Vol. 33 No. 4 (2017): July – August 2017

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Pak J Med Sci
Published: 2017-08-04

Original Articles

  • Management of community acquired pneumonia by Family Physicians

    Saima Akhter, Nadeem Rizvi, Sajeer Bhura, Usman Ali Warraich
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12577

  • Long term outcomes of laparoscopic and open modified lich-gregoir reimplantation in adults: A multicentric comparative study

    Arda Atar, Mithat Eksi, Ahmet Faysal Guler, Murat Tuncer, Fatih Akkas, Volkan Tugcu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12661

  • Paediatric inflammatory bowel disease: Clinical presentation and disease location

    Danish Abdul Aziz, Maryum Moin, Atif Majeed, Kamran Sadiq, Abdul Gaffar Billoo
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12926

  • A clinical study on arthroplasty for failed internal fixation of hip fractures and review of literature

    Feng Mingli, Shen Huiliang, Cao Guanglei, Li Zheng, Lu Shibao, Liu Limin, An Shuai
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12459

  • Surgical outcome of spontaneous supra tentorial intracerebral hemorrhage

    Waqar Aziz Rehman, Muhammad Sohaib Anwar
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12172

  • Acute kidney injury in Ureteric Stones: Single centre short term analysis

    Huma Mamun Mahmud, Syed Mamun Mahmud
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13345

  • Rapid virological & End treatment response of patients treated with Sofosbuvir in Chronic Hepatitis C

    Muhammad Shoaib Siddique, Sana Shoaib, Alvia Saad, Hamna Javed Iqbal, Noureen Durrani
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12785

  • Subclinical Hypothyroidism: Frequency, clinical presentations and treatment indications

    Mubashir Alam Khan, Tasnim Ahsan, Urooj Lal Rehman, Rukhshanda Jabeen, Saad Farouq
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12921

  • The use of flexible laryngeal mask airway for Adenoidectomies:An experience of 814 Paediatric patients

    Ozlem Ozmete, Mesut Sener, Esra Caliskan, Meltem Kipri, Anis Aribogan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12432

  • Illness perceptions in patients of schizophrenia: A preliminary investigation from Lahore, Pakistan

    Sadia Hussain, Nazish Imran, Usman Amin Hotiana, Nauman Mazhar, Aftab Asif
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13128

  • An epidemiological study of prevalence and comorbidity of obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms (SOCD)and stress in Pakistani Adults

    Farzana Ashraf, Sadia Malik, Amna Arif
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13045

  • Delayed conventional DMARDs therapy is effective in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Tasnim Ahsan, Uzma Erum, Danish Khowaja, Assadullah Dahani
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12704

  • Correlation between the Expression of Topo IIα and Ki67 in Breast Cancer and its clinical Pathological characteristics

    Jihai Jin, Dongxing Zheng, Yujuan Liu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13143

  • Utilization focused evaluation at Bahria University Medical & Dental College

    Rehana Rehman, Rabiya Ali, Hina Moazzam, Saifullah Shaikh
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13020

  • Pelvic floor muscle strength of women consulting at the gynecology outpatient clinics and its correlation with sexual dysfunction: A cross-sectional study

    Filiz Ciledag Ozdemir, Erkan Pehlivan, Rauf Melekoglu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12250

  • The potential effect of technology and distractions on undergraduate students’ concentration

    Najya Attia, Lubna Baig, Yousef I. Marzouk, Anwar Khan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12560

  • Evaluation of cognitive levels and item writing flaws in medical pharmacology internal assessment examinations

    Saba Tariq, Sundus Tariq, Sadia Maqsood, Shireen Jawed, Mukhtiar Baig
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12887

  • Mean platelet volume in Graves

    G Simsek Bagir, Filiz Eksi Haydardedeoglu, Okan Bakiner, Emre Bozkirli, Melek Eda Ertorer
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12659

  • A comparison of anxiety and depression between pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients and hemodialysis patientsusing hospital anxiety and depression scale

    Salman T. Shafi, Tahir Shafi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12656

  • Effect of Vitamin D supplementation on reduction in levels of HbA1 in patients recently diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus having asymptomatic Vitamin D deficiency

    Fawad Ahmad Randhawa, Saqib Mustafa, Dur Muhammad Khan, Shahid Hamid
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12288

  • Phenotypic characterization of extended-spectrum-beta‑lactamase producing E. coli from healthy individuals, patients, sewage sludge, cattle, chickens and raw meat

    Rabia Saleem, Hasan Ejaz, Aizza Zafar, Sonia Younas, Ahsan Waheed Rathore
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12647

  • Clinical comparative study on Nitrous Oxide inhalation versus intravenous propofol and Midazolam sedation in Transnasal Gastroscopy

    Zhou Xiaoqian, Zhang Tao, Luo Bingsong, Li Jing, Deng Yu, Zhong Weilan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12290

  • The assessment of mortality and quality of life after intertrochanteric fracture of femur in elderly patients

    Seyed Abdolhossein Mehdi Nasab, Ebrahim Khorramdin
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13146

