Prevalence of medical conditions among patients attending dental teaching clinics in northern Jordan.

Aim: This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of self reported medical conditions among dental patients attending dental teaching clinics in north Jordan.

Methods And Materials: A total of 1,509 patients were included, of which 46.1% were males and 53.

Pubertal evaluation of adolescent boys with beta-thalassemia major and delayed puberty.

Objective: To examine the hormonal status of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in adolescent males with beta-thalassemia major.

Design: Controlled clinical study.

Setting: Tertiary referral teaching hospital.

Lactic dehydrogenase as a biochemical marker of adverse pregnancy outcome in severe pre-eclampsia.

Background: Pre-eclampsia is a specific disease of pregnancy with multisystem complications. We conducted this study to examine the relationship between lactic dehydrogenase concentration and the severity of the disease and the occurrence of its complications.

Material/methods: One hundred eleven pre-eclamptic women (49 with mild and 62 with severe pre-eclampsia) and 60 healthy normotensive controls were studied prospectively at the King Hussein Medical Center between January and December 2002.

Pre-eclampsia: is it a different disease in primiparous and multiparous women?

The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in clinical and laboratory parameters and differences in the complication rates between pre-eclamptic primiparous and pre-eclamptic multiparous women. A prospective case series of 112 primiparous and 186 multiparous women with pre-eclampsia was conducted at Princess Badea Teaching Hospital; a large tertiary public health service hospital in Irbid, North Jordan. A uniform medical and surgical management protocol was implemented.

A survey of uterine perforation following dilatation and curettage or evacuation of retained products of conception.

Study: Of 11,914 women who underwent dilatation and curettage over a 7-year period (1995-2002) at Princess Badea Teaching Hospital in Irbid, North Jordan, 23 patients sustained a uterine perforation. In 22 cases, the operator was a trainee. Previous gynaecological surgery had been performed in only 2 of these 23 women.