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Abouleish EI, Rashid S, Haque S, Giezentanner A, Joynton P, Chuang AZ. Ondansetron versus placebo for the control of nausea and vomiting during Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 1999; 54:479-82. [PMID: 10995148 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00798.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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This prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind study was performed to evaluate the effects of ondansetron on nausea and vomiting during elective Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Seventy-four full-term parturients were studied. After umbilical-cord clamping, ondansetron 4 mg or 0.9% saline was injected intravenously and the study period continued for 2 h. The severity of nausea was graded from 0 = none to 10 = maximum, while that of vomiting was graded from single = once per min to continuous = multiple per min. The incidence of vomiting was lower following ondansetron (36%) compared with the control group (58%, p < 0.028). Neither the severity of vomiting nor the incidence of nausea was influenced by ondansetron. However, for those who experienced nausea, ondansetron reduced its severity (p = 0.05). We conclude that the intra-operative administration of 4 mg ondansetron intravenously during Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia significantly reduces the incidence of vomiting and the severity of nausea.
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- E I Abouleish
- The University of Texas Health Science Centre, Houston 77030-1501, USA
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Rashid S, Morton RS. Contact tracing. Sex Transm Infect 1999; 75:77. [PMID: 10448355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023] Open
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Rashid S, Burns T. Innovation and survival: a case study in planning medical library services. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1998; 86:508-17. [PMID: 9803293 PMCID: PMC226443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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In the information age, information utilities like libraries are as sensitive to the stresses of change as any other organization. This article is a case study of a small, specialized medical library as it attempted to understand, and cope with, the complex simultaneous challenges of serious budgetary constraints, technological change, and shifting user demands in the mid 1990s. To support planning decisions in a period of declining use statistics, the Medical Library at Women's College Hospital, Toronto, carried out a user survey that posed choices about priorities among services. Conclusions drawn from the survey and its related planning process may help similar organizations design an appropriate service blend for future users.
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- S Rashid
- Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by severe peptic ulcer disease, gastric acid hypersecretion, and non-beta islet cell tumors of the pancreas. Most gastrinomas are found within an anatomic area known as the gastrinoma triangle. However, they commonly occur in extrapancreatic sites in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 syndrome. In patients in whom Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is suspected, laboratory evidence of hypergastrinemia and hyperacidity establishes the diagnosis. Until the advent of proton pump inhibitors, total gastrectomy was the treatment of choice. Therapy with these agents (eg, omeprazole, lansoprazole) can prevent ulcer disease. However, surgical removal of gastrinomas offers a chance for cure and can improve longevity by preventing the malignant spread of the tumors.
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Unwin N, Alberti G, Aspray T, Edwards R, Mbanya JC, Sobngwi E, Mugusi F, Rashid S, Setel P, Whiting D. Economic globalisation and its effect on health. Some diseases could be eradicated for the cost of a couple of fighter planes. BMJ 1998; 316:1401-2. [PMID: 9572743 PMCID: PMC1113110 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7142.1401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Malik GM, Mubarik M, Basu JA, Kadla SA, Hussain T, Rashid S, Jeelani G. Authors' Reply. Med Chir Trans 1997. [DOI: 10.1177/014107689709000823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- G M Malik
- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Associated SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-190002, Kashmir, India
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Morton RS, Rashid S. Role of fever in infection: has induced fever any therapeutic potential in HIV infection? Genitourin Med 1997; 73:212-5. [PMID: 9306904 PMCID: PMC1195825 DOI: 10.1136/sti.73.3.212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Ancient societies had no rational understanding of fever. The Greeks were the first to recognise that it may be part of nature's method of effecting cure in some diseases. How best to assist nature went through many trials and errors. Appreciation of the prognostic value of fever and how it may be controlled was slow to appear. That there was a place in the therapeutic arsenal for induced fever came only with the 20th century. Finding a suitable, safe, and satisfactory means came slowly. The curative power of well controlled and reproducible levels of fever was proved by the arrest of one deadly and incurable complication of a sexually transmitted disease in the first half of this century. The purpose of this review is to promote discussion and, hopefully, well ordered laboratory and clinical trials aimed at learning whether or not induced fevers have a place in the care of patients with HIV/AIDS.
