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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38482095/reverse-takotsubo-cardiomyopathy-with-severe-dengue-case-report-from-pakistan
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Warda Ajmal, Zahra Iftikhar, Asaad A Khan
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy is an established transient cardiomyopathy found predominately in females with intense emotional and physical strain. It has four notable variants: Apical, Mid-Ventricular, Basal and Focal. Mid Ventricular variant is also referred to as Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. Dengue is a viral arthopod-borne tropical disease endemic to Pakistan, with multiple reports of cardiovascular involvement. We report an atypical presentation of a 17 year old male, suffering from Dengue Fever, who presented to a tertiary care hospital with Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy...
2024: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38462881/the-potential-of-immature-platelet-fraction-as-a-prognostic-marker-in-dengue-infection
#2
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amna Khan, Tehreem Zahid
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March 2024: Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons—Pakistan: JCPSP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38419225/role-of-granulocyte-colony-stimulating-factor-g-csf-in-dengue-patients-with-severe-thrombocytopenia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kamran Amir Khan, Sameed Ullah Qureshi
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in improving platelet count in patients with dengue fever. METHODS: The retrospective, cross-sectional study was conducted at Northwest General Hospital and Research Centre, Peshawar, Pakistan, between January 2021 and October 2022, and comprised dengue fever inpatients regardless of age and gender who received granulocyte colony-stimulating factor subcutaneously. The impact of colony-stimulating factor on platelet and white blood cell counts as well as any unfavourable consequences was assessed...
February 2024: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38342883/unravelling-the-diagnostic-potential-of-mr-imaging-in-dengue-encephalitis-a-call-for-further-exploration-in-pakistan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marya Hameed, Samahir Tariq Khan, Shazia Kulsoom
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February 2024: Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons—Pakistan: JCPSP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38342881/spectrum-of-liver-injury-in-dengue-fever-cause-or-effect-of-severe-dengue
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Irfan Khattak, Samina Naseem Khattak, Muhammad Numan Khattak, Shumaila Numan Hadi, Muhammad Rafique, Sherbano Baloch
The study aimed to determine if deranged liver function tests (LFTs) can predict severe dengue or mortality. It included 135 dengue patients, with a mean age of 30.9 ± 12.09 years. Among the patients, 82 (60.7%) were under 30 years of age. Nearly half of the patients (64, 47. 4%) had some degree of liver damage indicated by deranged LFTs, 27 (42.1%) had elevated alanine transaminase (ALT), 7 (10.9%) had increased bilirubin, and 30 (46.9%) had high values of alkaline phosphatase (ALP). However, only elevated ALP levels were positively correlated with mortality (Pearson's R = 0...
February 2024: Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons—Pakistan: JCPSP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38333326/disaster-after-disaster-the-outbreak-of-infectious-diseases-in-pakistan-in-the-wake-of-2022-floods
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REVIEW
Marcel Alied, Abdus Salam, Sayed Mansoor Sediqi, Patrick Amanning Kwaah, Linh Tran, Nguyen Tien Huy
In June 2022, Pakistan witnessed catastrophic floods, affecting millions of people. The ensuing epidemics of cholera, cryptosporidiosis, rotavirus infections, generalized diarrhoea, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, as well as the frequency of vector-borne diseases including malaria and dengue fever, are studied in this investigation. It also explores the latest outbreak of poliomyelitis and the frequency of respiratory diseases such COVID-19, diphtheria, and tuberculosis, as well as how floods have contributed to skin and eye problems...
February 2024: Annals of Medicine and Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38332997/evolving-spectrum-of-dengue-a-two-year-experience-from-a-tertiary-care-hospital-in-pakistan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fibhaa Syed, Mohammad Ali Arif, Valeed B Mansoor, Muhammad Usman, Saba Ali Arif
OBJECTIVE: This study focused on examining the clinical manifestations, disease severity, and outcomes among cases of dengue fever (DF) confirmed through serological testing. The study specifically targeted individuals admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY: This prospective observational study at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, tracked 1,003 patients from admission to discharge or death between August 2022 and November 2023...