  • Efficacy of early oral refeeding in patients of mild acute pancreatitis

    Shahum Khan, Waqas Ahmed Ranjha, Hassan Tariq, Hareem Nawaz
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12338

  • Identifying a parsimonious model for predicting academic achievement in undergraduate medical education: A confirmatory factor analysis

    Syeda Kauser Ali, Lubna Ansari Baig, Claudio Violato, Onaiza Zahid
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12610

  • Another face of violence against women: Infertility

    Rusen Ozturk, Aylin Taner, Sezer Eu Guneri, Bülent Yilmaz
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12862

  • Mini titanium plates; hearkening the end of nonrigid cranial bone flap fixation

    Muhammad Junaid, Syed Sarmad Bukhari, Mobasher Ahmad Saeed, Mamoon Ur Rashid
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12003

  • hsCRP and ET-1 expressions in patients with no-reflow phenomenon after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Min Liu, Tian Liang, Peiying Zhang, Qing Zhang, Lei Lu, Zhongliang Wang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13059

  • An analysis of 3105 Medico Legal Cases at Tertiary Care Hospital, Rawalpindi

    Romana Malik, Iffat Atif, Farah Rashid, Maqbool Abbas
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.11696

  • Therapeutic benefits of green tea extract on various parametersin non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients

    Mazhar Hussain, Habib Ur Rehman, Lubna Akhtar
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12571

  • Can hematologic parameters predict treatment of ectopic pregnancy?

    Hatice Akkaya, Gülsüm Uysal
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12418

  • Analysis of renal artery morphometery in adults: A study conducted by using Multidetector computed Tomography Angiography

    Maria Mohiuddin, Arsalan Manzoor, Muhammad Ali, Nuzhat Hassan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13063

  • Caries risk assessment in school children using reduced cariogram model

    Muhammad Taqi, Ishak Abdul Razak, Norintan Ab-Murat
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13106

  • Behavioral factors for predicting severity of enuresis and treatment responses in different compliancegroups receiving behavioral therapy

    Yanli Ma, Xiaomei Liu, Ying Shen
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12922

  • Impact of stent length and diameter on short term clinical outcomes of drug eluting stents in patients with stable coronary artery disease

    Yasir Adnan, Lubna Noor, Muhammad Habeel Dar, Umair Ali, Muhammad Hafizullah
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13068

  • Profile of hepatic involvement in dengue infections in adult Pakistani population

    Somia Iqtadar, Nabeel Akbar, Naima Huma, Fawad Ahmad Randhawa
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13026

  • A Chinese family with congenital Dysfibrinogenemia carries a heterozygous missense mutation in FGA: Concerningthe genetic abnormality and clinical treatment

    Jihao Zhou, Peng Zhu, Xinyou Zhang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12828

  • Modifiable cardiovascular risk factorsin Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Abrar Ahmed Wagan, Syed Nayab Haider, Rukhsar Ahmed, Fuad Shafiq, Sadia Nasir
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12798

  • Do triple test results predict risk for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia?

    Hale Göksever Çelik, Engin Çelik, Gökhan Yıldırım, Merih
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12420

  • Tetralogy of Fallot repair in patients presenting after Infancy: A single surgeon experience

    Tariq Waqar, Muhammad Usman Riaz, Tania Mahar
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12891

  • Tamsulosin and Solifenacin in the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in combination with overactive bladder

    Hui Wang, Yanhua Chang, Hui Liang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12757

  • Incidence and risk factors of Pulmonary Complications after Cardiopulmonary bypass

    Anjum Naveed, Hammad Azam, Humayoun Ghulam Murtaza, Rana Altaf Ahmad, Mirza Ahmad Raza Baig
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12846

  • Budesonide nebulization in the treatment of neonatal ventilator associated pneumonia

    Baoqiang Li, Shuzhen Han, Fuzhen Liu, Lijuan Kang, Chuanwei Xv
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12907

  • Effectiveness of core stabilization exercises and routine exercise therapy in management of pain in chronic nonspecific low back pain: A randomized controlled clinical trial

    Muhammad Waseem Akhtar, Hossein Karimi, Syed Amir Gillani
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12664

  • The long-term prognosis of epilepsy patients with medicallytreated over a period of eight years in Turkey

    Pelin Duman, Asuman Orhan Varoglu, Esra Kurum
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.13194

  • Value of HE4 combined with cancer Antigen 125in the diagnosis of Endometrial Cancer

    Chunhua Dong, Ping Liu, Chao Li
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12755

Clinical Case Series

  • Two cases about mesh adhesion to intra-abdominal cavitytissue after using mesh to repair an incisional hernia

    Wenxian Guan, Xuefeng Xia, Xiaofeng Lu, Xing Kang, Ji Miao, Kai Zhang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12641

Review Article

  • Ethical issues in managing Lysosomal storage disordersin children in low and middle income countries

    Bushra - Afroze, Nick Brown
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12975

  • Is biological repair of Heart on the Horizon?

    HR Ahmad, Satwat Hashmi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.334.12938

Systematic Review

Case Reports