Publications by authors named "Amna Yaseen"
Background: Acute chest discomfort is a common clinical problem that has to be well understood and managed collaboratively by specialists from many fields of medicine.
Objective: This study aimed to explore and evaluate the perspectives of healthcare professionals in family, emergency, and internal medicine regarding the management of acute chest pain, with a specific focus on diagnostic practices, interdisciplinary collaboration, and protocol adherence to establish best practices for a unified approach.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study, conducted from June 2022 to July 2024, included 218 healthcare professionals with over a year of experience in family, emergency, and internal medicine, selected through convenient sampling from hospitals such as Lady Reading Hospital, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Mardan Medical Complex, and Government Mian Meer Hospital.
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- The study examines how sleep disturbances affect individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), focusing on prevalence and links to patient demographics and disease severity.
- Conducted from January to December 2023, the research involved 385 RA patients and utilized established sleep assessment tools, revealing that 75.32% of participants reported poor sleep quality.
- Findings indicate significant associations between insomnia and moderate disease activity, as well as sleep apnea with low disease activity, underscoring the need for enhanced management strategies for sleep issues in RA patients.
This study reports a case of differentiation syndrome, a rare complication of ATRA (all-trans-retinoic-acid) therapy, observed in a 20-year-old male with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML). Following the initiation of ATRA therapy for APML, the patient presented with fever, bleeding gums, bloody stool, and mouth ulcers. After 36 hours, he developed respiratory distress, hypotension, tachycardia, and hypoxemia, leading to the diagnosis of differentiation syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case report details the clinical course of a 37-year-old male with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) who initially presented with respiratory symptoms. Following a month of anti-TB therapy, the patient developed a painful chest swelling, diagnosed as empyema necessitans, with a subsequent spontaneous rupture leading to a pleurocutaneous fistula. Despite recommendations for surgery, the patient opted for active surveillance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Xbox Kinect-based virtual reality, being a novel approach, has therapeutic benefits in rehabilitation and its use is encouraged in stroke rehabilitation of upper extremities.
Objective: Primary aim of the current study is to investigate the additional effects of Xbox Kinect training in combination with routine physiotherapy exercises based on each component of Fugl-Meyer Assessment Scale for Upper Extremity (FMA-UE). Moreover, effect of upper limb rehabilitation on cognitive functions was also assessed.
Objective: Because of the globally increasing occurrence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the population, exercise is becoming vitally important for prevention and disease management, along with medical and dietary interventions. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that women with DM would respond similarly to men with DM following supervised structured aerobic exercise training (SSAET) program.
Methods: This randomized, single blind, controlled clinical trial was conducted on 102 patients with T2DM with ranging in age from 40 to 70 years.