Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Outcome of Liver Abscess: A single Reference Center Experience in Qatar.

Objective: To describe the etiology, clinical presentation, management and outcome of liver abscess in adult patients admitted at Hamad general hospital, Qatar.

Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted to involve all adult patients who sequentially encountered episodes of liver abscess during the period from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2010. Blood cultures were drawn from all patients in the first 24 hours after admission.

Stroke in Qatar: a first prospective hospital-based study of acute stroke.

Background: Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Qatar.

Objectives: The aim of our study was to determine types of strokes, the associated risk factors, clinical presentation, outcome, and time to hospital admission among Qatari and non-Qatari patients as well as young and nonyoung patients.

Methods: We conducted a hospital-based prospective observational study including all patients admitted to Hamad Medical Corporation with first-ever stroke from September 15, 2004, to September 14, 2005.

Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with Salmonella paratyphi A.

A 31-year-old Nepali man was admitted to the intensive care unit with a 3-day history of fever associated with four-limb weakness, followed by difficulty in swallowing. The patient came from Nepal 20 days before admission. On examination the patient was conscious and appeared ill, with a temperature of 38.