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  1. Chronic myeloid leukaemia can have different presenting signs. Here, we present a case of nontraumatic spontaneous chest wall haematoma in an 84-year-old man under investigation for myeloproliferative disorder...

    Authors: Mohamed Dwebi and Peter Cumber
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3103385
  2. Dyslipidemia is known as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Recently, interest has been raised on the risk of new onset of diabetes mellitus with statin treatment. We report on a 41-year-ol...

    Authors: Mohammad Shoaib Hamrah, Mohammad Hassan Hamrah, Mohammad Hussain Hamrah, Toba Dahi and Mohammad Hashem Hamrah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3103382
  3. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is responsible for severe disability and represents a major cause of chronic illness. Interleukin (IL)1β is a proinflammatory cytokine. We aimed to explore the possible assoc...

    Authors: Nearmeen M. Rashad, Manar H. Soliman, Amal S. El-Shal, Dina Said and Ghada M. Samir
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102237
  4. Percutaneous liver biopsy is one of the widely accepted procedures to find any disorder, infection, and disease. Understanding the correlation between biopsy factors and adequacy rate will improvize efficacy a...

    Authors: Shahad M. Alharbi, Asma D. Zaidan, Ahmed A. Aljuffri, Ghassan A. Sukkar and Hatem Q. Almaghrabi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102222
  5. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide. Early recognition of the onset of HCC would help to select more effective therapies for patients leading to a better prog...

    Authors: Ahmed M. El-Gohary, Ahmed E. Zeid, Mohamed E. Ibrahim, Fatma I. Dewedar and Essam A. Elzoheiry
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102214
  6. of the work Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a serious complication in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. SBP is an inflammation of the peritoneum by micro-organisms such as gram-negative bacilli...

    Authors: Elsayed I. Elshayeb, Mohamed H. Badr, Eman M. Abdu Elgayed and Amira S. Nor El-dean
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102208
  7. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer in the world and the third most common cause of mortality in patients with cancer. HCC represents one of cirrhosis complications. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Magdy Galal, Mohamed Bahaa, Wesam A. Ibrahim, Ahmed I. Elshafie and Christine R. Sedrak
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102203
  8. of the study Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is considered one of the major health problems. About 170 million patients were infected with HCV worldwide. Till few years, Egypt was considered the high...

    Authors: Ahmed F. Gomaa, Mohammed O. Wahba, Raghda Abd El Lateif Hafez, Omar Mohamed Eldaly and Shahenda Gamal Badran
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102199
  9. Interactions between the heart and the liver have been described. The presence and severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) was found to be associated with increased QTc interval and subclinical ca...

    Authors: Ahmed S. Elsawaby, Rawia A. Al-Fiky, Azza E. Mohamed, Hossam El Din A. Mahmoud, Shereen A. Saleh, Haitham G. Mohammed, Iman F. Montasser and Mohammed H. Abdelbary
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102191
  10. Pretransplant administration of cyclosporine (CsA) may reduce post-transplant maintenance dose and consequently CsA inhibitor nephrotoxicity and helps in achieving the desired target C2 levels earlier. The opt...

    Authors: Sahier O. El-Khashab, Amin R. Soliman, Rabab M. Ahmed and Samar Amin
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102178
  11. Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem. Its deficiency has been reported to be associated with different autoimmune diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D l...

    Authors: Salwa S. Hosny, Maram M. M. Aboromia, Nesma A. Ibrahim and Doaa K. Abd El Halim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102164
  12. Panic from needle and the cost can discourage some diabetic patients from monitoring their blood glucose levels in a regular manner, so there is a critical need to find a new cost-effective, painless, and sens...

    Authors: Ayman Abd-Elrahman Mohamed Nsr-Allah, Saad El-Osh, Azza M. Ahmed and Sara Hazem
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102155
  13. Cardiac arrhythmia in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a well-known complication that is usually a result of electrolyte imbalance. Another frequently missed cause of arrhythmia is the QT interval prolongation, ...

