Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Myocardial SPECT is one of the techniques that provide high diagnostic accuracy for the assessment of coronary artery disease. However, in general, the presence of Compton scattered photons in the resulting image data will reduce the diagnostic accuracy.

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Basic Medical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are the most common type of sarcoma in the gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis of GIST is basically established through histopathological examination of the tumour tissues and by performing relevant immunohisto

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Orthopaedics,Traumatology & Rehabilitation -- IIUM Summary: This prospective and double blinded study to compare effectiveness between Bupivacaine and Chirocaine for intra-articular local analgesia. Bupivacaine involve 28 patients and Chirocaine involve 32 patients who underwent knee arth

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Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Pharmacy -- IIUM Summary: The use of medicinal plants to combat various diseases has grown intensively due to the side effects from commercial synthetic drugs. Clinacanthus nutans (Burm.f.) Lindau is a traditional medicinal plant native to Malaysia, yet to be explored for its antidiabetic effe

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Pharmacy -- IIUM Summary: Momordica charantia Linn (Cucurbitaceae) has been widely commercialized based on traditional usage as an antidiabetic product. However, the scientific evidence of its antidiabetic activity is not sufficient. Hence, the major aims of this research were to evaluate the

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Pharmacy -- IIUM Summary: Hyperlipidemia is a major contributor to the evolution of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study aimed to describe the lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) prescribing pattern among patients with T2DM, evaluate the appropr

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Science -- IIUM Summary: Horseshoe crab (HSC) has been exploited by several industries such as agriculture (fertilizer) and as livestock feed, yet, the bigger threats come from fisheries, biomedical industries and habitat destruction. Hence, this present study aimed at investigating various bi

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Scattered gamma photons are the result of Compton scattering interaction of radiation within the matter. They have low energy as compared to unscattered photons and their contribution is adverse in terms of degradation of spatial resolution and image qua