Physicians' Job Satisfaction and its Correlates in a Tertiary Medical Care Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: To measure the degree of job satisfaction among physicians working in a Tertiary Care Hospital and to identify background and work environment characteristics that affect overall and differential job satisfaction.

Subjects And Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 340 physicians selected from a Tertiary Care Center using a stratified random sample with proportional allocation using a self-administered questionnaire with the 5-point Likert scale. From the 340 physicians requested to participate in the study, 217 (63.

Autologous bone marrow transplanation for extramedullary plasmacytoma presenting as adrenal incidentaloma.

Extramedullary adrenal plasmacytoma (EMP) involving the adrenal glands is rarely encountered clinically. We report a A 47-year-old male who presented with bilateral adrenal incidentalomas. After confirming EMP, the patient received two consecutive autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) using high-dose melphalan.

Intrahepatic splenosis mimicking hepatocellular carcinoma in a cirrhotic liver.

We report a patient who has a cirrhotic liver secondary to hepatitis C virus infection with a liver lesion incidentally found on routine liver ultrasound. The patient had a history of splenectomy 30 years earlier. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics suggested the diagnosis of intrahepatic splenosis, which is confirmed by core needle biopsy.

Late-onset rosiglitazone-associated acute liver failure in a patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Objective: To report a case of rosiglitazone-associated hepatotoxicity in a patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Case Summary: A 52-year-old man presented with low-grade fever and fatigue that had been present for 4 months. He had been receiving insulin for 5 years and rosiglitazone 4 mg/day for 11 months for control of type 2 diabetes; he was receiving no other drug therapy.

Hurthle cell neoplasm of the thyroid gland.

Background: A clinicopathological analysis and long-term follow up of 32 patients with Hurthle cell neoplasm (HCN) was undertaken to contrast the clinical and histological features between benign versus malignant HCN of thyroid and to examine the effect of treatment on the outcome.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of 32 patients with HCN who were identified out of an archival clinical/pathological/imaging database of 3752 thyroid cancer patients seen between 1976 and June 2006. All patients underwent thyroid surgery.

Idiopathic neurohypophysial diabetes insipidus: reversibility of structural and functional renal abnormalities after treatment.

Objective: To present a case of untreated long-term idiopathic neurohypophysial diabetes insipidus (DI) with structural and functional renal abnormalities that regressed after treatment.

Methods: We describe the clinical course, biochemical data, and imaging findings in a man with idiopathic neurohypophysial DI in whom structural and functional abnormalities involving the urinary tract diminished after treatment. The patient underwent intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the kidneys and abdomen, iodohippurate renal scanning, and voiding cystourethrography.

Long-term outcome (up to 15 years) of balloon angioplasty of discrete native coarctation of the aorta in adolescents and adults.

Objectives: This study evaluated the long-term follow-up results of balloon angioplasty (BA) in adolescent and adult patients with discrete coarctation of the aorta.

Background: Although the immediate and intermediate term results of BA for patients with aortic coarctation (AC) have been encouraging, there is a paucity of data on long-term follow-up results.

Methods: This basis of this study was follow-up of 49 patients (mean age, 22 +/- 7 years) undergoing BA for discrete AC at median interval of 10.