Publications by authors named "Faisal Ghazi Almalki"
Background: Early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) remains an important disease entity due to very serious adverse outcomes if left untreated. Lack of diagnostic tools in identifying healthy from diseased neonates, and clinicians' fear of the missing positive-culture sepsis babies, or babies with clinical sepsis have led to overtreating and unnecessary antibiotic exposure. Kaiser Permanente EONS risk calculator is an internally validated tool that can predict EONS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) among Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Patients in Comparison to Non-IBD Patients in King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah.
Ghassan Abdulrahman Sukkar Syed Sameer Aga Abdulrahman Hamid Alsamadani Faisal Ghazi Almalki Ali Saleh Alsudais
Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis
October 2023
Article Synopsis
- Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasingly common among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and is linked to worse outcomes in these patients.
- A study conducted at King Abdulaziz Medical City analyzed data from 89 CDI patients, focusing on demographics and various health correlations over a four-year period.
- Results showed that most CDI patients were adults, primarily males, with a high prevalence among immunocompromised individuals, especially those with cancer; the main diagnostic method used was PCR.