EDITORIAL

Plagiarism in scientific writing

Umer Farooq, Muhammad Zeeshan Haroon

421

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Role of reverse sural artery flap for soft tissue defects of lower limb - Experience with 66 cases

Saeed Ashraf Cheema, Adnan Latif Malik, Muhammad Asim

423

Association of maxillary and mandibular base lengths with dental crowding in skeletal malocclusions

Aisha Khoja, Mubassar Fida, Attiya Shaikh

428

Assessment of C-reactive proteins in recently diagnosed type-1 diabetic children as risk marker of early atherosclerosis

Aqeela Hamad, Hamid Javaid Qureshi, Nabila Roohi

434

Anti-retroviral drugs compliance in intravenous and non-intravenous drug abusers

Muhammad Yousuf Daud, Rizwan Aziz Qazi, Naila Bashir

437

Laser and incisional myringotomy in otitis media with effusion: A comparative study

Mohammad Yousaf, Sohail Ahmad Malik, Bakht Zada

441

Cervical disc replacement with polyetheretherketone cages: Clinical experience with 151 cases

Muhammad Junaid, Anisa Kalsoom, Muhammad Khalid, Syed Sarmad Bukhari

444

Women’s knowledge, attitude and practice towards menopause and hormone replacement therapy: A facility based study in Al-ain, United Arab Emirates

Saima Hamid, Fatma Rashid Al-Ghufli, Hanan Ali Raeesi, Khawla Mohammed Al-Dhufairi, Noura Salem Al-Dhaheri, Fatma Al-Maskari, Iain Blair, Syed Mahboob Shah,

448

Treatment of hyperkalemia in patients with chronic kidney disease: A comparison of calcium polystyrene sulphonate and sodium polystyrene sulphonate

Kiran Nasir, Aasim Ahmad

455

Eventration of diaphragm in adults: Eleven years experience

Syed Zahid Ali Shah, Shahbaz Ali Khan, Amir Bilal, Manzoor Ahmad, Gul Muhammad, Khalid Khan, Muhammad Amjad Khan

459

Response of plasmodium vivax malaria induced thrombocytopenia to antimalarial treatment

Abdul Latif Khattak, Waqar Ali, Naseer Ahmed Khan, Luqman Satti, Muhammad Idris

463

Coronary artery disease pattern: A comparision among different age groups

Hazrat Ullah Khan, Mati Ullah Khan, Muhammad Munir Noor, Muhammad Adeel Alam

466

Spectrum of von Willebrand’s disease in Punjab: Clinical features and types

Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Sunia Qasuria Khan, Naumaan Aslam Malik

470

Comparison of outcome between low and high thoracic trauma severity score in blunt trauma chest patients

Shahzadi Samar Subhani, Mohammad Sultan Muzaffar, Muhammad Imtiaz Khan

474

Importance of microscopic stool examination in patients with diarrhoea

Sajid Ali Shah, Safdar Ali Marwat, Haroon Ur Rashid, Altaf Hussain, Khurram Khurshid, Sheraz Ahmad

478

Seeking what matters: Determinants of clients’ satisfaction in obstetric care services in Pakistan

Moazzam Ali, Muhammad Suleman Qazi, Armando Seuc

481

Diagnostic yield of biopsies via fiber-optic bronchoscopy

Amir Suleman, Munawar Zaman, Muhammad Yasin, Abdur-Rab Khan

488

Left ventricular thrombus in patients with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction

Mir Jalal-ud-din, Raheel Jahangir Jadoon, Asfandyar Qureshi, Sher Ali Khan, Syed Abbas Anwar, Muhammad Zeeshan Haroon

491

Problem based learning and its implementation: Faculty and student’s perception

Amer Aziz, Sadia Iqbal, Atiq Uz Zaman

496

Four-month intensive teaching of anatomy: an acceptable foundation for the clinical years

Najam Siddiqi, Muthusami John, Mark Norrish, Geener John

501

Assessment of dietary diversity and nutritional status of pregnant women in Islamabad, Pakistan

Fatima Ali, Inayat Thaver, Shahzad Ali Khan

506

Effect of standard interferon and ribavirin on haemoglobin level in hepatitis-C patients

Shakeel Ahmad Jadoon, Ashfaq Ahmed, Habib Ahmad Jadoon

510

Medical education and social environment

Ahsan Rasool, Iftikhar Qayum, Ashfaq Ahmad, Umer Farooq, Awais Ali Shah, Muhammad Waqas, Maleeha Rasool, Sania Hameed, Rana Kanwal, Muneeba Azmat, Saleem Marwat, Faheem Afridi

513

Frequency and impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Shakira Perveen

518

Treatment of ingrown toe nail-comparison of phenolization after partial nail avulsion and partial nail avulsion alone

