Publications by authors named "Elhag B"
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- The study focuses on emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) as the standard treatment for conditions like acute cholecystitis and biliary pancreatitis, aiming to identify factors that predict treatment outcomes.
- It analyzed 466 patients over 17 months, determining that around 10% experienced "suboptimal treatment," significantly linked to age and low albumin levels.
- Findings revealed that postoperative complications were associated with age, admission day, and male sex, while longer hospital stays were related to age, low albumin, and delays in surgery, which can help guide patient care decisions.
The objectives of this study are to assess pediatric radiation exposure in certain barium studies and to quantify the organ and effective doses and radiation risk resultant from patients' irradiation. A total of 69 pediatric barium studies for upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Patients' radiation dose was quantified in terms of Entrance surface air kerma (ESAKs) using exposure parameters and DosCal software.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn audit of caesarean section among Saudi females in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Egypt Public Health Assoc
July 1995
In this study the case records of 1414 patients who delivered at Alshaty hospital within one year were examined and some important variables related to caesarean section cases and their outcome were discussed. The caesarean section rate was found to be 9.9%.
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