Submissions from 2020
Impact of COVID-19 on laboratory professionals-A descriptive cross sectional survey at a clinical chemistry laboratory in a developing country, Lena Jafri, Sibtain Ahmed, and Imran Siddiqui
Kidney stone analysis and spiritual guides (pir faqir): The known-unknowns, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib khan, and Humaira Asif
Kidney stone analysis and spiritual guides (pir faqir): The known-unknowns, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib Khan, and Humaira Asif
Fostering teaching-learning through workplace based assessment in postgraduate chemical pathology residency program using virtual learning environment, Lena Jafri, Imran Siddiqui, Aysha Habib Khan, Muhammed Tariq, Muhammad Umer Naeem Effendi, Azra Naseem, Sibtain Ahmed, Farooq Ghani, Shahnila Alidina, Nadir Shah, and Hafsa Majid
Erythema annulare centrifugum: A rare skin manifestation of hashimoto thyroiditis, Palwasha Jalil, Sadia Masood, and Saira Fatima
Histopathology of female genital tract, Naila Kayani, Romana Idrees, and Zeeshan Uddin
Utility of ultrasound and mammography in detection of negative axillary nodal metastasis in breast cancer, Anam khan, Imrana Masroor, Kumail Khandwala, Summar Un-Nisa Abbasi, and Muhammad Usman Tariq
The clinical features of co-circulating dengue viruses and the absence of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Pakistan, Erum Khan, Dhani Prakoso, Kehkashan Imtiaz, Faisal Malik, Joveria Farooqi, Maureen T. Long, and Kelli L. Barr
What are the barriers to implementing national antimicrobial resistance action plans? A novel mixed-methods policy analysis in Pakistan, Mishal S. Khan, Anna Durrance-Bagale, Ana Mateus, Zia Sultana, Rumina Hasan, and Johanna Hanefeld
Draft genome sequences of two extensively drug-resistant strains of acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical samples in Pakistan, Sara Lomonaco, Matthew A. Crawford, Christine Lascols, Debra J. Fisher, Kevin Anderson, David R. Hodge, Segaran P. Pillai, Stephen A. Morse, Erum Khan, Molly A. Hughes, Marc W. Allard, and Shashi K. Sharma
A mosaic tetracycline resistance gene tet(S/M) detected in an MDR pneumococcal CC230 lineage that underwent capsular switching in south Africa, Stephanie W. Lo, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Andries J. van Tonder, Mignon Du Plessis, Jennifer E. Cornick, Paulina A. Hawkins, Shabir A. Madhi, Susan A. Nzenze, Rama Kandasamy, and Sadia Shakoor
Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism: Improvement in short-term follow-up by audit and monitoring, Hafsa Majid, Sibtain Ahmed, Imran Siddiqui, Khadija N Humayun, Hussain Karimi, and Aysha Habib Khan
Precursor lymphoblastic lymphoma in the extramedullary tissue: A rare manifestation of chronic myeloid leukemia in blast crisis, Huma Mansoori, Maria Faraz, Hira Qadir, Anila Rashid, and Maria Ali
Maternal infection and stillbirth: A review, Elizabeth M. McClure, Robert M. Silver, Jean Kim, Imran Ahmed, Mangala Kallapur, Najia Bano Ghanchi, Mahantesh B. Nagmoti, Sangappa Dhaded, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, and Sarah Saleem
Histopathology of central nervous system (CNS) and skeletal muscle, Aisha Memon, Zubair Ahmad, and Sheema H Hasan
Histopathology of the liver, gall bladder and pancreas, Khurram Minhas and Sidra Arshad
Expression of HER-2/neu in oral squamous cell carcinoma, Sana Mirza, Naila Hadi, Shahid Pervez, Sultan Zeb Khan, Sameer A. Mokeem, Tariq Abduljabbar, Nawwaf Al-Hamoudi, and Fahim Vohra
Screening for triazole resistance in clinically significant aspergillus species; report from Pakistan, Safia Moin, Joveria Farooqi, Kausar Jabeen, Sidra Laiq, and Afia Zafar
Use of pefloxacin as a surrogate marker to detect ciprofloxacin susceptibility in Salmonella enterica serotypes typhi and paratyphi A, Safia Moin, Mohammad Zeeshan, Sidra Laiq, Ahmed Raheem, and Afia Zafar
Acute mesenteric thrombosis: A hematologist perspective, Bushra Moiz, Zaid Muslim, Zahraa Farrukh Siddiqui, and Hasnain Zafar
Documentation errors in transfusion chain: Challenges and interventions, Bushra Moiz, Arsalan Kabir Siddiqui, Nazish Sana, Muhammed Wahhaab Sadiq, Farheen Karim, and Natasha Ali
Compliance of hand written transfusion requisition form and improvement after online request - A clinical audit, Nadia Nasir, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Natasha Ali, and Shabneez Hussain
COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) in patients admitted with severe COVID-19 pneumonia: An observational study from Pakistan, Nosheen Nasir, Joveria Farooqi, Syed Faisal Mahmood, and Kauser Jabeen
Implementing parasite genotyping into national surveillance frameworks: Feedback from control programmes and researchers in the Asia-pacific region, Rintis Noviyanti, Olivo Miotto, Alyssa Barry, Jutta Marfurt, Sasha Siegel, Nguyen Thuy-Nhien, Huynh Hong Quang, Nancy Dian Anggraeni, Ferdinand Laihad, and Najia Karim Ghanchi
Primary diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the prostate presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), Ayesha Nusrat and Syed Muhammad Nazim
Atlas of diagnostic and predictive histopathology, Shahid Pervez
Basic pathology, Shahid Pervez
Karachi cancer registry (KCR): Age-standardized incidence rate by age-group and gender in a mega city of Pakistan, Shahid Pervez, Adnan Jabbar, Ghulam Haider, Shamvil Ashraf, Muhammad Asif Qureshi, Fouzia Lateef, Imtiaz Bashir, Manzoor Zaidi, Mohammad Khurshid, and Mohammad Saeed Quraishy
Histopathology of haematolymphoid, Shahid Pervez, Khurram Minhas, and Arsalan Ahmed
Predictive pathology, Shahid Pervez and Tariq Moatter
IL10RA modulates crizotinib sensitivity in NPM1-ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Nina Prokoph, Nicola Anna Probst, Liam Changwoo Lee, Jack Michael Monahan, Jamie David Matthews, Huan-Chang Liang, Klaas Bahnsen, Ivonne A. Montes-Mojarro, Elif Karaca Atabay, and Shahid Pervez
Antimicrobial resistance in typhoidal salmonella: Surveillance for enteric fever in Asia project, 2016-2019, Farah Naz Qamar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Irum Fatima Dehraj, Sadia Shakoor, Seema Irfan, Aneeta Hotwani, Muhammad J. Hunzai, Rozina Thobani, Najeeb Rahman, Junaid Mehmood, and Ashraf M. Memon
Bilateral gonadoblastoma with dysgerminoma in a phenotypically normal female with 46XX karyotype: Report of a rare case and literature review, Muhammad Abdur Raafey, Muhammad Abdulwaasey, Syeda Samia Fatima, Zeeshan Uddin, and Muhammad Usman Tariq
Evaluation of semi-quantitative compared to quantitative cultures of tracheal aspirates for the yield of culturable respiratory pathogens - A cross-sectional study, Salima Rattani, Joveria Farooqi, Ghazala Jabeen, Saeeda Chandio, Qaiser Kash, Aijaz Khan, and Kauser Jabeen
A rare cause of dyspeptic symptoms and anaemia in a young man, Hareem Rehman, Shahab Abid, Naila Kayani, and Ali Haroon
Recurrent loss of SMARCA4 in sinonasal teratocarcinosarcoma, Lisa M. Rooper, Nasir Ud Din, Jeffrey Gagan, Lodewijk A A. Brosens, Kelly R. Magliocca, Mark A. Edgar, Lester D R. Thompson, Abbas Agaimy, and Justin A. Bishop
Clinical significance of repeat testing of critical results in a hematology laboratory, Nazish Sana, Bushra Moiz, and Ahmed Raheem Buksh
Feasibility of preoperative tattooing of percutaneously biopsied axillary lymph node: An experimental pilot study, Abida K. Sattar, Basim Ali, Imrana Masroor, Shaista Afzal Saeed, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Romana Idrees, Maseeh uz Zaman, and Wardah Khalid
Lifestyle changes and glycemic control in type 1 diabetes mellitus: A trial protocol with factorial design approach, Sobia Sawani, amna siddiqui, Syed Iqbal Azam, Khadija N Humayun, Asma Ahmed, Aysha Habib, Sabahat Naz, Mayera Tufail, and Romaina Iqbal
Efforts to improve diagnosis of bacteraemia by reducing blood culture contamination in an emergency department: Strategies and outcome, Najma Shaheen, Mohammad Zeeshan, Naima Fasih, Joveria Farooqi, Kausar Jabeen, and Seema Irfan
Comparison of clinical presentation and out-comes of chikungunya and dengue virus infections in patients with acute undifferentiated febrile illness from the Sindh region of Pakistan, Uzma Shahid, Joveria Farooqi, Kelli L. Barr, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Bushra Jamil, Kehkashan Imtiaz, Zahida Azizullah, Faisal Malik, Dhani Prakoso, Maureen T. Long, and E. Khan
Improved outcome in early induction deaths in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia after therapeutic and supportive interventions: A follow up study of seven-years' experience at a tertiary care center, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Farheen Karim, Ahmed Raheem Buksh, and Shahzad Sarwar
