Publications by authors named "Waqar Azim"
MEDICAL EXPULSIVE TREATMENT OF DISTAL URETERAL STONE USING TAMSULOSIN.
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad
August 2015
Background: Many minimally invasive interventional techniques as well as expectant treatment exist for the management of lower ureteric calculi. This study was conducted to evaluate th efficacy of tamsulosin as an expulsive pharmacologic therapy for the treatment of distal uretern stone.
Methods: This randomized control trial included 100 patients over 18 years of age wit stone Size > or = mm in distal 1/3 of ureter.
Safer sedation practice may not translate into improvements in endoscopic outcomes.
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol
May 2009
Introduction: Although the literature surrounding sedation practice and endoscopic outcomes remains sparse and controversial, there have been a number of stringent guidelines issued regarding sedation use in endoscopy.
Aims: To assess the impact of changes to enhance safer sedation practice on endoscopic outcomes.
Methods: Sedation practice was audited in 7234 consecutive gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures in 2004 and protocols for enhancing safer sedation practice were introduced.
Urodynamic findings in female patients reporting with lower urinary tract symptoms.
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad
May 2011
Objective: The study has been undertaken to determine the reproducibility of lower urinary tract symptoms in female patients after urodynamic investigations.
Design: A Descriptive study with retrospective analysis of data.
Setting: Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi and Armed Forces Institute of Urology, Rawalpindi.
Treatment of nail psoriasis with a modified regimen of steroid injections.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
February 2008
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a modified regimen of intralesional steroid injection therapy for the treatment of nail psoriasis and assess the side effects of this regimen.
Study Design: Quasi-experimental study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Dermatology Department of Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from February 1999 to January 2001.
Objective: To evaluate and compare the response between food supplemented with iron in powdered and iron in syrup forms for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in children aged 1-5 years.
Design: Quasi-experimental study.
Place And Duration Of Study: This study was conducted at Combined Military Hospital, Multan, from January 2000 to December 2000.
Two-stage hypospadias repair: a method applicable to all types of hypospadias.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
April 2003
Objective: To assess the results of two-stage repair in proximal hypospadias and cases of distal hypospadias with chordee, revision surgery and in circumcised cases.
Design: Prospective study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Combined Military Hospital, Kharian and Pano Aqil, from July 1998 to June 2002.
Comparison of photometric cyanmethemoglobin and automated methods for hemoglobin estimation.
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad
January 2003
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to compare the photometric cyanmethemoglobin method of hemoglobin estimation with the automated Medonic counter, involving 110 adult cases excluding hemolyzed samples.
- - Results indicated that the manual method showed a mean increase of 0.85% over the automated counter, with variability measured at 2.3% for the Medonic counter and 2.7% for the photometer.
- - Both methods were found to be accurate, but the manual method is more cost-effective for smaller sample sizes, while the automated method is better for handling large batches in busy labs, given the higher costs.