Abstract: Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a significant health problem and attains one of the highest susceptibilities among women population. It risks women of every age, but it i ... Read More
ABSTRACT: Background: A sphygmomanometer is a medical instrument which is normally used to measure blood pressure in an individual. This instrument has a potential of being used as a device for measu ... Read More
Abstract Background: Giardia lamblia is a frequent cause of acute watery diarrhea and malabsorption in children in developing countries. Objective: To assess the frequency and associated factors of ... Read More
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to see the organisms growth from culture sensitivities of stents retrieved during pancreaticoduodenectomies, and efficacy of routinely used antibiotics. METH ... Read More
Background: Hemorrhage can occur as a consequence of innumerable conditions. It can lead to hemodynamic compromise and death unless treated promptly. Various traditional medicinal plants are being stu ... Read More
Background: Maternal anthropometric measurements have influence on birth weight of neonates with varying extent and can be used to screen high risk pregnancies. Objective: To identify appropriate mat ... Read More
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is considered a risk factor for chronic kidney disease, endocrinopathies, cardiovascular disease (CVD), cerebrovascular disease and osteoporosis. ... Read More
Short tongue-tie (Ankyloglossia, linguistic frenilum) is a congenital condition that is characterized by an abnormally short, thickened or tight lingual frenulum which restricts the movements of the t ... Read More
Background: Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) discourage every kind of food in first six months e ... Read More
Everyone, be the professional and politician or those involved, in any way, in health matters, is interested in universal health coverage (UHC). But, what is it, and how to get there? It is elaborated ... Read More
Universal Health Care (UHC) has been recognized all over the world as an unparalleled standard for the provision of extensive health services particularly to the impoverished and economically poor sec ... Read More
In the unpredictable and dynamic health system, there is a growing need to incorporate reflection and reflective practice into all levels of medical education, as it is an essential tool for improving ... Read More
Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to public policies has assumed increasing importance in recent years. In this paper, the concept is defined, tracing its evolution and highlighting its importanc ... Read More
Background: Congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) is the most common disorder of foot. Conservative treatment is the first line management for CTEV. Our objective was to determine the frequency of suc ... Read More
Abstract: Contraception is the need of hour particularly in developing countries like Pakistan whose major crisis now-a-days is overpopulation, unachieved desired fertility rate and limited resources ... Read More
OBJECTIVE To compare the outcome of hand sewn versus stapled anastomosis after transhiatal esophagectomy, in terms of operative time, post-operative bleeding, anastomotic leak, stricture formation a ... Read More
Background: Smartphones and hand-held devices have invaded our lives in the 21st century. Excessive use of smartphones has led to the various physical and psychological problems in the society. ... Read More
Objective: To evaluate prevalence of various species of candida in the oral cavity of oral cancer patients undergoing head and neck radiotherapy. Method: 60 patients of oral cancer undergoing radioth ... Read More
ABSTRACT: Background: Acute myeloid leukemia, AML, is a hematological malignancy, with diverse genetic abnormalities. Mutations in FLT3 gene are the most common aberrations found in AML. The two impo ... Read More
Introduction Lymphoma is a malignancy that can involve the lymphatic system or arise as extra nodal disease. In children Whole body scanning for Lymphoma was mostly ... Read More
Objectives: The objective of this study was to quantify the magnitude of refractive errors in private sector high school children of Lahore, Pakistan. Methods: This analytical, cross sectional study ... Read More
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of high and low transcutaneous electrical nerve(TENS) in controlling pain after Caesarean (C) Section to measure the time period of pain relief through high and low ... Read More
Objectives Hiatus Hernia is one of the leading gastrointestinal problems in Pakistan. Despite the diagnostic challenges, obesity and increasing age are considered significant predictors of hiatus her ... Read More
Objective: To determine the efficacy and safety of intralesional injection of normal saline in mild to moderate atrophic acne scars. Method: Thirty patients having mild to moderate atrophic acne scar ... Read More
Background: This paper reflects and brings together the interests of positive psychiatry and positive gerontology, which are emerging fields that emphasize the promotion of health and positive mental ... Read More
Objective: To accomplish the comparison of postoperative pain in laparoscopic cholecystectomy, using 10mm vs 5mm umbilical ports. Methodology: Randomized controlled trial was performed from August 20 ... Read More
Background: Treatment of humeral shaft fractures varies from conservative modalities to operative fixation. There are noticeable high non-unions in humeral shaft fractures. Locking compression plates ... Read More
Abstract : Congenital anomalies is interesting in the sense that many patients can manifest with symptoms in childhood while others may remain asymptomatic or with unusal symotoms and anomalies are di ... Read More
Background: The measurements of nose is important cosmetically and medico legally. It is being done since Greek age. In modern times its importance is increased. Objective: To determine ... Read More
