Objective To review the surgical outcome of doubly committed subarterial (DCSA) ventricular septal defect repair. Method Data of 51 patients of doubly committed sub arterial Ventricular septal defect from January 2012 to June 2017 that were referred to Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi institute of Cardiology Multan was retrospectively reviewed using electronic database. All patients were operated by f...

OBJECTIVE To study various characteristics of chest pain in acute myocardial infarction patients. METHODOLOGY A total of 331 patients of AMI admitted at Cardiology unit Nishtar Hospital Multan and Chaudhry Pervez Elahi Institute of Cardiology Multan, irrespective of the age and gender, were included in this study. The study duration was one year starting from June 2011 to June 2012. Non-proba...

The most common approach for estimating substrate rate of appearance (R(a)) is use of the single-pool model first proposed by R. W. Steele, J. S. Wall, R. C. DeBodo, and N. Altszuler. (Am. J. Physiol. 187: 15-24, 1956). To overcome the model error during highly non-steady-state conditions due to the assumption of a constant volume of distribution (V), two strategies have been proposed: 1) use o...

Introduction: Cardiac reperfusion injury is a well-described complication occurring after ischemia or following cardioplegic arrest. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate and compare safety of Mitral valve replacement on beating heart without using cross clamp with the conventional Mitral valve replacement. Material and methods: It was a retrospective observational study for study durat...

In Bangladesh there is a dearth on information relating to complications during pregnancy. We followed up 1,019 pregnant women in rural Bangladesh sampled from all the 4 old administrative divisions of the country. Trained female interviewers visited households of the pregnant women at four-week intervals and interviewed them for their current pregnancy-related complications. Out of a total of ...

As radiation oncologists with special interest in urologic malignancy (JA) and radiation-induced late toxicity (RSP), we read the case report of pudendal nerve entrapment by Elahi et al (1) with interest. It was presented as the first reported (index) case of pudendal nerve entrapment syndrome caused by radiotherapy of the prostate, seminal vesicles, and pelvic lymph nodes 2 months earlier. The...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) on clinical outcome, biological markers of myocardial injury, and its safety in patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). MATERIAL AND METHODS This study was conducted at Ch. Pervaiz Elahi Institute of Cardiology (CPEIC) in Multan. The study took place from March 2012 to June 2013. Patients w...