Submissions from 2015
Hereditary hemochromatosis., Om Parkash and Muhammad Akram
Impact and correlation of environmental conditions on pollen counts in Karachi, Pakistan., Anjum Perveen, Muneeba Khan, Shaista Zeb, and Asif Ali Imam
Hepatic encephalopathy in chronic liver disease: predisposing factors in a developing country, Fakhar Qazi, Shameem Behram Khan, and Anam Umar
Unusual presentation with polymenorrhagia and markedly high 17-hydroxy progesterone levels in a lady with Non-Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia., Azra Rizwan and Marium Hayat
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
Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus: prevalence and risk factors among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in an Urban District of Karachi, Pakistan., Fahad Javaid Siddiqui; , Bilal Iqbal Avan; Sadia Mahmud; Debra J. . Nanan; Abdul Jabbar; and Pryseley Nkouibert Assam
Muscle paralysis in thyrotoxicosis., Fraz Anwar Siddiqui, and Aisha Sheikh
The association of GSTM1 and GSTT1 polymorphisms with squamous cell carcinoma of cervix in Pakistan., Sarah H. Siddiqui, Abdul Hameed, Saima Saleem, S. M. Shahid, Ghulam H, and Abid Azhar
Malignant ectopic thyroid tissue with distant metastasis: a case report, Shehla Tabassum, Najmul Islam, Saulat H. Fatimi, Mubasher Ikram, Arsalan Ahmed, and Maseehuz Zaman
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
Vivax malaria and chloroquine resistance: a neglected disease as an emerging threat, Anam A. Waheed,; Najia karim Ghanchi; Karim A. Rehman,; Afsheen Raza; Syed Faisal Mahmood; Syed faisal Mahmood; and Mohammad A. Beg
Arbovirus infections of the Nervous System: current trends and future threats, Mohammad Wasay, Ismail A. Khatri, and Foad Abd-Allah
Challenges of providing timely feedback to Residents: Faculty perspectives, Tabassum Zehra, M. Tariq, Afaq Motiwala, Syeda Kauser Ali, and John Boulet
Submissions from 2014
Effect of Helicobacter pylori and its virulence factors on portal hypertensive gastropathy and interleukin (IL)-8, IL-10, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels, Z Abbas, javed Yakoob, usman WM, Shakir T, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
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
Nanotechnology and its implication in medical science, Syed Ahsan Ali and M. Tariq
Diuretic induced hyponatremia in hypertensive patients., Aysha Almas, Nayla Ahmed, Fareed Khawaja, and Aamir Hameed
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
Hypertensive crisis, burden, management, and outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi, Aysha Almas, Ayaz Ghouse, Ahmed Raza Iftikhar, and Munawar Khursheed
Hypertensive Crisis, Burden, Management, and Outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi., Aysha Almas, Ayaz Ghouse, Ahmed Raza Iftikhar, and Munawar Khursheed
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
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
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
Short report: Diagnostic testing for hemorrhagic fevers in Pakistan: 2007-2013., Zahra Hasan, Barry Atkinson, Bushra Jamil, Azra Samreen, Lamia Altaf, and Roger Hewson
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
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
The polio fiasco in Pakistan, 2014, Bushra Jamil
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
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
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
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
Can prophylactic antibiotics for aspiration improve stroke outcomes? The PANTHERIS trial., Ayeesha Kamran Kamal and Quratulain Shaikh
Clinical course and outcome of acute severe asthma (status asthmaticus) in adults., Ali Khawaja, Hira Shahzad, Murtaza Kazmi, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: ten year experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan., Abid Laghari, Aamir Hameed, and K. Kazmi
Stroke in Asia: geographical variations and temporal trends, Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Maria Khan, Prachi Mehndiratta, and Mohammad Wasay
Myocarditis complicating Plasmodium vivax malaria., Noreen Nasir, Saima Lalani, Zahra Aziz Samani, and Aysha Almas
Outcomes of splenectomy for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in adults: a developing country perspective., Amyn Pardhan, Aamir Hameed, Hasnain Zafar, Samia Mazahir, and Ghulam Murtaza
