Variation in admission rates of acute coronary syndrome patients in coronary care unit according to different seasons.

Objective: Environmental stresses, especially extreme cold and hot weathers, have tendency to have more admissions for acute coronary syndromes. Due to scarcity of local data, we studied the variation in patient admission rates with acute coronary syndrome according to different seasons.

Study Design: Descriptive study.

A clinicopathological study of urethritis in males.

Objective: To determine the etiology and frequency of different types of urethritis in adult males.

Study Design: A case series.

Place And Duration Of Study: The Dermatology Department of PNS Shifa Hospital, Karachi, from June 2004 to December 2007.

Intestinal perforation due to an ingested foreign body.

It is a case description of intestinal perforation with foreign body that was arrested in hernia- trapped intestinal loop and causing perforation, which was explored and removed under local anesthesia. Literature on gut perforation due to foreign body ingestion is reviewed.