia ullah, Shaukat Ali, Afia Zafar, and Rumina Hasan
Primary elective spine arthrodesis: Audit of institutional cross matched to transfused (C/T) ratio to develop blood product ordering guidelines, Muhammad Mehboob Alam, Zain A Sobani, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Khabir Ahmad, and Fouzia Minai
Primary headache disorders in the adult general population of Pakistan - a cross sectional nationwide prevalence survey., A. A. Herekar,; A. Ahmad; , U. L. Uqaili; Bilal Ahmed; J Effendi; S. Z. Alvi; , M. A. Shahab; U. Javed; A. D. Herekar; Rafiq Khanani; and T. J. Steiner
Primary healthcare policy implementation in South Asia, Chris van Weel, Ryuki Kassai, Waris Qidwai, Raman Kumar, Kanu Bala, Pramendra Prasad Gupta, Ruvaiz Haniffa Haniffa, Neelamani Rajapaksa Hewageegana, Thusara Ranasinghe, Michael Kidd, and Amanda Howe
Primary hyperoxaluria in populations of Pakistan origin: results from a literature review and two major registries, Jamsheer Talati, Sally-Anne Hulton, Sander F. Garrelfs, Wajahat Aziz, Shoaib Rao, Amanullah Memon, Zafar Nazir, Syed Raziuddin Biyabani, Saqib Hamid Qazi, Iqbal Azam Syed, Aysha Habib, Jamil Ahmed, Lena Jafri, and Mohammad Zeeshan
Primary malignancies of bone and cartilage in Karachi, Yasmin Bhurgri, Ahmed Usman, Hadi Bhurgri, Naveen Faridi, Imtiaz Bashir, Asif Bhurgri, Sheema H Hasan, Mohammad Khurshid, and S M H Zaidi
Primary melanotic schwannoma with typical histology, Usman B. Mahmood, Fazal Wahab Khan, Benish Fatima, Muhammad Usman Tariq, and Saulat Hasnain Fatimi
Primary pseudoaneurysm of the descending aorta, Saulat H. Fatimi, Anum I. Malik, Awais Ashfaq, and Naquiya Murtaza
Primary repair of an esophageal rupture using pleural flap, Saulat H. Fatimi, Sadaf Sheikh, and Asif Anwar Ali
Primary spinal T-cell rich b-cell lymphoma: a case report, Suhail Muzaffar, Yousuf A. Husein, and Rashid Jooma
Print or not print: is that still the question?, Walid Ghali Nasr
Private drug sellers education in improving prescribing practices, Waris Qidwai, Mukesh Kumar Krishanani, Saman Hashmi, and Rubina Abu Ali
Problem-based learning (PBL): assessing students’ learning preferences using vark, Israa M.Alkhasawneh, Majd T.Mrayyan, Charles Docherty, Safaa Alashram, and Hamzeh Y. Yousef
Process consent: a model for enhancing informed consent in mental health nursing, Kim J. Usher and David Arthur
Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan, Nourin Jivany, javed Yakoob, Shazia Bana, Asima Faisa, and Humeira Jawed
Professional self-concept of nurses: a comparative study of four strata of nursing students in a Canadian university, David Arthur and Sally Thorne