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The original article was published in The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2024 36:84
Major surgeries are being carried for certain ailments. Surgeries can be major or minor depending on the extent of intervention. Major surgeries are prone to cause lots of complications such as shock, haemorrh...
Vaccines are uncommon causes of pancreatitis, and only a few case reports have described COVID-19 vaccine-related pancreatitis.
Appropriate nutritional support in critical care may favorably influence outcomes by attenuating the detrimental effects of hyperglycemia associated with the critical illness. This systematic review aims to pr...
Hemophilia patients are prone to spontaneous or post-traumatic bleeding, particularly in joints and various other body sites. The high incidence of joint hemorrhages in hemophilia patients underscores the impo...
Data on the prevalence of colonic polyps and adenomas in the Egyptian population are scarce. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of colonic polyps among Egyptian patients aged 50 years and older who u...
Platelet indices are widely available and relatively cheap platelet parameters. The critical objective of this study is to assess the reliability of platelet indices as biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis i...
Kidneys have been one of the different organs affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) since its discovery, Acute kidney injury was the most common presentation. A pooled data from...
While insulin resistance and diabetes shine as the central stars in the constellation of obesity-related conditions, other common endocrine diseases are also closely associated with obesity and high body mass ...
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) poses a significant burden globally and in India. However, access to treatment remains limited due to resource and cost constraints. This study aimed to evaluate the health-relat...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is frequently seen in critically ill patients and is associated with high mortality and morbidity. However, the optimal dialysis modality in such patients remains controversial. We ex...
Reports on cases of strongyloidiasis and tuberculosis or aspergillosis coinfection are fragmented in the literature and no large-scale reviews are describing its occurrence across the globe. We identified a to...
Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) has emerged as the predominant form of chronic liver disease globally linked with heightened cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, the leading cause of mortality a...
In recent years, many disease outbreaks and pandemics have been reported and have posed serious public health challenges. Therefore, vaccination on a large scale is the only hope to prevent and control these v...
Insufficient vitamin D (VD) levels have been linked to a higher vulnerability to acute respiratory infections and the severity of COVID-19 sickness.
The Correction to this article has been published in The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2024 36:98
Data on sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors impact on lipids in patients with diabetes are available and only a handful of studies have explored this effect in individuals with both diabetes and renal i...
Esophagitis dissecans superficialis (EDS) is a rare desquamative esophageal condition with a wide range of presentations, from asymptomatic cases to those with severe, life-threatening symptoms. EDS has a stro...
A 37-year-old male patient with a past history of fluctuating hypertension and insulin-treated diabetes mellitus presented to our clinic with a 1-year history of sudden-onset cough, dyspnea, and frank hemoptys...
Subcutaneous nodular lesions in a patient with significantly elevated inflammatory markers always raise the possibility of infectious diagnoses such as atypical infection, pyogenic abscess, mycobacterial infec...
The Hemoglobin, Albumin, Lymphocyte, Platelet Score (HALP) is a novel predictive biomarker that has surfaced in the literature in recent years. It has been applied to the prediction of many clinical outcomes r...
Asthma poses a significant health burden in Africa despite being often underdiagnosed and undertreated. With rising incidence rates and large variations in healthcare infrastructure, its management remains thr...
Hemogram indices are simple, economic indicators of the systemic inflammation characteristic of autoimmune diseases including vasculitides. The clinical utility of hemogram indices in hepatitis C virus-related...
Some important hematological indices implement acute phase reactions. They can be used to assess disease activity and therapeutic response in many inflammatory conditions. This work aimed to determine whether ...
Renal diseases pose significant challenges to global health. With conditions like chronic kidney disease (CKD) on the rise, there is an urgent need for deeper insights into their underlying mechanisms and risk...
The gut microbiota (GM) and their metabolites have garnered significant attention for their roles in metabolic syndrome (MetS) and associated conditions. MetS, characterized by a cluster of metabolic abnormali...
The hallmark of COPD is the progressive destruction of the lung parenchyma, which is frequently brought on by the body's inflammatory reaction to external stimuli (such as smoking cigarettes or pollution). Acc...
Since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis, the supplement market has consistently grown. Therefore, we conducted this survey during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic to study the fre...
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) poses a substantial risk of cardiovascular diseases. The recent approval of evinacumab signifies a breakthrough in FH management. This review synthesizes evidence from divers...
Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment modality for patients with end-stage kidney disease. We aimed to identify predictors for post-transplantation complications.
The original article was published in The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2024 36:41
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition, including both fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) and fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB), has been frequently performed to acquire samples from both pancreatic and non-...
Hypokalemia is a common issue in clinical settings, often indicating underlying systemic conditions that require careful evaluation. This study presents three cases where hypokalemic paralysis served as the in...
Insulin autoimmune antibody syndrome is an uncommon cause of hypoglycemia in non-diabetic individuals. We report a case of alpha-lipoic acid-induced insulin autoimmune antibody syndrome.
The COVID-19 outbreak has increased awareness of vitamin D's (Vit-D) potential advantages for both prevention and treatment. Adequate vitamin D levels are necessary for health of the immune system, which can h...
Nanoplastics (NPs) have emerged as significant environmental pollutants, raising concerns due to their ubiquitous presence and potential adverse effects on human health. The migration and fate of NPs in the en...
The progression of liver fibrosis to cirrhosis is a dynamic process necessitating non-invasive evaluation modalities. This study aims to evaluate the ability of Doppler ultrasound studies (DUS) in defining mor...
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder with a high incidence of chronicity among adults. Rituximab is recommended as a treatment option for chronic ITP with the best long-term effect ...
Cardiovascular (CVS) conditions remain the main etiology of death in individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) even after control of classic risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Graves’ disease is the commonest cause of hyperthyroidism in iodine replete areas. Following universal salt iodization, most Egyptians are considered iodine sufficient. The present study aims to report a surve...
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare, life-threatening neurologic emergency characterized by fever, rigidity, autonomic instability, mental status changes, and an elevated creatine kinase level. It often o...
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a prevalent disorder that can be led on by almost all drug types. The majority of benign DILI cases become better after drug discontinuation. To stop the development of acut...
Isolated optic nerve involvement is rare in sarcoidosis. We report three cases describing atypical clinical and radiological features of isolated optic nerve involvement in sarcoidosis to expand the spectrum o...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major health crisis, responsible for a very high morbidity in the world. This context represented an organizational challenge and required an adaptation of health services. T...
Obesity and diabetes are interrelated growing problems worldwide. Life style modifications including nutritional intervention are considered the first line in management of diabetes.
The importance of uric acid has been increasingly appreciated because of its association with the development of diabetes mellitus and related diseases, and with the increasing incidence of diabetes, studying ...
Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) is a beneficial tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. IUS has long been established in monitoring of Crohn’s disease patients. Recent stud...
Despite the availability of vaccines, COVID-19 remains of global concern with seasonal peak in cases across the globe and considering its link to brain pathologies such as stroke. Our aim was to characterize t...
Heavy menstrual bleeding is an important health problem in women of reproductive age and is also one of the most common symptoms in women with bleeding disorders. Data about the frequency of rare bleeding diso...
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