CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Patient safety and clinical risk management -where do we stand?

Muhammad Iqbal Sheikh, Gohar Wajid

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Close association between parathyroid hormone and left ventricular function and structure  in end-stage renal failure patients under maintenance hemodialysis.

Hamid Nasri, Azar Baradaran

Adolescent self reported reproductive morbidity and health care seeking behaviour.

M. Mizanur Rahman, M. Kabir, M. Shahidullah,

Applicability of international prognostic index in Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Pakistan

Zeba Aziz, Sherjeel Sana, Sarah Saeed, Mohammad Akram

Comparison of survival periods and response in three modes of treatment for Ca esophagus at CENAR Quetta

Roohullah, Khurshed MA, Haider SW, Kamran S, Kh. Farah, Burdy GM

Neoadjuvant chemo-irradiation in un-resectable carcinoma of rectum

Asad Abbas, Mutahir Ali Tunio, Nasir Ali

Effect of 90 decibel noise of 4000 hertz on blood pressure in young adults

Rashid Mahmood, Ghulam Jillani Khan, Shamim Alam, Abdul Jalal Safi, Salahuddin, Amin-ul-Haq

Evaluation of combined effect of Verapamil and Ranitidine on the volume and acidity of Carbachol induced gastric secretion

Muhammad Jan, Muhammad Azhar Mughal, Ramesh Kumar Tanwani, Kausar Aamir, Mehar Ali

Effectiveness of combined thoracic epidural and light general anaesthesia in patients undergoing non-cardiac thoracic surgery

Khawaja Kamal Nasir, Faraz Mansoor, Imran Mohammad Khan, Ayaz-bin-Zafar, Safdar Ali, Jawad Ahmad

Female surgical sterilization at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi

Shereen Zulfiqar Bhutta, Shabana Zaeem, Razia Korejo

Audit of leiomyoma uterus at Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar

Shamshad Begum, Sameera Khan

Magnesium Sulphate in the prophylaxis and treatment of eclampsia

Shehla Noor, Mussarat Halimi, Nasreen Ruby Faiz, Fouzia Gull, Nasreen Akbar

Performance of ICT-TB test in the detection of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis

Nisar Khan, Ihsanullah Mian, Zia-Ullah, Jan Muhammad

Pattern of homicidal deaths in Faisalabad

Muhammad Zahid Bashir, Ahmad Saeed, Dilawar Khan, Muhammad Aslam, Javed Iqbal, Mumtaz Ahmed

Screening for biochemical abnormalities in urolithiasis patients

Nasir Orakzai, Damian C Hanbury, Kenneth Farrington

Doctors perception about staying in or leaving rural health facilities

Umer Farooq, Abdul Ghaffar, Iftikhar Ahmed Narru, Dilawar Khan, Romana Irshad

Radiological investigation of dysphagia at DHQ Teaching Hospital D.I.Khan

Muhammad Asghar

CASE REPORTS

A young man with hoarseness of voice

Waris Qidwai, Sadaf  Rehman

Boerhaave’s syndrome: a diagnostic dilemma in the emergency room

Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Imran Khalid, Saulat H. Fatimi, Javed Hussain,  Nawal Salahuddin

Fallopian tube prolapse after abdominal hysterectomy

Shehla Noor, Mussarat Halimi, Nasreen Ruby Faiz, Farhadia Sadaf, Perveen Akhtar, Shafaq Zahoor

Experience with b-blockers in long term management of peripartum cardiomyopathy

Kiren Mohsin, Naveed Akhtar

Eccrine Porocarcinoma and Bowen’s disease with fatal metastasis to the lung

Raana Haqqee, Idrees Mogri

Actinomycosis in neck glands

Arif Raza Khan, Saatea Arif

Letters to Editor

Body Mass Index, Lipid profile and Cardiovascular diseases (Danish Saleheen)

Reply of the Authors (Imran Akhtar Siddiqui)

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