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- R S Morton
- Department of Medicine, University of Sheffield
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Wu RS, McNally AJ, Pilcher IA, Salamone SJ, Rashid S. Synthesis of new d-propoxyphene derivatives and the development of a microparticle-based immunoassay for the detection of propoxyphene and norpropoxyphene. Bioconjug Chem 1997; 8:385-90. [PMID: 9177845 DOI: 10.1021/bc9700289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The synthesis of [S-(R,S)]-4-[[methyl[2-methyl-3-(1-oxopropoxy)-3, 4-diphenylbutyl]amino]-1-oxobutoxy]-2,5-pyrrolidinedione+ ++ (propoxyphene active ester, 2) is described. This was used as an intermediate to prepare a propoxyphene immunogen, [S-(R,S)]-4-[methyl][2-methyl-3-(1-oxopropoxy)-3,4-diphenylbuty l]-amino]- 1-oxobutyl-Bovine Thyroglobulin (3). This immunogen was then used to generate antibodies which demonstrate good cross-reactivity to d-propoxyphene, d-norpropoxyphene, and other propoxyphene metabolites. In addition, these antibodies were shown to have very low cross-reactivity to methadone, a structurally related compound. The introduction of an aminomethyl benzoate spacer into the propoxyphene active ester (2), followed by the activation of the carboxylic acid, provided for a more stable active ester (5). This stable active ester, together with the antibodies generated from the propoxyphene immunogen, has led to the development of an immunoassay based on the Kinetic Interaction of Microparticles in Solution (KIMS).
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- R S Wu
- Roche Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Somerville, New Jersey 08876-3771, USA
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Over a 6-year period, we studied 791 patients with multidrug-resistant typhoid fever, of whom 665 individuals (84%) developed neuropsychiatric manifestations. These were: acute confusional state (73%); myelitis (6%); cerebellitis (1%); parkinsonism (1%); acute psychosis (0.6%); meningo-encephalitis (0.5%); encephalitis (0.25%); sensory motor polyneuropathy, polymyositis, acute schizophrenia and bizarre neurological syndromes (0.12% each). Severe parkinsonian rigidity and meningo-encephalitis are associated with significant morbidity but very low mortality (0.5%).
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- G Ali
- Department of Medicine, Governmental Medical College, SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, India
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A retrospective analysis was done to examine whether sexual behaviour was associated with meningococcal carriage. Over the 4 month period from January to April 1994, 136 (27.4%) of the 496 consecutive new/re-registered genito-urinary medicine clinic attenders showed meningococcal carriage. Two (15.4%) of 13 homosexual men compared with 134 (27.7%) of 484 heterosexual men and women had evidence of meningococcal carriage. Relative risk (RR) of meningococcal carriage was 1.8 with > 10 lifetime partners and 1.2 with 3-10 partners (P < 0.007). RR with age group of 16-25 was 4.2 and for 26-35 it was 3.5. There was no relationship with meningococcal carriage and pharyngeal symptoms, sexual orientation, intravenous drug use, number of partners per month and orogenital sex. Further longitudinal studies may be of value in order to determine whether a high number of sexual partners is a marker for meningococcal carriage. In addition, further study may show whether there is an increased risk of meningococcal carriage and disease in those who live with meningococcal carriers.
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- S C Tayal
- Department of Genito-urinary Medicine, City Hospital Trust, Sunderland District General Hospital, U.K
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We studied the variability and reliability of breath hydrogen and methane as well as the alterations in intestinal gas profile in response to lactulose ingestion in 13 asymptomatic male patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Seventeen healthy subjects served as controls. The prevalence of methane producers was 33% in DM and 45% among control subjects (P = NS). The prevalence of nonhydrogen producers was 7.7% and 5.9%, respectively. The coefficient for interday variation of H2 was 72.6 +/- 9.8% in DM and 49.7 +/- 9.8% in controls (P < 0.05). Similarly, the coefficient for interday variation of CH4 was 94.3 +/- 18.8 and 69.4 +/- 16.8% respectively (P = NS). The reproducibility of basal H2 and CH4 among diabetics as assessed by r1 (measure of reliability) was poorer among diabetics when breath analysis was performed on different days (P < 0.001). There was no significant difference between diabetics and controls with respect to basal or peak or area under the curve for H2 and CH4 in response to lactulose. We conclude that there is poor reproducibility of fasting breath gas levels among asymptomatic male subjects with diabetes. In addition, DM is not associated with alterations in hydrogen- or methane-producing potential.
