Cirrhosis, a pathological condition defined by deranged hepatic architecture resulting from progressive fibrosis, is the final common pathway through which nearly all chronic diseases of the liver pro ... Read More
Objective: The objective of this study was to ascertain the prevalence of antenatal care, use of food supplements during pregnancy and lactation and factors responsible for not taking them in Tarlai, ... Read More
Objective: To determine in-hospital outcomes post AMI hyperglycemia. Methods: 109 patients of acute myocardial infarction were included in this study. Physical examination, ECG tracings, random plasm ... Read More
Objective: To compare the outcome, between the application of Alcohol and natural drying to umbilical stump in low risk newborns. Design, place and duration of study: This quasi-experimental, compara ... Read More
Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the birth weight distribution and prevalence of low birth weights (LBW) in Irbid, Jordan, and to determine some of the contributing risk factors. Su ... Read More
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the severity of presenting symptomatology in patients with ankyloglossia and to assess the surgical results of patients undergoing frenuloplasty ... Read More
Objective: To compare the results of Bassini vs Darn inguinal hernia repair techniques in terms of postoperative pain, infection rate, hospital stay, resumption of duty and recurrence. Methods: A ran ... Read More
Objectives: To find out the effect of topical glyceryl trinitrate on the symptoms and signs of acute anal fissure. Patients And Methods: Seventy-five patients were treated with 0.2% topical glycery ... Read More
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of online resources on medical research, by measuring the extent to which they were being cited in the articles published in Pakistani m ... Read More
Objective: T0 ascertain positivity of tuberculosis using Ziehl Neelsen (ZN) staining technique. Material and Methods: A total of 900 sputum and 100 pleural fluid samples were collected from 620 male ... Read More
Objective: To asses use of lidocaine spray to relieve post anesthesia laryngospasm. Methods: The study was performed for one year between 2004-2005 in Tabriz Medical Sciences University, Tabriz, IRAN ... Read More
Nosocomial infections are an important cause of preventable morbidity and mortality. This paper highlights some of the serious but avoidable aspects of this largely ignored but vital issue of nosocomi ... Read More
To combat the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance, newer antibiotics have been developed or are under development. This review focuses on the newer antibiotics*, quinupristin-dalfopristin, lin ... Read More
Pakistan population was 153 million in 2003. Annual number of births in the same year was 55 million and annual under age five deaths were 567,000. The life expectancy at birth was 61 years.1 By the b ... Read More
We report here a rare case of broken angiography catheter, occluding superior and inferior vena cava lasting for 11 years presenting as communication between IVC and portal veins.(Rawal Med J 2006;31: ... Read More
We describe a 7-year-old girl with Giant Cell Tumor involving the frontal bone and the frontal sinus. She presented with headache and a large swelling at the forehead. On skull x-ray a large nonspecif ... Read More
Objective: To assess the response of unadjusted dose of erythropoietin with respect to weight in patients on dialysis. Subjects and Methods: Fifty-five patients who previously had three dialysis sitt ... Read More
Objective:, To evaluate tracheal intubation condition in adults after anesthetic coinduction with lidocaine and propofol and various doses of remifentanil. Materials and Methods:. In three groups, i ... Read More
Objective: Prevalence of anemia in Pakistan is high. Magnitude of anemia is well studied in pregnant woman and infants in Pakistan, but we do not have enough data on school age children. The aim of ... Read More
Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the nutritional intake of the infants through nasogastric (NG) feeding and the associated complications. Methods: Ten infants (mean age=17.3± 9.3 ... Read More
The Holy Qur-Än has provided vast information on various stages of human embryology.. It has been stated that man has been created from the elements provided mainly from water and soil. Qur-Än sta ... Read More
Undergraduate medical students attend more lectures than they see patients. Lectures provide an entree into a difficult topic, different perspectives on subject, up to date resume of research and re ... Read More
Medical informatics is a multi disciplinary field, which combines different disciplines of medicine with information technology. Some of the major components of Medical Informatics are Hospital Info ... Read More
Humayon B Dewan, Fawad Kaiser Brief descriptions of an illness resembling schizophrenia can be found hundreds of years ago but it was not until the middle of 19th Century that Morel1 first coined th ... Read More
This female patient presented with this lesion. She was diagnosed of Hodgkin’s Disease, Stage IA with the histological picture of mixed cellularity. It was treated by external beam irradiation by ... Read More
We are presenting a rare case of cholecystogastric fistula, which presented as chronic cholecystitis and obstructive jaundice (Rawal Med J 2006;31:44-45). Key words: Cholecystitis, fistula, chole ... Read More
We report a case of a 35-year-old male who has ochronotic arthropathy involving his spine and peripheral joints. He was diagnosed as having Alkaptonuria,which is a rare disorder of tyrosine cataboli ... Read More
A patient with morbid jealousy associated with acute coronary syndrome is described which is the first case in this context. (Rawal Med J 2006;31:48-49) Key words: Key Words: Jealousy, acute corona ... Read More
Objective: To determine with the mechanism of action involved in the therapeutic potential of serotonin and its blocker on gastrointestinal motility. Method: The standard method was used for obtaini ... Read More
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder with estimated prevalence in general population of 10-15% in many countries of the world.1 In Pakistan, IB ... Read More
Objective: To determine whether there is any change in concentration of iron and lead due to rotting process of food. Methods: The concentration of iron and lead in fresh samples of apple, precement ... Read More
Objective: To elucidate whether and how in patients with uremia on hemodialysis the level of CRP as the marker of inflammation correlate with serum leptin. Patients and Methods: Serum leptin and CRP ... Read More
Objective: Study was conducted to observe the relationship of ions with lipid profile and protein content of hypertensive patients. Methods: Lipid profile, ions and serum and urinary proteins were s ... Read More
