Publications by authors named "Mohamed Al Amri"
Introduction: World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging reporting of children with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection for better understanding and management of the disease.
Methodology: This retrospective study included the first 15 pediatrics patient with a confirmed diagnosis of MIS-C associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the state of Qatar. We studied and analyzed their demographic data, clinical manifestations, laboratory tests, treatment, and outcome.
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is rare in infants and toddlers and is usually associated with a relatively high mortality when complicated with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). In infants, the classical symptoms of DKA are atypical and therefore many infants with DKA are mistreated for infections. We report a case of DKA precipitated by COVID-19 in an 8-month-old infant with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To measure the risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among militaries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to assess their Framingham CVD risk.
Methods: A nationwide survey included 10,500 active military personnel selected by multistage stratified random sampling representing various ranks in the army forces of 5 regions. The study used the World Health Organization STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance (STEPS) in the design of data collection tool.
Background: Little is known regarding the long-term follow-up results of balloon angioplasty (BA) for patients with aortic coarctation (AC) on systemic hypertension.
Hypothesis: To define the long-term effect of BA of AC on systemic hypertension in adolescent and adult patients.
Methods: Follow-up data of 53 patients (36 male), mean age 24 +/- 9 years, undergoing BA for discrete AC at median interval of 11.