February 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38279860/strengthening-dengue-control-in-pakistan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maheen Saleem, Ayesha Sheikh, Hina Nawaz, Gati Ara
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 21, 2023: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38225191/from-mosquitoes-to-menace-unveiling-the-dangers-of-west-nile-virus-in-pakistan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Moiz Ahmed Khan, Fareeha Adnan, Nazia Khursheed
Pakistan, a subtropical nation, has seen a rapid rise in Arboviral transmission in the past decade. Environmental hazards such as intense monsoon rains and yearly floods in addition to unsanitary living conditions pose an increased risk of arboviral infections. In recent years, the emergence and spread of West Nile virus (WNV), which can lead to a life-threatening meningoencephalitis, in Pakistan has alarmed the health care authorities of an impending outbreak. Health professionals and policymakers should give paramount importance to prevent its transmission across Pakistan as another arboviral outbreak would wreak havoc on the already fragile health infrastructure of the country...
January 15, 2024: Tropical Doctor
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38223736/societal-knowledge-attitude-and-practices-towards-dengue-and-associated-factors-in-epidemic-hit-areas-geoinformation-assisted-empirical-evidence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Syed Ali Asad Naqvi, Muhammad Sajjad, Aqil Tariq, Muhammad Sajjad, Liaqat Ali Waseem, Shankar Karuppannan, Adnanul Rehman, Mujtaba Hassan, Saad Al-Ahmadi, Wesam Atef Hatamleh
Dengue is one of Pakistan's major health concerns. In this study, we aimed to advance our understanding of the levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) in Pakistan's Dengue Fever (DF) hotspots. Initially, at-risk communities were systematically identified via a well-known spatial modeling technique, named, Kernel Density Estimation, which was later targeted for a household-based cross-sectional survey of KAPs. To collect data on sociodemographic and KAPs, random sampling was utilized (n = 385, 5 % margin of error)...
January 15, 2024: Heliyon
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38223132/stegomyia-indices-and-pattern-recognition-of-aedes-aegypti-diptera-culicidae-in-selected-agrogeoclimatic-zones-of-punjab-pakistan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Abdullah Malik, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Rasha Khalifah Al-Akeel, Mughees Aizaz Alvi, Hafiz Muhammad Rizwan, Haider Abbas, Mahvish Maqbool
Mosquito-borne diseases especially, dengue is gaining currency nowadays in Pakistan. As there is no approved dengue vaccine available worldwide, prevention and control of vector is the only solution amid prevailing circumstances. The present study is a maiden attempt to screen indoor and outdoor breeding containers for the presence of Aedes ( Ae. ) aegypti larvae from selected study districts of Punjab, Pakistan i.e., Dera Ghazi Khan (DG Khan), Chakwal, and Faisalabad. A total of 384 houses from each study districts were surveyed for a calendar year...
February 2024: Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38219208/flood-and-dengue-increased-risk-of-gestational-pestilences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amna Rizwan, Moeez Tariq, Maryum Imran
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 2024: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38083934/covid-19-co-infection-with-crimean-congo-haemorrhagic-fever-cchf-in-a-cchf-endemic-country-a-case-report
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Sadaf Hanif Musani, Muhammad Mehmood Alam, Asad Latif
Covid-19 pandemic affected the health care systems globally. In many countries, healthcare services were overwhelmed by the huge number of Covid cases; hence, shifting the focus from locally endemic infectious diseases. Such a case presented to us that was initially managed along the lines of critical Covid pneumonia with steroids, Remdesivir, and supplemental oxygen for hypoxic respiratory failure. The patient also received Baricitinib, to which he was non-responsive and thus offered invasive mechanical ventilation...
