Prospective study to optimize the health of patients with TIAS (transient ischemic attack) and stroke admitted to the Hamad General Hospital.

Introduction: Recurrent ischemic strokes (IS) make up to one-third of all strokes. Nine out of 10 strokes are due to modifiable risk factors. Thus, it seems that standard management strategies of modifiable risk factors are yet to improve.

Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcomes of Deep Vein Thrombosis Based on Doppler Ultrasonography Examination.

We studied the frequency, clinical presentation, and outcomes of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Serial Doppler ultrasonography was performed between 2008 and 2013 for 6420 patients with suspected DVT. Diagnosis was confirmed in 662 (10.

Inflammatory markers and intimal media thickness in diabetics with negative myocardial perfusion scan.

Background: We compared the type and duration of diabetes mellitus (DM), patient demography, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), Homocysteine and other variables with IMT, to determine if these markers were correlated in diabetes (in whom technetium myocardial perfusion scan were negative) and would it be appropriate biomarkers for arthrosclerosis detection in this group of diabetics.

Methods: Forty patients with DM, without CHD history, were screened with stress sintigraphy imaging using 2 days stress/rest Technetium 99 tetrafosmin protocol, employing the standard Bruce protocol. Echocardiography study requested for each patient, two blood samples for hsCRP, were requested for each candidate three weeks apart, Lipid profiles, plasma homocysteine, and hemoglobin A1C were also requested.

Primary vesical actinomycosis: a case report and literature review.

Pelvic actinomycosis is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by the gram-positive anaerobic bacteria, Actinomyces Israelli. Vesical lesions, particularly without any obvious source of infection, are rare. We report a case of primary vesical actinomycosis which presented as a bladder mass, giving suspicion of malignancy.