Background:Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) account for 31% of all deaths worldwide and 80%of all CVD deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes . Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of CVDs. ... Read More
Background: Perineal tear clinically defined as tearing the perineal skin and muscles only. Sometimes injury involving the anal sphincter or anal mucosa results in major degree tears, causing faecal u ... Read More
Bronchialasthma is one of the most common respiratory disorder with increasing prevalence among children and adults. During ionic study of disease Mg++ was found to be associated with exacerbation as ... Read More
Berardinelli-Seip syndrome or congenital generalized lipodystrophy, is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by dysregulation of lipid and glycemic metabolism. Common clinical signs are acanthosis ... Read More
Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic organism resistant against many antibiotics and disinfectants. A 05% acetic acid can be used for the eradication of pseudomonas aeruginosa infect ... Read More
The autopsy suite is the most disliked, underrated rather hatred and disrespected place in almost all hospitals and medical colleges or universities of this part of the world. It is almost completely ... Read More
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament? So is phrased Aristotle’s theory of melancholia, which ... Read More
Objective: Medical students are exposed to a multitude of stressors which contribute to diminution of happiness. Self-esteem and optimism go hand in hand with happiness. Lack of the former two may fur ... Read More
Background: Neonatal infections including meningitis are among the major reasons of neonatal death in the region. Timely and prompt diagnosis and treatment is required to prevent its complications. Ai ... Read More
Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is neonatal disease mostly occur in premature neonates, in which the parts of intestine get necrosis. Healthy probiotic agent may be given that can hel ... Read More
Purpose: Our study aim is to investigate the effectiveness of pressure garment therapy (PGT) on burn scar treatment. Methods/design: This is randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted at Burn unit ... Read More
Background/Aim: To evaluate the incidence of retinal detachment (RD) after doing Neodymium: Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd: YAG) laser capsulotomy following cataract surgery. Method: This retrospective ... Read More
Objective: To compare the outcome of arthroscopic assisted Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction of knee with limited open anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in young patient with com ... Read More
Objective: To assess the awareness of these errors amongst nurses, the primary phlebotomists in our system, in the light of their relative qualifications and phlebotomy experience. Methodology: A cro ... Read More
Background: Cholangiocarcinoma is rare but with alarmingly increasing incidence worldwide. Managing CCA is still challenging in developed as well as in resource-constraint coun ... Read More
Objective: To assess the pulmonary artery hypertension in patients with limited and diffuse Systemic Sclerosis upon presentation. Material and methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at Dep ... Read More
Abstract: To diagnose constrictive pericarditis requires a high degree of clinical acumen as the signs and symptoms overlap with other cardiac diseases. Usually as cardiologists, we encounter most of ... Read More
Intravesical foreign body is a well-documented presentation in adults, however in children, it is rarely reported. We report a case of 5-years-old girl who presented with increased frequency of mictur ... Read More
Malignant Phyllodes is a rare neoplasm comprising less than 0.5 - 1% of the breast lesions. It is prevalent among females aged between 35 and 55, however, younger and older populations may also be aff ... Read More
In 1978, in its thirty-second session held at Alma-Ata, USSR, World Health Assembly introduced “Health for All by year 2000”; one of the major global policy initiatives in a session jointly organized ... Read More
Social Media are “all websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, to interact with other users or to find people with similar interests to one's own”.1 Students of twenty ... Read More
Background: The measurements of nose is important cosmetically and medico legally. It is being done since Greek age. In modern times its importance is increased. Objective: To determine the val ... Read More
Globalization of medical education is a need of the hour. Medical profession has faced many challenges and different institutions developed various strategies to cope with these challenges. In the pas ... Read More
The use of information technology has revolutionized the health care systems and health promotion models. Information technology including use of artificial intelligence in preventive medicine has ena ... Read More
Ladies and gentleman, Assalam-o-alaikum, good morning and congratulations to the organisers of the King Edward Medical College symposium, both for convening this event and for giving it such a befitti ... Read More
As part of the initiative to transform healthcare services in Pakistan, Professor Yasmin Rashid of the Ministry of Health in Punjab emphasises the focus on primary care as well the need to upgrade sec ... Read More
If we are to improve the living conditions of Pakistan’s population, it is imperative to develop means by which health care and related facilities are provided on a universal, all-inclusive basis. It ... Read More
At the time of independence, eye care services were provided by a few Christian missionary hospitals, Government hospitals and a few family owned Cottage hospitals. In 1950s and 60s, new eye departmen ... Read More