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- A Minocha
- Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City 73126, USA
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Harry TC, Rashid S, Saravanamuttu KM. Multiple testing of multiple sites in the diagnosis of chlamydial infection in women. Int J STD AIDS 1997; 8:139. [PMID: 9061415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Harry TC, Rashid S, Saravanamuttu KM, Shrestha TL, Roberts SA. Is one diagnostic testing of multiple sites enough to detect gonorrhoea infection in women? Int J STD AIDS 1997; 8:64-5. [PMID: 9043988 DOI: 10.1258/0956462971918661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- T C Harry
- Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Sunderland Hospital, UK
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Kamili MA, Ali G, Rashid S, Reshi GH, Ali M, Allaqaband GQ. A novel exit of Taenia saginata. J Assoc Physicians India 1996; 44:839. [PMID: 9251467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- M A Kamili
- Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, Kashmir, India
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Rashid S. Selective culture medium failure in gonorrhoea. Genitourin Med 1996; 72:136-7. [PMID: 8698363 PMCID: PMC1195625 DOI: 10.1136/sti.72.2.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- S Rashid
- Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, District General Hospital, Sunderland
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Harry TC, Rashid S, Saravanamuttu KM, Shrestha TL. Ignored trichomonal infestation diagnosed by Papanicolaou smear. Genitourin Med 1995; 71:417. [PMID: 8566994 PMCID: PMC1196127 DOI: 10.1136/sti.71.6.417-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- S C Tayal
- Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Sunderland Distric General Hospital, UK
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Harry TC, Rashid S, Saravanamuttu KM, Shrestha TL. Trichomoniasis: perspectives in declining prevalence in a GUM clinic. Sex Transm Dis 1994; 21:357-9. [PMID: 7871451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Kamili MA, Ali G, Rashid S, Mansoor A, Allaqaband GQ. Ciprofloxacin induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome. J Assoc Physicians India 1994; 42:755. [PMID: 7883688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Harry TC, Saravanamuttu KM, Rashid S, Shrestha TL. Audit evaluating the value of routine screening of Chlamydia trachomatis urethral infections in men. Int J STD AIDS 1994; 5:374-5. [PMID: 7819362 DOI: 10.1177/095646249400500520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- T C Harry
- Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Microbiology Sunderland City Hospitals, UK
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Three cases of multidrug-resistant Salmonella typhi infection presenting as spontaneous splenic rupture are presented. One patient died and two recovered completely. This is a previously unreported presentation of typhoid fever.
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- G Ali
- Government Medical College, SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-Kashmir, India
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Ali G, Kamili MA, Rashid S, Mansoor A, Allaqaband GQ. Bradycardia in shigellosis. Am J Gastroenterol 1994; 89:956. [PMID: 8198121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ali G, Kamili MA, Rashid S, Shah MY, Jan I, Allaqaband GQ. Detection of autonomic nervous dysfunction by SL manoeuvre. J Assoc Physicians India 1993; 41:567-8. [PMID: 8307911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We have evaluated the immediate heart rate response to standing and lying and in 100 Diabetic subjects aged 43 +/- 10 years who underwent five other cardiovascular autonomic tests. Using a specially devised scoring system the patients were divided into three groups: a) 58 subjects without autonomic neuropathy, b) 15 borderliners, c) 27 with autonomic neuropathy. The results were compared with 50, sex and age matched controls. We studied SL1 = ratio between R-R mean before lying and R-R maximum between the 20th to 25th beat and R-R minimum over the first 5 beats after lying. In controls SL1 was 1.35 +/- 0.18 and SL2 was 1.52 +/- 0.23. In diabetic subjects without autonomic neuropathy SL1 was 1.20 +/- 0.86 (p < 0.01), SL2 1.50 +/- 0.02 (p < 0.001). In the group with autonomic neuropathy SL1 was 1.04 +/- 0.02 (p < 0.001) and SL2 was 1.20 +/- 0.09 (p < 0.001). We propose that the lowest normal and highest abnormal limits of SL1 are 1.12 and 1.08 respectively and that normal and highest abnormal limits of SL2 are 1.23 and 1.18 respectively. We suggest the use of SL1 as a pure parasympathetic test and SL2 as a mixed but predominantly sympathetic test in the diagnosis of autonomic neuropathy.
