Publications by authors named "Hesham Al Qurashi"
Article Synopsis
- Hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronic infection can lead to severe liver diseases, and in the Middle East, genotype 4 is the most common strain, impacting treatment effectiveness.
- * A study involving 200 patients in Saudi Arabia found that 97.5% achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR12) after treatment with direct-acting antiviral drugs (DAAs), with no significant response differences based on age, gender, or HCV genotype.
- * However, the presence of cirrhosis and gender were identified as independent factors that could negatively influence reaching the SVR12 outcome.
This study was conducted to assess the relationship between occurrence of gastric cancer and peptic ulcer, and the presence of H. pylori cagA gene and anti-CagA IgG, and to estimate the value of these antibodies in detecting infection by cagA gene-positive H. pylori strains in Saudi patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe diffuse colonic calcification detected on CT scan of the abdomen in a young female patient who presented to our clinic with vague intermittent abdominal pain of four weeks duration. Her investigative profile was normal and her colonoscopy did not reveal any mucosal changes. Colonic calcification has been known to occur mostly as a result of ischemic phenomenon but the index case had no such features or any other predisposing factor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiliary parasitosis is one of the important causes of biliary obstruction in endemic areas, however due to migration and travel the disease is known to occur in non endemic zones as well. The spectrum of biliary fascioliasis ranges from recurrent biliary colics to acute cholangitis. The long term complications are gall stones, sclerosing cholangitis and biliary cirrhosis.
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