ADMISSION FRAILTY SCORE AS A GOOD CLINICAL SUBSTITUTE OF SOFA SCORE TO PROGNOSTICATE POST-PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION PATIENTS ON ADVANCED LIFE-SUPPORT.

Background: This study aimed to assess and compare the prognostic value of frailty score (FS), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, and additive of FS and SOFA score, at the time of admission to the coronary care unit (CCU), for the prediction of short-term poor prognosis in post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients, requiring advanced life-support.

Methods: A cohort of post-MI patients admitted to CCU. The FS and SOFA score were obtained at the time of CCU admission.

Clinical course, complications and predictors of mortality in patients with tuberculous meningitis--an experience of fifty two cases at Civil Hospital Karachi, Pakistan.

Objective: To assess the clinical course, complications and predictors of mortality in reducing the consequent morbidity and mortality in patients with tuberculous meningitis.

Methods: A prospective study was carried out at Civil Hospital Karachi from January 2009 to January 2011. Fifty-two confirmed cases of tuberculous meningitis were included.