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- G Ali
- Department of Medicine, SMHS Hospital, Srinagar-Kashmir
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Ahmad F, Rashid S, Bingol F, Sener B. Screening of some Turkish medicinal plants for their analgesic activity. Pak J Pharm Sci 1993; 6:29-36. [PMID: 16414736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Nine crude extracts of various parts of eight medicinal plants from different regions of Turkey were evaluated for their analgesic activities by tail flick method in mice. The analgesic activities of these extracts were compared with acetylsalicylic acid (300 mg/kg) which is used as a standard drug. Extracts were given orally in doses of 300, 500 and 1000 mg/kg. 0.9% saline was also administered in control group of animals. Results showed that four extracts were having highly significant analgesic activity at all the three doses tested. Three showed significant effects at higher doses while two extracts did not show any significant results.
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- F Ahmad
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
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Kamili MA, Ali G, Shah MY, Rashid S, Khan S, Allaqaband GQ. Multiple drug resistant typhoid fever outbreak in Kashmir Valley. Indian J Med Sci 1993; 47:147-51. [PMID: 8406648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We report the first ever report of multiple drug resistant salmonella typhi epidemic from Asia. The outbreak started in April 1988 and virtually ended by June 1988. The outbreak occurred in Baramullah town of Kashmir valley. In an epidemiological survey 230 cases were diagnosed as enteric fever. 46 cases (20%) were culture positive. A very rare multiple drug resistant strain of S. typhi was identified as phage type biotype II untypeable (UVS2). The strain was sensitive to Norfloxacin. This outbreak of S. typhi has many similarities with Mexico epidemic. Ingestion of contaminated water seems to be the possible cause for the outbreak.
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- M A Kamili
- Department of Medicine, SMHS Hospital and Medical College, Srinagar-Kashmir
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A patient with rheumatoid arthritis, who also had documented achlorhydria, first had the diagnosis of an antral ulcer made by barium meal in 1980. She did well taking cimetidine intermittently after that, along with various nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). In 1988, a shallow antral ulcer was found, but the patient did not respond to H2 blockade or to sucralfate. At that time misoprostol therapy was prescribed. Despite the continued use of NSAIDs, the ulcer healed. It has remained healed for the past 3 years.
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- S Rashid
- Division of Gastroenterology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington
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- B Banerjee
- Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock 72205-7199
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Sajid TM, Rashid S, Saeed SA. Inhibition of adrenaline-induced aggregation of human platelets by Pakistani medicinal plants. Pak J Pharm Sci 1991; 4:145-52. [PMID: 16414694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The effects of extracts of Pakistani plants claiming medicinal value were observed on adrenaline-induced aggregation of human platelets according to the method of Born (1962). The extracts manifested significant inhibitory activity in doses of 0.625 mgm(-1) to 2.5 mgml(-1) in this in vitro model. The potency of the plant extracts in inhibiting platelet aggregation induced by adrenaline is in the following order: Sida pakistanica, IC50 = 0.90 mgml(-1) > Tribulus terrestris, IC50 = 0.97 mgml(-1) > Solanum surattense, IC50 = 1.34 mgml(-1) Tephrosia subtriflora, IC50 = 1.40 mgml(-1) > Glycyrrhiza glabra (butanolic extract), IC50 = 1.66 mgml(-1) > Urtica dioica IC50 = 2.17 mgml(-1). Further studies are proposed to find out whether the inhibition of adrenaline-induced platelet aggregation is mediated through alpha-adrenoceptor blockade or suppressed synthesis of prostaglandin endoperoxides.
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- T M Sajid
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
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This study investigates treatment failure and recurrences of vulvo-vaginal candidosis. It reviews the factors possibly associated with both. Patients attending a department of genitourinary medicine with recurrent candidosis (N = 186) were entered in the trial. The patients were investigated for evidence of candidosis from vagina, rectal wall and buccal mucosa and were given antifungal therapy. Prevention and reinfection via fomites was studied by means of a single blind parallel study comparing the effect of soaking undergarments in the amphoteric biocide Tego 103G with the effect of a placebo soak. General and possible contributory factors influencing treatment and failure and recurrences were considered. The success rate of miconazole therapy was typical of any imidazole therapy: 85.4%. There was no evidence that modern oral contraceptives played a role in candidosis. Oral nystan reduced the rectal wall carriage from 39.2% to 23.2%. Oral yeast carriage rate in women was 37.6%. The recurrence rate over a six month period was 47.4%. The laboratory results of Tego soaking reduced the yeast carriage on panties from 85.2% to 23.4%. However, no evidence was found in the trial results that panties were a significant source of reinfection.
