Publications by authors named "Tarek A Sibai"

Objectives: The objective of the study was to review our experience with the treatment of stress positive (+) supination and external pattern injuries using shared decision making with the patients.

Design: Retrospective case review.

Setting: Level 1 trauma center.

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Purpose: We investigated the visual outcome of combined phacoemulsification with intravitreal bevacizumab, in eyes with dense cataract and visually significant exudative maculopathy.

Materials And Methods: Prospective longitudinal pilot study of consecutive patients treated by two surgeons in 2006, using intravitreal bevacizumab at the end of phacoemulsification. The historical control group consisted of consecutive subjects with exudative maculopathy and dense cataract treated by the same surgeons with the help of phacoemulsification without intravitreal bevacizumab prior to 2006.

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Background: The literature remains controversial regarding seasonal variation of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Methods: In this retrospective chart review, seasonal variation of RRD was examined based on the records of 211 consecutive patients operated for idiopathic RRD in one referral medical center over a 13-year period.

Results: The number of eyes with RRD recorded per season was 46 in autumn, 46 in winter, 62 in spring and 57 in summer.

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Objective: To examine the differences between war and domestic ocular injuries during the Lebanese Civil War in terms of baseline characteristics, treatment provided and prognosis.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of subjects with traumatic ocular injuries referred to a major medical center from 1980 to 1996. The variables were tabulated according to the international classification of ocular trauma.

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Background Context: Collet-Sicard syndrome (CSS) is a rare condition that includes palsies of cranial nerves IX, X, XI, and XII. There are multiple reported causes in the literature, although infection is particularly unusual.

Purpose: To report an unusual case of CSS as a result of infection causing head-to-neck dissociation with involvement of the upper cervical spine.

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Study Design: Case series.

Objective: To describe survival and outcomes after occipitocervical dissociation injuries.

Summary Of Background Data: Historically, occipitocervical dissociation injuries have a high rate of associated neurologic deficit with a relatively high incidence of mortality.

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Anticipating the direction of a confounding variable can be problematic especially to introductory students. Using elementary rules of mathematics, we describe below a simple instructional tool for deriving the direction of confounding bias. The tool is illustrated with examples and a heuristic mathematical justification is also described.

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