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Early assessment of outcome by ST segment elevation after acute myocardial infarction. Observational study. This study was conducted at Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot from 1[st] January 2012 to 30[th] April 2013. 160 cases of acute myocardial infarction were randomly selected from the patients attending to OPD and emergency of Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot and their peripheral Districts. During the study period, 160 patients met the criteria for inclusion and were given thrombolytic therapy. Out of these, 136 [85%] patients were males and 24 [15%] patients were females. Mean age at the time of presentation was 51.0 tears. 91 [56.8] patients had acute anterior myocardial infarction, 58 [36.2%] had acute inferior myocardial infarction and 11 [6.8%] patients had miscellaneous findings. Average time lapse was 4.03 hours from onset of the chest pain to administration of streptokinase. Group A' [complete ST segment resolution] included 67 [41.8%] patients while there were 49 [30.6%] patients in group 'B' [partial ST segment resolution] and 44 [27.5%] patients on group 'C' [no ST segment resolution]. The ST segment was raised in all of the acute myocardial infarction cases. But ST segment was resolved in patients in which streptokinase injection was given 4 to 5 hours back
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To study the incidence of Hepatitis A, B and C with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status, medical and surgical treatment, blade used for shaving and urban or rural area of Hazara division and district Sialkot. Original study. This study was conducted at Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot from 1[st] January 2010 to 30[th] April 2013. 300 cases of Hepatitis A, B and C were randomly selected from the patients attending to OPD and emergency of Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot and their peripheral districts. Results are shown in Table No. 1 to Table No. 9. The sanitary conditions of drinking water should be improve. The medical and paramedical staff should take care against syringe needle prick, surgical knife cut and blood transfusion. In barber shop during hair cutting and clean shave the blade should be new one and not reused. The sexual contact should be restricted to the life partner. The dental surgery is also one toll for Hepatitis spread. The aggravating factors such as occupation and socio economic status, medical and surgical treatment, blade used for shaving, surgical instruments, syringe, blood transfusion dentistry instruments should be free of infection and sanitary conditions should be improved
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To study the incidence of tuberculosis in patients with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status, medical and surgical treatment, blade used for shaving and urban or rural area of Hazara division and district Sialkot. Original study. This study was conducted at Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot from 1[st] January 2010 to 30[th] April 2013. 500 cases of tuberculosis were randomly selected from the patients attending to OPD and emergency of Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot and their peripheral districts. Results are shown in Table No. 1 to Table No. 5. The maximum incidence of tuberculoses was in age group [31-40 years] and 23.4%. The incidence of tuberculoses was in age group 71-80 years [08%] which was minimum with relation to age group as shown in Table No. 1. There was more incidence of tuberculosis [55.4%] in women as compared to men [44.6%] because men have more resistance against tuberculosis as compared to women as shown in Table No. 2. As shown in Table No. 3 the victims of tuberculosis were maximum in laborer [23%] and factory workers [22.2%] and minimum incidence of tuberculosis was found [1.6%] in house wives as compared to other groups of people. There was maximum incidence of tuberculosis in low socio economic group of people [65.4%] in middle class of people and 2.8% in high gentry as shown in Table No. 4. Which was minimum as compared to other groups of people. As shown in Table No. 5 there was 42.6% incidence of tuberculosis as compared to rural area 57.4%