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- S Rashid
- Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Sunderland District General Hospital
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Rashid S. Time evolution of plasmas using the exact solution of the Boltzmann equation in the presence of an intense laser field. Phys Rev A 1990; 42:964-969. [PMID: 9904112 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.42.964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Rashid S, Lodhi F, Ahmad M, Usmanghani K. Cardiovascular effects of Bacopa monnieri (L.) pennel extract in rabbits. Pak J Pharm Sci 1990; 3:57-62. [PMID: 16414671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The effects of the crude ethanolic extract of whole plant of Bacopa monnieri have been evaluated on left ventricular contractility, heart rate and coronary flow in isolated rabbit hearth showed cardiac depressive activity in all parameters, like quinidine.
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- S Rashid
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
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Al-Nakib TM, Miller NJ, Rashid S, Meegan MJ. An evaluation of the acute in vivo toxicity of benzylidenechroman-4-ones, 1-thiobenzylidenechroman-4-ones and benzylidenetetralones. Drug Chem Toxicol 1990; 13:195-207. [PMID: 2276340 DOI: 10.3109/01480549009018120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A series of new compounds were evaluated for acute in vivo toxicity. Their synthesis and antifungal activity have previously been described by us. The naturally occurring class of compounds to which they belong - the benzylidenechroman-4-ones - have been identified as a potential source of new antifungal agents. These compounds were found to be less toxic, as judged by acute toxicity, than existing commercially available antifungals. A number of conclusions can be drawn about the relationship of structural changes in this series of compounds to increases or decreases in acute toxicity.
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- T M Al-Nakib
- Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University
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Rashid S. Exact solution of the Boltzmann equation in the presence of an intense laser field. Phys Rev A Gen Phys 1989; 39:4884-4887. [PMID: 9901846 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.39.4884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Rashid S. Intensity and spin effects in electron-ion scattering in the presence of an intense laser field. Phys Rev A Gen Phys 1989; 39:4069-4075. [PMID: 9901731 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.39.4069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Rashid S. Effect of spin on the electron-ion scattering and the heating rate of a plasma in very intense laser light. Phys Rev A Gen Phys 1988; 38:2525-2535. [PMID: 9900660 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.38.2525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Rashid S. Changes in e.C.g. And electrolytes during coronary ligation in anaesthetized cat. Pak J Pharm Sci 1988; 1:41-5. [PMID: 16414614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The ligation of the coronary artery produces cardiac, and haemodynamic disturbances. Electrolytes disturbances were also noted during the assault (Harris et. al., 1954). In present experiments local cardiac ischaemia was produced by coronary ligation and changes in E.C.G. and electrolytes were noted at various stages. Pre-mature ventricular systoles and T wave inversion with an increase in K+ and decrease in Na+ was observed.
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- S Rashid
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi-32, Pakistan
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Finnstam J, Grimby G, Nelson G, Rashid S. Evaluation of community-based rehabilitation in Punjab, Pakistan: I: Use of the WHO manual, 'Training disabled people in the community'. Int Disabil Stud 1988; 10:54-8. [PMID: 3403499 DOI: 10.3109/09638288809164100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The WHO community-based rehabilitation programme has been tested in a village and a slum area in Pakistan. House-to-house surveys by physicians identified medical diagnoses and impairments and handicaps according to the ICIDH. Volunteer local supervisors from the communities were taught to identify and train disabled persons according to the CBR manual. The effect of training was evaluated after 1-2 years by an occupational therapist, using questions from the same manual. Of the 82 persons followed up, 80% showed improvement in function. The prevalence of disablement identified by the local supervisors and of handicap identified by a physician agreed well, and was of the order of 5%.
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- J Finnstam
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gothenburg University, Sweden
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Grimby G, Finnstam J, Nelson G, Rashid S. Evaluation of community-based rehabilitation in Punjab, Pakistan: II: The prevalence of diseases, impairments, and handicaps. Int Disabil Stud 1988; 10:59-60. [PMID: 3261293 DOI: 10.3109/09638288809164102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A health survey using the impairment and handicap classifications from the ICIDH was carried out in conjunction with a study of the WHO community-based rehabilitation programme in a village and a slum area in Pakistan. The prevalence of handicaps defined in this way was about half that of impairments, the most common handicaps being with mobility, occupation, and social integration. There was a slightly higher degree of handicap in the village. In both areas diseases of the musculoskeletal system, the ear, and the respiratory tract were common, but the frequency of infectious, respiratory, endocrine, blood, and digestive diseases was higher in the slum area.
