Do You Have To Evaluate The Heart Of The Cirrhotic Patients?

Objectives: To identify patients with occult cardiac dysfunction and itsrelationship with the severity of liver impairment.

Method: This is a Judgment (Purposive) Sampling, cross-sectionalstudy that was conducted at Kafrelsheikh University Hospital, Egypt, from November 2019 to December 2020, and comprised adult patients of either gender with liver cirrhosis. After detailed history, a clinical examination, pathological assessment and cardiac evaluation based on electrocardiogram and echocardiography, the patients were divided into three groups.

The Predictors of Hepatorenal Syndrome Development in HCV Cirrhotic Ascitic Egyptian Patients with Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis.

Background & Aim: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is considered a precipitating factor for renal impairment in patients with liver cirrhosis. No specific study addressing this problem has been reported. This study aimed to detect the incidence and predictive factors of hepatorenal syndrome in these patients.

Irritable bowel syndrome in Egyptian medical students, prevalence and associated factors: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: irritable bowel syndrome is a recurrent chronic gastrointestinal functional disorder. Despite it is not dangerous; it carries a significant feedback on self-confidence and quality of life. Medical students are expected to develop irritable bowel syndrome because they are subjected to stress due to over academic pressure.