The current status of health care indices and functional independence among older adults: data from HelpAge international-jordan study.

Background: Health services should anticipate the changing pattern of illnesses associated with population aging to promote healthy aging.

Aim: We aimed to evaluate health indices and chronic illnesses and their relationship with functional independence in community Syrian refugees & Jordanian elderly.

Methods: A stratified sample of 1,718 community older adults aged ≥ 60-year-old from four major Jordanian governorates was interviewed in this cross-sectional study.

Isolated Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava Associated With Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD): Challenges and Clinical Significance.

Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is the most common venous anomaly of the thorax that usually coexists with the right superior vena cava. However, in a minority of cases, there is only a PLSVC without a right superior vena cava which is called an isolated PLSVC. There are some reported anomalies that can co-occur with PLSVC; yet, none have reported an association with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).

Complex, Isolated Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation in Two Children With Severe Cyanosis.

We present two cases of Isolated complex pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in two children presenting with cyanosis and exercise intolerance. We present the anatomical features and the management of each case. One patient was treated with surgical ligation of the draining vein, and one patient was treated percutaneously by closure of the feeding segmental artery.

Papillary thyroid carcinoma in a 5-year old child, mimicking lymphoma in presentation.

Thyroid cancer is very rare in children and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) represents the most common type. Patients are frequently in the second decade of life and complain of painless enlargement of the gland. Pediatric PTC has unique clinicopathologic characteristics that make it different from the adult counterpart.

Incidental finding of an aberrant left pulmonary artery, an aberrant right subclavian artery, and a tracheal bronchus in an adult woman with a meningioma and a history of medulloblastoma.

The aberrant left pulmonary artery and the aberrant right subclavian artery are rare congenital vascular anomalies, and the tracheal bronchus is a rare congenital respiratory anomaly. A 33-year-old female patient, with a history of desmoplastic medulloblastoma, was surgically treated at our hospital for a meningioma. On the second postoperative day, the patient complained of shortness of breath and chest pain.

Interrater and intrarater agreement and reliability of ratings made using the Zaidi-Dayal and Richards-Jabbour scales for the shape of the foramen magnum.

Anatomists and radiologists use the Zaidi-Dayal and Richards-Jabbour scales to study the shape of the foramen magnum. Our aim is to measure the interrater and intrarater agreement and reliability of ratings made using the two scales. We invited 16 radiology residents to attend two sessions, four weeks apart.

Myelopathy associated with age-related cervical disc herniation: a retrospective review of magnetic resonance images.

Background: Cervical intervertebral disc herniation can lead to myelopathy. Aging is an established variable related to spondylotic myelopathy. Studying this association will help in controlling the increase in spondylotic myelopathy with age.

Fatal encephalitis due to BK virus in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency: a case report.

Encephalitis due to BK virus is a rare condition. Here, we describe a young male patient with common variable immunodeficiency who developed fatal encephalitis due to BK virus. The patient presented initially with ocular symptoms that were followed by behavioral changes and spastic quadriparesis.

Should excretory urography be used as a routine diagnostic procedure in patients with acute ureteric colic: a single center study.

The aim of this study was to find an accurate, easily available and safe imaging modality as an alternative to intravenous urography for the diagnosis of acute urinary obstruction. This retrospective study included 332 patients, who underwent both excretory urography (EU) preceeded by plain radiograph as well as ultrasonography for evaluation of acute flank pain. There were 198 male and 134 female patients.

Male transient hip osteoporosis: are physicians at a higher risk?

SUMMARY: Data of 17 male patients with a final diagnosis of transient osteoporosis (TO) of the hip seen at the radiology department of a university hospital over a period of 7 years were retrospectively studied. Comparison of the proportion of doctors among TO cases with that among other hip joint pathologies revealed a significant difference. PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to present clinical and radiological findings of hip TO and to assess the association of the condition with patients' occupation.

Uncommon incidental pseudoaneurysm. Diagnostic and management challenges.

Objective: To analyze patients with uncommon incidental pseudoaneurysms, secondary to non-catheterization causes, and to discuss the peculiar clinical spectrum, and focus on some aspects of difference from post-catheterization pseudoaneurysms.

Methods: Eleven patients, 8 males and 3 females, were studied retrospectively in Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan, between 2002-2008. Radiological studies performed included duplex sonography (DS), computed tomography (CT), conventional angiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA).