Publications by authors named "S E Khait"
Prevalence of depression and its association with sociodemographic factors in patients with chronic pain: A cross-sectional study in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi J Anaesth
January 2018
Introduction: Mental health issues, especially depression, are common in chronic pain patients. Depression affects these patients negatively and could lead to poor control of their pain. Some risk factors for both chronic pain and depression are known and need to be targeted as part of the management in a multidisciplinary approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The pain catastrophizing scale (PCS) is the most widely used tool to assess pain catastrophizing. The aim of this study was to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the PCS questionnaire in Arabic.
Methods: A systematic translation process was used to translate the original English PCS into Arabic.
Leukemia incidence in the Russian cohort of Chernobyl emergency workers.
Radiat Environ Biophys
May 2012
Of all potentially radiogenic cancers, leukemia, a type of cancer of the blood, has the highest risk attributable to ionizing radiation. Despite this, the quantitative estimation of radiation risk of a leukemia demands studying very large exposed cohorts, because of the very low level of this disease in unexposed populations and because of the tendency for its radiation risk to decrease with time. At present, the Japanese cohort of atomic bomb survivors is still the primary source of data that allows analysis of radiation-induced leukemia and the underlying dose-response relationship.
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- A case-control study was conducted among Chernobyl liquidators to examine how low- to medium-dose radiation exposure affected the risk of developing hematological malignancies.
- Researchers analyzed data from 117 cases of cancer, including types like leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and compared them to 481 matched controls.
- The study concluded that there was a significantly elevated relative risk of cancers at radiation doses of 200 mGy and above, with some estimates being consistent with previous studies of atomic bomb survivors, though there are concerns about potential biases affecting the results.
This was a comparative study to determine the diagnostic value of fine needle aspiration of the testis compared with open testicular biopsy in azoospermic men. A total of 34 infertile, azoospermic patients aged from 26-54 years underwent concurrent testicular fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy. The testis was aspirated at three separated sites (upper, middle and lower pole) using a 20 ml syringe and 21-G butterfly needle.
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