Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad 22-3

EDITORIAL
Treatment of Hepatitis c in 2011	1
Roger Williams, Aamir Ghafoor Khan
Assessment in medical education in the 21^st century	3
Junaid Sarfraz Khan, John SG Biggs, Saima Tabasum
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Zoledronic acid in metastatic bone disease: an audit based discussion	5
Raza Ali Akbar, S Gosh, S Khalil, Sheikh Moeen ul Haq
Response rate of Pakistani children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to Medical Research Council Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia 97 chemotherapy protocol	8
Muhammad Idris, Jamila Farid, Javed Sarwar, Suhaib Ahmed, Muhammad Amin Wiqar, Shahida Badsha
Empyema thoracis: management outcome	12
Salma Ghaffar, Ishtiaq Ali Khan, Sadia Asif, Zia ur Rahman
Surgical outcome of intramedullary spinal cord tumours: experience with 18 patients operated at Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad	15
Sajid Nazir Bhatti, Shahbaz Ali Khan, Riaz A. Raja, Rizwan Shah, Ahsan Aurangzeb, Abdul Aziz Khan, Nazir Alvi, Muhammad Tousif Pasha
Puerperal sepsis—still a major threat for parturient	18
Shamshad, Saadia Shamsher, Bushara Rauf
Effect of methimazole-induced hypothyroidism on histological characteristics of parotid gland of albino rat	22
Hayat NQ, Tahir M, Munir B, Sami W
Fast tracking in adult cardiac surgery at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences	28
Naveed Ahmed, Faridullah Khan, Mahrukh Zahoor, Badar-ul-Samad, Muhammad Rafique, Muhammad Faisal, Rana Imran Sikander
Genital tract malignancies in postmenopausal women	32
Farkhunda Khursheed, Nasreen Jatoi, Chandra Madhu Das
Bleomycin induced pulmonary toxicity in patients with germ cell tumours	35
Muhammad Usman, Zia Salman Faruqui, Najam ud Din, Khawaja Farhan Zahid
Attitudes about honour killing among men and women —perspective from Islamabad	38
Masood Ali Shaikh, Irshad Ali Shaikh, Anila Kamal, Sobia Masood
Postoperative complications in emergency versus elective laparotomies at a peripheral hospital	42
Badar Murtaza, Saira Saeed, Muhammad Ashraf Sharif
Postoperative arrhythmias after coronary artery bypass grafting: a comparison between ‘off pump’ and ‘on pump’ CABG	48
Javed Iqbal, Abdul Ghaffar, Ahmad Shahbaz, Waqas Sami, Jawad Sajid Khan
Effect of anthropometric measurements and personal data parameters on benign prostatic hyperplasia and carcinoma prostate	54
Zehra Naz, Saadia Anjum
Frequency of visceral leishmaniasis in Abbottabad from 2005 to 2009	58
Seema Nadeem, Sabah Shamroz, Touqueer Iqbal, Modood ul Manan, Abdus Salaam
Clinical stage of oral cancer patients at the time of initial diagnosis	61
Irfan Shah, Omer Sefvan, Uzair Luqman, Waseem Ibrahim, Sana Mehmood, Wajiha Alamgir
Prevalence of diabetes mellitus among obese and non-obese patients with coronary artery disease	64
Sher Bahadar Khan, Hafiz-ur-Rehman, Lubna Noor, Hameedullah, Mohammad Hafeezullah, Adnan Mahmood Gul, Abdul Hadi
Minicholycystectomy: a feasible option	68
Nadia Saeed, Tauqeer Nasir, Bilal Burki, Ghulam Asghar Channa
Iron deficiency anaemia –a risk factor for febrile seizures in children	71
Ahmad Sherjil, Zaheer Us Saeed, Sohail Shehzad, Rabia Amjad
Obstetrical associated renal, cortical necrosis: uncommon but not rare!	74
Akhtar Ali, Mahrukh Ayesha Ali, Mohammad Usman Ali
