Iftikhar Ahmed

Blood Culture and Widal Test as Diagnostic Tools for Enteric Fever with Antibiogram in a Tertiary Care Centre at Dhaka in Bangladesh

Sushmita Roy, Iftikhar Ahmed, Provash Chandra Saha, Bhuiyan Mohammad Mahtab Uddin, Mejbah Uddin Ahmed & Md. Abdullah Yusuf · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2021

Background: Enteric fever still exists as one of the major public health issue occurring in our country. Antimicrobials are the mainstays of treatment of typhoid fever. Due to rapidly growing antibiotic resistance, Salmonella spp. is required to be periodically tested for suscept...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i930371

Mean Levels of B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in Patients with Mitral Stenosis Caused by Rheumatic Heart Disease

Altaf Hussain, Faraz Farooq Memon, Iftikhar Ahmed, Syed Ahsan Raza, Lajpat Rai, Ashok Kumar, Atif Ahmed Khan, Javed Akbar Sial, Tariq Ashraf, Tahir Saghir & Nadeem Qamar · Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International · 2021

Objective: Mitral stenosis caused by rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most common cause of valvular lesion in adults and prevalent in developing countries like Pakistan. Higher natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels can be observed in patients with moderate to severe untreated mitr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60A34460

Association of Total Ischemic Times and In-Hospital Outcomes of Acute STEMI Patients who Underwent Primary Angioplasty at a Tertiary Cardiac Care Facility

Arshad Ali Shah, Syed Dilbahar Ali Shah, Muhammad Sami Khan, Faisal Ahmed, Iftikhar Ahmed, Fawad Farooq & Dileep Kumar · Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International · 2021

Aims: To determine the association between total ischemic time and in-hospital outcome of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients who underwent primary angioplasty. Study Design: Prospective observational study. Place & Duration of Study: Department of Cardi...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60A34554