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The policy environment encouraging C-section in Lebanon

Kabakian-Khasholian T.; Kaddour A.; DeJong, Jocelyn; Shayboub R.; Nassar A. (CLARE, Sep-2007)

Objective: This study aims to analyse the environment encouraging C-section in Lebanon and to reveal approaches that could be adopted for the reduction of this practice, by considering the attitudes, opinions and actions ...
Utilization pattern of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in contemporary patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure: A single-center experience

Chamsi-Pasha, Mohammed A.R.; Dupont, Matthias; AlJaroudi, Wael A.; Tang, W. H.wlison (Churchill Livingstone Inc., 2014)

Background Recent studies have broadened the potential use of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) in patients with systolic heart failure after cardiovascular hospitalization. Real-world data on safety and tolerability ...
Spontaneous release of Epiretinal membrane in a young weight-lifting athlete by presumed central rupture and centrifugal pull

Mansour, Ahmad Mohammed Farid Mahmoud; Mansour, Hana A.; Arévalo, José Fernando (Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2014)

This patient presented for surgery at the age of 32 years, 14 months after his initial complaint of metamorphopsia and visual loss in the right eye. Past tests demonstrated a whitish epiretinal membrane (ERM) with translucent ...
Vitamin D3 dose requirement to raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D to desirable levels in adolescents: Results from a randomized controlled trial

Al-Shaar, Laila; Mneimneh, Rania; Nabulsi, Mona M.; Maalouf, Joyce; El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ghada A. (2014)

Several organizations issued recommendations on desirable serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and doses of vitamin D needed to achieve them. Trials allowing the formulation of evidence-based recommendations in ...
Accidental dural puncture, postdural puncture headache, intrathecal catheters, and epidural blood patch: Revisiting the old nemesis

Kaddoum, Roland N.; Motlani, Faisal; Kaddoum, Romeo N.; Srirajakalidindi, Arvind; Gupta, Deepak; Soskin, Vitaly (Springer-Verlag Tokyo, 2014)

One of the controversial management options for accidental dural puncture in pregnant patients is the conversion of labor epidural analgesia to continuous spinal analgesia by threading the epidural catheter intrathecally. ...
Focus on treatment of HTLV-I-associated adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma

Nasr, Rihab R.; Marçais, Ambroise; Hermine, Olivier; Bazarbachi, Ali Abdul Hamid (John Libbey Eurotext, 2014)

Adult T Leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is the first human malignancy associated with chronic infection by the HTLV-1 retrovirus. ATL occurs after a long latency period only in about 5% of 10 to 20 million infected people. ATL ...
Clinical effectiveness and comparative hospital costs of different platelet dose strategies

Assi, Tarek Bou; Haddad, Antoine; Kfoury-Baz, Elizabeth M. (SIMTI Servizi Sri, 2014)
Syringocystadenoma papilliferum developing over hyperkeratosis of the nipple in a pregnant woman

Ghazeeri, Ghina S.; Abbas, Ossama M. (Mosby Inc., 2014)
Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of the head and neck expressing thyroid transcription factor-1: A case report with clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical literature review

Jabbour, Mark N.; Fedda, Faysal A.; Tawil, Ayman N.; Shabb, Nina Salem; Boulos, Fouad I. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2014)

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare neoplasm of follicular dendritic cells, most commonly affecting the lymph nodes and extranodal soft tissues of the head and neck, but also potentially arising in any ...
Identifying predictors of blood pressure control in the Lebanese population - A national, multicentric survey - I-PREDICT

Mallat, Samir G.; Samra, Serena Abu; Younes, Fariha; Sawaya, Marie Thérèse (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)

Background: Blood Pressure (BP) is not well controlled and factors that predict BP control are not well identified in Lebanon. Improvement of hypertension management requires an understanding of patients' characteristics ...
Physical rehabilitation of pediatric burns

Atiyeh, Bishara Shafic; Janom, Hamed H. (Mediterranean Club for Burns and Fire Disasters, 2014)

Significant improvements have been made in the acute treatment of pediatric burn injuries over the past 3 decades which have significantly decreased mortality. Each year, more burned children are necessitating serious ...
KIR genotype distribution among patients with multiple myeloma: Higher prevalence of KIR 2DS4 and KIR 2DS5 genes

Hoteit, Rouba M.; Bazarbachi, Ali Abdul Hamid; Antar, Ahmad I.; Salem, Ziad M.; Shammaa, Dina M.R.; Mahfouz, Rami A.R. (Elsevier B.V., 2014)

