Submissions from 2018
A case report of triple-positive micropapillary carcinoma of the male breast, Jamila Shuja, Iftikhar Ahmad, Sidra Arshad, Hina Manzoor, Shahwali Kakar, and Khushnaseeb Ahmad
Pattern of bone marrow involvement in non hodgkin's lymphoma classified according to WHO classification: report of a developing country Pakistan, Sadia Sultan, Naseer Baloch, Zeeshan Ansar Ahmed, Syed Mohammad Irfan, and Saira Parveen
Serous cystadenoma of pancreas : A clinicopathologic experience of 23 cases from a major tertiary care center, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Zubair Ahmad, Jamshid Abdul Ghafar, and Nasir Ud Din
Expression analysis of cyclooxygenase-2 in patients suffering from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, Shahida Tasneem, Muhammad Tahir Sarwa, Muhammad Rizwan Bashi, Hamid Hussain, Jawad Ahmed, and Shahid Pervez
Abdominopelvic and retroperitoneal low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma: a clinicopathologic study of 13 cases, Nasir Ud Din, Zubair Ahmad, Riyam Zreik, Andrew Horvai, Andrew L. Folpe, and Karen Fritchie
Frequency and Impact of Cerebral Infarctions in Patients With Tuberculous Meningitis, Mohammad Wasay, Maria Khan, Salman Farooq, Zubair Ali Khowaja, Zeeshan Ali Bawa, Shehzad Mansoor Ali, Safia Awan, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Association of helicobacter pylori and protozoal parasites in patients with chronic diarrhoea, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, Kanwal Tariq, Safia Awan, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Ectopic enterobius vermicularis Iinfestation; an extremely rare cause of mesenteric lymphadenopathy mimicking tuberculous lymphadenitis, Summaya Zafar, Muhammad Usman, and Zubair Ahmad
Genetic sequencing for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis in highly endemic countries: A multi-country population-based surveillance study, Matteo Zignol MD, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Anna S. Dean, Philippe Glaziou, Natavan Alikhanova, Cecilia Ama, Sönke Andres, Anna Barbova, Rumina Hasan, and Zahra Hasan
Submissions from 2017
Intrahepatic biliary cystadenoma mimicking hydatid cyst of liver: A clinicopathologic study of six cases, Zubair Ahmad, Nasir Uddin, Wasim Memon, Jamshid Abdul Ghafar, and Arsalan Ahmed
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Pakistan – Country report, Parvez Ahmed, Tahir Sultan Shamsi, Salman Adil, Tariq Mahmood Satti, Qamar un Nisa Chaudhry, Tahir Sultan Shamsi, Syed Kamran Mahmood, Saqib Ansari, Natasha Bahadur Ali, and Tariq Ghafoor
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
An analysis of blood utilization for stem cell transplant patients in a tertiary care hospital, Natasha Ali
Iron overload assessment in beta thalassemia major - is T2* magnetic resonance imaging the answer?, Natasha Ali
Red blood cell transfusion in infants and children - Current perspectives, Natasha Ali
Bone marrow harvest procedure: Is age really, just a number?, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, and Salman Adil
Identifying potential barriers to sperm cryopreservation among Pakistani male cancer patients, Natasha Ali and Nida Latif
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
Utility of peripheral film findings and its correlation with automated analyzer - An audit from tertiary care hospital, Sidra Asad, Imran Ahmed, and Natasha Ali
Response to comment on Najia Karim Ghanchi et al (J Pak Med Assoc. 2017; 2: 627-9) Perception of pathology as a future career choice among medical Students from Karachi, Pakistan: Experience from a private medical school, Najia Bano Ghanchi, Raabia Nizamuddin, Zahra Nur Khaled, Amna Qasim, Ahmed Buksh Raheem, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Naila Kayani, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Perception of pathology as a future career choice among medical students from Karachi, Pakistan: Experience from a private medical school, Najia Bano Ghanchi, Raabia Nizamuddin Nizamuddin, Amna Qasim, Zahra Nur Khaled, Ahmed Buksh Raheem, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Naila Kayani, and Mohammad Asim Beg
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
Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF testing for rapid diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis in children by Xpert MTB/RIF testing of stool samples in a low resource setting, Zahra Hasan, Sadia Shakoor, Fehmina Arif, Aisha Mehnaz, Alnoor Akber, Marium Haider, Akber Kanji, and Rumina Hasan