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- G Grimby
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gothenburg University, Sweden
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The case notes of 426 women who had been treated for uncomplicated gonorrhoea in 1978-83 inclusive, were studied. The findings for 1978 formed a retrospective basis for a prospective study. The aim was to appraise the value of earlier and fewer follow up tests of cure. The new routine was associated with a more assertive approach to other modalities of control. It was concluded that the interests of individual patients, as well as those aimed at control, were adequately served by one set of smear and culture specimens. There was one proviso. Potential "repeaters" need to be identified and treated individually in terms of follow up testing.
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Apaya JA, Levy C, Rashid S. Vaginal carriage of anaerobic motile curved rods: relation to contraceptive practice, common pathogens, signs and symptoms. Eur J Sex Transm Dis 1986; 3:227-30. [PMID: 12281325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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Barton SE, Munday PE, Kinghorn GR, van der Meijden WI, Stolz E, Notowicz A, Rashid S, Schuller JL, Essex-Cater AJ, Kuijpers MH. Topical treatment of recurrent genital herpes simplex virus infections with trisodium phosphonoformate (foscarnet): double blind, placebo controlled, multicentre study. Genitourin Med 1986; 62:247-50. [PMID: 2942457 PMCID: PMC1011959 DOI: 10.1136/sti.62.4.247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A double blind, placebo controlled trial was performed in nine sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinics in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to investigate the efficacy of trisodium phosphonoformate (foscarnet) cream in treating recurrent genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. The study group comprised 145 male and 85 female patients. Men received 0.3% foscarnet cream and women 1% foscarnet cream for five days. The difference in time to healing between patients receiving foscarnet or placebo was not significant. Fewer patients treated with foscarnet had positive viral cultures after treatment, but the difference was not significant. The development of new lesions, however, was significantly less common in patients given foscarnet. Though topical foscarnet is a safe drug, no appreciable efficacy in treating recurrent genital HSV infection could be shown.
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Rashid S, Collins M, Corner J, Morton RS. Survival of Candida albicans on fabric after laundering. Br J Vener Dis 1984; 60:277. [PMID: 6378318 PMCID: PMC1046331 DOI: 10.1136/sti.60.4.277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Rashid S, Ansari N. The critical assessment of the experimental techniques for cardiac performance. J PAK MED ASSOC 1983; 33:18-25. [PMID: 6221126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Rashid S. Effect of antidysrhythmic and analgesic drugs on haemodynamics and fibrillatory threshold. J PAK MED ASSOC 1981; 31:141-5. [PMID: 6792395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The antihypertensive action of the competitive alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist indoramin is not accompanied by reflex tachycardia in animals or man. The possibility that the established local anaesthetic property of indoramin is involved in its cardioinhibitory action has been investigated. Indoramin evoked a dose-dependent bradycardia in anaesthetized/pithed rats. The decrease in heart rate was slightly greater than that evoked in anaesthetized intact animals suggesting that indoramin had a direct action on the heart. Reflex tachycardia was simulated in pithed rats be increasing the frequency of cardiac nerve stimulation from 0.3 to 1 Hz. Indoramin and the local anaesthetic agents, lignocaine and procaine, reduced the positive chronotropic response without markedly altering the basal rate. The response curves were parallel. In contrast, phentolamine decreased the positive chronotropic response, but only at high doses which were associated with a marked decrease in the basal rate. Thymoxamine and prazosin had so significant effects on the chronotropic response. These experiments suggest that the cardioregulatory action of indoramin is attributable to its local anaesthetic property had this action further distinguishes it from the other alpha-adrenoceptor antagonists tested.
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The prevalence of gonococcal infection of the rectum and pharynx in 239 consecutive women with gonorrhoea presenting as named contacts was 47% and 10% respectively. In 2% of all patients the rectum and pharynx were each the sole sites of infection. Treatment failure occurred in three patients given a single dose of aqueous procaine penicillin 2.4 megaunits intramuscularly, two of whom had rectal infections; no treatment failures occurred in patients with pharyngeal infections. The incidence of rectal gonorrhoea significantly increased with the duration of infection (P less than 0.001). This suggests that autoinoculation from infected vaginal material is of major importance in the transmission of gonococcal infection to the rectum.
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Rashid S, Waterfall JF. Effect of antiarrhythmic and analgesic drugs on the effective refractory period of guinea-pig isolated atria and ventricular strips. J Pharm Pharmacol 1979; 31:411-2. [PMID: 39146 DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-7158.1979.tb13537.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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