Refeeding syndrome in a young girl with anorexia nervosa., Om Parkash, Adil Ayub, and Shahab Abid
Importance of measuring non-HDL cholesterol in type 2 diabetes patients., Nanik Ram; Bilal Ahmed; Fauzan Hashmi,; and ABDUL Jabbar
Case report: nocardia infection associated with ectopic cushings., Azra Rizwan, Aqiba Sarfaraz, Abdul Jabbar, J. Akhter, and Najmul Islam
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
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
Coronary artery dissection after blunt chest trauma., Fahad Shamsi,; Javed Tai; and Syedah Saira Bukhari
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
Quality of life in patients with thalassemia major in a developing country., Sarah H. Siddiqui, Ruba Ishtiaq, Faiza Sajid, and Raihan Sajid
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
Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma., Niaz Hussain Soomro, Sanaullah Junejo, Aneeqa Ahsan Zafar, Shirin Siddiqi, and Ghulam H
Motivation of clinical faculty towards teaching and learning., M. Tariq and Syed Ahsan Ali
Quality assurance and its application in medical education., M. Tariq and Syed Ahsan Ali
Task-based learning versus problem-oriented lecture in neurology continuing medical education., Farhan Vakani, Wasim Jafri, Amina Ahmad, Aziz Sonawalla, and Mughis Sheerani
New Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus as an Unusual Presentation of a Suspected Organophosphate Poisoning, Shahan Waheed, Amber Sabeen, and Nadeem Ullah Khan
Cerebral infarction and tuberculoma in central nervous system tuberculosis: frequency and prognostic implications, Mohammad Wasay, Salman Farooq, Zubair Ali Khowaja, Zeeshan Ali Bawa, Shehzad Mansoor Ali, Safia Awan, Mohammad Asim Beg, and Man Mohan Mehndiratta
Association of airborne Aspergillus with asthma exacerbation in Southern Pakistan., Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Iqbal Azam Syed, Safia Awan, Afia Zafar, and Asifali Imam
Submissions from 2013
Self-perceived health among school going adolescents in Pakistan: influence of individual, parental and life style factors?, Asad Ali Khan Afridi, Komal Motwani, Saleem Khawaja, Adeel Khoja, Zafar Fatmi, Iqbal Azam Syed, and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Diagnosis, treatment and follow-Up in four children with biotinidase deficiency from Pakistan, Bushra Afroze and Mohammad Wasay
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
Benefit of neuroprotection in acute ischaemic stroke, shall we dare to hope?, Anjum Akhtar and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
CLEAR: the intraventricular haemorrhage thrombolysis trial., Anjum Akhtar and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Compliance of medicine residents with 6-hour sepsis bundle at a tertiary care center, Ashique Ali, Hassan Ashraf Zia, and Bushra Jamil
School-based physical activity programme in preadolescent girls (9-11 years): a feasibility trial in Karachi, Pakistan., Aysha Almas, Muhammad Islam, and Tazeen Jafar
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
A descriptive study to find possible correlation between MRI findings of pituitary gland and serum prolactin level, Muhammad Azeemuddin, Rohana Naqi, and Mohammad Wasay
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
Growing burden of stroke in Pakistan: a review of progress and limitations, Mubashirah Hashmi, Maria Khan, and Mohammad Wasay
Clinical predictors of EMG-confirmed cervical and lumbosacral radiculopathy, Ali Hassan, Bilal Hameed, Islam M, Bhojo Asumal Khealan, Mustafa Khan, and Saad Shafqat
Unintentional childhood poisoning, epidemiology and strategies for the prevention and policy change in Pakistan, Omer ul Hassan, Hasana Qadri, Umer Mir, and Bilal Ahmed
ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME-A CONCISE CLINICAL REVIEW, Erfan Hussain and Fahad Hamid
Photo quiz: young girl with cough, headache, and visual loss., Aisha Ilyas, Naima Fasih, Kauser Jabeen, ehsan Bari, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Illuminating the dark side--vitamin D status in different localities of Karachi., Romaina Iqbal, Lena Jafri, Ali Haroon, and Aysha Habib
MERS-CoV - are we on the verge of a pandemic?, Bushra Jamil and Kiren Habib
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
What are the new therapeutic alternatives to warfarin in atrial fibrillation?, Syed Habibullah Kamran, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, and Syeda Maria Muzammil
