Vol. 40 No. 8 (2024): September 2024

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Pak J Med Sci Vol.40, No.8 2024

Published: 2024-07-29

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Editorial

Reliability of Medical Journals from Pakistan: Challenges and way Forward

Shaukat Ali Jawaid, Jamshed Akhtar, Masood Jawaid
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.10617

Commentary

Cairo Consensus Statement on Research Integrity of Randomised Clinical Trials

Patrick Chien, Khalid S Khan, Mohamed Fawzy, Yacoub Khalaf
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9779

Original Articles

Comparison of modified extended right lobe graft versus modified right lobe graft in adult living donor liver transplantation: Experience from Pakistan

Abdul Ghafar, Kaleem Ullah, Syed Hasnain Abbas, Hafiz Bilal Ahmad
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.7825
Comparison of the effects of losartan potassium and benazepril in the treatment of hypertensive patients with insulin resistance

Tingting Ma, Yangui Wang, Haixia Liu, Tao Wang, Yue Zhao, Yao Li
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9896
Effects of concurrent training on glycemic and vascular parameters among patients with T2DM-associated Peripheral Artery Disease

Uroosa Amin, Qurat-ul-Ain Adnan, Tauseef Ahmad
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9045
Genotypes analysis and antifungal susceptibility of Candida albicans strains isolated from women with vaginal candidiasis in Jordan using PCR targeting 25SrDNA and ALT repeat sequences of the RPS

Rania M. Al-Groom, Rand Raid Mahmoud Ali, Qasem M. Abu Shaqra
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9811
Orbital Lesions: A bird’s eye view of series of 2068 cases in 27 years in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan

Asad Aslam Khan, Sidrah Latif, Muhammad Ismail A Khan, Imran Ahmad
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9843
Retrospective cohort study of video-assisted thoracoscopic precise positioning reduction and internal fixation and thoracotomy reduction and internal fixation in treating multiple rib fractures

Jinlong Shi, Jing Liu
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9196
Pediatric onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses: Unraveling clinical and genetic specifications

Saher Gul Ahdi , Javeria Raza Alvi, Muhammad Azeem Ashfaq, Tipu Sultan
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8006
Comparative analysis of the clinical effects of different thoracoscopic resection in the treatment of Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Hao Jiang, Tong Wu, Peng Qie, Huien Wang, Baoxin Zhang
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9124
Prevalence of Comorbidities among Patients with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus in Saudi Population

Kamran Sattar, Syed Irfan Karim , Ashfaq Akram, Fahad Abdulaziz Alrashed
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9003
Perceptions of lived in experiences of healthcare workers during COVID-19 Pandemic in a tertiary Care hospital: A perspective from Pakistan

Bushra Ameer Saeed Awan, Shamaila Mohsin, Syed Fawad Mashhadi, Mohi Ud Din
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9010
Clinical Efficacy and Safety of transarterial chemoembolization Combined with Targeted Therapy for primary hepatocellular carcinoma

Xiao Wang, Dan Zhang, Kang Li, Peng Guo, Zhi-xiong Lei
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8982
Effects of oral steroid sparing immunosuppressive drugs in long term maintenance treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

Ali Sajjad, Sajid Hameed, Sara Khan
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.7719
Comparative analysis of clinical efficacy of stereotactic robot-guided puncture hematoma drainage and conventional puncture hematoma drainage in the treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage

Xin Gong, Hai-qing Dong, Xin Li, Zhen-jie Liu
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8833
Translation process of the tested Rome IV diagnostic questionnaire for functional gastrointestinal disorders into Saudi-Arabian Arabic: A mixed-methods approach

Elham A. Aljaaly, Mai A. Khatib
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9126
Caesarean Section frequency in Nulliparous Women induced at 39 weeks versus conventional management: An open label random allocation study

Erum Majid Shaikh, Bader Faiyaz Zuberi, Kanwal Gul, Hira Jam, Gul Haseena
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9099
Retrospective analysis of efficacy and safety of recombinant human Rh-endostatinstatin combined with concurrent radiotherapy for cervical cancer

Xin Zhang, Qian Li, Kuan Liu, Hong-yun Shi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8770
Characteristics of health care workers with SARS-CoV-2 at a COVID-19 hospital in Türkiye: Homologous versus heterologous vaccination

Işıl Deniz Alıravcı, Yusuf Haydar Ertekin, Gamze Çan, Sevil Alkan
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8455
Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Preliminary experience in a single hospital

Tanweer Ahmed Naweed Bhatty, Eemaz Nathaniel, Sadaf Noureen, Nadeem Iqbal
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9188
Clinical efficacy of Apatinib combined with Epidermal growth factor receptor - tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) in nonsmall cell lung cancer after EGFR-TKI resistance

Ruifen Tian, Yi Guo, Xing Zhang, Xia Zhang, Xia Song
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9682
Effect of Air Pollutants Particulate Matter PM2.5, PM10, Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), and Ozone (O3) on Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO)

Sultan Ayoub Meo, Mustafa Salih, Joud Mohammed Alkhalifah, Abdulaziz Hassan Alsomali, Abdullah Abdulrahman Almushawah
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9630
Impact of Flood on Breastfeeding Practices at Flood Relief Camps of Pakistan

Wajiha Rizwan, Masood Sadiq, Mulazim Hussain Bukhari, Muqaddas Tasneem
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8488
Effect of probiotics combined with Ulinastatin and Somatostatin in the treatment of severe acute pancreatitis

Hehe Dou, Yue Kan, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenjie Wang, Chuanming Zheng
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9744
What do medical faculty students think about telehealth?

