Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
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Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (JCPSP), is the prestigious, peer reviewed monthly biomedical journal of the country published regularly since 1991. College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan is the parent body of this Journal.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide credits to educational activities.
CPSP designates '3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits' for review of the manuscript of an original study.
By Anber Saleem, Muhammad Yunus Khan
Objective: To determine the effect of diazepam on proliferation of chondrocytes in intermediate and deep zones of degenerating patellar articular cartilage in Balb/c mice. Study Design: Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Anatomy, College of Physicians and Surgeons Paki...
By Tayyaba Faisal, Rafia Asjid, Khadija Qamar, Noreen Akhtar, Khalida Moeed, Tassaduq Hussain
Objective: To determine the effects of autologous platelet-rich plasma on appearance of tenocytes at injured Achilles tendon entheses in rabbits. Study Design: Laboratory-based experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, ...
By Qurat ul Ain, Naveed Asif, Amir Alam, Mehwish Gilani, Noreen Shahzad, Waqas Sheikh
Objective: To find out correlation of triglycerides-to-HDL cholesterol ratio in elders with cardiac risk factors like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Study Design: Observational cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemical Pathology and Endocrinology, Combined M...
By Ali Dogan, Fusun Gunesdogdu, Kenan Sever, Serkan Kahraman, Denyan Mansuroglu, Mustafa Yolcu, Emrah Ozdemir, Nuri Kurtoglu
Objective: To compare surgical risk scores including Euroscore II, STS and Logistic Euroscore for their predictive ability about postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF). Study Design: Prospective cohort study. Place and Duration of Study: Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University, Gaziosmanpasa Hospital a...
By Begum Seyda Avci, Tayyibe Saler, Akkan Avci, Mehmet Bankir, Zeynep Tüzün, Hakan Nazik, Faruk Karateke
Objective: To investigate the relationship between the preoperative HbA1c levels and the complications and mortality rates in the postoperative period in patients with diabetes undergoing a major surgical treatment. Study Design: Descriptive study Place and Duration of Study: Deparment of Interna...
By Fahad Azam, Moosa Khan, Abu Bakar Hafeez Bhatti, Faisal Saud Dar, Arsalan Ahmad, Nismat Javed
Objective: To evaluate the association between tacrolimus trough levels and dosage in Pakistani patients undergoing live donor liver transplantation (LDLT), and the efficacy and adverse effects at different tacrolimus trough levels and dosages. Study Design: An observational study. Place and Dura...
By Rabia Irshad, Waquaruddin Ahmed, Syed Ejaz Alam
Objective: To compare the diagnostic yield of Multi-sure rapid HCV (hepatitis C virus) kit with ELISA. Study Design: Comparative study. Place and Duration of Study: Pakistan Health Research Council, specialised research center for gastroenterology and hepatology, from August 2016 to January 2017....
By Suleyman Altintas, Mehmet Bayrak, Yasemin Altintas
Objective: To determine the frequency of expression of CDX2 and Villin in a subsection of advanced stage primary colorectal cancers and detect its association with tumour differentiation, lymph node metastasis, invasion and survival. Study Design: A descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study:...
By Muhammad Usman Khalid, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Akhtar, Rana Dilawaiz Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal Javed, Syed Faraz Ul Hassan Shah Gillani
Objective: To compare the radiological outcome of two cannulated screws versus three cannulated screws in fixation of fractures of neck-of-femur in adults. Study Design: An experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Mayo Hospital, Lahore fr...
By Rafia Asjid, Tayyaba Faisal, Khadija Qamar, Sana Malik, Faiza Umbreen, Mahjabeen Fatima
Objective: To evaluate the effects of platelet-rich plasma injection on histological changes of osteoarthritis using the modified Mankin score in monoiodoacetate-induced rat knee model. Study Design: Laboratory-based experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Anatomy, Army Med...
By Shabnam Azizi, Tariq Mahmud Tariq
Objective: To determine vitamin D deficiency (25-OH-D level <20 ng/ml) frequency among apparently healthy Afghan adolescents. Study Design: Cross-sectional analytical study. Place and Duration of Study: Pathology Department, French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC) Kabul, from...
