Publications by authors named "Shakir Lakhani"

Objective: To find predictors, incidence and hospital mortality of acute kidney injury in ST elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions.

Methods: The retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at Tabba Heart Institute Karachi, and comprised data from June 2013 to December 2017 of ST elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions during index admission. Acute kidney injury was defined as serum creatinine ≥0.

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Objective: To determine in-hospital mortality and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in acute coronary syndrome (AMI) patients with underlying severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study from June'2013-December'2017 at Tabba Heart Institute, Karachi. Data was drawn from institutes' database modeled after US National Cardiovascular data CathPCI registry.

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In the past decade, it has been well recognised that the tumour microenvironment contains microenvironmental components such as hypoxia that significantly influence tumour cell behaviours such, invasiveness and therapy resistance, all of which provide new targets for studying cancer biology and developing anticancer therapeutics. In response, a large number of two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3D) in vitro tumour models have been developed to recapitulate different aspects of the tumour microenvironment and enable the study of related biological questions. While more complex models enable new biological insight, such models often involve time-consuming and complex fabrication or analysis processes, which limit their adoption by the broader cancer biology community.

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