Ensuing adequate mixing of blood samples before analysis-A proposed method for verification of satisfactory sample mixing by automated red blood cell count analyzers, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh, Sibtain Ahmed, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Natasha Bahadur Ali, and Nazish Sana
Antibiotic-resistant enteric infections, Sadia Shakoor, James A. Platts-Mills, and Rumina Hasan
Infection prevention and control in the tropics, Sadia Shakoor, Haider J. Warraich, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
The utility of early warning score in adults presenting with sepsis in the emergency department of a low resource setting, Emaduddin Siddiqui, Abdul A. Jokhio, Ahmed Raheem, Shahan Waheed, and Syed Hashmatullah
Intracranial mesenchymal tumor with FET-CREB fusion - A unifying diagnosis for the spectrum of intracranial myxoid mesenchymal tumors and angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma-like neoplasms, Emily A. Sloan, Jason Chiang, Javier E. Villanueva-Meyer, Sanda Alexandrescu, Jennifer M. Eschbacher, Wesley Wang, Manuela Mafra, Nasir Ud Din, Emily Carr-Boy, and Michael Watson
Histopathology of cardiovascular system, Muhammad Usman Tariq and Sheema H Hasan
Solid papillary carcinoma of breast; a detailed clinicopathological study of 65 cases of an uncommon breast neoplasm with literature review, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Romana Idress, Madiha Bilal Qureshi, and Naila Kayani
Dedifferentiated liposarcoma with meningothelial-like whorls: Five additional cases and review of the literature, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Naila Kayani, Tariq Moatter, and Nasir Ud Din
Histopathology of head and neck, Nasir Ud Din, Sidra Arshad, and Shahid Pervez
Calcification and ossification in conventional schwannoma: A clinicopathologic study of 32 cases, Nasir Ud Din, Karen Fritchie, Mohammad Usman Tariq, Arsalan Ahmed, and Zubair Ahmad
Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: Case series of a rare vascular tumor mimicking metastases, Nasir Ud Din, Shabina Rahim, Tamana Asghari, Jamshid Abdul Ghafar, and Zubair Ahmad
Histopathology of bone and soft tissue, Nasir Ud Din, Muhammad Usman Tariq, and Shahid Pervez
Histomorphometric analysis of pre- and post-denosumab-treated giant cell tumor of bone, Nasir Ud Din, Masood Umer, and Yong-Koo Park
Histopathology of urinary system, Zeeshan Uddin, Aisha Memon, and Muhammad Arif
Encapsulated papillary carcinoma of breast; a clinicopathological study of 25 cases and literature review with emphasis on high grade variant, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Romana Idress, Madiha Bilal Qureshi, and Naila Kayani
Correction to: Cryo-nanoscale chromosome imaging-future prospects, Mohammed Yousuf, Safana Farooq, Ian Robinson, and El Nasir Lalani
Cryo-nanoscale chromosome imaging-future prospects, Mohammad Yusuf, Safana Farooq, Ian Robinson, and El Nasir Lalani
Intra-abdominal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS): Series of 18 cases of a rare entity from Pakistan, Maha Zubair, Nasir Ud Din, Sidra Arshad, Khurram Minhas, Romana Idress, and Zubair Ahmad
Submissions from 2019
Synchronous well-differentiated endometrioid adenocarcinoma and leiomyosarcoma of the uterus with pulmonary metastasis in a 50-yr-old woman: A case report and review of literature, Alizeh Abbas, Nasir Ud Din, and Naila Kayani
Expression of cyclin D1 in clear cell sarcoma of kidney. Is it useful in differentiating it from its histological mimics?, Nasir Uddin Ahmed, Khurram Minhas, Jamshid Abdul Ghafar, Arsalan Ahmed, and Zubair Ahmad
Performance evaluation of cardiac troponin I assay: A comparison between the point-of-care testing radiometer AQT90 FLEX and the central laboratory siemens advia centaur analyzer, Sibtain Ahmed, Lena Jafri, Ahmed Raheem Buksh, Shahid Shakeel, and Imran Siddiqui
Retrospective study of patients with hyperphenylalaninemia: Experience from a tertiary care center in Pakistan, Sibtain Ahmed, Hafsa Majid, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib Khan, Zeba Zulfiqar Ali, and Bushra Afroze
Establishment of reference intervals for alkaline phosphatase in Pakistani children using a data mining approach, Sibtain Ahmed, Jakob Zierk, and Aysha Habib
