Adjuvant Inhaled Corticosteroids in Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Review Article.

Community-acquired pneumonia is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Since the inflammatory response induced by the immune system is often a major contributor to the lung injury, it becomes reasonable to assess the potential benefit of anti-inflammatory agents in treating community-acquired pneumonia. The role of corticosteroids as adjunct anti-inflammatory agents in treating community-acquired pneumonia is still controversial.

Rare presentation of subglottic soft-tissue swelling following FOLFOX therapy in a patient with metastatic oesophageal cancer.

Oesophageal cancer is categorised among the most fatal cancers across the world with a mortality ranking of sixth position. Chemotherapy with FOLFOX-a regimen of fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin-has been approved in the treatment of oesophageal cancer owing to its lower toxicity compared with the previous regimens. We report the first case of a patient with oesophageal cancer metastatic to the hyoid presenting with sudden-onset shortness of breath and anterior neck swelling secondary to treatment with FOLFOX-6.

Occult lymph node metastasis in radiologic stage I non-small cell lung cancer: The role of endobronchial ultrasound.

Rationale: The use of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is currently recommended for staging non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in centrally located tumors, tumors >3 cm, or with radiologic evidence of lymph node (LN) metastasis. Current guidelines do not recommend staging EBUS-TBNA in patients with stage I NSCLC who do not have any of the aforementioned conditions.

Objective: We hypothesize that using EBUS-TBNA is useful for detecting occult metastasis in radiologic stage I NSCLC.

Vascular access types in hemodialysis patients in palestine and factors affecting their distribution: A cross-sectional study.

The incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients is increasing considerably worldwide, and most of the patients start their therapy by hemodialysis (HD). Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the best type of vascular access due to its decreased rate of complications followed by arteriovenous graft (AVG) and finally, central venous catheters which are associated with increased mortality and morbidity. In this study, we aim to find out the proportion of each vascular access type used in HD patients and to evaluate the epidemiology of HD access in Palestine.