Publications by authors named "Hussain Al Rand"
Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous disorder with a wide range of validated subjective and objective assessment tools to assess disease severity. However, a comprehensive and easy-to-use tool that integrates these measures for determining disease severity and response to treatment is still obscure. The objective of this study was to develop a standardized assessment tool that facilitates diagnosis, uniform patient monitoring, and comparison of treatment outcomes between different centers both in routine clinical practice and in research.
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- Opportunistic pathogens like spp. are responsible for various hospital-related infections, including pneumonia and bloodstream infections, and show increasing multidrug resistance, posing significant health risks, especially in the GCC and MENA regions.
- A 12-year study in the UAE analyzed over 17,000 diagnostic isolates, revealing that the majority were from urine and sputum, and tracked antimicrobial resistance trends through the UAE National AMR Surveillance program.
- Results showed a decrease in antibiotic resistance, particularly for imipenem and meropenem, and nearly halved the rates of multidrug-resistant isolates; however, carbapenem-resistant spp. correlated with higher mortality and longer hospital stays.
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- Enterococci typically cause mild infections but can lead to serious diseases like urinary tract infections and meningitis, with rising antibiotic resistance posing significant health threats, especially in the MENA and Gulf regions where data is limited.
- A 12-year retrospective study analyzed over 37,000 bacterial isolates from the UAE, revealing that Enterococcus faecalis was the most common species found, with 1.8% showing vancomycin resistance (VRE), notably higher in Enterococcus faecium.
- The presence of VRE is linked to increased patient mortality and longer hospital stays, highlighting the need for more awareness and surveillance of antibiotic resistance in the region.
Introduction: National surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an important public health function. Published national AMR surveillance data from the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region is scarce. This paper describes the early implementation phase of establishing AMR surveillance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic began to affect the world in early 2020. As a preventive measure, schools in the UAE adopted remote learning. This study aimed to assess the effects of the lockdown and remote learning on the health-related behaviours of school students in the UAE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince the declaration of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak as a pandemic, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) public health authorities have adopted strict measures to reduce transmission as early as March 2020. As a result of these measures, flight suspension, nationwide RT-PCR and surveillance of viral sequences were extensively implemented. This study aims to characterize the epidemiology, transmission pattern, and emergence of variants of concerns (VOCs) and variants of interests (VOIs) of SARS-CoV-2 in the UAE, followed by the investigation of mutations associated with hospitalized cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is defined as the inflammation of nose and paranasal sinuses, affecting the patients' quality of life and productivity. Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a principal clinical entity confirmed by the existence of chronic sinonasal inflammation and is characterized by anterior or posterior rhinorrhea, nasal congestion, hyposmia and/or facial pressure or facial pain. Several epidemiologic studies have revealed wide variations in the incidence of CRS among regions globally ranging from 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: First, establishment and validation of a novel questionnaire documenting the burden of xerostomia and sialadenitis symptoms, including quality of life. Second, to compare two versions regarding the answering scale (proposed developed answers Q3 vs. 0-10 visual analogue scale Q10) of our newly developed questionnaire, in order to evaluate their comprehension by patients and their reproducibility in time.
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