Publications by authors named "M M Daouk"
Background: Shifting from a short-term catheter to a long-term one is done either by removing the old catheter and placing a new long-term one via fresh new puncture site, or by replacing the old catheter with a long-term one over a guidewire.
Aim: We aimed to describe our technique in changing a temporary line to a long-term catheter (LTC) over a guidewire and to determine the incidence of line-related infections following this procedure.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective pilot study was conducted between 2005 and 2010 at the American University of Beirut Hospital.
Weight gain in gestational diabetes: the effect of treatment modality.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2016
Objective: To evaluate treatment effectiveness (diet alone, insulin or glyburide) on maternal weight gain in gestational diabetes (GDM).
Methods: GDM patients were treated with diet alone, insulin or glyburide. Weight gain was stratified into: prior to GDM diagnosis, from diagnosis to delivery and total pregnancy weight gain.
Aim: The aim of the study was to test the safety and feasibility of a system designed to decrease the uterine contractions of human preterm labor using a weak electrical current.
Methods: Patients in preterm labor had an electrode catheter placed in the posterior vaginal fornix and attached to an electrical pacemaker. Contraction intervals were determined during the 60-min study, in which minutes 0-20 was the preintervention control period (C1); 21-40 was the electrical intervention (EI), with a 10-s burst of current administered just before each expected contraction; and 41-60 was the postintervention control (C2).
Male-to-female gender ratio in fetuses with increased nuchal translucency.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2012
Objective: To describe gender distribution in fetuses with increased nuchal translucency (NT) measurements.
Methods: All fetuses with mild (2.5-2.