Punjab province has a maternal mortality ratio of 180/100,000 live births and neonatal mortality rate of 41/1,000 live births. There are 2,512 primary care facilities (basic health units, BHUs) across ... Read More
Medical errors do occur daily in almost every part of the world. The significant errors include: misdiagnosis, administration of a wrong drug, improper dose of a given medication, wrong route of admin ... Read More
Any healthcare system in the world requires the same basic components to function: a proper governance / management system with sufficient financing, an appropriately tiered service infrastructure (pr ... Read More
I am a Pakistani graduate.I started my medical career at a Basic Health Unit in a small village in Pakistan.Just before completing surgical training in the United Kingdom UK, I changed over to general ... Read More
An autonomous body established by Government of Punjab is the hub of IT-based interventions and spearheads multitude projects providing IT services and related infrastructure at local, governmental an ... Read More
Information Technology is an enabler; it is not a panacea. We need a coherent health delivery strategy at the provincial level dovetailing with one developed at the national level. Information Technol ... Read More
In Punjab, the public sector has district headquarter hospitals (DHQs) and tehsil headquarter hospitals (THQs) that are able to deal with primary and secondary care patients but lack in speciality ser ... Read More
Pakistani medical professionals home and abroad, are keen to develop and be part of universal health care provision so that we catch up with the rest of the nations in the region and in the world to r ... Read More
All stakeholders agree on the need for reform of the healthcare system in Pakistan. This article describes the process of healthcare reform in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan form 2013-201 ... Read More
OBJECTIVES: To highlight the current situation on maternal mortality rate and to compare maternal mortality at different health levels like Tertiary, Secondary and Primary Centers. MATERIAL AND METHO ... Read More
Aristotle’s theory of melancholia hypothesized for the first time that individuals who possess any form of genius are prone to depression more than the average person. The list of examples supplementi ... Read More
As stem cells have revolutionized all the fields of medicine in the present era so is the field of regenerative medicine which is the most recent and emerging branch of medical science ... Read More
Background: Budd Chiari syndrome and hepatic veno-occlusive disorders have major implications in paediatric patients as they can lead to cirrhosis. There is a need to establish the role of imagin ... Read More
Background: To evaluate the accuracy of prenatal sonography in measurement of Caesarean section scar thickness and comparing the measurement with intraoperative visual assessment of uterine scar. ... Read More
Objectives. To identify the relationship in body image, self-compassion and Sexual distress in patients who have undergone mastectomy and to determine body image and self-compassion as a predicto ... Read More
AbstractObjectives: To study the effect of pre-operative intra-vitreal Avastin (bevacizumab) in diabetic patients undergoing phacoemulcification on central macular thickness and best corrected visual ... Read More
The human brain is indeed a complex entity. Millions of nerve cells and synapses encode behavior and responses in each individual that reflect as the personality of that particular being. Th ... Read More
Abstract |Objective: To compare Rifaximin versus neomycin in chronic liver disease (CLD) patients presenting with hepatic Encephalopathy.Methodology: This Randomized controlled trial was conducted at ... Read More
AbstractObjective: Pakistan stands 5th among the highest TB burden countries in the world. The main objective of the study was to assess the impact of listening to the Radio and watching TV on awarene ... Read More
AbstractObjectives: To study the optic disc parameters in adult emmetropic, myopic and hypermetropic Pakistani population eyes using Topcon spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and it ... Read More
AbstractObjectives: To compare and determine the effects of low dose dopamine in prevention of renal injury during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft s ... Read More
AbstractBackground & Objective: Errors in the pre-analytical phase constitute about 68% of all lab diagnostic errors and they occur mostly during specimen collection phase. The aim of our study wa ... Read More
AbstractBackground: Cerebral palsy (CP), with a frequency of 1.22/ 1000 live births, is the commonest cause of motor deficiency and results in a number of issues. Drooling is one highly prevalent prob ... Read More
AbstractObjective: To compare sonographic estimated fetal weight with actual birth fetal weight.Back Ground: Prenatal estimation of fetal weight is very important to predict various pathological and p ... Read More
AbstractObjectives: To compare incidence of incontinence in patients with chronic anal fissure undergoing lateral sphincterotomy through open and closed method.Methodology: A total number of 154 patie ... Read More
Abstract |Back ground. The treatment of acute cholecystitis has been extensively discussed in the literature. It has evolved through various stages of conservative management to surgical management fr ... Read More
AbstractObjective: The objective of this study was to compare external versus internal fixation for the treatment of femoral shaft fractures in children in terms of post-operative results.Method: This ... Read More
Abstract: Objective: The objective of current study was to determine the association of hand grip strength and endurance with handwriting speed among the students. Background: Grip strength of ha ... Read More
Abstract: Background: Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects all aspects of life including sexual function. Objectives: To identify the frequency of sexual dysfunction and ... Read More