Issues in reproductive health in females having inherited bleeding disorders in Pakistan, Shabneez Hussain, Bushra Moiz, Aqeel s, and Zaidi N
Rapid detection of in vitro antituberculous drug resistance among smear-positive respiratory samples using microcolony detection-based direct drug susceptibility testing method, Irim Iftikhar, Seema Irfan, Joveria Farooqi, Zahida Azizullah, and Rumina Hasan
Disseminated hydatid cyst of liver and lung, Nousheen Iqbal, Muhammad Hussain, Romana Idress, and Muhammad Irfan
Serious fungal infections in Pakistan, Kauser Jabeen, Joveria Farooqi, Sajjad Mirza, D Denning, and Afia Zafar
Experience with the quantitative lytA gene real-time polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae from pediatric whole blood in Pakistan, Furqan Kabir, Sahrish Muneer, Adil Kalam, Ana Sami, Shahida Qureshi, Aneeta Hotwani, Atif Riaz, Syed Mohiuddin, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Sara Hussain, Syed Asad Ali, and Sadia Shakoor
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in efflux pumps genes in extensively drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Pakistan, Akbar Kanji, Rumina Hasan, Asho Ali, Ambreen Zaver, Ying Zhang, Kehkashan Imtiaz, Wanliang Shi, Taane G. Clark, Ruth McNerney, and Jody Phelan
Eliminating wrong blood transfusions - recent advances, Farheen Karim and Salman Naseem Adil
Transfusion transmitted dengue: one donor infects two patients, Farheen Mahar Karim, Nadia Nasir, and Bushra Moiz
CXC chemokines exhibit bactericidal activity against multidrug-resistant gram-negative pathogens, Erum Khan; Matthew A. Crawford; Debra J. Fisher; Lisa M. Leung; Sara Lomonaco; Christine Lascols; Antonio Cannatelli,; Gian Maria Rossolini; Yohei Doi; and David R. Goodlett
Comparative transcriptomics of mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivars provide insights of biochemical pathways involved in flavor and color, Waqasuddin Khan, Safina Abdul Razzak, and M. Kamran Azim
High burden of subclinical lead toxicity after phase out of lead from petroleum in Pakistan, Hafsa Majid, Aysha Habib, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Imran Siddiqui, Farooq Ghani, and Lena Jafri
High burden of subclinical lead toxicity after phase out of lead from petroleum in Pakistan, Hafsa Majid, Aysha Habib, Nadeem Ullah Khan, Imran Siddiqui, Farooq Ghani, and Lena Jafri
Burden of zinc (Zn) deficiency: A high volume clinical laboratory data analysis, Hafsa Majid, Shabnum Khawaja, Aysha Habib Khan, Imran Siddqui, Farooq Ghani, and Lena Jafri
Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR): A Better Marker for Evaluating Insulin Resistance Than Fasting Insulin in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Hafsa Majid, Qamar Masood, and Aysha Habib Khan
Pelvic abscess caused by a slow growing anaerobic bacterium, Eggerthella lenta: First case report from Pakistan, Pushpa Bhawan Mal, Irum Rafiq, Irim Iftikhar, and Seema Irfan
Transient abnormal myelopoiesis in down syndrome, Ayesha Majeed Memon and Natasha Bahadur Ali
A standardised method for interpreting the association between mutations and phenotypic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Paolo Miotto, Belay Tessema, Elisa Tagliani, Leonid Chindelevitch, Angela M. Starks, Claudia Emerson, Debra Hanna, Peter S. Kim, Richard Liwski, Matteo Zignol, and Rumina Hasan
Homocysteine as a biomarker for thrombosis: what is the learning curve?, Bushra Moiz
Frequency of G6PD mediterranean in individuals with and without malaria in southern Pakistan, Bushra Moiz, Haroon Muhammad Arshad, Ahmed Raheem Raheem, Hasan Hayat, Najia Karim Ghanchi, and M Asim Beg
Anthropometric measurements in children having transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, Bushra Moiz, Aysha Habib, Sobiya Sawani, Ahmed Raheem, Bilal Hasan, and Manesh Gangwani
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in a patient with undiagnosed factor VII deficiency, Hira Qadir, Anila Rashid, and Salman Naseem Adil
Phenotypic low-level isoniazid resistance as a marker to predict ethionamide resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis, Salima Qamar, Joveria Q. Farooqi, Kausar Jabeen, and Rumina Hasan
Frequency of colistin and fosfomycin resistance in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Salima Qamar, Najma Shaheen, Sadia Shakoor, Joveria Farooqi, Kauser Jabeen, and Rumina Hasan
Knowledge, attitude and perceptions of Muslim cancer patients regarding cancer treatment during Ramadan: Results from a tertiary care hospital Karachi, Afshan Asghar Rasheed, Yasmin Abdul Rashid, Farah Tahir Pirzada, Fawad Haroon, Adnan Jabbar, and Ahmed Raheem Buksh
