Mortality outcomes between pregnant women booked for antenatal care and unbooked pregnant women.

Background: Perinatal fetal mortality and maternal mortality remains relatively high in Saudi Arabia. Antenatal care aims to improve outcomes; however, evidence to demonstrate its impact on outcomes in Saudi Arabia is lacking.

Objectives: Investigate whether booking status for antenatal care impacted outcomes for pregnant women and identify outcomes that predicted booking status.

Painless Orbital Bone Infarction in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia: A Case of Misdiagnosed Periorbital Cellulitis.

BACKGROUND Sickle cell orbitopathy is a rare complication of sickle cell disease that closely mimics other conditions, such as orbital cellulitis and osteomyelitis. We report a case of painless orbital bone infarction masquerading as periorbital cellulitis in a child with sickle cell anemia. CASE REPORT A 4-year-old Saudi girl with sickle cell disease presented to our hospital with vaso-occlusive crisis characterized by bilateral lower limb pain and painless left orbital swelling.

Risk Factors and Complications Among Pediatric Patients With Sickle Cell Anemia: A Single Tertiary Center Retrospective Study.

Background and objective Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is one of the common genetic diseases in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This disease results from a genetic mutation that causes malformation of the red blood cells (RBCs), leading to various systemic complications, including vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), acute chest syndrome (ACS), osteomyelitis, avascular necrosis (AVN), and stroke, to name a few. The leading cause of mortality in SCA is these systemic complications rather than the disease itself.