The Management and Outcome of Stroke Patients Admitted on Weekdays Compared to Weekends at the King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Background And Purpose: Stroke is an unexpected medical emergency that can result in significant disability. The weekend effect suggests that individuals with acute medical problems are not treated the same way on weekends as they are on weekdays. There is no previous published study about weekend effect on stroke patients from Saudi Arabia.

Nonimmunologic Factors Affecting Long-Term Outcomes of Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplant.

Objectives: We investigated the impact of nonimmuno-logic factors on patient and graft survival after deceased-donor kidney transplant.

Materials And Methods: All deceased-donor kidney transplants performed between January 2004 and December 2015 were included in our analyses. We used the independent t test to calculate significant differences between means above and below medians of various parameters.