Qatar Medical Journal - Volume 2010, Issue 1

Prof. Dr. Hulusi Behcet is a famous Turkish physician. He was the one who discovered the Behcet's Disease and he studied many topics on dermatology. Dr. Behcet was born on 20 February 1889 in Istanbul. He graduated from Gulhane Military Medical Academy and completed his specialization in 1914. Between 1918 and 1919, he went to Budapest and to Berlin's Charity Hospital to improve his medical knowledge. He was appointed as the he Read More

Papers considered for publication in Qatar Medical Journal are those reporting original work, review articles and case reports that are particularly relevant to medicine in the broad sense. Editorials and Review articles are by invitation.

Post-operative radiotherapy to the breast is a standard treatment for the management of breast cancer. Treatment-related skin toxicity will occur in many patients and usually develops two to three weeks into treatment and may persist for up to four weeks post therapy. Management of acute toxicity remains a challenge for oncology professionals because there is very limited evidence-based research that addresses interventions for the pr Read More

To assess the plasma concentration-time profile of sildenafil alone and after a single dose (400 mg) of cimetidine, with other pharmacokinetic parameters, a study was conducted at the Department of Pharmaco- logy, College of Medicine and Department of Che-mistry, College of Science, University of Mosul, from May 2008-June 2008. Twelve healthy volunteers were each given a sildenafil tablet 50 mg and blood samples were Read More

To analyze the factors influencing outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) rehabilitation in Qatar medical records, we reviewed 50 patients with TBI who were seen between January 2004 and Sep 2007 in the Rehabilitation Unit of Rumailah Hospital (RH), Hamad Medical Corporation. Demographic and clinical variables included age at admission, length of stay in acute care (LOSa), length of stay in rehabilitation (LOSr), Rancho Level (RLA), Gl Read More

Job satisfaction of Primary Health Caregivers is critical for the improvement of health systems. A cross-sectional study was conducted by means of a questionnaire to evaluate the job satisfaction and stress in 323 Primary Health Caregivers in Qatar, of whom 176 (54%) Physicians/General Practitioners responded. Similar numbers of males (85; 48%) and females (91; 52%) replied; most were non-Qatari, aged 30–45 years, married with childr Read More

Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) causes significant mortality and morbidity in babies born before 32 weeks gestation. To determine the effectiveness of antenatal steroid treatment (ANS) in reducing neonatal morbidity from respiratory distress syndrome, and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intra-ventricular haemorrhage (IVH), and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in very low birth weight infants, a retrospective case contro Read More

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are important public health problem resulting in short-term or permanent disability and death. To determine the extent and outcome of severe TBI amongst children in Qatar medical records were reviewed retrospectively of all cases of severe TBI in children aged 14 years or less who attended the Children Rehabilitation Unit, Hamad General Hospital, Qatar, between January 2002 to December 2008. The severity of Read More

To describe the characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with CFTR 11234V in a large kindred family in Qatar, medical and laboratory records were reviewed of 46 patients of CF with CFTR 11234V from 25 families arising from a single large Arab kindred tribe who attended the CF clinic between May 2002 and June 2008. Thirty eight CF patients, who were negative for P. aeruginosa at first lower Read More

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (1 DM) resulting from immunological damage to pancreatic islets (cells is the most common immune-mediated, endocrine metabolic disorder in children with evidence suggesting that type 1 DM is a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease. About 5% of people with a major polyendocrine autoimmune syndrome develop type 1 DM. Autoimmune thyroid disease is the most frequent autoimmune disease with type 1 Read More

A 15-year-old pale and wasted prepubertal Yemeni girl presented with carpo-pedal spasms of the limbs and drowsiness after severe bilateral thigh pain and weakness for a few days. She denied any trauma or taking medications but complained of recurrent abdominal pains and distension with occasional diarrhea. Her height = 119 cm and weight = 19.5 kg, BMI = 13.7. Her quadriceps were contracted bilaterally and there was exquisite pain on Read More

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical case met in an emergency department. Immediate surgery results in the confirmation of diagnosis and control of sepsis. To determine whether the delay in operating upon patients with acute appendicitis will affect the outcome or the stage of the disease, and if the clinical parameters give an indication of the severity of the disease medical records were reviewed retrospectively of 373 appende Read More

Definitive airway control of penetrating laryngotracheal injury can be an extremely difficult challenge for the emergency physician. We report three serious cases of penetrating neck trauma with laryngeal injury that were managed successfully using different techniques of airway control in the Emergency Department (ED) of Hamad General Hospital during the three years from January 2006 through December 2008. Individualized a Read More

Mucous cysts formation following a rhinoplasty is a rare complication and typically presents late. Only one case has been reported in our department. The cysts seem to arise from mucosal remnants left in the subcutaneous layer and must be distinguished from other complications causing post-operative swelling of the nose, such as foreign body, paraffinoma (rare nowadays) and bony or cartilaginous fragments. We describe a case Read More

Myelopathy is an infrequently reported complication of bacterial meningitis. We report the case of 32- year old Nepali male who developed acute transverse myelopathy, confirmed by MRI, subsequent to acute bacterial meningitis.

Fat embolism occurs in all patients with long bone fractures and intra-medullary reaming of long bone but is usually asymptomatic. A few patients will have pulmonary, cerebral and dermal dysfunction; this triad is called fat embolism syndrome (FES). We report a case of FES developed after intramedullary nailing of both femurs that was successfully managed in our surgical intensive care unit (SICU).

Bismuth Iodoform Paraffin Paste (BIPP) impregnated ribbon gauze is one of the most commonly used packs after external and middle ear surgery. Allergic reaction to BIPP is rare. We report two cases of hypersensitive BIPP reaction following tympanoplasty surgery. To our knowledge no such cases have been reported previously in Qatar. We reviewed the literature and discuss the management and its prevention.