Publications by authors named "Omar Alsarraj"
Few reports in the literature explore the efficacy of bariatric surgery in patients post simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant (SKPT). This case report entails a patient who had SKPT because of end-stage renal disease and type I diabetes. The transplant failed, and the patient gained weight.
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- Appendicitis is a common surgical emergency but can present with varied symptoms, as illustrated by a case of a 47-year-old woman with two weeks of crampy right lower abdominal pain.
- Despite inconclusive pre-operative tests, a diagnostic laparoscopy revealed an unusual case where an inflamed appendix was attached to the cecum, causing an internal hernia.
- This case emphasizes that skilled surgeons and clinical experience are crucial in identifying and managing rare presentations of appendicitis, beyond what standard tests can reveal.
Primary adrenal angiosarcoma is a very rare malignancy. This is a case report of a 54-year-old female, who presented with right-sided abdominal pain. Magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen and pelvis showed a right adrenal mass with a maximum dimension of 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is the first report of a patient presenting with a splenic pseudocyst following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). A 26-year-old male with no chronic medical illnesses who underwent LSG presented with vague abdominal pain. An abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed a 15 cm well-circumscribed cyst originating from the spleen.
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