Characteristics of BCR-ABL rearrangement variants in Pakistani patients with chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia, Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed, Amna Nasir, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh, A. Q. Rizvi, and Tariq Moatter
MLPA analyses reveal a spectrum of dystrophin gene deletions/duplications in Pakistani patients suspected of having duchenne/becker muscular dystrophy: A retrospective study, Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed, Asghar Nasir, Tariq Moatter, Sara Khan, Salman Kirmani, S. H. Ibrahim, Kahkashan Imam, Anif Ather, Azra Samreen, and Zahra Hasan
Vitamin D status and risk of incident tuberculosis disease: A nested case-control study, systematic review, and individual-participant data meta-analysis, Omowunmi Aibana, Chuan-Chin Huang, Said Aboud, Alberto Arnedo-Pena, Mercedes C. Becerra, Juan Bautista Bellido-Blasco, Ramesh Bhosale, Roger Calderon, Rabia Hussain, and Najeeha Talat Iqbal
Chimeric antigen T cell receptor treatment in hematological malignancies, Natasha Ali
Better get moving on laboratory quality assurance, Sidra Asad Ali and Muhammad Shariq Shaikh
Worldwide network for blood and marrow transplantation recommendations for establishing a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation program in countries with limited resources, part II: Clinical, technical, and socioeconomic considerations, Mahmoud Aljurf, Daniel Weisdorf, Shahrukh Hashmi, Amr Nassar, Eliane Gluckman, Mohamad Mohty, Doug Rizzo, Marcelo Pasquini, Mehdi Hamadani, and Salman Adil
Prevalence of malaria reported during summer and winter at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Fazal M. Arain, Aisha Memon, Roohi Jamal, Ahmed Raheem Buksh, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Assessing nutritional status of critically Ill patients using serum prealbumin levels, Khushbakht Arbab, Hafsa Majid, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib, Ahmed Raheem, Bushra Jamil, Bushra Akram, and Madiha Hashmi
Narrowing the gap for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the east-Mediterranean/African region: comparison with global HSCT indications and trends, Helen Baldomero, Mahmoud Aljurf, Syed Z A Zaidi, Shahrukh K. Hashmi, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, Alaa Elhaddad, Rose-Marie Hamladji, Parvez Ahmed, Lamia Torjemane, and Salman Adil
Essential in vitro diagnostics for advanced HIV and serious fungal diseases: International experts' consensus recommendations, Felix Bongomin, Nelesh P. Govender, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Florence Robert-Gangneux, David R. Boulware, Afia Zafar, Rita O. Oladele, Malcolm D. Richardson, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, and Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo
Factors leading to meconium aspiration syndrome in term- and post-term neonates, Saroop Chand, Aamna Salman, Razia Mustafa Abbassi, Abdul Rehman Siyal, Fayaz Ahmed Memon, Abdul Lateef Leghari, Ashmal Sami Kabani, and Sajid Ali
Perceptions of health professionals regarding minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) to identify the cause of death in stillbirths and neonates: Results from a qualitative study, Anam Shahil Feroz, Anum Shiraz Ali, Mohsina Noor Ibrahim, Elizabeth M. McClure, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Sayyeda Reza, Zahid Abbasi, Afia Zafar, Sameen Siddiqi, and Sarah Saleem
Perceptions of parents and religious leaders regarding minimal invasive tissue sampling to identify the cause of death in stillbirths and neonates: Results from a qualitative study, Anam Shahil Feroz, Mohsina Noor Ibrahim, Elizabeth M. McClure, Anum Shiraz Ali, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Sayyeda Reza, Zahid Abbasi, Jamal Raza, Haleema Yasmin, Khadija Bano, Afia Zafar, Sameen Siddiqi, Robert L. Goldenberg, and Sarah Saleem
Hematological profile and gametocyte carriage in malaria patients from southern Pakistan, Najia Karim Ghanchi, Mohammad Hassaan Khan, Muhammad Abdullah Arain, Mustafa Bin Ali Zubairi, Ahmed Raheem Buksh, Muhammad A. Khan, and Mohammad A. Beg
Polymorphisms in the GC gene for vitamin D binding protein and their association with vitamin D and bone mass in young adults, Aysha Habib, Lena Jafri, Siddiqui Siddiqui, Ghazala Naureen, Howard Morris, and tariq moatter
