The Back Pain and Movement (B-PAM) registry; a study protocol.

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a ubiquitous, heterogeneous disorder that affects most people at some point in their lives. The efficient management of LBP remains elusive, with direct and indirect costs attributed to LBP surpassing many other common conditions. An emphasis on a structural basis of LBP often fails to recognize movement, specifically patterns of movement that may provide biomechanical signatures of painful conditions.

Homozygous familial hypercholestrolaemia presents with supravalvular aortic stenosis.

Homozygous Familial Hypercholestrolaemia is a metabolic disorder which usually presents with early cardiac disease ranging from premature ischaemic heart disease, including myocardial infarction to aortic root stenosis, but rarely it may present with earlier anginal symptoms due to supravalvular aortic stenosis. A 17-year old South Asian boy presented himself with chest pain associated with mild to moderate exercise. He was diagnosed as a case of Homozygous Familial Hypercholestrolaemia.

ST segment resolution post MI--a predictor of better outcomes.

Objective: To compare, the post Myocardial Infarction in-patient outcome of patients with early ST resolution to those without ST resolution on ECG, in a South Asian population.

Methods: This was a prospective study done at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore. Consecutive patients of ST elevation myocardial infarction, who were not treated with primary angioplasty but were thrombolysed were recruited at the time of arrival in the emergency department.