Tenecteplase for stroke salvage therapy--extending the therapeutic window via CT based, Syed Kamran, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, and Syeda Maria Muzammil
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
Double-positive Goodpasture's syndrome with concomitant active pulmonary tuberculosis., Waqar Kashif, Sonia Yaqub, Syed Faisal Mahmood, and Junaid Patel
Stroke radiology and distinguishing characteristics of intracranial atherosclerotic disease in native South Asian Pakistanis., Maria Khan; Asif Rasheed; Saman Hashmi; Moazzam Zaidi; Saba Akhtar; Lajpat Bansari; Nabi Shah; Maria Samuel; Sadaf Raza; Umer Rais Khan; Bilal Ahmed; Bilawal Ahmed; Naveeduddin Ahmed; Jamal Ara; Tasnim Ahsan; S. M. Munir; Shoukat Ali; Khalid Mehmood; Karim Ullah Maki; Muhammad Masroor Ahmed; Niaz Sheikh; Abdul Rauf Memon,; Philippe M. Frossard; and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Haemorrhagic strokes in pregnancy and puerperium, Maria Khan and Mohammad Wasay
Pregnancy and Puerperium-Related Strokes in Asian Women, Maria Khan, Mohammad Wasay, Bindu Menon, Mohammad Saadatnia, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Padma Gunaratne, M. M. Mehndiratta, Alper Dai, and Subhash Kaul
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
Etiology and outcome of severe community acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adults., Ali Khawaja, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Fahad Khan Durrani, and Afia Zafar
Peripartum cardiomyopathy: ten year experience at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan., Abid Laghari, Aamir Hameed, and K. Kazmi
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome., Abid Laghari, Aamir Hameed, and K. Kazmi
Heavily thickened pericardium with constrictive pericarditis., Abid Laghari and Javed Tai
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
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
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
Wilson's disease: experience at a tertiary care hospital., Om Parkash, Adil Ayub, Wasim Jafri, Syed H Shah, and Saeed Hamid
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
Tumor necrosis factor -α, interleukin-10, intercellular and vascular adhesion molecules are possible biomarkers of disease severity in complicated Plasmodium vivax isolates from Pakistan., Afsheen Raza, Najia K. Ghanchi, Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Ahmed Raheem, Sobia Nizami, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Replicating changes in hand hygiene in a surgical intensive care unit with remote video auditing and feedback., Donna Armellino RN, Manish Trivedi MD, Isabel Law RN, Narendra Singh MD, Mary Ellen Schilling, Erfan Hussain, and Bruce Farber
Vitamin D accelerates clinical recovery from tuberculosis: results of the SUCCINCT Study [Supplementary Cholecalciferol in recovery from tuberculosis]. A randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of vitamin D supplementation in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis'., Nawal Salahuddin, Farheen Ali, Zahra Hasan, Nisar Rao, Masooma Aqeel, and Syed Faisal Mahmood
Case series and literature review of multiple nodular sarcoidosis., Hira Shahzad, Sameer Ur-Rehman, Kulsoom Fatima, Nadia Sharif, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
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
My patient has carotid stenosis. should he get stenting or endarterectomy?, Quratulain Shaikh, and Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
A Dynamical Study of Risk Factors in Intracerebral Hemorrhage using Multivariate Approach, Afaq Ahmed Siddiqui, Junaid S. Siddiqui, Mohammad Wasay, S. Iqbal Azam, and Asif Ahmed
Clinical characteristics, factors affecting sepsis outcome, Pakistan, Shahla Siddiqui, Bushra Jamil, Nosheen Nasir, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Fauzia Anis Khan, Phillippe Fossard, and Rabia Hussain
Reducing transfusion-associated malaria in Pakistan: an algorithmic approach, Zain A. Sobani, Sobia Nizami, Mehnaz Jabeen, Nayla Ahmed, Najia Karim Ghanchi, Mohammad Wasay, Bushra Moiz, and Mohammed Asim Beg
Vitamin B12 Supplementation in Trea ting Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Ehsan Ullah Syed, Mohammad Wasay, and Safia Awan
Quadricuspid aortic valve with aortic regurgitation: a rare echocardiographic finding., Javed Tai, Abid Laghari, and Cyrus Tariq Gill
Clinical reasoning and dual mental processing in diagnostic competence., M. Tariq and Syed Ahsan Ali