Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
ISSN: 1022-386X (PRINT)
ISSN: 1681-7168 (ONLINE)
Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (JCPSP), is an open access, 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.
"As a large number of case reports are awaiting publication, JCPSP has decided to stop acknowledging Case Reports for a certain period of time until the backlog is cleared. Therefore, case reports are regretted from processing".
By Daniyal Nadeem, Saira Furqan, Nanik Ram
ABSTRACT Diabetic myonecrosis is an unpublicised problem that can occur in patients having either type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus. It usually affects patients who have long-standing, uncontrolled diabetes with associated microvascular complications. We report a case of a 78-year female with diabe...
By Oguz Kilic, Ipek Buber, Fatih Kahraman
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the usability of leuko-glycemic index (LGI) at chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) class 1 for determining the extent and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). Study Design: An observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Cardiology, Universit...
By Ozgun Yildirim, Kadir Turkmenoglu, Nur Mollaoglu
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the relationship between anxiety and hemodynamic changes in patients who have undergone impacted third molar surgery under local anaesthesia. Study Design: Observational clinical study. Place and Duration of study: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Facu...
By Taha Yasin Arslan, Erdogan Bulbul, Bahar Yanik, Gulen Demirpolat, Emrah Akay
ABSTRACT Objective: To search whether there is a correlation between middle hepatic venous indices (HVIs) obtained by pulsed waved doppler ultrasonography (PW-DUS) and the main pulmonary artery (mPA) diameter, calculated by computed tomography (CT). Study Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study....
By Guozhong Liu, Yiping Chen, Yuhai Hu, Jianbin Zhang, Shangeng Weng
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the clinical outcomes and safety of two-point fixation for biological mesh in laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair. Study Design: Case series. Place and Duration of Study: The first Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University Hospital...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the power of the systemic immune-inflammation index in the prediction of mortality in severe Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever patients. Study Design: Observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Sivas Cumhuriyet Unive...
By Maria Hasan Baloch, Sana Shahid, Saima Saeed, Areeba Nasir, Sumreena Mansoor
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the perspectives of the first year and second year MBBS students of College, regarding the effectiveness of flipped classroom learning as compared to the traditional mode of teaching. Study Design: A descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Shifa College of Medic...
By Sinan Kazan, Onur Tunca, Elif Dizen Kazan, Cigdem Ozdemir, Sumeyra Koyuncu, Hulya Akgun
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare clinicopathologic features of idiopathic IgA nephropathy in terms of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) levels. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Nephrology and Department of Pathology, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences Un...
By Jingxuan He, Peng Wang, Xiaofeng Xia, Jin Tang
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the efficacy of transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy (TELD) and open decompression discectomy (ODD) in the treatment of single-segment L4/5disc herniation. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital ...
By Burak Elmas, Deniz Simsek, Burcu Dincgez, Gokay Ozceltik, Canan Urun, Hasan Yilmaz Akin
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the usability of the ratio of birth weight to placental weight [fetoplacental ratio (FPR)] in predicting postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission. Study Design: Prospective observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Bursa ...
By Zhanyue Pang, Haibo Liu, Zhitao Chen, Liangming Zhu
Objective: To establish and verify a nomogram for predicting distant metastasis in invasive lung adenocarcinoma (IAC). Study Design: Observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jinan Central Hospital, Jinan, China, from December 2021 to May 2022. Methodology: To...
By Zeynep Gedik Ozkose, Suleyman Cemil Oglak, Mustafa Behram, Ozge Ozdemir, Zuat Acar, Ismail Ozdemir
ABSTRACT Objective: To examine maternal serum Cripto-1 levels in placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) pregnancies and compare them with placenta previa (PP) cases and healthy pregnancies. Study Design: A prospective case-control study. Place and Duration of Study: Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Res...
By Changshu Li, Chun Qiao, Huafeng Ding, Yonghong Luo
ABSTRACT Objective: To detect methyltransferase-like (METTL) 16 expression in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) by immunohistochemistry (IHC), and its relationship with clinicohistopathological parameters and prognosis. Study Design: Observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Gyna...
By Xuemei Han, Yang Bian, Bo Yu
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the outcomes of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO) patients undergoing nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLD) probing in whom momentary probe indwelling was and was not performed. Study Design: Randomised controlled trial. Place and Duration of Study: D...
By Suleyman Sagir, Omer Bayrak, Omer Turgut, Sule Allahverdi, Hasan Ulusal
ABSTRACT Objective: To measure urine malondialdehyde (MDA) and urine peroxynitrite (ONOO) levels in patients with overactive bladder (OAB), and compare them with healthy individuals; to determine the change of those markers in OAB patients prescribed antimuscarinic drugs. Study Design: An observatio...
By Shi-Min Yuan
ABSTRACT The present article aimed to give an overview of sternal fractures and discuss their management and prognoses. The retrieved pertinent publications of 2011–2021 constituted the materials of the present study. The misdiagnosis rate of X-ray was 5.5% and that of sonography was 6.3% for ...
