5 results match your criteria: "University of Balamand Medical School[Affiliation]"
Ventricular Assist Devices During an Economical Collapse: Challenges and Outcomes.
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November 2024
University of Balamand Medical School, Beirut, Lebanon. Electronic address:
Resilience in Health Care: Surviving a Coinciding Pandemic, a Major Deadly Disaster, and an Economic Collapse: What Did We Learn?
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November 2021
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Saint Georges University Hospital, Beirut Lebanon; University of Balamand Medical School, Beirut Lebanon.
Identification and management of Lynch syndrome in the Middle East and North African countries: outcome of a survey in 12 countries.
Fam Cancer
July 2021
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Background: Lynch syndrome (LS), the most common inherited form of colorectal cancer (CRC), is responsible for 3% of all cases of CRC. LS is caused by a mismatch repair gene defect and is characterized by a high risk for CRC, endometrial cancer and several other cancers. Identification of LS is of utmost importance because colonoscopic surveillance substantially improves a patient's prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFErratum to: A new hereditary colorectal cancer network in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean countries to improve care for high-risk families.
Fam Cancer
April 2018
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands.
A new hereditary colorectal cancer network in the Middle East and eastern mediterranean countries to improve care for high-risk families.
Fam Cancer
April 2018
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a very high incidence in the western world. Data from registries in the Middle East showed that the incidence of CRC is relatively low in these countries. However, these data also showed that CRC incidence has increased substantially over the past three decades and that a high proportion of cases are diagnosed at an early age (<50 years).
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