Publications by authors named "Riyadh Hammamy"

() malaria was long considered to have low mortality. Severe malaria was classically associated with (). However, there is growing evidence that severe and complicated forms of v malaria may be more widespread than previously assumed.

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Key Clinical Message: Graves's disease must be treated promptly to avoid serious sequelae such as cardiomyopathy, liver injury, and pancytopenia. Early initiation of antithyroid medications and beta blockers could not be overrated even in the presence of these complications.

Abstract: Graves' disease causes a large spectrum of clinical manifestations.

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Background: Seizures are common neurological emergencies in the elderly that are frequently provoked. Geriatrics have higher rates of neurological disorders and other comorbidities that could affect seizure threshold.

Case Presentation: An 83-year-old male Arabic patient presented to the emergency department with an acute confusional state and urinary incontinence followed by a witnessed tonic-clonic seizure in the hospital.

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Objective: To compare the patient profile and outcomes in Qatar during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Setting: A retrospective observational study was conducted comparing the demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with COVID-19 infection admitted to a secondary care hospital, during the first and second waves of the pandemic.

Participants: 1039 patients from the first wave and 991 from the second wave who had pneumonia on chest X-ray and had a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection by a real-time PCR test of a nasopharyngeal swab were included.

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Pleural effusion can rarely present as an initial manifestation of Ewing sarcoma. We illustrate a case of a young male adult who was admitted with pleural effusion that led to the diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma.

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The aim of this case report is to raise awareness about self-limited spontaneous chylothorax. Extensive workup for small nontraumatic chylothorax may not be justified.

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