The article is devoted to topical issues of the early ethnic history Kyrgyz, which were covered in Chinese chronicles Tang era. Historiographic data on Kyrgyz this period are compared with individual elements plot epic "Manas", central theme forcible resettlement tribes from Tien Shan and Ala-Too territories Altai distant Northeastern lands. According storyline, after birth Manas his election a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate our experience of laparoscopic cholecystectomies at the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi over a three-year period from the inception of the technique, and to assess its value and advantages to the patients. DESIGN A prospective case series study. SETTING The Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi. PATIENTS One hundred and thirty five cases operated from February 1996 to April 1999. Al...

Orthopedic Research Online Journal Functional Outcome of Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Ahmad Zeb1, Farmanullah Khan2*, Sabir Khan khattak3, Akhtar Husain4, Shehryar Khan2 Muhammad Shoaib Khan5 and Khalid Iqbal4 1Consultant Surgeon, Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan 2Medical Officer, Medical Collage 3Trainee Hayatabad Complex 4Senior Registrar orthopedics Peshawar 5Professor & Chairma...

*Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Qatar University, Doha, State of Qatar Abstract Our purpose in this paper is (i) to introduce the concept of further generalized hybrid mappings, (ii) to introduce the concept of common attractive points (CAP), and (iii) to write and use Picard-Mann iterative process for two mappings. ...

Azam, A Fisfer, B, Khan, M: Common fixed point theorems in complex valued metric Spaces. Number. Funct. Anal. Optim. . 32(3), 243-253 (2011). B. C. Dhage, Generalized metric spaces and mappings with fixed point, Bull. Calcutt Math. Soc. 84 (1992), 329-336. B. C. Dhage, " On generalized metric spaces and topological structure. II," Pure and applied Mathematika Sciences, Vol. 40, no. 1-...

Obesity in children tracks into adulthood and is associated with premature cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and premature death.1 Although the prevalence of childhood obesity is escalating in developing countries including Pakistan,2 the factors fuelling this trend have not been well studied. We conducted a survey on 339 randomly selected children and adolescents aged 11–17 years from f...

Sixty-two consecutive episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) were studied at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. Forty-four (71%) were type I and 18 (29%) type II diabetics. Mean age was 28.1 years and mean duration of diabetes 4.1 years. Infections were the most common precipitating factor accounting for 28 episodes (45.2%). Twenty-two patients (35.5%) had hyperosmolality (serum osmolality...

OBJECTIVE To compare risk factors and progression free survival of type 1 & 2 endometrial cancers. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 149 patients with early stage endometrial carcinoma treated between 1997 and 2012 in Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi was performed. RESULTS A total of 149 patients were analyzed. Type I tumors accounted for 92% of cases in the study while 8% were type ...

A.A. Khan and O.H. Clark (eds.), Handbook of Parathyroid Diseases: A Case-Based Practical Guide, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-2164-1_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012