Publications by authors named "Mohamed Garhy"
Article Synopsis
- A case report details a 56-year-old overweight smoker who experienced chronic hemoptysis, which is coughing up blood, due to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causing repetitive negative pressures in the chest.
- The patient presented multiple times to the emergency room, exhibiting daytime sleepiness and requiring bronchoscopies that caused further airway collapse and bleeding.
- Polysomnography later revealed critical levels of OSA, which was successfully treated with positive pressure therapy, highlighting the need to consider OSA as a potential cause of hemoptysis in similar cases.
Background: Lung contusions often occur in the context of polytrauma, but much less frequently in sports injuries.
Case Description: We report on a 22-year-old patient who presented to our emergency room. On the same day he jumped from a 10 meter tower in a swimming pool and hit the surface of the water with his thorax and abdomen.
We present two case reports in which, in a surprising way, readable writing or numbers on the aspirated material provided useful information about the more detailed circumstances of the aspiration.In the first case, the patient complained of foreign body sensation after using a metered dose inhaler. A few hours later, the initially unknown aspirated material was recovered by flexible bronchoscopy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe specialist field of "pneumology" is still underrepresented in university clinics in Germany, but this is not the case at the newly founded medical faculty Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) in Bielefeld. This is linked to representing pneumology and internal intensive care medicine in patient care, teaching and research across the board and the opportunity to actively help shape the development of the human medicine faculty in an exciting environment.The early anchoring of the subject "Pneumology" in the model degree program of medical school in OWL (begin winter semester 2021/22) contributes to further visibility and a university medical orientation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The axillary artery is an alternative access route for transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) in patients who have unfavourable femoral arteries as well as comorbidities which preclude surgery. Transaxillary TAVI (TAx-TAVI), with a complete non-transfemoral approach, is a feasible and safe alternative even if complications like vascular closure device failure with bleeding occurs.
Case Summary: We describe here a simplified non-transfemoral TAx-TAVI approach in a 71-year-old patient with pulmonary oedema due to severe symptomatic aortic stenosis with a prohibitively high surgical risk (Society of Thoracic Surgeons Mortality 11.