Publications by authors named "M Massoud"
Inherited factor VII deficiency is the most common rare bleeding disorder, affecting about 1/500,000 individuals without gender predilection. Most of the patients with FVII 20-50% are asymptomatic, but post-traumatic or post-surgical bleeding may often occur since there is not an exact correlation between FVII plasma levels and the bleeding phenotype. We enrolled 19 children and adolescents with FVII levels of 20-35% and 33 controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To use a pre-COVID-19 birth cohort database to describe the clinical heterogeneity of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) cases of the past seasons as a basis to investigate further distribution of clinical phenotypes in the era of immunization for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Study Design: Infants with RSV-SARI were identified from a 2014 through 2019 birth cohort in a tertiary care center in Lyon, France, and their medical records extensively reviewed. Using the criteria of the World Health Organization severity definitions, we classified SARI as having nutritional (inability to feed), respiratory (SpO<93%), or neurological (failure to respond, apneas) impairments.
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- - Effective solid waste management is a major environmental issue in rapidly growing areas like Nigeria, where problems like open dumping and insufficient regulation lead to soil and water contamination, posing health risks.
- - A study in Lagos showed that while soil quality is significantly affected by dumpsites—evidenced by high levels of certain pollutants—water quality remains largely acceptable for drinking and cleaning, with most samples meeting WHO standards.
- - To tackle the challenges posed by these dumpsites, recommendations include implementing waste segregation and recycling, controlled landfilling, and investing in waste treatment technologies, although financial and land constraints may hinder these efforts.
Objectives: Accurate assessment of gestational age (GA) is important at both individual and population levels. The most accurate way to estimate GA in women who book late in pregnancy is unknown. The aim of this study was to externally validate the accuracy of equations for GA estimation in late pregnancy and to identify the best equation for estimating GA in women who do not receive an ultrasound scan until the second or third trimester.
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- Congenital microgastria (CM) is a rare birth defect caused by incomplete stomach development during early pregnancy, making prenatal diagnosis difficult.
- Four cases of CM were studied, where ultrasound initially indicated small or absent fetal stomach, often confused with esophageal atresia (EA), but MRI and amniotic fluid analysis helped clarify the diagnosis.
- When a fetal stomach isn't visible on ultrasound and amniotic fluid analysis rules out gastrointestinal issues, fetal MRI can be used to confirm CM by showing a small tubular stomach and dilated esophagus.