    Authors: Osama A. Khalil, Ghada M. Samir and Ayman M. E. M. Sadek
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102136
  14. Thyroid dysfunction is a worldwide phenomenon in women, and the prevalence increases during pregnancy, with hypothyroidism being the most common. In most developing countries, nutritional deficiencies of nearl...

    Authors: Mysara Mohamad Mogahed, Eman El Sayed Amer and Mona Ahmed El-Awady
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102129
  15. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of kidney failure. The role of microRNAs (miRs) which are endogenous RNA oligonucleotides that regulate gene expression in DN is not yet clearly established. This...

    Authors: Gamal Saadi, Amr El Meligi, Mervat El-Ansary, Alkhateeb Alkemary and Ghada Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102122
  16. Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is associated with dyslipidemia and low grade inflammation leading to atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis shows an association with inflammatory markers, which with dyslipidemia m...

    Authors: Khaled A. El-Hefnawy and Hanaa Hosni Elsaid
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102115
  17. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between serum Sestrin2, Insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome (MetS), and diabetic nephropathy (DN) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

    Authors: Hazem M. EL-Ashmawy and Azza M. Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3102107
  18. Adiponectin and ghrelin are orexigenic hormones involved in the regulation of appetite in kidney disease patients. The aim of the study is to investigate the plasma concentration of total adiponectin and ghrel...

    Authors: Sahier O. El-Khashab and Mervat E. Behiry
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101099
  19. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most common sleep disorders and up to 80% of people with OSA remain undiagnosed and yet the present data suggest that medical graduates underreport OSA and is usuall...

    Authors: Nasser M. Marran, Ahmed A. Bahri, Khalil I. Kariri, Hasan M. Daghriri, Jubran M. Abiri, Abdulaziz M. Kariri and Jnadi M. Madkhali
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101086
  20. Screening for esophageal varices (EVs) is recommended in patients with cirrhosis. Recent studies have focused on noninvasive prediction of EVs. The aim of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of liver stiffn...

    Authors: Ossama A. Ahmed, Yasser A. Elhossary, Ramy S. A. Hamid and Mohamed O. Khalifa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101078
  21. Zinc deficiency in patients with liver cirrhosis has been frequently studied. Although spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is one of the most serious complications of liver cirrhosis, few studies addressed...

    Authors: Michel A. Hanna, Mohamed H. A. Fouad, Ahmed M. ElGhandour and Heba H. Ali
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101073
  22. Liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are consequences of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. HCC is one of the fastest rising causes of cancer-related mortality. This dismal prognosis is r...

    Authors: Mohamed-Naguib Wifi, Rania A. Zayed, Nevine Fouad, Ahmed Y. Hassan, Maha A. Hussien and Mohamed G. Sokar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101057
  23. Salivary testosterone (Sal-T) has been established as a noninvasive biomarker in the diagnosis of androgen deficiency in men. However, available data on its utility in adolescent boys with constitutional delay...

    Authors: Eman H. El-Adawy, Enas T. El-Khamisy, Ghada El-Said and Amal Seleem
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101038
  24. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the most common autoimmune thyroid disease. The actual mechanism by which the immunological factors lead to HT has remained obscure. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)...

    Authors: Ayman Abd Elrahman, Nagwa S. Said and Azza Moustafa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101031
  25. Stevia is a naturally occurring non-nutritive sweetener that has been reported as sugar substitutes for diabetic patients. We aimed to assess the impact of stevia supplementation on glycemic control in patient...

    Authors: Nearmeen M. Rashad, Mona A. E. Abdelsamad, Atef M. Amer, Mahmoud Z. Sitohy and Mayada M. Mousa
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101022
  26. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease. Cytokines play a crucial role in modulating immune responses that affect the balance between maintenance of self-tolerance and initiation o...

    Authors: Nearmeen M. Rashad, Manar H. Soliman, Mayada M. Mousa and Azza H. Abd El-Fatah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101014
  27. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio is a biomarker of inflammation. We aimed to test the hypothesis that macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) involve an inflammat...

    Authors: Walaa H. Mohammad, Ahmad B. Ahmad, Muhammad H. Al-Maghraby, Mohamed Z. Abdelrhman and Sanaa Ezzate
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 31:3101001