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Present	Professor & Head, Section of Neurology, Aga Khan University ‐ Section of Neurology, Department of Medicine
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Neurology

Biopsy proven case of Creutzfeldt- Jacob disease from Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS) (2018)

Rizwana Shahid and Saad Shafqat

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare type of prion disease leading to a rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) and other associated ...

Building bridges through science

Thomas Lissek, Michelle Adams, John Adelman, Ehud Ahissar, et al.

Science is ideally suited to connect people from different cultures and thereby foster mutual understanding. To promote international life science ...

Pattern of neurological diseases in adult outpatient neurology clinics in ...

BMC research notes. (2017)

Safia Awan, Saad Shafqat, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Aziz Sonawalla, et al.

Objectives: The burden of neurological diseases in developing countries is rising although little is known about the epidemiology and clinical ...

A unique MRI presentation of fungal infection in the brain

Journal of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan (2014)

Muhammad B S Khan, Saad Shafqat and Syed A Enam

ABSTRACT Fungal infections of CNS are common in certain geographic locations. MRI with or without contrast is a useful prediagnostic ...

Clinical predictors of EMG-confirmed cervical and lumbosacral radiculopathy

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences (2013)

Ali Hassan, Bilal Hameed, Islam M, Bhojo Asumal Khealan, et al.

BACKGROUND: Electromyography (EMG) for suspected cervical or lumbosacral root compression is often negative, producing expense and physical discomfort that could ...

Mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes of acute bacterial meningitis in children ...

The Journal of Pediatrics (2013)

Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Mohiuddin, Adam L. Cohen, Ahmed Khalid, et al.

Objective: Significant neurodevelopmental sequelae are known to occur after acute bacterial meningitis (ABM). This study determined the burden of such ...

Viewpoint: my journey from the US back to Pakistan: what ...

Neurology Today (2011)

Ethambutol-induced optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis: Is there an association?

Medical Hypotheses (2010)

Syed Faraz Kazim and Saad Shafqat

Although the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) after idiopathic optic neuritis (ON) is well known, MS following ethambutol-induced ON is ...

Risk of Multiple Sclerosis after Idiopathic Optic Neuritis in a ...

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences (2010)

Syed Faraz Kazim, Muhammad Islam, Mustafa Khan, Bilal Hameed, et al.

Background and objective: Optic neuritis (ON) is associated with a 38% ten-year risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in Western ...

Medical mortality in Pakistan: experience at a tertiary care hospital

Postgraduate Medical Journal (2009)

M. Tariq, W. Jafri, T. Ansari, S. Awan, et al.

Aim: To acquire systematic data on the causes of hospital mortality in Pakistan, a developing country with scant mortality records. ...

PO10.19 clinical spectrum of pseudo seizures at a tertiary ...

Clinical Neurophysiology (2009)

Nadeem Ahmed Memon, Bhojo A. Khealani, Fazal Karim, Mustafa Khan, et al.

Background: Nonepileptic seizures are involuntary episodes of movement, sensation, or behaviors (e.g., vocalization, crying and other expressions of emotion), that ...

PO5.53 critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy: experience at a ...

Clinical Neurophysiology (2009)

Ghulam Shabbir, Ali Mehmood Raufi, Mustafa Khan, Nawal Salahuddin, et al.

Background: Polyneuropathy and Myopathy are frequently encountere in the setting of Critical illness patients. Up to 50% of intensive care ...

Alzheimer disease therapeutics: perspectives from the developing world.

Journal of Alzheimer'S Disease : JAD (2008)

Although a majority of dementia Patients live in middle-income and low-income countries, dementia represents an under-recognized public health burden in ...

Hypotension at presentation is an indicator of poor prognosis in ...

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association (2008)

Mohammad Wasay, Bhojo A Khealani, Saad Shafqat, Ayesha Kamal, et al.

OBJECTIVE: To identify frequency of hypotension in a large cohort of patients with intracerebral haemorrhage and its prognostic significance. METHODS: ...

End of life in the intensive care unit: knowledge and ...

Internal Medicine Journal (2008)

N. Salahuddin, Saad Shafqat, S. Mapara, S. Khan, et al.

Background:With improvements in the care of critically ill, physicians are faced with obligations to provide quality end-of-life care. Barriers to ...

Factors associated with helmet use among motorcycle users in Karachi ...

Academic Emergency Medicine (2008)

Imran Khan, Abdullah Khan, Fatima Aziz, Muhammad Islam, et al.

Objectives: Wearing a helmet is the single most effective measure for preventing head injuries in motorcycle users. The authors undertook ...

End of life in the intensive care unit: knowledge and ...

Internal Medicine Journal (2008)

Nawal Salahudin, Saad Shafqat, S Mapara, S Khan, et al.

Background:With improvements in the care of critically ill, physicians are faced with obligations to provide quality end-of-life care. Barriers to ...

Pakistani physicians and the repatriation equation

New England Journal of Medicine (2007)

Saad Shafqat and Anita K. M. Zaidi

In Pakistan, students who are accepted into medical school are congratulated — only half-jokingly — on three counts: that they ...

Drug compliance after stroke and myocardial infarction: a comparative study

Neurology India (2007)

Hiba Arif, Bilal Aijaz, Muhammad Islam, Unber Aftab, et al.

Background: Stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) are both life-threatening diseases of vascular origin with a tendency to recur. In both ...

Heparin in the treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis.

JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association (2006)

Saad Shafqat, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal and Mohammad Wasay

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a potentially life-threatening condition requiring rapid diagnosis and urgent treatment. Heparin anticoagulation is the time-honoured ...

Preparing for the next natural disaster – need for a WHO ...

Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2006)

Mohammad Wasay and Saad Shafqat

Stroke-associated pneumonia: microbiological data and outcome

Singapore Medical Journal (2006)

Hassan A, Bhojo A. Khealani, Saad Shafqat, M. Aslam, et al.

INTRODUCTION: Pneumonia is a common complication after acute stroke. It affects the outcome adversely. However, data regarding microbiology of stroke-associated ...

Guillain–barré syndrome in Pakistan: similarity of demyelinating and axonal ...

European Journal of Neurology (2006)

Saad Shafqat, B A Khaelani, F Awan and S.E Abedin

Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) comprises multiple subtypes whose nosological and pathophysiologic interrelationships are unclear. In an attempt to better understand the ...

Association of phosphodiesterase 4D gene with ischemic stroke in a ...

Danish Saleheen, Shabbar Bukhari, Shajjia Razi Haider, Aisha Nazir, et al.

Background and Objectives— Identification of STRK1 locus by the deCODE group followed by the discovery of phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) gene ...

The long shadow of cerebral localization

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2005)

In 1995, during my first week as a neurology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, I had the privilege of meeting ...