By Uzma Naz, Saliha Naz, Hadees Murad Fahad, Syed Fawad Rizvi
ABSTRACT A series of nine eyes of five patients at LRBT Tertiary Teaching Eye Hospital, from July 2020 to June 2021 is reported. Five patients with high clinical suspicion of CMV Retinitis were treated with weekly intravitreal injections of 2.0 mg ganciclovir for 3 weeks. Pre- and post-injection vis...
By Suna Sahin Ediz, Senem Senturk, Adnan Kabaalioglu
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the impact of patellofemoral joint anatomical measurements of patients with anterior knee pain who were diagnosed with suprapatellar fat pad (SPFP) impingement syndrome (SP-FPIS) by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Study Design: A prospective, descriptive study....
By Sedef Zeliha Oner, Ilknur Kaleli, Melek Demir, Ergun Mete, Ahmet Caliskan
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the bacterial and viral causes of central nervous system (CNS) infection by multiplex PCR. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Medical Microbiology, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey, from March 2016 to December 2...
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare thoracic drainage tube placement on clinical outcomes and serum CRP, IL-6, cortisol in patients undergoing thoracoscopic partial pneumonectomy. Study Design: Analytical study. Place and Duration of Study: Yulin Second Hospital, China, between January 2017 and January 2...
By Qurat ul Ain Zahid, Nazia Khursheed, Fareeha Adnan, Adeel Zafar
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the bacterial agent responsible for the surge of cases of acute diarrhoeal disease in Karachi, Pakistan, and assess the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the isolates. Study Design: Observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Microbiology, In...
By Nazia Arain, Shamsuddin Shaikh, Jawad Ali
ABSTRACT Takayasu Arteritis (TA), a chronic inflammatory condition of the aorta and its major branches, causes narrowing and ultimate occlusion of major vessels and may manifest as cerebrovascular insufficiency, organ ischemia, and systemic arterial hypertension (HTN). Herein, we report a case of a ...
ABSTRACT Gangrenous cholecystitis is one of the most severe complications of cholelithiasis. It causes serious morbidity and mortality. The main pathology in this complication is progressive vascular insufficiency, which may lead to necrosis and perforation of the gallbladder wall. Vascular insuffic...
By Tuba Selcuk Can, Turkan uz Ikizceli
ABSTRACT This is the first case report of Mondor’s disease diagnosed in a marathon runner developed due to tight heart rate strap. A 41-year female marathon runner was admitted to the hospital with a cord-like soft tissue swelling under her breast, which was confirmed by physical examination. ...
By Jehanzeb Ur Rehman, Fayyaz Hussain, Syed kamran Mahmood, Qamar Un Nisa, Nighat Shahbaz, Mehreen Ali Khan
ABSTRACT Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia (GT) is an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder characterised by mucocutaneous bleeding. At molecular level, defect in platelet receptor glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa leads to defective platelet aggregation. Anti-fibrinolytic agents, platelet transfusions, and...
By Asburce Olgac, Eren Yildiz, Arzu Yilmaz, Cigdem Seher Kasapkara, Serdar Ceylaner, Bulent Alioglu
ABSTRACT Arginase 1(ARG1) deficiency is a rare disorder of the urea cycle. The presentation is usually late, leading to loss of intellectual milestones, spasticity and liver involvement. Hyperammonemic crises are rarely encountered. We herein present a case of a 16-year immigrant girl of Syrian orig...
By Ali Alemdar, Seracettin Egin, Ismayil Yilmaz, Selma Sengiz Erhan, Recep Yilmaz Bayraktarli
ABSTRACT Adrenal metastasis is considered a rare hematogenous metastasis that develops after gastric cancer surgery. The chances of curative surgery are very low. It is usually unresectable. We aim to present a case of isolated adrenal metastasis that developed in a patient, who underwent a total ga...
By Abdul Wahab Dogar, Kaleem Ullah, Shams Uddin, Hafiz Bilal Ahmed
ABSTRACT HIV infections have always been a stigma, and the majority of transplant centres avoid liver transplantation in patients having end-stage liver disease patients with HIV coinfection. HIV patients with end-stage liver disease having undetectable HIV viral load, CD4+ cell count of >100/ml,...
By Wen Luo, Wanyu Wang, Dinghui Wu, Lijuan Jian, Yihua Lin, Xiangyang Yao
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to investigate whether the peripheral lymphocyte count was independently negative association with viral clearance time of SARS-CoV-2 in Chinese patients with COVID-19. Total 202 patients were chosen for the last data analysis. The patients' mean...
By Maliha Khalid Khan, Imran Ahmad Khan, Ammara Liaquat
ABSTRACT This study aimed to assess the synergistic effects of curcumin with and without strengthening exercises in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Randomised controlled trial study was conducted from May 2021 to December 2021. Ninety patients were randomised into two groups. Group A was treated with str...
By Abdulhakim Sengel, Evren Buyukfirat, Ramazan Aslanparcas
By Muhammad Mohsin Sajjad, Adnan Nasir, Hamid Shahzad
By Nawazish Zehra, Lena Jafri, Aysha Habib Khan
By Lingti Kong, Li Rong, Muhua Wang