Precision fetal cardiology detects cyanotic congenital heart disease using maternal saliva metabolome and artificial intelligence.

Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) can lead to improved morbidity and mortality. However, the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound, the sole prenatal screening tool, remains limited. Failed prenatal or early newborn detection of cyanotic CHD (CCHD) can have disastrous consequences.

Use of remote sensing, spatial and geophysical modeling, and real recharging capabilities to identify suitable areas for groundwater exploitation in dry coastal areas.

Accurate identification of groundwater potential areas in arid regions is an important task for groundwater management and sustainability. As a result, this study used the innovative integration of remote sensing (RS), geographic information system (GIS), watershed modeling system (WMS), geophysical survey, and water mass balance equation to identify potential groundwater areas in the W. Dara, Eastern Desert, Egypt.

Interleukin-8 genetic polymorphism and its relation to Helicobacter pylori infection and Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric diseases.

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection has a variety of clinical outcomes, and host genetic factors play an important role in this process. Cytokines are important factors in mediating and controlling the inflammatory process during H.

COVID-19 and diabetes in 2020: a systematic review.

Attempts were made to review the literature on diabetic patients who experience complications when they contract COVID-19, and to determine whether ethnicity and other risk factors play an important role in the development of symptoms and their severity, as well as responding to medications. A literature search was performed using five keywords, namely COVID-19, diabetes, ethnicity, medications, and risk factors between January 2019 and December 2020 using electronic databases such as PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Springer Link, and Scopus. Forty studies were included.

Anosmia in COVID-19 Patients: Can We Predict the Severity of Chest Manifestations?

 Anosmia is one of the common symptoms of COVID-19, the link between severity of chest infection and anosmia was investigated by few studies.  To find an association between anosmia and severity of chest infection.  An analysis of patients admitted to isolation hospital of our university with confirmed polymerase chain reaction positive testing for COVID-19, between March 2021 until September 2021.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus in pregnancy: The impact of maternal weight and early glycaemic control on outcomes.

Objectives: To study the pregnancy outcomes in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and to relate these to maternal risk factors.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 419 women with T2DM (index group)- who attended our diabetes in pregnancy clinic at the Hamad Women's Hospital, Doha, between March 2015 and December 2016 -and 1419 normoglycaemic women (control group).

Results: Compared with the controls, T2DM women were older (mean age 34.

Metformin-treated-GDM has lower risk of macrosomia compared to diet-treated GDM- a retrospective cohort study.

: The diagnosis of gestational diabetes (GDM) has undergone several revisions. The broad adoption of the 2013 WHO criteria for hyperglycemia in pregnancy has increased the prevalence of GDM with no apparent benefit on pregnancy outcomes. The study aims to investigate the pregnancy outcomes in women with GDM diagnosed based on the WHO criteria compared to a control group; the impact of other confounders; and the difference in outcomes between GDM women who needed pharmacotherapy (GDM-T) and those who did not (GDM-D).

Evaluation of Non Invasive versus Invasive Methods for Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori Infection among Patients with Gastroduodenal Disorders.

H. pylori, a spiral gram-negative bacterium, is associated with gastroduodenal diseases. All H.

76-year-old gentlemen with primary cardiac lymphoma presenting as acute coronary syndrome and atrioventricular block.

We report the case of an immunocompetent patient who presented with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome and was found to be in complete heart block. He re-presented within 2 months with worsening breathlessness and investigations confirmed infiltrative cardiac disease. We describe here an uncommon presentation of primary cardiac lymphoma as acute coronary syndrome and atrioventricular block.

Post-cholecystectomy cystic duct stump leak: a preventable morbidity.

Objective: While major bile duct injury is the most serious complication following laparoscopic cholecystectomy, bile leak from the cystic duct stump remains the commonest morbidity. This is a retrospective assessment of all patients who had a cholecystectomy over a 5-year period from April 2003 to March 2008.

Methods: Data related to bile leakage were obtained from the Unisoft endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) database.

Ataxia caused by amiodarone in older people.

Amiodarone is recommended for the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and prevention of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with structural heart disease, coronary artery disease or left ventricular dysfunction. It has well-recognised side-effects on the skin, lungs, liver, thyroid and eyes. Neurological side-effects, including ataxia and neuropathy, also occur, and may be more prevalent in older patients.

Photochromism of novel molybdate/alkylamine composite thin films.

Novel inorganic/organic composite films of molybdates with photochromic properties have been prepared by self-assembly using alkylammonium ions as a supramolecular template. Both 1-hexadecylammonium/polyoxomolybdate (C16-Mo) and 1-octadecylammonium/polyoxomolybdate (C18-Mo) composite films have been successfully fabricated. The elemental analysis and thermal gravimetric analysis show that the main product in the C16-Mo film was (C16H33NH3)4Mo8O26.

Autoantibodies in HCV infected patients at Sharkia Governerate, Egypt.

It is not clear whether HCV induces an autoimmune disease in infected patients or not. The aim of this study is to evaluate some immunological manifestations in chronic heapatitis C patients and to find out its relationship to liver pathology. The study included 109 positive HCV-RNA patients.

Haematologial manifestations in HCV infected patients at Sharkia Governerate, Egypt.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of morbidity worldwide. The aim of this study is to evaluate hematological manifestations occurring in patients suffering from chronic HCV infection. Positive HCV-RNA cases (109) were subjected to the following C.

Experimental demonstration of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in an Egyptian strain of Culex pipiens complex.

Reverse transcriptase (RT) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to detect hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA among heads, guts, larvae and eggs of Culex pipiens complex. The mosquitoes were trapped from homes of hepatitis C patients or among the same organs of symbiotic (normal gut bacteria) and aposymbiotic (without gut bacteria) mosquitoes fed HCV positive blood by an artificial membrane feeder. The eggs and larvae resulted from symbiotic females fed HCV positive blood was tested for HCV-RNA.