An overview of dengue viral infection circulating in Pakistan.

Background & Objectives: Dengue virus (DENV) is an RNA virus that infects approximately 2.5 billion people around the world. The incidence of dengue fever has rapidly increased at an alarming rate in the last few years and has affected thousands of people in Pakistan.

A unified technique for entropy enhancement based diabetic retinopathy detection using hybrid neural network.

In this paper, a unified technique for entropy enhancement-based diabetic retinopathy detection using a hybrid neural network is proposed for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy. Medical images play crucial roles in the diagnosis, but two images representing two different stages of a disease look alike. It, consequently, make the process of diagnosis extraneous and error-prone.

Ureteral trauma during open surgery: aetiology, presentation and management.

Background: Ureteric injury during a surgical procedure is a serious complication with significant morbidity. The objective of this research was to study the aetiology, clinical features and management of iatrogenic ureteric injuries after open surgical procedures.

Methods: This descriptive study was carried out in the Urology and Transplant unit of Institute of Kidney Diseases, Peshawar, from 1st August 2008 to 30th April 2011.

Role of clean intermittent self catheterisation (CISC) in the prevention of recurrent urethral strictures after internal optical urethrotomy.

Background: Urethral stricture is one of the oldest diseases Urethral dilatation Internal optical urethrotomy,were the only treatment. Clean Intermittent Self Catheterisation was introduced by Lapides has greatly decreased the recurrence of stricture. Objectives were to determine the role of Clean Intermittent Self Catheterisation (CISC) in the prevention of recurrence of urethral strictures after Internal Optical Urethrotomy and to study the frequency of any postoperative complications and tolerability for the patients associated with this procedure.

Role of simplified admission criteria for predicting severe complications of gall stone pancreatitis.

Background: Gallstone Pancreatitis (GP) is not an uncommon disease in our country and is associated with large number of morbidity and mortality especially if severe complications develop. Different criteria have been developed to predict the complications of GP. Simple admission criteria are better predictors of severe complications of GP than an APACHE II score of 5 or greater, a modified Imrie (Glasgow) score of 3 or greater, and a Biliary Ranson score of 3 or greater.