From Diagnosis to Complication: A Detailed Case Analysis on the Journey of Managing Medial Tentorial Dural Arteriovenous Fistula.

Tentorial dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) are rare but highly dangerous vascular anomalies, constituting a small percentage of all intracranial DAVFs. Despite their infrequency, these lesions display aggressive characteristics, frequently leading to hemorrhage or neurological deficits due to their retrograde drainage into leptomeningeal veins, thus classifying them as Borden type III lesions. This case presents a middle-aged man who suffered cerebellar and subarachnoid hemorrhages resulting from a medial tentorial DAVF.

Role of Trans-Arterial Chemoembolization (TACE) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Objective: One of the most frequent types of primary liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Due to the high incidence of hepatitis B infection, HCC accounts for about 5% of all cancers. HCC is indeed one of the largest leading causes of cancer deaths in the world and the third biggest cause of cancer-related death.

Association between phosphate disturbances and mortality among critically ill patients with sepsis or septic shock.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the association of hypophosphatemia and hyperphosphatemia on the first day of ICU admission with mortality in septic critically ill patients.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, all adult patients who were admitted to the medical-surgical ICUs between 2014 and 2017 with sepsis or septic shock were categorized as having hypophosphatemia, normophosphatemia and hyperphosphatemia based on day 1 serum phosphate values. We compared the clinical characteristics and outcomes between the three groups.

Lipids and related parameters in Saudi type II diabetes mellitus patients.

Background: Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (type II DM) is frequently associated with abnormal levels of lipids, particularly in patients with poor diabetic control. This study was designed to investigate the influence of type II DM on levels of plasma lipids and other related parameters in Saudi patients. Saudi Arabia has a high prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the adult population.