Best practices in the implementation of a point of care testing program: Experience from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country, Aysha Habib, Shahid Shakeel, Khairunnissa Hooda, Kashif Siddiqui, and Lena Jafri
Solitary brain metastasis: A rare initial presentation of prostate carcinoma, Asim Hafiz, Muneeb Uddin Karim, Bilal Mazhar Qureshi, Adnan Jabbar, and Zubair Ahmad
Determinants of campylobacter infection and association with growth and enteric inflammation in children under 2 years of age in low-resource settings, Md Ahshanul Haque, James A. Platts-Mills, Estomih Mduma, Ladaporn Bodhidatta, Pascal Bessong, Sadia Shakoor, Gagandeep Kang, Margaret N. Kosek, Aldo A M Lima, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Raised levels of IFN-gamma and IL-13 are associated with pre-diabetes amongst newly diagnosed patients with tuberculosis, Zahra Hasan, Muhammad Irfan, Qamar Masood, Owais Ahmed, Shoaib Rao, Umme Salama Moosajee, and Naseem Salahuddin
Global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance based on metagenomics analyses of urban sewage, Rene S. Hendriksen, Patrick Munk, Patrick Njage, Bram Van Bunnik, Luke McNally, Oksana Lukjancenko, Timo Röder, David Nieuwenhuijse, Rumina Hasan, and Sadia Shakoor
Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit, Seema Irfan, Imran Ahmed, Farida Lalani, Naureen Anjum, Nadia Mohammad, Maria Owais, and Afia Zafar
Antimicrobial sensitivity pattern, demographic findings and risk factors amongst meningitis and non-meningitis invasive streptococcus pneumoniae at aga khan university hospital clinical laboratory, Karachi, Pakistan, Seema Irfan, Joveria Farooqi, Afia Zafar, and Haresh Kumar
A case report on isolation of linezolid- and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium species from cerebrospinal fluid of a patient suffering from ventriculoperitoneal shunt-associated meningitis, Seema Irfan and Salima Qamar
Utility of the microcolony method for evaluation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Karachi, Pakistan, Seema Irfan, Nisar Rao, Muhammad Irfan, Irim Iftikhar, Zahida Azizullah, Kausar Jabeen, and Rumina Hasan
Antimicrobial susceptibility against metronidazole and carbapenem in clinical anaerobic isolates from Pakistan, Kauser Jabeen, Yusra Shafquat, Joveria Farooqi, Kiran Mehmood, Seema Irfan, Rumina Hasan, and Afia Zafar
Iodine deficiency in neonates: Where do we stand after a quarter century of initiating iodization programs?, Lena Jafri, Hafsa Majid, Sibtain Ahmed, Imran Siddiqui, and Farooq Ghani
Blended learning mediated fostering of students’ engagement in an undergraduate medical education module, Lena Jafri, Hafsa Majid, Salman Siddiqi, Najmul Islam, and Faraz Khurshid
Value of dedicated research time for IMGs in obtaining surgical residency training positions: A 10-year review of applicants from a medical college in Pakistan, Mohammad Raheel Jajja, Marvi Tariq, Salila Shoaib Hashmi, Thomas F. Dodson, and Rashida Ahmed
Efflux pump as alternate mechanism for drug resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis, Akber Kanji, Rumina Hasan, and Zahra Hasan
Thrombocytopenia and its outcome in a cohort of 350 pregnant women in a tertiary care setting, Farheen Karim and Bushra Moiz
Are serum leptin levels predicted by lipoproteins, vitamin D and body composition?, Aysha Habib Khan, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Ahmed Raheem, and Lena Jafri
Corrigendum: Human west nile virus disease outbreak in Pakistan, 2015–2016, Erum Khan, Joveria Qais Farooqi, Alizeh Abbas, Zain Yar Khan, Kehkashan Imtiaz, Shanze Ashi, Z Aziz, Faisal Malik, Kelli L. Barr, and Dhani Prakoso
LMICs as reservoirs of AMR: A comparative analysis of policy discourse on antimicrobial resistance with reference to Pakistan, Mishal S. Khan, Anna Durrance-Bagale, Helena Legido-Quigley, Ana Mateus, Rumina Hasan, Julia Spencer, and Johanna Hanefeld
Beyond sequencing: Re-visiting annotations for PJL as a test case, Waqasuddin Khan, Aisha Ghani, Muhammad Bilal Azmi, and Safina Abdul Razzak
The utility of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a marker of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically Ill patients, Shabnum Khawaja, Lena Jafri, Imran Siddiqui, Madiha Hashmi, and Farooq Ghani