Vol 34, No 1 (2018): January – February 2018
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Honest Errors and Self-Retraction should not be Stigmatized or Penalized | |
| Shaukat Ali Jawaid |
Guest Editorial
| Measuring Learning of Medical Students through ‘Programmatic Assessment’ | |
| Rehan Ahmed Khan |
Original Articles
| Neurological complications are avoidable during CABG | |
| Zulfiqar Haider, Anjum Jalal, Asif Rashid Alamgir, Irfan Rasheed |
| Therapeutic Endoscopy in Combination with Quadruple Therapy in Treating Bleeding Caused by Gastric Ulcer | |
| Yuqin Zuo, Shuhui Wang, Xiujuan Cui, Hongna Lv |
| An examination of the sexual functions of patients who underwent a gynecologic cancer operation and received brachytherapy | |
| Ozlem Guner, Sureyya Gumussoy, Nigar Çelik, Aynur Saruhan, Oya Kavlak |
| Surgical Repair of post-infarction ventricular septal rupture: Determinants of operative mortality and survival outcome analysis | |
| Muhammad Yasir Khan, Tariq Waqar, Perisa Gul Qaisrani, Adnan Zafar Khan, Muhammad Shahrukh Khan, Haider Zaman, Anjum Jalal |
| Gastric emptying scintigraphy in postprandial distress syndrome | |
| Muhammad Hafeez, Fida Hussain, Amjad Salamat, Muhammad Bilal Khan |
| Effect of Erbium-yttrium, scandium, gallium and garnet (ErYSGG) laser on the bond strength of lithium disilicate ceramics | |
| Mohammed Qasim Al-Rifaiy |
| Association of clinical and laboratory parameters with ambulatory arterial stiffness index in acromegaly patients | |
| Faruk Kılınc, Zafer Pekkolay, Fatih Demircan, Nevzat Gozel, Alpaslan Kemal Tuzcu |
| Clinical effects of single femoral nerve block in combinationwith general anesthesia on geriatric patients receiving total knee arthroplasty | |
| Jing Zhang, Yan Yuan, Yongjun Zhang, Ying Wang |
| Comparison between primary closure with Limberg Flap versus open procedure in treatment of pilonidal sinus, in terms of frequency of post-operative wound infection | |
| Muhammad Sohail Jabbar, Mahwish Mahboob Bhutta, Nayyab Puri |
| Is postmenopausal endometrial fluid collection alone a risk factor for endometrial cancer? | |
| Gülin Feykan Yegin Akcay, Emre Erdem Tas, Ayse Filiz Yavuz |
| Transesophageal Echocardiography in Cardiogenic Embolic Cerebral Infarction | |
| Wen Chu, Hua Wang |
| Intra-Operative Predictors of difficult cholecystectomy and Conversion to Open Cholecystectomy – A New Scoring System | |
| Nauman Ahmed, Maaz ul Hassan, Maham Tahira, Abdul Samad, Hamad Naeem Rana |
| Urinary tract infections in the geriatric patients | |
| Yeşim Alpay, Nevil Aykın, Pınar Korkmaz, Hakkı Mustafa Güldüren, Figen Çevik Çağlan |
| Nerve growth factor in combination with Oxiracetam in the treatment of Hypertensive Cerebral Hemorrhage | |
| Yuzhen Sun, Baoquan Xu, Qiang Zhang |
| Comparison of volume and frequency advancement feeding protocols in very low birth weight neonates | |
| Afaq Hussain, Abdur Rehman, Nazia Fatima |
| Brachdactyly Instigated as a Result of Mutation in GDF5 and NOG Genes in Pakistani Population | |
| Samiullah Khan, Muhammad Mudassir, Naqab Khan, Asmat Ullah Marwat |
| ANCA associated vasculitis in patients from Saudi Arabia | |
| Abdurhman Saud Al Arfaj, Najma Khalil |
| An examination of anxiety levels of nursing students caring for patients in terminal period | |
| Behire Sancar, Ayse Saba Yalcin, Inci Acikgoz |
| Liver histology in asymptomatic Hepatitis-C virus positive blood donors | |
| Muhammad Anwar, Qamar Jamal, Waqaruddin Ahmed |
| Spectrum of complications of severe DKA in children in pediatric Intensive Care Unit | |
| Qalab Abbas, Saba Arbab, Anwar Ul Haque, Khadija Nuzhat Humayun |
| Therapeutic effects of visual standard channel combined with F4.8 visual puncture super-mini percutaneous nephrolithotomy on multiple renal calculi | |
| Zhenyu Cui, Yanjun Gao, Wenzeng Yang, Chunli Zhao, Tao Ma, Xiaoqiang Shi |
| Perceived social support in pregnant adolescents in Mersin area in Turkey | |
| Mine Yurdakul |
| Assessment of Freshwater Springs, Associated Diseases and Indigenous Perception in Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan | |
