Association of and Gene Polymorphism with Celiac Disease in Subjects from Punjab, Pakistan.

Celiac disease (CD) is a complicated autoimmune disease that is caused by gluten sensitivity. It was commonly believed that CD only affected white Europeans, but recent findings show that it is also prevailing in some other racial groups, like South Asians, Caucasians, Africans, and Arabs. Genetics plays a profound role in increasing the risk of developing CD.

Self-Expanding Metallic Stents (SEMS) in Left-Sided Colonic Cancer--a Cancer Center Experience.

Background And Study Aims: Self-Expanding Metallic Stents (SEMS) are a surgery-sparing option for malignant colonic obstruction. They can be inserted as a "bridge to surgery" (BTS) for potentially curable disease, or as a palliative measure, thereby avoiding the higher morbidity and mortality associated with surgery. The objective of this study was to report our local experience of left-sided colonic stents.

Complications of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube insertion in cancer patients: a retrospective study.

Aim: Dysphagia, with associated malnutrition is a common feature in up to 64 % of patients with cancers of the head and neck region, the oesophagus and the gastro-oesophageal junction (Donaldson and Lenon Cancer 43(Suppl 5):2036-52, 1979). These patients usually require alternate routes of feeding during treatment. However, these methods of feeding are not without associated complications.

Deaths due to dengue fever at a tertiary care hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

Objective: We conducted this study to review deaths due to dengue fever (DF) during a large outbreak of DF in Lahore, Pakistan.

Methods: We reviewed deaths due to DF at Jinnah Hospital Lahore between August and November 2011. Clinical and laboratory data were abstracted.

Concurrent dengue and malaria infection in Lahore, Pakistan during the 2012 dengue outbreak.

Introduction: We conducted this study to determine the frequency of malaria and dengue-malaria co-infection in patients admitted to our hospital as 'probable' cases of dengue fever during the 2012 outbreak of dengue, and to ascertain whether dengue-malaria co-infection was more severe than either infection alone.

Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted at Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Pakistan between August and November 2012. Patients with 2-10 days of fever and with two or more of the following: myalgia, arthralgia, retro-orbital pain, headache, skin rash, and hemorrhagic manifestations plus thrombocytopenia and leukopenia, were classified as probable cases of dengue fever and were subjected to reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR and/or dengue-specific IgM by ELISA.