Publications by authors named "Ayham Mahmoud"
Introduction: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multi-systemic autoimmune disease that mainly affects young females. SLE's chronicity and high level of complications yield frequent clinic visitations & hospital admissions, increasing the necessity to investigate the healthcare system and improve patient satisfaction and quality of life.
Objective: This study aimed to understand SLE patients' points of view on the healthcare system in Jordan, especially given the chronic nature of the disease.
Absence of Right Coronary Ostium with Single Coronary Artery: A Rare Anomaly.
Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J
October 2024
Coronary arteries normally originate from two separate cusps from the aorta, and various anomalies can occur. One such anomaly is the single coronary artery (SCA), where the coronary arteries originate from a single ostium due to the absence of the contralateral ostia. In a rare case we encountered while evaluating a patient with atypical chest pain, computed tomography angiography revealed that the right ostia was absent, and the right coronary artery originated from the left circumflex artery.
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- The pulmonary veins usually drain into the left atrium, with the superior veins located in front and below the right pulmonary arteries.
- An extremely rare case of pulmonary vascular anomaly was found in a patient with unusual chest pain, where the right superior pulmonary vein ran behind the right pulmonary artery and was compressed between it and the right main bronchus.
- Coronary CT angiography successfully identified the anomaly in the pulmonary vein, but the patient's coronary arteries appeared normal.