Memet Taşkın Egici, Seda Özmen Sever, Güzin Zeren Öztürk, Güven Bektemür, Hasan Bağcı, Mulazim Hussain Bukhari
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9055
Effect of simulation based workshop on changing faculty perception for simulation-based education

Rabia Aftab, Fouzia Kirmani, Tahir Ansari, Masood Ahmed
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8598
Nursing undergraduates’ experience of participating in the Internet + Nursing Program and their spiritual education needs: A qualitative study from the perspective of the Neuman System Model

Ying Huang, Xiaotong Dong, Wei Wu, Haoran Zhang, Fei Qi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8822
Genetic Variants in Vitamin-D Metabolism Genes (rs1155563, rs12785878 and rs10500804) among Females with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus in Saudi Arabia

Shatha Alharazy
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9318
Smoking has detrimental effects on voice related Quality of Life of University Teachers

Maham Mehmood, Nazia Mumtaz, Ghulam Saqulain
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8631
A novel mutation in SETX and ATM causes ataxia in consanguineous Pakistani families

Rabia Akram, Shahid Mahmood Baig, Haseeb Anwar, Ghulam Hussain
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9246
Assessing the shade matching accuracy among dental students through visual and instrumental methods

Muhammad Adeel Ahmed
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9491
New-onset diabetes mellitus in patients with COVID19 infection admitted to a tertiary care hospital: A single-center experience

Muhammad Abdur Rahman Afridi, Zafar Ali, Naveed Iqbal, Usman Zeb
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8797
Effect of a subanesthetic dose of esketamine combined with propofol on postoperative fatigue syndrome in patients undergoing gastroenterological endoscopy under anaesthesia: A retrospective study

Guofang Fei, Wei Yan, Yuehua Gan
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9883
Effect of Vitamin-D on Glycemic Parameters and Adiponectin in gestational diabetes

Amna Nadeem, Ayesha Sadiqa, Muniza Saeed
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9308
An analysis of clinical application effects of 3d-printed act titanium trabecular intervertebral fusion cage in posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF)

Zhijun Li, Hong Wang, Zhaoqi Wang, Zhiming Qi, Qi Yao
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8759
Comparison of treatment of volar Barton’s fracture with T plate using distal end screws and without distal end screws

Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Zarak Awais, Eman Salik, Muhammad Tahir Iqbal
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8799
A study on the precision of voxel- and surface-based mandibular superimposition

Gengbing Lin, Xue-ting Chen, Xie Shi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8441
Enhancing the antibacterial and surface hardness of glass ionomer cement modified with Salvadora persica and Chlorhexidine: An in vitro study

Adel Zia Siddiqui, Nighat Sultana, Zulfiqar Ali Mirani, Abdulaziz Abdullah Alkhureif, Faisal Rehan, Iftikhar Ahmed Siddiqui
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9190
The effect of in-bed cycling combined with high flow nasal cannula treatment on arterial oxygen and respiratory dynamics in patients with severe respiratory failure: A retrospective study

Xiaoyan Wang, Jiapo Zhang, Yang Jiang, Jie Liu, Deyuan Huo
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9471
Effect of predictive nursing based on risk early warning system on patients with acute respiratory failure in Intensive Care Unit

Mimi Pan, Lizhong Zhang
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9506
Clinical study on the characteristics and related influencing factors of deliberate drug ingestion in adolescents

Jiangtao Ma, Yanli Zhao, Jing Li, Ying Zhang, Jie Chen
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8828
Outcome of Nasal continuous positive airway pressure in neonates: A cross-sectional study

Kaneez Fatima, Sughra Zulfiqar, Ammara Farooq, Musfirah Aziz
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8753
Assessing the quality and standards of operative notes in general surgery; A teaching institute’s experience in Pakistan

Muhammad Danish Muneeb, Mirza Agha Naushad Baig, Muhammad Kamran, Shafaatullah Qudratullah, Muhammad Saddique Arain
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9443
Mixture and Non-Mixture Cure Models for the survival analysis of SARS-CoV-2 patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Naseem Asghar, Umair Khalil, Iftikhar Uddin
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8931

Review Article

Breast Cancer Screening in Transgender Population: Review of literature

Saffa Tareen, Mehwish Mooghal, Kulsoom Shaikh, Sana Zeeshan
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9132

Systematic Review

Individualized selection of recent glucose monitoring devices for self-management based on competitive features

Olga Krylova, Sevara Marchenko, Alexandra Ermolaeva, Natalia Shustikova, Kristina Dyakonova
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9855
Systematic review with meta-analysis of intraoperative neuromonitoring during thyroid reoperation

Shengwei Ji, Mingrong Hu, Chunjie Zhang, Maowei Pei
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8241
Assessing Orofacial Esthetics in Prosthodontic Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychometric Properties

Zara Amir, Jacob John, Mahmoud Danaee, Zamros Yusof
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9860
Impact of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy on survival outcomes in patients with unilateral breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Min Yao, Puchao Peng, Lijie Chen, Zhouming Xu
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9708

Short Communication

Safety Assessment of Sedation Services in Radiology at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Peshawar

Faraz Mansoor
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9326

Case Reports

A rare cause of erectile dysfunction: Bilateral thrombosed internal iliac artery aneurysms

İbrahim Üntan, Ahmed Said Çil
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.9005
Adult-onset chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis: A case report of a rare entity

Huzefa Jibril, Mehmood Riaz, Ahsan Ali Syed
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8765

Correspondence

Reflections on alma mater: Origin and evolution of Ruhr University Bochum

HR Ahmad, Mariane Schläfke
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.10111
Is coconut water truly a miracle drink in pregnancy or a myth?

Maryam Raza
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.8.8817

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgement September 2024
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