December 2023: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38083915/assessment-of-clinical-spectrum-of-thrombocytopenia-and-its-association-with-different-disease-states-reported-in-dow-diagnostic-reference-and-research-lab-ddrrl
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Farah Fatima Abbas, Shaheen Kouser
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relevance of thrombocytopenia to other disease states in patients reporting at a haematology laboratory. METHODS: The cross-sectional, retrospective study was conducted at the Dow Diagnostic Research and Reference Laboratory of the Dr Ishrat ul Ebad Khan Institute of Blood Diseases, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, and comprised data from the blood bank and haematology laboratory related to patients who visited during October 2021to August 2022...
December 2023: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38013575/calamity-of-secondary-dengue-virus-followed-by-climatic-changes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laiba Abid, Muhammad Ahmed Shaikh, Usama Abdul Ahad Memon
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
November 2023: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38013532/utilization-of-the-complete-blood-count-in-diagnosing-endemic-diseases-in-pakistan
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Noor Khalid, Muhammad Umer
Numerous infectious diseases, including enteric fever, malaria, dengue fever, and, most recently, coronavirus disease-2019, are prevalent in Pakistan. All these diseases have overlapping clinical symptoms and can present a diagnostic challenge for the general practitioner. Since definitive testing for these disorders is time-consuming and expensive, basic clinical testing, such as a complete blood count, should be utilised to supplement clinical diagnosis, when possible. The current narrative review was planned to present specific alterations in haematological parameters for each of these disorders...
November 2023: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37936734/demographic-and-clinical-variables-in-the-dengue-epidemic-in-punjab-pakistan
#17
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saira Mushtaq, Malik Ihsan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Tahir Khan, Aamir Husain
OBJECTIVES: To identify the latest trends in the clinical picture and severity of the disease, which will help better understand and manage dengue. METHODOLOGY: It was a cross-sectional, hospital-based study performed in the tertiary care hospitals of Punjab from August 21 to December 2022, in which serologically and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) confirmed patients with dengue infection, were enrolled. Demographic and clinical variables were recorded on a pre-tested Performa, processed and presented in frequency and percentages, and graphs were generated...
2023: Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Quarterly
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37934740/correction-demographic-and-clinico-epidemiological-features-of-dengue-fever-in-faisalabad-pakistan
#18
Eun Jeong Yu, Eun-A Park, Seung-Ah Choe, Kyung-Ah Lee, You Shin Kim
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2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37879150/novel-mutations-in-structural-proteins-of-dengue-virus-genomes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saira Mushtaq, Malik Ihsan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Tahir Khan, Madeeha Shahzad Lodhi, Dong Qing Wei
BACKGROUND: Genomic characterization of the dengue virus (DENV) is useful for understanding its molecular evolution, transmission, pathogenicity and infectivity. The DENV genomic RNA encodes three structural proteins, capsid (C) envelope (E) and membrane (M) proteins mediating viral entry and assembly during host infection. The current study aims to explore the DENV serotypes and mutations in the E and M proteins. METHODS: Twenty-three samples of DENV-positive patients were processed and selected for whole genome sequencing (WGS) from the Punjab Province of Pakistan...
October 5, 2023: Journal of Infection and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37876082/dengue-fever-presenting-as-acute-febrile-illness-in-neonates-a-case-series-from-pakistant
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maliha Salim, Vinod Kumar, Hafsa Zaheer, Nazia Shamim, Hina Mumtaz Hashmis
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by flavivirus. It primarily infects people living in tropical and subtropical areas and can be transmitted vertically or horizontally to new-borns. We discuss the clinical spectrum, treatment, and outcomes of five neonates who presented with dengue fever at Aga Khan Hospital for Women in Karimabad, Karachi, Pakistan, during the 2021 post- monsoon season (October to December). Dengue infection was confirmed via positive NS1 antigen test. All new-borns had fever, flushing, and thrombocytopenia...
October 2023: JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
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