OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the occupational radiation doses received by the workers of NIMRA Jamshoro. METHODS: To detect occupational radiation doses, the radiatio ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of cynoacrylate on surface hardness of type IV dental stone. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This comparative observational study was conducted at Prosthodontics department ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine the attitudes of international undergraduate medical students in a medical college from Pakistan towards different specialties as career choices and to determine the reasons ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine frequency, knowledge, and practice of tobacco smoking in pregnant women visiting outpatient department of Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. STUDY DESIGN: Descriptive obs ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with perforated peptic ulcer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This prospective study was conducted in the Department of Surg ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To document the feasibility and clearance rate of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy for proximal ureteric stones. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was a retrospective review of patients who presente ... Read More
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The electroencephalogram (EEG) is the process of recording electrical potentials produced by neurons in the brain. For understanding the neuro-physiological mechanism of various ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: This study was carried out to evaluate homocysteine as a risk factor for ischemic stroke. DESIGN: Descriptive study SETTING: Isra University & Liaquat university of Medical and health s ... Read More
A Point of Care Testing (PoCT) laboratory for the analysis of wide range of biochemistry and haematology tests has established at Emergency Department at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. OBJECTIVE: ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether repeated stints of mental stress had similar cardiovascular effects (CV) and also to establish that mental arithmetic tasks affect CV parameters and have reproducibi ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To see the morphological changes in excessive placental calcification in pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) and its relation with fetal outcome. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective comparative stu ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare pregnancy outcome of women aged 40 & above with those of 20- 30 year. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional and comparative study. SETTING: Department ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of root canal debridement in apical 3mm when instrumenting with traditional stainless-steel number 20 K file and traditional stainless ... Read More
BACKGROUND: In children ocular trauma, although preventable public health problem is the leading cause of monocular blindness worldwide and therefore has significant socio-economic impact. OBJECTIV ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To document changing trends in deliberate self poisoning in patients admitted in intensive care unit of Accident & Emergency (A & E) Department of Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. ... Read More
Polio is one of the diseases which is incurable but can be prevented. Polio virus when invades nervous system through blood stream, causes Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) the person’s life become cripp ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To study the knowledge, attitude and practice about hypertension in adult hypertensive patients at LUMHS METHODOLOGY: The prospective and descriptive, study was carried out on one thousand ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To assess the sleep pattern among teaching faculty of Isra University using Pittsburgh sleep quality index and Epworth sleepiness scale DESIGN: Descriptive study SETTING: Isra University ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of methanol extract of Ajwain on coagulation parameters PT and aPTT and to determine usefulness. DESIGN: This comparative study was conducted in the Department of Pha ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To analyze various hazardous obstetrical problems and pregnancy outcome in flood affected pregnant women. STUDY DESIGN: Descriptive case series. PLACE: Flood affected camps at District J ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the pattern and sensitivity of pathogens causing urinary tract infection at tertiary care hospital. METHODS: Using clean catch method, urinary samples were collected from pati ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of H. pylori in cases of hepatic encephalopathy with liver cirrhosis. STUDY DESIGN AND PLACE: Cross-sectional study to observe the role of H. pylori in HE patie ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of deaths due to gunshot injuries in the District Barkhan, Balochistan. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study. PLACE AND DURATION: District Head Quarter Hospital ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to determine the frequency of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) in haematological malignancies. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted at Liaquat N ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To compare the frequency of depressive symptoms in both genders among the depressive patients at a psychiatric clinic of tertiary care hospital. STUDY DESIGN: Cross sectional study SETTI ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To assess the presentation, management and outcome of surgery of thyroid swellings. DESIGN: Retrospective study PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To establish radiological markers, by ossification form of appearances and fusion for determination of Medico legal important ages for consent and criminal responsibility, for our populat ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study were to determine the incidence of associated injuries with maxillofacial fractures and to enlist the age and gender distribution of maxillofacial trauma and a ... Read More
OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY: To analyze the result of A.O. condylar blade plate for the treatment of subtrochanteric fractures and to asses the union of the fractures after the definitive surgical manag ... Read More
In a recent Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Thomson Reuters only two Pakistani journals from clinical sciences were awarded impact factor.1 The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) in a ... Read More
PURPOSE: To document the clinico-epidemiological features and laboratory diagnosis of fungal corneal ulcer observed at a tertiary referral centre. DESIGN: Prospective descriptive study. SETTING: De ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine the frequency of simple nephrectomy in patients presenting with urolithiasis. MATERIAL & METHODS: This is a retrospective study of patients presented at University hospital ... Read More
BACKGROUND: Worldwide, OPC are the most widely used insecticides in developing countries like Pakistan, where agriculture is the main occupation and easily available everywhere, therefore, the OPC po ... Read More
Despite bearing the main burden of Hepatocellular carcinoma, prospective studies from developing countries particularly Pakistan are lacking. This prospective observational study was designed to est ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: The study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological problems in patients undergoing haemodialysis and to document the pattern of these skin alterations. STUDY DESIGN: ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the various features of pyogenic liver abscess in poorly developed slum area of Karachi. DESIGN & SETTINGS: A retrospective study done in hospitalized diagnosed cases of pyogen ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To determine the clinical presentation and outcome of acute organophosphorus poisoning. METHODS: This case series included 100 cases from various medical wards of Civil Hospital Karachi ... Read More
OBJECT: To assess the role of Topiramate in reducing migraine related disability and improvement in quality of life in migraine sufferers comparing with conventionally used drug propranolol. BACKGROU ... Read More
OBJECTIVE: To find out association of serum C - reactive protein (CRP) with obesity as an inflammatory marker in obese pregnant women as compared to non-obese pregnant women. METHODS: This comparati ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: This study was carried out to compare the placentae from hypertension associated pregnancies and normal pregnancies DESIGN: Comparative study SETTING: Isra University Hospital Hyderabad ... Read More
The advancement of research, discovery of new antipsychotic, antidepressant, mood stabilizer and antiepileptic drugs has created a ray of hope for the sufferer of psychiatric illnesses that they will ... Read More
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