Uterine and Tubal Abnormalities in Infertile Saudi Arabian Women: A Teaching Hospital Experience.

Background And Objective: Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is commonly used in the evaluation of the subfertile and infertile women. This study was undertaken to assimilate the findings observed during HSG in Saudi Arabian infertile patients and to find the most common pathology identified by the HSG.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted of subfertile and infertile patients who had undergone HSG between June 2007 and May 2012.

A 5-year analysis of semen parameters in Saudi Arabian men attending infertility clinics.

Objective: To evaluate semen parameters in infertile Saudi Arabian men.

Methods: In this retrospective study, semen analysis and other clinical data were extracted from medical records of men attending an infertility clinic. Patients were stratified according to smoking status and presence or absence of varicocele.

Reassessment of osteoporosis-related femoral fractures and economic burden in Saudi Arabia.

Unlabelled: The current study reassesses the prevalence of fragility fractures and lifetime costs in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Forty-two percent (391) of the fractures were at the neck of the femur, and 38.6 % (354) were inter-trochanteric fractures.

Fertility after oophorectomy due to torsion.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of infertility in patients who underwent salpingo-oophorectomy due to adnexal torsion (AT).

Methods: All adult women admitted to the Teaching Institution of the University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia who underwent surgery due to AT between January 2001 and 2010 were included. Complete data was collected from the time of admission to the follow up.

Prevalence and pattern of lipid disorders in Saudi patients with angiographically documented coronary artery disease.

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence and patterns of dyslipidemia in Saudi patients with angiographically documented coronary artery disease (CAD).

Materials And Methods: This is a cross-sectional, hospital-based study, which was conducted on all Saudi patients who underwent coronary angiography under the author's personal care and were found to have > 50% coronary stenosis. Fasting lipid profile was measured in all patients during the admission for the coronary angiography.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and low bone mass: A case-control study.

Background And Objective: Low bone mass (osteopenia and osteoporosis) is one of the effects associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is very little data from Saudi Arabia on COPD and low bone mass. This retrospective study was done to assess the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in COPD patients attending King Fahd Hospital of the University (KFHU), Alkhobar.

The role of growth factor Sadat-Habdan mesenchymal stimulating peptide in healing of burn wounds.

Background: Burns occur in everyday life and cause morbidity and mortality due to delayed healing. Many agents were tried to accelerate healing of burns. The aim of this study was to assess for the first time Sadat-Habdan mesenchymal stimulating peptide (SHMSP) known angiogenesis factor in healing of experimentally created burns in rats.

Do osteoporosis-related vertebral fractures precede hip fractures?

Aim: To evaluate the relationship between a vertebral fracture and a hip fracture in Saudi Arabians with osteoporosis.

Methods: In this retrospective study, 154 Saudi Arabian patients with osteoporosis-related hip fractures were analyzed for the presence of a vertebral fracture. Radiographs were retrieved from the IPAC (Image Picture Archiving and Computing) System, an imaging retrieval system, and were reviewed independently by two of the authors, Abid Hussain Gullenpet, and Mir Sadat-Ali, and later reviewed jointly.