Publications by authors named "Khaled A Sorour"
Background: Few data are available on the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) cases in Egypt. The aim of this work is to describe the characteristics and outcomes of IE patients and evaluate the temporal changes in IE diagnostic and therapeutic aspects over 11 years.
Results: The IE registry included 398 patients referred to the Endocarditis Unit of a tertiary care facility with the diagnosis of possible or definite IE.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to validate the modified WHO (mWHO) risk classification for predicting cardiac events in pregnant women with heart disease across advanced and emerging countries, while identifying additional risk factors.
- The research involved 2,742 pregnant women with heart disease, revealing a higher occurrence of cardiac events in emerging countries (36.3%) compared to advanced ones (12.8%), and highlighting different prevalent heart conditions in each region.
- Although the mWHO classification effectively predicts risk in advanced countries (c-statistic 0.726), its performance declines in emerging countries (0.633); incorporating pre-pregnancy health indicators could enhance risk assessment and counseling efforts in both settings.
Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF)/atrial flutter (AFL) during pregnancy in these women is associated with adverse outcome of pregnancy.
Background: The incidence, timing, and consequences of AF or AFL during pregnancy in patients with heart disease are not well known.
Methods: Between January 2008 to June 2011, 60 hospitals in 28 countries prospectively enrolled 1,321 pregnant women with congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease, or cardiomyopathy in the ROPAC (Registry of Pregnancy and Cardiac Disease).
Coronary artery aneurysms that occur in 25% of untreated Kawasaki disease (KD) patients may remain clinically silent for decades and then thrombose resulting in myocardial infarction. Although KD is now the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in Asia, the United States, and Western Europe, the incidence of KD in Egypt is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that young adults in Egypt presenting with acute myocardial ischemia may have coronary artery lesions because of KD in childhood.
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