By Dariusz Janczak, Wojciech Bakowski, Katarzyna Bakowska, Karol Marschollek, Pawel Marschollek, Maciej Malinowski, Mariusz Chabowski
Objective: To assess the type and frequency of early postoperative complications in patients after open surgical infrarenal aneurysms repair and determination of their risk factors. Study Design: An observational study Place and Duration of Study: The 4th Military Teaching Hospital in Wroclaw, Po...
By Shaista Afzal, Imrana Masroor
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of teaching through flipped classroom model on learning and acceptability of undergraduate medical students in their radiology clerkship. Study Design: Quasi-experimental design. Place and Duration of Study: Radiology Department, The Aga Khan University H...
By Shi-Min Yuan
Double-chambered left ventricle is a rare congenital heart defect. The clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and patient prognosis of this lesion have not been sufficiently elaborated. The present systematic review found that the accessory ventricular septum was often an abnormal muscle band, an...
By Bingjing Leng, Jie Ren, Zhixue Yang, Jinrong Wei, Guoqin Jiang
Objective: To determine the feasibility and efficacy of breast reconstruction with silicone prosthesis immediately following polyacrylamide gel removal. Study Design: An observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of S...
By Ambareen Hamid, Sobia Ashraf, Samina Qamar, Muhammad Asif Naveed, Ahmad Hameed, Muhammad Azhar Farooq
Objective: To determine the frequency and grading of myelofibrosis in patients of chronic myeloid leukaemia in chronic phase, and the association of cytopenias/cytosis with the degree of fibrosis. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: King Edward Medical University, Lahore...
By Yundong Qu, Lei Wang, Qian Ye, Yuan Zhang, Juan Xiao, Tao Li
Objective: To explore the prognostic value of several widely used noninvasive fibrosis scores (NIFS) for the mortality due to liver-related events in Chinese primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) population. Study Design: An observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Infectious D...
Pilomatrixoma is a uncommon benign neoplasm of hair matrix origin, with usual occurrence in the head and neck region. It has bimodal age of occurrence, first peek is seen in children and the second in elderly in sixth decade. In this case, we report a case of a young boy presenting with midline ne...
By Naisargi Kadakia, Mandavi Waghmare, Swati Gotmare, Reema Manoj
Goldenhar or oculo-auriculo-vertebral (OAV) syndrome is a congenital disorder that is usually apparent at birth. Sometimes, its diagnosis can be delayed and it is first diagnosed in adolescents or adults. We present a case of an 18-year girl who presented with chief complaint of multiple carious t...
By Shadia Elsayed, Albraa Alolayan, Lamees Farghal, Yousra Ayed
Hypercementosis is an excessive cementum deposition at the tooth root apex which occurs pathologically and represents as a body reaction to various stimulating factors including infection or endodontic treatment in most cases. Although hypercementosis mostly complicates teeth extraction, it is rar...
By Lixin Wang, Qiaoyun Min, Jingui Jiang, Yuyu Shao, Yang Cao, Daxiang Yan
Low-grade nasopharyngeal papillary adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor, and only a limited number of cases are reported in the literature. The case reported in this study had long-term nasal catarrh with a runny nose and was admitted to the hospital. Computed tomography (CT) examination revealed polypo...
By Naveed Ur Rehman Durrani, Jameel AlGhamdi, Niels Rochow, Salhab el Helou, Michael Lefebvre Marrin
Hypoglycemia may lead to neurological impairment; therefore, high-risk newborns are screened postnatally. However, hypoglycemia monitoring protocols often do not include cord blood acidosis as a risk factor. The study aimed to find an association between asymptomatic cord blood acidosis and hypogl...
By Yupeng Xu, Guoyuan Huang, Cunliang Niu
The aim of this study was to compare the effects of elastic intramedullary nails and locking compression plates on oxidative stress like superoxide dismutase (SOD), total antioxidant capacity (TAC), catalase (CAT), and malondialdehyde (MDA) in children with distal tibial metaphyseal fractures. It ...
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By Shameem Ahmed, Taposh Biswas, Siba Prosad Paul
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By Muhammad Fahad Shahzad Shaukat, Bamikole Ogunwale, Banerjee K. Arpan
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By Pir Abdul Ahad Aziz, Imtiaz Ali Panhwar
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