Sonographic biophysical profile in detection of foetal hypoxia in 100 cases of suspected high risk pregnancy	77
Nadeem Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Abdur Rehman Khan
Disease pattern in earthquake affected areas of Pakistan; data from Kaghan Valley	81
Nasir Shah, Minhaj Anwar Abro, Mairaj Anwar Abro, Asma Khan, Fahad Anwar, Hina Akhtar
Frequency of anaemia and renal insufficiency in patients with heart failure	87
Muhammad Khan, Waqas Jehangir, Muhammad Salman Daood, Ahmad Khan, Nadeem Hayat Mallick
Metabolic syndrome in school children of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan	90
Muhammad Ramzan, Irshad Ali, Faiqah Ramzan, Faiza Ramzan, Muhammad Haris Ramzan
Assessment of efficacy and adverse effects of trazodone in the treatment of major depressive disorder	94
Ali Gul Tunio, Moosa Khan, Dial Das, Ghulam Sarwar
Spectrum of clinical presentation and surgical management of intestinal tuberculosis at tertiary care hospital	96
Arshad Abro, Faisal Ghani Siddiqui, Saleem Akhtar, Abdul Sattar Memon
Biomedical research in the Middle Eastern countries: update and insight using SCImago Journal Rank Indicator	100
Faris QB Alenzi, Mahmoud Lotfy, Wasam Nasif, Mohamed El-Shahat, Hasan Abusini, Mohamed Alenazi, Fawwaz A Alenazi, Waleed G Tamimi, Mohamed L Salem
Exchange nailing for non-union of femoral shaft fractures	106
Mohammad Naeem-ur-Razaq, Muhammad Qasim, Shahid Sultan
Eclampsia and its association with external factors	110
Surraya Halimi, Syed Muhammad Ashhad Halimi
*Effects of ‘Olea europea’ extract on volume and acidity of carbachol induced gastric secretion, liver and kidney function in rabbits*	113
Muhammad Jan
Lung carcinoma: its profile and changing trends	116
Saad Siddiqui, Mohammed Usman Ali, Mahrukh Ayesha Ali, Noreen Shah, Shagufta Nasreen
Anatomical and functional outcome following primary retinal re-attachment surgery in phakic and pseudophakic rhegmatogenesis retinal detachment	120
Asfandyar Asghar, Aziz ur Rehman, Waseem H Jafri, Yawar Zaman, Nasir Bhatti, Mazhar ul Hassan
Assessment of nutritional status of 1–5 year old children in an urban union council of Abbottabad	124
Hassam Saqib Lodhi, Mahmood-Ur-Rehman, Fahd Saqib Lodhi, Salim Wazir, Huma Jadoon
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of type 2 diabetic patients	128
Naheed Gul
Abdominal obesity pattern among various ethnic groups presenting with acute coronary syndrome	132
Mazhar Mahmood, Tariq Ashraf, Mohammad Anis Memon, Abdul Samad Achakzai
Coverage and factors associated with tetanus toxoid vaccination among married women of reproductive age: a cross sectional study in Peshawar	136
Mohammad Naeem, Muhammad Zia-Ul-Islam Khan, Syed Hussain Abbas, Muhammad Adil, Ayasha Khan, Syeda Maria Naz, Muhammad Usman Khan
Surgical site infection and pattern of antibiotic use in a tertiary care hospital in Peshawar	141
Waqar Alam Jan, Sajjad Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Jehanzeb, Muazzam
Dyslipidemia in diabetes mellitus type 2: affect of gender	146
Syed Yasir Hussain Gilani, Saima Bibi, Nazir Ahmed, Syed Raza Ali Shah
Seropositivity for Hepatitis B and C in voluntary blood donors	149
Syed Mukhtar Ali Shah, Imran-uddin Khattak, Abid Ali, Muhammad Tariq
Comparison of pencil beam and collapsed cone algorithms, in radiotherapy treatment planning for 6 and 10 mV photon	152
