Pak J Med Sci
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Publish or Perish: Need to have another look? | |
| Shaukat Ali Jawaid |
Continous Medical Education
| How to write a Doctoral Thesis | |
| H.R Ahmad |
Original Articles
| Hepatorenal syndrome: Response to terlipressinand albumin and its determinants | |
| Shahid Sarwar, Anwaar A. Khan |
| Scientific publications in critical care medicine journals from East Asia: A 10-year survey of the literature | |
| Zhenyu Cao, Chongyang Ou, Hongfei Teng, Xiguang Liu, Hongxin Tang |
| Diagnostic utility of saline infusion doppler sonohysterography in endometrial mass lesions | |
| Bilge Öğütçüoğlu, Cihan Karadağ, Cihan İnan, Zehra Nihal Dolgun, Ahmet Tevfik Yoldemir, Lale Aslanova |
| The eating habits of Patients with Type 2 diabetes in Algeria | |
| Aicha Laissaoui, Rachida Allem |
| Prevalence of anxiety and depression amongdoctors; the unscreened and undiagnosed clientele in Lahore, Pakistan | |
| Khaula Atif, Habib Ullah Khan, Muhammad Zia Ullah, Farrukh Saleem Shah, Abdul Latif |
| Comparison of laparoscopic appendectomy with openappendectomy in treating children with appendicitis | |
| Guoqing Yu, Aihua Han, Wenjuan Wang |
| Surgical outcome of spelenectomy in Thalassemia major in children | |
| Ikramullah Khan Akhtar, Muhammad Ashraf, Irum Uzma Khalid, Mukhtar Hussain |
| Oxidative stress and antioxidant parameters in neutropenic patients secondary to chemotherapy | |
| Akif Dogantekin, Ali Gurel, Bilal Ustundag, Selcuk Ilhan, Emin Tamer Elkiran |
| Factors affecting mode of delivery in a nullipara at term with singleton pregnancy and vertex presentation (NTSV) | |
| Iffat Ahmed, Uzma Chishti, Munazza Akhtar, Humera Ismail |
| Gaucher disease in Iraqi children (Clinical, diagnostic & therapeutic aspects) | |
| Ausama Jamal Kadhum, Rabab Farhan Thejeal |
| PBL triggers in relation to students’ generated learning issues and predetermined faculty objectives: Study in a Malaysian public university | |
| Nurul Hidayati Ruslai, Abdus Salam |
| Is open decortication superior to fibrinolytic therapy as a firstline treatment in the management of pleural empyema? | |
| Sultan Ahmed, Hammad Azam, Imran Basheer |
| Clinical effect of treating renal transplant recipients with percutaneous coronary intervention and its safety | |
| Yanxuan Zhang, Zhenhong Pan, Jun Fang, Qingshan Qu, Xin Jiang, Ming Li |
| Clinical predictors of anticipatory emesis in patients treated with chemotherapy at a tertiary care cancer hospital | |
| Fawad Qureshi, Azhar Shafi, Sheeraz Ali, Neelam Siddiqui |
| Body Mass Index and other anthropometric variablesin children with sickle cell anaemia | |
| Odutola Israel Odetunde, Josephat Chinawa, Kingsely Achigbu, Eberechukwu Achigbu |
| Plastibell device circumcision versus bone cutter technique in terms of operative outcomes and parent’s satisfaction | |
| Tahir Mehmood, Hammad Azam, Muhammad Tarik, Zafar Iqbal, Hassan Mehmood, Syed Asif Hussain Shah |
| Students’ perspective of Bedside Teaching: A qualitative study | |
| Farhan Al-Swailmi, Ishtiaq Khan, Yasir Mehmood, Shehab Al-Enazi, Majed Alrowaili, Madallah Al-Enazi |
| Yield of closed pleural biopsy and cytologyin exudative pleural effusion | |
| Faisal Faiyaz Zuberi, Bader Faiyaz Zuberi, Syed Khalid Ali, Sagheer Hussain, Farhana Mumtaz |
| Educational resources used by medical students in primary healthcare rotation: A cross sectional study | |
| Ali M Al-Hazmi |
| Ankylosing Spondylitis: A rheumatology clinic experience | |
| Tasnim Ahsan, Uzma Erum, Rukhshanda Jabeen, Danish Khowaja |
| Influence of different anesthetic and analgesic methods on early cognitive function of elderly patients receiving non-cardiac surgery | |
| Yong Wang, Jie Zhang, Shuijun Zhang |
| Hepatitis-C virus infection among injecting drug users in Lahore, Pakistan: A cross sectional study | |
| Abdul Majeed Akhtar, Sadia Majeed, Muhammad Jamil, Abdul Rehman, Sufia Majeed |
| The modified Dunn procedure for slipped capital femoral epiphysis does not reduce the length of the femoral neck | |
| Dan Ionut Cosma, Dana Elena Vasilescu, Andrei Corbu, Madalina Valeanu, Dan Vasilescu |
| Diagnostic accuracy of Ultrasound B scan using 10 MHz linear probe in ocular trauma; Results from a high burden country | |
| Muhammad Kashif Shazlee, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Saad Ahmed, Ammad Hussain, Kamran Hameed, Irfan Amjad Lutfi, Muhammad Tahir Khan |
| Application value of magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosing central nervous system lymphoma | |
| Shanhua Zhang, Hongjun Li, Rongguang Zhu, Mingming Zhang |
| Hypovitaminosis-D: Frequency and association of clinical disease with biochemical levels in adult patients | |
