Frequency of stress hyperglycaemia and its' influence on the outcome of patients with spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.

Objective: To observe the frequency of admission hyperglycaemia and its influence on the outcome of patients with intracerebral haemorrhage.

Methods: This case series study included 450 consecutive patients received in medical wards at Liaquat University Hospital Jamshoro/Hyderabad with a diagnosis of Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage within 24 hours of their first stroke onset, between September 2006 to December 2008. The patients with haemorrhage secondary to brain tumours, trauma, haemorrhagic transformation of cerebral infarct, with previous history of haemorrhagic stroke, and patients with Glycosylated Haemoglobin greater than 8.

Evaluation of creatinine-modified Child Pugh score for predicting short-term prognosis of patients with decompensated cirrhosis of liver as compare to original child Pugh score.

Background: Original Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score has traditionally being used as a useful tool to assess prognosis in cirrhotic patients but the serum creatinine level has recently seen as an important predictor of survival in patients with liver cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy ofCP and modified CP score for predicting in hospital survival as well as cirrhosis related complications such as encephalopathy, haematemesis and ascites in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. It was Descriptive case series.