Etiology and management of diarrhoeal diseases in Karachi.

Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan

Diagnosis of Diarrhoeal Etiologic Agents in patients with A.I.D.S.

SUMMARY In this research, which was done for one year, we examined the stool of 35 HIV+ patients who had chronic, alternative, and usual drugs resistant diarrhoea, who were referred from infectious and Haemophilia wards of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran. All of the stools were examined by different Bacteriologic, Mycologic, and parasitologic techniques, in order to find the etiology of their...

Neonatal Hypertension: Etiology, Diagnosis and Management

Neonatal hypertension is a rare and complex condition, with an incidence rate of 0.2% to 3%. It can be resulted by several risk factors such as renal diseases, use of several drugs, neurologic, cardiac, respiratory and endocrine causes. Gestational age, birth weight and conceptual age are the most important risk factors. Renal diseases can be found in about 25% to 50% of hypertension at neonata...

Evaluation of doctors trained at Diarrhoea Training Unit of National Institute of Child Health, Karachi.

Diarrhoeal diseases are a major contributory factor for high infant mortality and morbidity in Pakistan. To overcome this, Government of Pakistan launched a National Programme for Control of Diarrhoeal Disease. A Diarrhoea Training Unit (DTU) was established at the National Institute of Child Health, Karachi, where apart from proper case management, 17 training workshops were held between July,...

Remarkable reduction of exposure rate in patients with stress-only myocardial perfusion scan: Let’s safe mankind from unjustified radiation exposure

Introduction: To measure radiation exposures rate in low-risk patients having stress-only and stress-rest myocardial perfusion imaging. Methods: This was a prospective study conducted from January 2012 till November 2012 upon patients with low pre-test probability for coronary artery disease (CAD). A stress MPI (stress-only if MPI is normal and no resting study) followed by a resting MPI study...