Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
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Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (JCPSP), is the prestigious, peer reviewed monthly biomedical journal of the country published regularly since 1991. College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan is the parent body of this Journal.
By Duowen Xie, Xiaoyuan Shi, Yinxia Zhang
Objective: To analyse the effects of combined acupuncture anesthesia on surgical dosage and serum interleukin-4 (IL-4), interleukin-10 (IL-10) of pneumonectomy patients. Study Design: A randomised controlled trial (RCT). Place and Duration of Study: Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Ch...
By Aneela Jamil, Amir Rashid, Asifa Majeed
Objective: To investigate the relation between genotoxicity and interleukin-6 in rats exposed to cigarette smoke. Study Design: An experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Army Medical College, Rawalpindi and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, in 2016. Methodology: Seventy ...
By Shahid Rashid, Uzma Gul, Muhammad Ali, Tahira Sadiq, Azhar Mehmood Kiyani
Objective: To investigate the clinical and angiographic characteristics of coronary artery ectasia (CAE) and its relation with the inflammatory marker, HsCRP. Study Design: An observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, Rawalpindi, from April 2015 ti...
By Nasreen Naz, Javeriya Sattar, S Khalid Ashrafi
Objective: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) of head and neck in detecting adjacent bone invasion due to squamous cell carcinoma of buccal mucosa using histopathology as gold standard. Study Design: Cross sectional / descriptive study. Place and...
By Sohail Ahmed Khan, Saira Yasmeen, Hatem Adel, Syed Omair Adil, Farheen Huda, Shahmeer Khan
Objective: To determine the normal liver, spleen, and renal parameters in adult patients with no comorbidities. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Dow Institute of Radiology, Ojha Campus, LEJ Campus, and Al-Mustafa Hospital Karachi, from October 2016 to March 2017. ...
By Mohsina Noor Ibrahim, Taj Muhammad Laghari, Misbah Iqbal Hanif, Zubair Ahmed Khoso, Maira Riaz, Jamal Raza
Objective: To analyse chromosomal abnormalities of the patients who were referred for the screening of short stature and delayed puberty and to verify the association between karyotype and phenotype in confirmed Turner Syndrome (TS) patients. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration ...
By Mehmet Zahid Kocak, Gulali Aktas, Edip Erkus, Tuba T Duman, Burcin M Atak, Haluk Savli
Objective: To compare mean platelet volume to lymphocyte ratio (MPVLR) of diabetic nephropathy subjects to those diabetics without diabetic nephropathy. Study Design: Observational, cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Tertiary referral hospital, in Bolu, Turkey, from July t...
By Saliha Naz, Syed Fawad Rizvi, Faisal Murtaza, Basheeran Shehzadi
Objective: To evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of retinectomy in the management of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachments with inferior retinal breaks and advanced proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR C). Study Design: Quasi-experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: LRBT...
By Oshaque Ali, Ayesha Hafeez, Aamir Ijaz, Munir Akmal Lodhi, Muhammad Asif Nawaz, Zeeshan Ahmed
Objective: To evaluate a novel clinico-biochemical score for screening of inherited metabolic diseases (IMDs) in children in our setup. Study Design: Descriptive analytical study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemical Pathology and Endocrinology, Armed Forces Institute of P...
By Shariq Anis Khan, Salman el Khalid, Fouzia Naeem Effendi, Mohammad Hammad Mithani, Adnan Siddique Awan, Tooba Mugal
Objective: To compare postoperative mean pain score of bupivacaine versus placebo in patients undergoing percutaneous nephrolithotomy. Study Design: An experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Urology, The Kidney Centre, Postgraduate Training Institute (PGTI), Karachi, fro...
By Mustafa Hasbahceci, Huseyin Kadioglu
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an inflammatory breast disease with unknown etiology and nonspecific symptoms. Differentiation of breast cancer from granulomatous disease is a diagnostic and clinical challenge. Imaging features and decision of the surgeon, based on these findings, m...
By Banu Karapolat, Uzer Kucuktulu
Objective: To investigate the relationship between waist circumference and cecal intubation time (CIT) in female subjects during colonoscopy. Study Design: A descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of General Surgery, Kanuni Training and Research Hospital, Turkey, from Januar...
By Hasan Calis
Objective: To assess the factors affecting the morbidity and mortality in patients over 65 years of age who underwent appendectomy. Study Design: An observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ahi Evran University, Kirsehir, Turkey, f...
By Feng Li, Jing Liang, Xiaogang Li
Tracheal stenosis may occur secondary to trauma, tumors, infections, and inflammatory and iatrogenic diseases. Patients with tracheal stenosis must be evaluated carefully and require comprehensive preoperative examination, including pulmonary function tests and radiographic studies. Two male patie...
By Farhan Ahmed Majeed, Usama Zafar, Ahmad Ali, Umer Mehmood, Mohammad Rashid Husnain
Primary tumours of the trachea are rare. Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) constitutes less than 1% of these tumours. They occasionally masquerade as asthma. We are presenting a case of a young female, who had been treated for 3 years as asthma. She presented in emergency with severe respiratory diff...
By Sajad Ahmad, Muhammad Anees, Hina Akbar, Noreen Akhtar
Acute granulomatous interstitial nephritis (GIN) is a rare cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) but treatable. It is present in 0.5 to 0.9% of native renal biopsies. Treatment with moderate dosage of steroids is associated with good prognosis. We herein review a case of a 48-year lady having AKI fo...
By Maria R Bokhari, Faisal Inayat, Javeria Sardar, Syed Rizwan A Bokhari
Van der Knaap disease or megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC) is a rare, inherited, autosomal recessive disorder. It is characterised by macrocephaly and slowly progressive ataxia, spasticity, and cognitive decline. The usual age of onset is described from birth to in...
By Murat Sari, Pinar Saip
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have taken an important place in the field of oncologic immunotherapy, especially for patients in whom conventional treatment regimens have failed. Nivolumab prevents programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) binding, resulting in blocka...
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By Maha Jahangir, Faisal Inayat
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By Noor Ul-Ain Baloch, Adaeze N Ibeabuchi
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By Mehmet Akif Tezcan, Ibrahim Ethem Ozsoy
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