Role of mesenchymal stem cells in acquisition of metaplasia in AKU-BC42 breast metaplastic carcinoma cell line, Nazia Riaz, Sadia Habib, Azhar Hussain, and El Nasir Lalani
Readiness for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Pakistan; a model for laboratory strengthening, Dania Khalid Saeed, Rumina Hasan, Mahwish Naim, Afia Zafar, E. Khan, Kauser Jabeen, Seema Irfan, Imran Ahmed, Mohammad Zeeshan, Zabin Wajidali, Joveria Farooqi, Sadia Shakoor, Abdul Chagla, and Jason Rao
Readiness for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Pakistan; a model for laboratory strengthening, Dania Khalid Saeed, Rumina Hasan, Mahwish Naim, Afia Zafar, E. Khan, Kauser Jabeen, Seema Irfan, Imran Ahmed, Mohammad Zeeshan, Zabin Wajidali, Joveria Farooqi, Sadia Shakoor, Abdul Chagla, and Jason Rao
Readiness for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Pakistan; a model for laboratory strengthening, Dania Khalid Saeed, Rumina Hasan, Mahwish Naim, Afia Zafar, Erum Khan, Kauser Jabeen, Seema Irfan, Imran Ahmed, Mohammad Zeeshan, Zabin Wajidali, Joveria Farooqi, Sadia Shakoor, Abdul Chagla, and Jason Roy
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase protein positive diffuse large B cell lymphoma; a developing world experience, Huzaifah Sala, Nasir Ud Din, tariq moatter, Naila Kayani, and Arsalan Ahmed
Susceptibility pattern of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus to vancomycin and other alternate agents: report from a private sector hospital laboratory, Faryal Saleem, 1 Naima Fasih, and Afia Zafar
Susceptibility pattern of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus to vancomycin and other alternate agents: Report from a private sector hospital laboratory, Faryal Saleem, Naima Fasih, and Afia Zafar
Enterobius vermicularis in tubo-ovarian abscess: A rare and interesting incidental finding - A case Report, Faryal Saleem, Faizan Malik, and Saira Fatima
Disseminated histoplasmosis in an immuno-competent young male: Role of bone marrow examination in rapid diagnosis, Muhammad Shariq Shaikh and Ayesha Majeed Memon
BK polyomavirus virus hemorrhagic cystitis following allogeneic bone marrow transplant with haploidentical related donor: Case reports from two patients, Danish Shakeel, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, and Salman Adil
Strategies for management of latent tuberculosis in endemic settings: building evidence, Sadia Shakoor and Rumina Hasan
Measles cases among adolescents in southern Pakistan 2012-2015: The case for revisiting vaccination strategies, Sadia Shakoor, Erum Khan, Muhammad Imran Rajput, and Wali Muhammad Rahimoon
Selective screening for organic acidurias and amino acidopathies in Pakistani children, Noreen Abbas Sherazi, Aysha Habib Khan, Lena Jafri, Azeema Jamil, Nasir Ali Khan, and Bushra Afroze
Embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes, C19MC-altered: Report of an extremely rare malignant pediatric central nervous system neoplasm, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Khurram Minhas, Aisha Memon, Noreen Mushtaq, and Cynthia Hawkins
Papillary craniopharyngioma: A clinicopathologic study of a rare entity from a major tertiary care center in Pakistan, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Nasir Ud Din, Zubair Ahmad, and Wasim Memon
Transfusion-related acute lung injury in a paediatric intensive care unit of Pakistan, Muhammed Tariq, Zehra Dhanani, Qalab Abbas, Humaira Jurair, Farheen Karim Mahar, and Anwarul Haque
Hybrid peripheral nerve sheath tumors: report of five cases and detailed review of literature, Nasir Ud Din, Zubair Ahmad, Jamshid Abdul Ghafar, and Rashida Ahmed
Atypical teratoid/ rhabdoid tumor of brain: a clinicopathologic study of eleven patients and review of literature, Nasir Ud Din, Abrar Barakzai, Aisha Memon, Sheema Hasan, and Zubair Ahmad
Practical guide and atlas for the diagnosis of fungal infections, Afia Zafar, Kauser Jabeen, and Joveria Farooqi
Submissions from 2016
Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) levels, phosphate Intake and its association with Indices of renal handling of phosphate in healthy volunteers, Noreen Abbas, Aysha Habib Khan, Farooq Ghani, and Imran Siddiqui
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Healthcare Personnel Regarding the Transmission of Pathogens via Fomites at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Hassaan Bin Aftab, Bushra Zia, Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Ahmed Raheem, and Mohammad Asim Beg
