Publications by authors named "Fakhir Raza Haidri"
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- - The study examined Nocardia infection in renal transplant recipients in Pakistan from 2013 to 2020, identifying risk factors, clinical signs, and outcomes, with a focus on mortality rates and antimicrobial sensitivity.
- - Out of 48 patients with nocardiosis, 25% had disseminated disease, presenting a median of 2.68 years post-transplant; key risk factors included high-dose methylprednisolone and recent cytomegalovirus infection, contributing to a 20% mortality rate.
- - The research highlighted that central nervous system involvement was linked to higher mortality, and found that Nocardia species were largely resistant to ceftriaxone and imipenem, with co-trimoxazole and
Objective: To estimate the incidence and prevalence of deep venous thrombosis, and to evaluate the discriminative capacity of D-dimer in its diagnosis.
Methods: The prospective, observational study was conducted at the critical care unit of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan from February to September 2021 and comprised consecutively admitted adult critically ill patients who were receiving therapeutic-dose anticoagulation therapy. All patients were screened on day one for deep venous thrombosis by colour doppler and compression ultrasonography.
Background: The proper estimation of depth of the orotracheal tube (OTT) in intubated patients is difficult. Several methods have been developed for proper estimation of the depth of OTT. The purpose of this study was to compare two commonly used formulae (21/23 rule and Chula formula) for proper estimation of depth of OTT in our Pakistani population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objectives were to assess the frequency of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) in patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine the frequencies of different etiological organisms in these patients.
Methods: This was descriptive cross sectional study, which was carried out in medical ICU of Shifa International Hospital Islamabad from January 2013 to January 2014. A total of 1866 patients were admitted in the department of medicine including medical ICU.
Fibromyalgia complicating disease management in rheumatoid arthritis.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
June 2014
Objective: To evaluate frequency of fibromyalgia in rheumatoid arthritis and its effect on disease activity score.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Place And Duration Of Study: The Indus Hospital, Karachi, from December 2010 to May 2011.
Objective: To determine the frequency of factors associated with knee osteoarthritis.
Method: A cross sectional study was conducted in the department of medicine at Liaquat National Hospital Karachi from September 2007 - March 2008 on patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis of knee. One hundred patients of age more than 18 years, and of either gender were consecutively included.
Objective: To determine the first 24 hours mean values of APACHE II score for two outcomes (alive or dead) in patients admitted in chest ICUs.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted in the Department of Chest, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Hospital, Karachi from January 2009 to December 2009. Patients of all ages and either gender admitted in chest ICU for any cause, were consecutively enrolled.
Objective: To evaluate the resistance pattern of tuberculosis cases.
Methods: A descriptive study was done in two out patient referral clinics from January 1999 to March 2003. All TB cases that had cultures positive for mycobacterium tuberculosis were evaluated.