Introduction: Natural killer (NK) cells possess an antitumor activity against multiple myeloma cells proven by the susceptibility of plasmocytes to NK lysis. In the early stage of MM, the killing of MM cells is mediated ...
Effect of natalizumab treatment on circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cells: A cross-sectional observational study in patients with multiple sclerosis

Kivisäkk, Pia; Francois, Katiana; Mbianda, Julvet; Gandhi, Roopali; Weiner, Howard L.; Khoury, Samia J. (Public Library of Science, 2014)

Objectives: Dendritic cells (DCs) serve a critical role both in promoting and inhibiting adaptive immunity. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of natalizumab (NTZ) treatment on DC numbers, phenotype, and ...
EAPB0503, a novel imidazoquinoxaline derivative, inhibits growth and induces apoptosis in chronic myeloid leukemia cells

Saliba, Jessica L.; Deleuze-Masquefa, Carine; Iskandarani, Ahmad N.; El-Eit, Rabab M.; Hmadi, Raed A.; Mahon, François Xavier; Bazarbachi, Ali Abdul Hamid; Bonnet, Pierre Antoine; Nasr, Rihab R. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2014)

Imatinib, the first-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor, revolutionized the therapeutic management of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and is highly effective in inducing remissions and prolonging the survival of CML patients. ...
Guidelines for diagnosis and management of beta-thalassemia intermedia

Karimi, Mehran A.; Cohan, Nader; de Sanctis, Vincenzo D.; Mallat, Naji S.; Taher, Ali T. (Informa Healthcare, 2014)

Beta-thalassemia intermedia (β-TI) is a genetic variant of beta-thalassemias with a clinical disorder whose severity falls between thalassemia minor and thalassemia major. Different genetic defects are involved in this ...
The growing epidemic of water pipe smoking: Health effects and future needs

Bou Fakhreddine, Hisham M.; Kanj, Amjad N.; Kanj, Nadim A. (W.B. Saunders Ltd, 2014)

Water pipe smoking (WPS), an old method of tobacco smoking, is re-gaining widespread popularity all over the world and among various populations. Smoking machine studies have shown that the water pipe (WP) mainstream smoke ...
Preoperative lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio predicts clinical outcome in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: A retrospective analysis

Temraz, Sally N.; Mukherji, Deborah M.; Farhat, Zein Al Abideen; Nasr, Rami Wajih; Charafeddine, Maya A.; Shahait, Mohammed; Wehbe, Mohammad Rachad; Abou Ghaida, Rami R.; Abu-Gheida, Ibrahim H.; Shamseddine, Ali I. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)

Background: Inflammation is a critical component of tumorigenesis, and many cancers arise from sites of infection, chronic irritation, and inflammation. Inflammatory cytokines triggered by tumors alter hematologic components, ...
Dismicrobism in inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer: Changes in response of colocytes

Tomasello, Giovanni; Tralongo, Pietro; Damiani, Provvidenza; Sinagra, E.; Di Trapani, Benedetto; Zeenny, Marie Noel; Hajj Hussein, Inaya Abdallah; Jurjus, Abdo R.; Leone, Angelo (WJG Press, 2014)

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of 10%-15% developing colorectal cancer (CRC) that is a common disease of high economic costs in developed countries. The CRC has been increasing in ...
Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis as the sole manifestation of stage IV gastric cancer: A case report

Shatila, Wassim; Rizkallah, Alain; Saad Aldin, Ehab; Tfayli, Arafat Hussein (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)

Introduction. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis is a very rare complication of malignancy and other hypercoagulable states. It describes the deposition of small sterile smooth or verrucoid vegetations on the valve ...
Role of Intravitreal Antivascular Endothelial Growth Factor Injections for Choroidal Neovascularization due to Choroidal Osteoma

Mansour, Ahmad Mohammed Farid Mahmoud; Arévalo, José Fernando; Al-Kahtani, Eman Saeed; Zegarra, Hernando; Abboud, Emad B.; Anand, Rajiv; Ahmadieh, Hamid; Sisk, Robert Andrew; Mirza, Salman A.; Tuncer, Samuray; Navea, Amparo; Mataix-Boronat, Jorge; Ascaso, Francisco Javier; Pulido, Josè Serafin; Guthoff, Rainer; Goebel, Winfried; Roh, Young-jung; Banker, Alay S.; Gentile, Ronald C.; Martinez, Isabel Alonso; Morris, Rodney J.; Pandey, Neeraj; Min, Parkjung; Mercé, Emilie; Lai, Timothy Y.Y.; Massoud, Vicky A.; Ghazi, Nicola G. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)

We treated 26 eyes of 25 young patients having a mean age of 30 years with intravitreal vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor for choroidal new vessel (CNV) formation overlying choroidal osteoma over a mean ...

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