Saeed Ahmad Buzdar, M. Afzal, Andrew Todd-Pokropek
Frequency of fibroid uterus in multipara women in a tertiary care centre in Rawalpindi	155
Faiza Ibrar, Shazia Riaz, Nasira S Dawood, Alia Jabeen
Frequency of diabetic retinopathy in patients after ten years of diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus	158
Mumtaz Ali Shaikh, Saima Gillani, Dur-E-Yakta
Study of endonerialpathology in case of menorrhagia by endometrial curettage in premenopausal age group	161
Shazia Riaz, Faiza Ibrar, Alia Jabeen, Nasira Sabiha Dawood
The role of simplified admission criteria for predicting severe complications of gallstone pancreatitis	165
Azhar Shah, Faheem ul Haq, Anayat Ullah, Riaz Ur Rehman
Accuracy of multiphase helical tomography in detection and characterisation of suspected renal masses using histopathological findings as gold standard	170
Tariq Saeed Siddiqui, Asima Tariq, Bushra Rehman, Tahir Saeed Siddiqui, Aisha Asim
Needle stick injuries in nurses at a tertiary health care facility, Lahore, Pakistan	174
Iram Manzoor, Seema Daud, Norren Rahat Hashmi, Hira Sardar, Mirza Shaharyar Babar, Abdul Rahman, Madiha Malik
Early versus late arteiovenous fistulae: impact on failure rate	179
Zahid Farooq, Arshad Mehmood, Shahzad Saeed, Khalid Mehmood Raja, Malik Nadeem Azam Khan, Badar Murtaza
Early cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis outcome, complications and hospital stay experience at DHQ Hospital Abbottabad	182
Asif Saeed, Muhammad Nawaz, Aysha Noreen, Sarfraz Ahmad
A comparative trial of Copper-T and multi load IUCD	185
Shazia A Khan, Zain Ul Amin, Fouzia, Samina Jadoon
Comparative study of intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcome from sperms retrieved by different procedures	188
Shazia Ali, Nasim Ashraf, Anjum Ara Siddique, Samina Jalali, Sajjad Shami
Prevalence, knowledge and awareness of hepatitis c among residents of three union councils in Mansehra, Pakistan	192
Muhammad Shahid Jamil, Hammad Ali, Robina Shaheen, Abdul Basit
Role of anti thrombotic therapy for recurrent pregnancy loss due to anti phospholipid syndrome	197
Saadia Fawad
Role of phytoestrogen in suppressing bone turnover in a group of postmenopausal women	201
Asma Rashid, Rukhshan Khurshid, Aiza Latif, Nazifa Ahmad, Latif Aftab
Developing the outcomes of a Baccalaureate of Dental Surgery programme	205
Junaid Sarfraz Khan, Saima Tabasum, Osama Mukhtar, Maryam Iqbal
Faculty development in medical institutions: Where do we stand in Pakistan?	210
Fatima Mukhtar, Abdul Majeed Chaudhry
REVIEW ARTICLE
Bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaws	214
Shah SAA, Aslam A, Mirza AI, Ali S
Prognostic and therapeutic role of Nuclear Factor-kappa B (NF-κB) in breast cancer	218
Ayesha Ahmed
CASE REPORTS
Sexual harassment at work place: Are you safe?	222
Anila Naveed, Ambreen Tharani, Nasreen Alwani
Hypocholesterolemia secondary to atrovastatin therapy	225
Shafqut Ali, Shahbaz Ali Khan, Samia Iram
Extra osseous primary Ewing’s Sarcoma	228
Syed Asad Ali, Agha Taj Muhammad, Abdul Ghani Soomro, Akmal Jamal Siddiqui
Classical presentation of Darier’s disease: A rare disorder of keratinisation	230
Atiya Mahboob, Faryal Yaqub, Zahid Shahzad, Manaal Afzaal, Moazzum Hanif, Deeba Sattar Khan, Riffat Nasim, Aleena Khan

Frequency of fibroid uterus in multipara women in a tertiary care centre in Rawalpindi