4 results match your criteria: "Department of Medicine Aga Khan University Karachi Pakistan.[Affiliation]"
We report a rare case of a 29-year old woman presenting with abdominal pain, whose initial examination failed to identify intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) threads. IUCD migration was confirmed by CT scan and subsequent single-port laparoscopic retrieval alleviated her symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: COVID-19 vaccinations have reduced morbidity and mortality from the disease. Antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) have been associated with immune protection. Seroprevalence studies revealed high immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to SARS-CoV-2 in the Pakistani population before vaccinations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-resolving pulmonary symptoms in a patient with SLE require evaluation to exclude rare pulmonary lesions, such as carcinoid tumors.
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February 2021
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine Aga Khan University Karachi Pakistan.
We report the case of a 60-year-old woman, presenting with left vocal cord paralysis (VCP). Diagnostic evaluation revealed sarcoidosis to be the underlying pathology. Computed tomography (CT) scans exhibited enlarged subcarinal, pretracheal, and prevascular lymph nodes as the possible mechanism of left VCP through compression of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve.
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