Qatar Medical Journal - Volume 2006, Issue 2

Abd A1 Rahman Ibn Mohammad known as Ibn Khaldun, was born in 1332 AD to Yemenite Arab parents who had migrated to Tunisia from muslim Spain to escape the inspection courts that were set following the fall of Seville. In Tunisia he received his early education and while still in his teens he entered the service of the Egyptian ruler, Sultan Barquq. This he soon left for Fez in Morocco in the hope of finding a more learned environment.

A apers considered for publication in Qatar Medical Journal are those reporting original work, review articles and case reports that are partic

Metabolic syndrome, the association of obesity, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia in conjunction with impaired glucose tolerance or frank diabetes, is a rising global pattern and has been subjected to a useful consensus re-definition in recent months. Its origins are fixed in changing dietary and activity patterns across the developed world but also increasingly affecting all developing economies. The obvious sequelae of this spiraling pattern a Read More

Diagnosis of BE is hinged on the presence of intestinal metaplasia (IM) and inflammation in the lower esophagus. However IM can occur in the cardia and lower esophagus following reflux and helicobacter infection. The special stain for demonstrating intestinal metaplasia cannot distinguish IM in BE and that in cardia or lower esophagus due to other causes(1). Quite often biopsies labeled lower esophagus by the endoscopist may in fact b Read More

A retrospective review of obstetric urinary tract injury in Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) from January 1994 to December 2004 identified 16 cases from 21,337 Caesarean Sections. Diagnosis of bladder injury was immediate but of uretric injury was often delayed. Although the injury rates are lower than previously reported in the literature, 0.0016%-0.94% and 0.029%-0.09% for bladder and uretric injuries respectively compared to 0.07 a Read More

To determine the prevalence of antibodies to HTLV-1 & II among the donor population in Qatar and to evaluate the relevance of continuing routine pretransfusion screening of all donations for HTLV-I& II we surveyed all the results of the screening tests performed on 124,266 donations collected in the period August 1991 to the end of January 2004. All donations were screened by ELISA based assays and all donors who tested positive we Read More

Of 95 randomly selected patients using a percutaneous gastrostomy tube (PEG), 20 required tube replacement at least six months after the initial placement In order to study the possible histopathological changes that might develop in the gastric mucosa with the prolonged use of PEG, gastric biopsies were taken during the replacement procedure. The overall procedure-related minor complication rate was 16.84%; the predominant Read More

In this retrospective study we sought to determine the outcome of pregnancies associated with intrauterine contraceptive devices. Medical records of2000 women, who used IUCD, were reviewed in detail. All IUCDs were inserted either post menstrual, post delivery or post miscarriage. 1196 (60%) IUCDs were inserted by doctors and the remaining 804 (40%) by midwives. The cohort was divided to four groups on the basis of their age. T Read More

Objective: This is the first study to evaluate the time of reactivation of tuberculosis (TB) in the expatriates after the application of a screening program in 1984. Method: Follow up analysis of expatriates who arrived in the State of Qatar in 1993. The number of expatriates, as well as the date of possible death and deportation was identified from the medical commission registry and the State of Qatar Central Statistical Organization. The rate o Read More

To define the demographic, clinical and laboratory features, and outcome of patients with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in Qatar and to compare it with those reported by others, fourteen cases of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease seen at Hamad Medical Corporation between 1995 and 2004 were reviewed retrospectively. Unusually there was an unexplained male predominance amongst the ten males and four females even amongst the Qatari n Read More

Introduction: Previous studies from other countries that have investigated the level of knowledge of bronchial asthma and competence of primary care physicians in management issues concluded that there is a substantial variation among general practitioners in both their knowledge and management practices. There is no such study conducted in Qatar; therefore, we have conducted assessment for PHC physicians for further educational in Read More

Imported malaria is increasing in nonendemic countries, including the State of Qatar, mainly as a result of the influx of immigrant workers. A retrospective chart review of 153 malaria cases identified at Hamad General Hospital during 2000-2602 is used to emphasise the scale of the problem especially the need to create greater public awareness that travellers to malarious areas must take suitable precautions including appropriat Read More

Acute pharyngitis is one commonest reasons for patients to visit the family physician, 80-90% of cases are caused by viruses particularly adenovirus. The most important bacterial cause is group A streptococcus, which is responsible for about 15% of all cases. Because of the time required to confirm the presence of group A streptococci using throat cultures many commercial antigen detection tests for the rapid identification of group A str Read More

Closed degloving injury is a severe traumatic separation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue from the underlying fascia first described by Mor el-lav alle in the mid∼19th century. He observed the phenomenon in the lower limb of a woman after tangential trauma with separation of the fatty layers. Sporadic cases have been reported in the literature since. We report a case referred for plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons

The number of pregnancies following organ transplantation is increasing due to better patient and graft survival We describe the pregnancy course, complications and outcome in patient with liver transplant and spleenovenal shunt for the first time in the history of the Women's Hospital in Doha, Qatar. Following successful liver transplantation, menstrual cycle returns to normal in a few months and pregnancy may be ensued{ l). We re Read More

Mature or peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCL) are uncommon in most parts of the world and account for only 10-15% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs). They usually occur in middle-aged to elderly patients, 68% presenting with features characterized by a disseminated disease, with systemic symptoms in nearly half of them (45%), bone marrow (BM) involvement in a quarter (25.8%), and extranodal disease in a third (37%). We rep Read More

A Bangladeshi male patient with a culture positive Brucellosis had severe pancytopenia andfever. Patient was found to have Hemophagocytosis. He had uneventful recovery after treatment of Brucellosis. Discussion of the case and its treatment is presented