Irshad Ali Khan, Syed Fahd Shah, Shahzad Hussain Waqar, Muhammad Tariq Abdullah, Zafar Malik, Muhammad Abdul Zahid

522

Non-traumatic spontaneous ileal perforation: Experience with 125 cases

Sadaf Khalid, Burhanulhuq, Afsar Ali Bhatti

526

Effect of disinfectants on the colour stability of heat cure acrylic resin

Faiza Amin, Shumaila Iqbal, Syed Azizuddin

530

Streptokinase for acute myocardial infarction in the elderly

Azmat Ehsan Qureshi, Nasir Ali Jafri, Ahmed Noeman, Samra Yasmin, Hamid Khalil

535

Teaching obstetrics and gynaecology to male undergraduate medical students: Student’s perception

Kinza Alam, Chaudhry Aqeel Safdar, Tahir Ahmad Munir, Zeeshan Ghani

539

Bacteriological patterns and antibiotic sensitivities in calculus cholecystitis

Muhammad Omar Farooq, Amer Mian, Bilal Saeed, Amir Ikram, Shehzad Ahmed Qasmi

543

Adaptation and validation of dundee polyprofessionalism inventory-1 for use in Pakistan

Irfan Shukr

548

Chest X-ray: An unfair screening tool

Saima Naz, Tahir Aziz, Malik Mohammad Umair, Malik Mohammad Uzair

554

Early predictability of virological response in patients of chronic hepatitis C with genotype-3, treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin

Mohammad Umar, Hamamat-ul-Bushra Khaar, Sameera Abbas Khan, Masood Ahmed, Saima Ambreen, Zahid Mahmood Minhas, Madeeha Nazar

559

Rehman Medical College admission criteria as an indicator of students’ performance in university professional examinations

Tariq Saeed Mufti, Kifayatullah, Iftikhar Qayum

564

Determinants of health service utilization among Pakistani immigrants in Maryland USA; A mixed method study

Shahzad Ali Khan, Khola Manzoor

568

Outbreak investigation of dengue fever in Sundia, Chakaiser, Shangla, Pakistan–2008

Nighat Murad, Rana Jawad Asghar, Mohammad Zaheen, Rashda Shawali

571

Assessment of the work environment of faculty of a medical college, Pakistan

Abid Saeed, Zahid Ahmad Butt

577

Patterns of sexually transmitted diseases in patients presenting at Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad

Syed Kamran Amir Razvi, Shahzad Najeeb, Hassan Shahzad Nazar

582

Frequency peripheral neuropathy in patients with diabetes mellitus

Mehwish Iftikhar, Azhar Hussain, Amina Rizvi

 586

Clinical efficiency of the conventional glass ionomer cement and resin modified glass ionomer cement in primary molars

Ayesha Sabeen Mufti

587 

Emphysematous pyelonephritis: A review of six cases

Sohrab Naushad Ali, Niqad Ahmed, Aymon Naushad, Mian Naushad

 591

Kartagener syndrome: A not-so-rare phenomenon

Munir Ahmad Abbasi, Amir Suleman, Naseer Ahmed, Haidar Zaman

 598

REVIEW ARTICLE

Bronchiolitis-The recent evidence

Ghulam Mustafa

602 

CASE REPORTS

611 

Pilomyxoid astrocytoma presenting as diencephalic syndrome

Amjad Ali Khan, Ahmed Kamal El-Borai

Female epispadias: Spot diagnosis and simple reconstruction

Gul Nawaz, Shujah Muhammad, Muhammad Imran Jamil, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Athar Khawaja, Ijaz Hussain, Mian Khalid Akber, Saeed Akhter

616 

Management of ectopic varix with histoacryl

Adil Naseer Khan, Ismaa Ghazanfar Kiani, Muhammad Arshad, Rania Hidayat, Khalid Said, Aamir Shehzad

 618

Mirizzi’s syndrome: An interesting on table findings

Sadaf Khalid, Afsar Ali Bhatti

621 

Laurence Moon Bardet Biedl syndrome with anaemia

Mariam Asif, Tariq Aziz, Samer Altaf, Rukhsana Abdul Sattar

 625

Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema

N.S. Neki, Ankur Jain, Rohit Bajaj, Mohit Manav Jindal

 628

Tuberculosis versus vasculitis

Zahid Farooq Baig, Khalid Mahmood Raja, Fahad Abbas

 630

Langerhan cell histiocytosis–A child presenting with nine months history of fever

Jauhar Mumtaz Khan, Nasser Rashid Dar, Moizza Tahir, Wasif Ali Janjua

633 

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

Sustaining the stride of health agenda beyond 2015 in post MDGs scenario: A projected roadmap for the developing countries

Babar Tasneem Shaikh

640 

 GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

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