Central, extraventricular and atypical neurocytomas: a clinicopathologic study of 35 cases from Pakistan plus a detailed review of the published literature, Zubair Ahmad, Nasir Ud Din, Aisha Memon, Mohammad Usman Tariq, Romana Idrees, and Sheema Hasan
Errors in surgical pathology reports: a study from a major center in Pakistan, Zubair Ahmad, Romana Idrees, Nasir Uddin, Arsalan Ahmed, and Saira Fatima
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma of Appendix Presenting as Acute Appendicitis: An Exceptionally Rare Case Report, Arsalan Ahmed, Nasir Ud Din, Abdur Rehman Alvi, and Brian P. Rubin
117P: Classification of EGFR mutations in Pakistani lung adenocarcinoma for predicting response to targeted therapy, Z A. Ahmed, S Pervez, and T Moatter
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
Secretory paraspinal paraganglioma of thoracolumar spine: Case report and review of literature, Saad Akhtar, Sidra Sattar, Muhammad Ehsan Bari, Naila Kayani, and Sarosh Moeen
Frequency of varicella zoster virus infection in allogeneic stem cell transplant patients: Case series from a single centre, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Hayatullah Haji, and Salman Adil
Autologous transplant in lymphomas in current era of immunotherapy, Natasha Ali and Mohammad Khurshid
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
Glomus tumor of trachea in an adult male, Sidra Arshad, Zubair Ahmad, and Nasir Ud Din
Stars in cytoplasm: Pediatric neuroblastoma, Monazza Chaudhary, Shahzad Sarwar, and Natasha Bahadur Ali
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
Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma of salivary glands: a clinicopathologic study of 11 cases, Nasir Ud Din, Saira Fatima, and Naila Kayani
Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis associated with public water supply, Pakistan, 2014, Najia Ghanchi, Erum Khan, Azam Khan, Wali Muhammad, Faisal Riaz Malik, and Afia Zafar
Current situation and challenges in implementing Malaria control strategies in Pakistan, N K. Ghanchi, S Shakoor, A M. Thaver, M S. Khan, A Janjua, and M A. Beg
Primary angiosarcoma of breast, Saroona Haroon, Naveen Faridi, and Faisal Rashid Lodhi
Collaboration between tuberculosis control programs and the action plan for tackling antimicrobial resistance: An opportunity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Rumina Hasan, Sadia Shakoor, Samiha Baghdadi, Alireza Mafi, and Mohammad Aziz
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
Massive pulmonary embolism presenting as seizures, Shahrukh Hashmani, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Murtaza Kazmi, and Amammarah Yasmeen
Malignant phyllodes tumor in an 11-year-old girl with fatal clinical outcome A case report, Sidra Hassan, Nasir Ud Din, and Naila Kayani
Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Enterobacteriaceae in South and Southeast Asia, Li-Yang Hsu, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Erum Khan, Nuntra Suwantarat, Abdul Ghafur, and Paul Anantharajah Tambyah
Young man with dyspnoea for 6 months; presenting with subacute tracheal obstruction due to leiomyoma, Farah Idress, Saulat Fatimi, and Shahid Pervez
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
Isolation frequency and susceptibility pattern of non-O1 and non-O139 Vibrio cholerae in a tertiary health care laboratory, 1999-2012, S Irfan, N Fasih, N K. Ghanchi, and Erum Khan
Infection Surveillance Protocol for a Multicountry Population-based Study in South Asia to Determine the Incidence, Etiology and Risk Factors for Infections Among Young Infants of 0 to 59 Days Old, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Abdullah H. Baqui, Anita K. Zaidi, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Pinaki Panigrahi, Anuradha Bose, Sajid B. Soofi, Abdul Momin Kazi, Dipak K. Mitra, and Rita Isaac
Antimicrobial resistance and Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence typing (NG-MAST) genotypes in N. gonorrhoeae during 2012-2014 in Karachi, Pakistan, Kausar Jabeen, Bhawan Mal P, Khan E, Chandio S, Jacobsson S, and Unemo M
Pulmonary infections after tuberculosis, Kauser Jabeen
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
Diagnostic accuracy of anti-endomysial antibody in celiac disease, Arslaan Javaeed, Walayat Shah, Saaniya Khan Gauri, and Rizwan Akhtar
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
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
Biosafety Initiatives in BMENA Region: Identification of Gaps and Advances, Erum Khan, Nayla Ahmed, Khalid R. Temsamani, Atef El-Gendy, Murray Cohen, Ariba Hasan, Hilliard Gastfriend, and Jennifer Cole