Irfan Ul Shamas's scientific contributions

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Aim: To compare the precision,efficacy and complication of nasal endoscopic assisted management of epistaxis with headlight assisted nasal packing.Materials and Methods: Two groups of twenty patients each were placed randomly in Group A and Group B. Patients in Group A were managed with headlight assisted nasal packing and Group B patients were man...
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Introduction: Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) also known as extra esophageal reflux disease refers to retrograde flow of gastric contents to the upper aero-digestive tract. Belafsky, Postma, and Koufman have developed the reflux finding score (RFS) to diagnose LPR. My aim was to test the score in patients with LPR to reveal the validity and effectiv...
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Introduction: The role of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of intra tympanic administration of Gentamicin(40 mgs/ml) and Dexamethasone 0.5 ml(4 mgs/ml) on hearing and tinnitus of patients who had recurrent acute attacks of vertigo, tinnitus and hearing loss. Study design: 60 consecutive patients of Meniere's disease were randomly div...
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Introduction Snoring is “to breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate”. Naturally occurring or drug-induced sleep is a requirement for its appearance. Snoring is the audible sign of increased upper airway resistance. It is known to be an important clinical hallmark of OSA (Nakano et al., 2003) and, as s...
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Introduction: The use of cartilage as a grafting material has been advocated in cases where there is a high risk of graft failure, such as subtotal perforations, adhesive processes, and residual defects after primary tympanoplasties. The purpose of this study was to compare the graft acceptance rates and auditory outcomes of cartilage tympanoplasty...
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Objectives: To outline the spectrum of vertigo, to elaborate the significance of vascular causes of vertigo, to advocate use of MRI / MRA of carotid artery and vetebrobasilar arterial system in patients with isolated or syndromic vertigo especially when one or more risk factors for a cerebrovascular accident are present. Study design: Prospective s...

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... Endoscopic silver nitrate cauterization (EC) had a very high success rate (93.5%) among our patients which is in agreement with findings by Shamas [26] in India where 90% success rate of endoscopic cauterization was recorded. This is also similar to findings by Ha et al. [11] where they reported 100% success rate of endoscopic assisted cauterization for the treatment of epistaxis. ...
... • No se encontró evidencia evaluando efectos adversos y calidad de vida. [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], que incluyeron 80 estudios primarios [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [80], [81], [82], [83], [84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [93], [94], [95], de los cuales tres corresponden a ensayos aleatorizados [23], [73], [87]. ...
... In terms of age distribution of the patients, our study seems to be in correspond with other studies conducted by Shweta Gupta et al. 2 , L K Yadav et al. 4 The female preponderance in our study is also in accordance with other studies conducted by Irfan Ul Shamas et al, 5 Nael M Shoman. 6 Richa Gupta et al. 7 conducted a study on clinical and epidemiological profile of chronic suppurative otitis media at a tertiary care center and found that most of the patients were from rural background (65.04%) which is also consistent with our study. ...