Acute medical unit (AMU) is a dedicated facility to treat patients with acute medical conditions requiring a short hospital stay (< 72 hours) with the support of a multidisciplinary team led by a medical consultant. We aim to present a study of the AMU model of care from Qatar to provide insight into its effects on patient care and management. Retrospective data from AMU facility at Hamad General Hospital (HGH), Doha, Qatar, was collected from January 2019 to December 2020 from the electronic patient record.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeronegative antiphospholipid syndrome (SN-APS) is uncommon and challenging condition, which should be included in the differential diagnosis of stroke in young, since it can result in arterial thrombosis.SN-APS is typically diagnosed by exclusion; however, it is crucial to recognize it in order to choose the best antithrombotic treatment to lower the recurrence rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Kidney involvement with COVID-19 infection is a well-known complication, and the majority of kidney involvement is related to ischemic injury/acute tubular injury. However, there are some cases of glomerulonephritis, the etiology of which is not yet known, but an immune process is likely to be the trigger.
Patient Concerns: A 27-year-old man presented to our hospital with facial puffiness and lower-limb swelling.
Rifampicin is an established and effective antibiotic and a gold standard in treating tuberculosis (TB). Venous thromboembolism (VTE) events are a rare side effect of rifampicin, which has been reported in a few case reports. The exact mechanism is yet not clear, however, could include immunological and hematological causes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPulmonary tuberculosis is a common endemic disease in developing countries but its thrombogenic tendency is not well-studied and established yet. Pulmonary embolism is rarely reported in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. There are reports stating the relation of pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) with a severe infection of tuberculosis but no data is available to establish a mutual association between pulmonary tuberculosis and pulmonary thromboembolism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a Gram-negative bacteria that can infect most of the body's organs, from the lungs to the central nervous system. It is notorious for causing pneumonia in alcoholic, diabetic, and hospitalized patients. It is now emerging as a cause of abscesses involving multiple organs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) represents an increasing morbidity in the general population, but more so in the elderly cohort of patients. Despite this, the concept of its prevention through prospective analysis has largely remained unexamined. We evaluated the utility of recently validated adverse drug reactions (ADR) avoidability tool in a cohort of elderly patients with DILI.
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