| Shaukat Ali, Rubina `, Sadiq Hussain |
| Association of In-hospital outcome of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)with etiology among newborns at a tertiary care unit | |
| Muhammad Asghar Ali, Abdur Rehman, Ejaz Ahmed |
| Impact of depressed skull fracture surgery on outcome of head injury patients | |
| Shakeel Ahmad, Ali Afzal, Lal Rehman, Farrukh Javeed |
| Characteristics of clinical drugs for elderly chronic heart failure complicated with different degrees of renal insufficiency | |
| Hepeng Yu, Jing Chang, Wenwen Zhong, Ping Ye |
| Expression analysis of glyoxalase I gene among patients of diabetic retinopathy | |
| Aneela Shabbir, Amir Rashid, Palvasha Waheed, Saleem Ahmed Khan |
| Potential Drug-Drug Interactions among patient’s prescriptions collected from Medicine out-patient setting | |
| Riffat Farooqui, Talea Hoor, Nasim Karim, Mehtab Muneer |
| The effect of preoperative stoma site marking on quality of life | |
| Selda Karaveli Çakır, Türkan Özbayır |
| To determine correlation between biochemical parameters of nutritional status with disease severity in HCV related liver cirrhosis | |
| Asma Chaudhry, Kaleem Ullah Toori, Javaria Ilyas Shaikh |
| Influence of Apelin-13 on osteoporosis in Type-2 diabetes mellitus: A clinical study | |
| Supin Liu, Wenlong Wang, Linlin Yin, Yitang Zhu |
| Measuring assessment standards in undergraduate medical programs: Development and validation of AIM tool | |
| Madiha Sajjad, Rehan Ahmed Khan, Rahila Yasmeen |
| Evaluation of the effect of Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery with Myo-Inositol Oxygenase | |
| Cuma Mertoglu, Aliseydi Bozkurt, Ercument Keskin, Murat Gunay |
| Is there difference in chronic pain after Suture and Stapler fixation method of mesh in Ventral Hernia? A randomized controlled trial | |
| Noureen Shaukat, Farhat Jaleel, Masood Jawaid, Imrana Zulfiqar |
| Effectiveness of case based cultural competency among nurses working in private hospitals of Bangkok, Thailand: A Quasi-experimental study | |
| Pimkhwan Bunjitpimol, Ramesh Kumar, Ratana Somrongthong |
| Assessment of collaborative problem solving skills in Undergraduate Medical Students at Ziauddin College of Medicine, Karachi | |
| Arsalan Manzoor Mughal, Sirajul Haque Shaikh |
| Comparison of application values of CT and MRI in the diagnosis of early Lacunar Infarction | |
| Yuqing He, Liping Wei, Wenbo Li |
| Radiolological predictors of recurrence of chronic subdural hematoma | |
| Imran Altaf Hussain, Shahzad Shams, Anjum Habib Vohra |
| Fixation of unstable distal radius fractures by using expandable Intramedullary nailing system in adult patients | |
| Murat Calbiyik |
| Lack of association of statin use with Vitamin Dlevels in a hospital based population of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients | |
| Khalida Iqbal, Najmul Islam, Iqbal Azam, Naseema Mehboobali, Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal |
| Hyperlipidemia and hyper glycaemia in BreastCancer Patients is related to disease stage | |
| Uzma Raza, Mahay Rookh Asif, Asif Bin Rehman, Aminuddin Sheikh |
| Role of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases in the Formation of Hypertrophic Scar with Model of Lipopolysaccharide Stimulated Skin Fibroblast Cells | |
| Weidong Wang, Guanglei Li, Hongming Yang |
| Pars plana vitrectomy in vitreous hemorrhage with or without Intravitreal Bevacizumab: A comparative overview | |
| Syed Muhammad Faisal, Muhammad Ali Tahir, Alyscia Miriam Cheema, Muhammad Ijaz Anjum |
| Association of RAGE gene polymorphism with Type2 diabetes mellitus in local population | |
| Saba Zulfiqar, Fatma Hussain, Amer Jamil, Nisar Ahmed |
Case Reports
| Hair Dye poisoning: “An early intervention” | |
| Syed Farrukh Umair, Imrana Amin, Ata ur Rehman |
View Point
| Author-based journal selection system that helps authors save time in article submission | |
| Onur Ozturk, Fatih Ileri |
Retraction
| Effects of Ringer’s sodium pyruvate solution on serum tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 upon septic shock | |
| Wei Dong, Guannan Zhang, Feng Qu |
