Neonatal outcome in pre-eclamptic patients.

Background: Pre-eclampsia (PE) is defined as hypertension (blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg on two occasion 4-6 hour apart or single reading of diastolic blood pressure of >110 mm Hg) and proteinuria developing after 20 weeks of pregnancy up to 6 weeks post partum in previously normotensive, non-proteinuric women. The aim of this study was to determine the neonatal outcome in babies born ofpre-eclamptic patients.

Methods: It is a cross-sectional comparative study and was carried out in department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology unit C of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad from 1st January 2007 to 30th June 2007.

Respiratory distress: a rare presentation of rickets.

Nutritional rickets has multiple presentations like skeletal deformities, tetany, hypocalcemic seizures, recurrent diarrhea, dental abnormalities, developmental delay and floppiness. Here a rare presentation of nutritional rickets is reported in five months old baby who had respiratory distress since two months and signs of respiratory distress resolved after start of vitamin-D supplementation.

Temporomandibular joint ankylosis: experience with interpositional gap arthroplasty at Ayub Medical College Abbottabad.

Background: Satisfactory surgical correction of temporomandibular joint ankylosis (TMA) is limited by a high recurrence rate, particularly in patients who underwent surgery without use of interpositional material. The present study describes our experience of Interpositional Gap Arthroplasty in patients presenting with primary or recurrent TMA.

Methods: The study was conducted on 12 patients presenting at the Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgical Unit of the Ayub Medical College Abbottabad from 1999 to 2004.

Release of vasopressin during suppression of oestrous cycle in rat by zoladex and hypovolemic challenge.

Background: The vasopressin (AVP) response to hypovolemia has been compared in intact and chemically castrated rats. This functional ovariectomy was done to confirm the findings in surgical ovariectomy of how gonadal steroids modulate the release of AVP under hypo-volemic challenge.

Methods: Twenty female Sprague Dawley rats were checked for oestrous over two consecutive cycles.

An index of depression in patients with chronic nonspecific musculoskeletal pain.

Background: The present study was undertaken to derive an index of depression in patients with chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain and to determine correlation between these two parameters.

Method: The study was carried out at the Shaikh Zayed Hospital Lahore from November 2001 to May 2002 and included 36 patients with pain for at least 4-24 weeks duration; an equal number of healthy people acted as controls. Depression was assessed among subjects by administering the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) to patients and controls and obtaining their GHQ scores.

Etiology, presentation and management outcome of pneumothorax.

Background: This study was carried to determine etiology, presentation, complications and management outcomes of pneumothorax in patients presenting at two hospitals in NWFP province of Pakistan..

Methods: Pneumothorax patients reporting at the chest unit of Post Graduate Medical Institute, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, and Pulmonology unit of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad from 1999 to 2002 were included in the study.