| Hammad Shah, Humaira Achakzai, Shahzada Bakhtyar Zahid, Muhammad Zuhaid |
| Measurements of bone mineral density and stiffness index in young Saudi females | |
| Lina Fahmi Hammad |
| Ameliorating effect of Allium Sativum on high-fat diet induced fatty liver in albino rats | |
| Aisha Qamar, Ambreen Usmani, Humera Waqar, Asma Siddiqui, Hemant Kumar |
| Tea drinking habits and osteoporotic hip/femur fractures: A case-control study | |
| Chenshu Huang, Rongrui Tang |
| Adherence to Methotrexate therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis | |
| Nasim Arshad, Nighat Mir Ahmad, Muhammad Ahmed Saeed, Saira Khan, Shabnam Batool, Sumaira Farman |
| Alanine aminotransferase as a predictor of adverseperinatal outcomes in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy | |
| Ali Ekiz, Basak Kaya, Muhittin Eftal Avci, Ibrahim Polat, Selin Dikmen, Gokhan Yildirim |
| Frequency of neck and shoulder pain and use of adjustable computer workstation among bankers | |
| Maryam Shabbir, Sajid Rashid, Bilal Umar, Aqeel Ahmad, Sarah Ehsan |
| Psychosocial implications of blindness and low visionin students of a school for children with blindness | |
| Rizwan Ishtiaq, Muhammad Hamid Chaudhary, Muhammad Atif Rana, Abdur Rehman Jamil |
| Clinical significance of quantitative and qualitative detection of BK and JC virus in blood and urine of renal transplantation recipients | |
| Liangwei Qiao, Qingshan Qu, Xin Jiang |
| Corneal approach 20 Guage vitrectomy system for the management of congenital cataract | |
| Mariya Nazish Memon, Sadia Bukhari, Israr Ahmed Bhutto |
| Application of multiplex PCR for Rapid and sensitive detection of human papillomaviruses in cervical cancer | |
| Fateme Zandnia, Abbas Doosti, Abbas Mokhtari-Farsani, Mohammad Taghi Kardi, Abolfazl Movafagh |
| Sentinel lymph node identification by blue dye in patients with breast carcinoma | |
| Nighat Bakhtiar, Farhat Jaleel, Foad Ali Moosa, Naeem Akhtar Qureshi, Masood Jawaid |
| Prevalence of dental caries and associated social risk factorsamong preschool children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
| Laila A Al-Meedani, Yousef H Al-Dlaigan |
| Reliability of the universal goniometer for assessing active cervical range of motion in asymptomatic healthy persons | |
| Muhammad Nazim Farooq, Mohammad Ali Mohseni Bandpei, Mudassar Ali, Ghazanfar Ali Khan |
| Clinical efficacy of tiotropium in children with asthma | |
| Juan Huang, Ying Chen, Zhen Long, Xiaoqin Zhou, Junhua Shu |
| Otitis media with effusion: Accuracy of tympanometry in detecting fluid in the middle ears of children at myringotomies | |
| Khurshid Anwar, Saeed Khan, Habib ur Rehman ., Mohammad Javaid, Isteraj Shahabi |
| Use of a portable monitoring device (Somnocheck Micro) for the investigation and diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea in comparison with polysomnography | |
| Cahit Bilgin, Ünal Erkorkmaz, Muhammed Kürşad Uçar, Neşe Akın, Ahmet Nalbant, Ali Nihat Annakkaya |
| McKenzie treatment versus mulligan sustained natural apophyseal glides for chronic mechanical low back pain | |
| Saira Waqqar, Syed Shakil-ur-Rehaman, Shakeel Ahmad |
| Frequency of hypovitaminosis D and its associated risk factorsin newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients | |
| Fahad Azam, Abida Shaheen, Rabia Arshad |
| Ego States of nurses working in psychiatric clinics according to transactional analysis theory | |
| Melike Yönder Ertem, Ayla Kececi |
| Investigation of molecular heterogeneity of β-thalassemia disorder in District Charsadda of Pakistan | |
| Muhammad Shakeel, Muhammad Arif, Shoaib Ur Rehman, Tabassum Yaseen |
| Seroprevalence of acute dengue in a Malaysian tertiary medical centre | |
| Md Mostafizur Rahman, Chuan Hun Ding, Zetti Zainol Rashid, NanFeng Khang, Wan Ngor Low, Nurabrar Hussin, Melissa Iqlima Marzuki, Alyaa Nadhira Jaafar, Nurul Ain’ Nabilla Roslan, Terukumar Chandrasekaran |
Review Article
| Bisphosphonates can prevent recurrent hip fracture and reduce the mortality in osteoporotic patient with hip fracture: A meta-analysis | |
| Jing Peng, Yong Liu, Long Chen, Kun Peng, Xu Zhao, Dagang Zhang, Zhou Xiang |
| Diabetic Macular Edema | |
| Fatih Cakir Gundogan, Umit Yolcu, Fahrettin Akay, Abdullah Ilhan, Gokhan Ozge, Salih Uzun |
| Quality of life for chronic psychiatric illnesses and home care | |
| Nesibe Gunay Molu, Birgul Ozkan, Sema İçel |
Case Reports
| Delayed visual loss due to radiation retinopathy | |
| Salih Uzun, Sami Toyran, Fahrettin Akay, Fatih Cakir Gundogan |
| Phenotypic manifestation of congenital transverse amputation of autopod in Pakistani subjects | |
| Hafiza Fizzah Riaz, Karmoon Lal, Saif Ullah, Nadeem Ahmad Bhatti, Waheed Ullah, Sajid Malik |
