Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-contact, non invasive imaging modality that helps diagnosing a variety of diseases involving the eye. It provides quantitative measurements of retinal nerve ... Read More
It is an emerging concept now a day that epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness has an essential character in the progression for cardiac risk profile. It is now consider as a new and consistent ca ... Read More
Cervical ectopic pregnancy implants in the lining of endocervical canal. Cervical ectopic is rare form of ectopic pregnancy and incidence of cervical ectopic pregnancy is 1:9000 pregnancies .We are re ... Read More
Different names have been used for multiple births depending on the number of offspring of which common multiples are 2 and 3, in our case we have 5. They are associated with high rates of complicatio ... Read More
Background: The incidence of clinically recognized miscarriages remains around 10-20%.The most common type of early pregnancy failure include spontaneous abortion, anembryonic gestation and embryonic ... Read More
Background: Elective clinical rotations have become a significant part of most of the medical educational curricula. Evaluation of electives is imperative to assess their usefulness in achieving the o ... Read More
Background: Obesity is responsible for beta dysfunction and insulin resistance. This is main cause of type 2 diabetes and excess in glycosylated hemoglobin. The concentration of glycosylation is direc ... Read More
Background: Silorane, introduced to the dentistry recently. It is named after the functional groups present in the material i.e. Siloxane and Oxirane. It is introduced in the market to overcome the ma ... Read More
Background: Infertility is a common problem globally affecting a large proportion of world population. Laparoscopy provides meaningful information regarding different factors that may cause infertili ... Read More
Background: Gestational diabetes is a condition due to glucose intolerance that occurs in the few of the mothers during gestation. The pathophysiology originates as a result of increased placental hor ... Read More
Background: Nausea vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) is a common problem .A severe form called hyperemesis gravidarum occurs in 0.3–2.3% of pregnancies, which can adversely affect the lifestyle. This study ... Read More
Plagiarism is found to be the most common form of misconduct among researchers across the globe. It is particularly affecting the biomedical sciences communities engaged in writing and reporting resea ... Read More
Approximately one in every nine Pakistani women is likely to suffer from breast cancer. This is one of the highest incidence rates in Asia. Mammography and ultrasound are the basic imaging techniques ... Read More
Schmidt’s syndrome is a rare disease which is a one of the types of autoimmune polyglandular autoimmune syndrome. In these polyglandular autoimmune syndrome autoimmunity with auto-antibodies directed ... Read More
Complete heart block also known as third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block) is a condition in which there is no conduction of the impulse produce in the sinoatrial node (SA node) in the atrium t ... Read More
True unilateral condylar hyperplasia (CH) of mandible including its variants is an uncommon maxillofacial deformity. It represents unilateral abnormal growth of the mandible including its body and ram ... Read More
Background: Influenza is a common disease affecting people of all age groups. Generally considered to be a mild disease, it can however, cause devastating effects in the very young, elderly and imm ... Read More
Background: Multiple renal pathogenesis manifested as unilateral or bilateral size changes, therefore there should be normative reference data for proper comparison. Our goal is to determine normal ... Read More
Objective: To evaluate cases presenting with parathyroid tumors and the efficacy of treatments offered. Methods: Six cases presented with bony manifestations in mandible, femur, tibia and max ... Read More
Objective: Assess the outcome of intraticular comminuted fracture distal radius treated with orthofix external fixator. Methods: Prospective study with inclusion criteria of Comminuted intraa ... Read More
Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the procedure of choice for cholecystitis. There are variable rates of conversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open cholecystectomy. Various studie ... Read More
Background: Chronic hepatitis C and interferon both have their effect on thyroid gland function including clinical and subclinical thyroidal dysfunction (TD) that form major clinical manifestations ... Read More
Background: Salivary urea, correlates well with serum urea, can be utilized as a low-cost, easily accessible and noninvasive diagnostic tool for screening patients in early stages of kidney disease ... Read More
Breast cancer, the most frequent cancer in females is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world as well as in Pakistan. Screening of breast cancer or early detection requires a reliable ... Read More
With the passage of time the demands of health care delivery system are changing. The rate of scientific discovery and accumulation of knowledge is gathering speed. In order to prepare medical student ... Read More
Pfeiffer syndrome (PS) is a form of acrocephalosyndactyly, a group of rare genetic syndromes, and is characterized by variable degrees of bicoronal craniosynostosis, variable hand and foot malformatio ... Read More
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) results from neoplastic transformation of a hematopoietic stem cell. It is cytogenetically characterized by the presence of Philadelphia chromosome which results fro ... Read More
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare fibroinflamatory disorder of the pancreas with immunoglobulin G 4(IgG4) associated systemic disease which is steroid responsive. 1,2 It has a variable clinical presen ... Read More
Obesity, attributable to the interaction of genetic makeup, lifestyle and environment Factors are a multifactorial disease. However, not all people with similar genetics or same environmental setup ... Read More
Background: Operative notes are an important element of documentation based quality management for clinical practice. Often narrated by surgeons, they are usually penned by hand and are crucial in ... Read More
Background: It is estimated that more than 6 million children die in the developing world at the hands of preventable conditions; primarily pneumonia and diarrhea. WHO in 1992 initiated the Integra ... Read More
Background: A high prevalence rate of neonatal and adult tetanus in Pakistan reflects the failure of health care systems to provide adequate immunization. Health care workers (HCWs) of emergency de ... Read More
A retrospective review of three patients with mycosis fungoides treated with total skin electron beam therapy , from the year 2007 to 2009 , at the Oncology department, Ziauddin University Hospital. ... Read More
Background: Thyroid nodules comprise a diagnostic challenge mainly because of the need to exclude thyroid malignancy. Approximately, 4% is an estimated prevalence of thyroid nodule on palpation wit ... Read More
Background & Objective: A unique study conducted in Karachi with actual facts and figures based on autopsy findings of killings in Police encounters during last three years, also highlighting the n ... Read More
Background: Successful ICSI depends on ovarian response to stimulation and maturation of oocytes retrieved. Objective: To identify predictors of number of retrieved oocytes during intra cytop ... Read More
Medical research must translate into improved treatments for patients with advancement in proteomics technology. This will allow us to measure thousands of molecules at a given point in time. These ... Read More
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