Evaluation of hematological parameters in dyspepsia patients infected with : A retrospective study from the Central Region of Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: To evaluate the hematological parameters in dyspepsia patients infected with () infection from Al Qassim province of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Methods: This retrospective study was carried out in Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Hospital, Al Qassim, KSA.

Early and late effects of therapeutic plasma exchange in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: A single-center experience.

Therapeutic plasma exchanges (TPE) is considered as one of the treatment modalities that is used in systemic autoimmune diseases. This study aimed to describe the early and late effect of TPE in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) presented with acute kidney injury (AKI). Retrospective study comprised patients with SLE and AAV with AKI seen between January 2000 and June 2014 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh.

Nephrotic syndrome is a rare manifestation of IGA nephropathy.

Nephrotic syndrome is a rare presentation of IgA nephropathy. The degree of proteinuria in IgA nephropathy predicts poor prognosis. We herein report a teenager with IGA nephropathy, the nephrotic syndrome and segmental glomerular scars who after developing complications from high dose corticosteroid therapy was successfully treated with tacrolimus and low dose prednisone.