Publications by authors named "Hikmat Dagher"
In July 2017, fever and sepsis developed in 3 recipients of solid organs (1 heart and 2 kidneys) from a common donor in the United States; 1 of the kidney recipients died. Tularemia was suspected only after blood cultures from the surviving kidney recipient grew Francisella species. The organ donor, a middle-aged man from the southwestern United States, had been hospitalized for acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome, pneumonia, and multiorgan failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This is a prospective study to define the volume of pleural fluid adequate for maximal yield of cytologic analysis of pleural fluid.
Methods: Patients undergoing diagnostic thoracentesis with malignancy in the differential diagnosis were enrolled in the study. The first 50 mL of pleural fluid were put in a specimen cup, and subsequent fluid was collected in a drainage bag.
APACHE (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation) mortality predictions and other outcomes are reported after the initiation of a telemedicine intensivist staffing program to monitor the intensive care unit patients of a rural health system. Mortality, length of ICU stay, and length of hospital stay were significantly less than predicted. Length of stay was identical to one year previously in the largest hospital reported, but the case mix index of severity had increased.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To discuss the rare association between primary hyperparathyroidism and chronic urticaria.
Methods: A case report with clinical and laboratory details is presented, and the pertinent literature is reviewed.
Results: A 29-year-old patient with chronic urticaria for more than 2 years, which was partially responsive to medical treatment, was found to have primary hyperparathyroidism.