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  • Evaluation of prophylactic dosages of Enoxaparin in non-surgical elderly patients with renal impairment 
    Chamoun, Nibal; Ghanem, Hady; Hachem, Ahmad; Hariri, Essa; Lteif, Christelle; Mansour, Hanine; Dimassi, Hani; Zalloum, Richard; Ghanem, Geroges (2019-12-20)
    Background Thromboprophylaxis dosing strategies using enoxaparin in elderly patients with renal disease are limited, while dose adjustments or monitoring of anti-Xa levels are recommended. We sought to evaluate the efficacy ...
  • Evaluation of Tc-99m Tetrofosmin Scan for Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis 
    Ghanem, Georges; Tarcha, Walid; Sokhn, Kozhaya; Hage, Chadi; Yatim, Ahmad; Chammas, Elie (2016-06-15)
    Detection of myocardial perfusion abnormalities using Tc-99m tetrofosmin was evaluated for sensitivity and specificity compared to coronary angiography. Between January 1996 and January 1998, exercise stress tests and ...
  • Evaluation of Tc-99m tetrofosmin scan for coronary artery disease diagnosis 
    Tarcha, Walid; Chammas, Elie; Yatim, Ahmad; HAge, Chadi; Sokhn, Kozhaya; Ghanem, Georges (2019-04-16)
    Detection of myocardial perfusion abnormalities using Tc-99m tetrofosmin was evaluated for sensitivity and specificity compared to coronary angiography. Between January 1996 and January 1998, exercise stress tests and ...
  • Evaluation of waterpipe smoke toxicity in C57BL/6 mice model 
    Abi-Gerges, Aniella; Dagher-Hamalian, Carole; Abou-Khalil, Pamela; Chahine, Joe Braham; Hachem, Pia; Khalil, Christian (2020-09-15)
    Waterpipe smoking is a popular pastime worldwide with statistics pointing to an alarming increase in consumption. In the current paper, the evaluation of sub-chronic waterpipe smoke exposure was undertaken using C57BL/6 ...
  • Evidence‐based anatomy 
    Yammine, Kaissar (2019-06-27)
    Anatomy is a descriptive basic medical science that is no longer considered a research‐led discipline. Many publications in clinical anatomy are prevalence studies treating clinically relevant anatomical variations and ...
  • An evolutionary proteomics approach identifies substrates of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase 
    Stephan, Joseph S.; Budovskaya, Yelena V.; Deminoff, Stephen J.; Herman, Paul K. (National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017-09-22)
    Protein kinases are important mediators of much of the signal transduction that occurs in eukaryotic cells. Unfortunately, the identification of protein kinase substrates has proven to be a difficult task, and we generally ...
  • Exogenous Endophthalmitis in Diabetic Patients 
    El-Mollayess, Georges M.; Saadeh, Joanna S.; Salti, Haytham I. (2022-10-31)
    Diabetes mellitus is a systemic disease that increases the risk of infections. Exogenous endophthalmitis is an inflammatory disease to which diabetic patients are more predisposed to than nondiabetic patients undergoing ...
  • Expanding the donor pool 
    Ramos, Emilio; Aoun, Sola; Harmon, William E. (2019-06-07)
    The short-term success rate of cadaveric renal transplants has improved dramatically during the past decade. In 1990, one-year graft survival rates were about 70%; by 2000, they were greater than 90% (United States Renal ...
  • Experience With Endoscopic Therapy in Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis 
    Azar, Riad R.; Al-Lehibi, Abed H.; Kumar, Nitin; Ammar, Tarek; Murad, Faris; Mullady, Daniel; Early, Dayna S. (2016-09-19)
    Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, progressive cholestatic disease. Strictures of major bile ducts are a frequent complication. No effective medical treatment exists; endoscopic therapies have been studied, ...
  • Experimental study of the sonographic diagnosis of testicular torsion 
    Zeineh, S.J.; Hricak, H.; Alpers, C.E.; Filly, R.A.; Lue, T.; Tanagho, E.A. (2019-04-16)
    The sonographic and Doppler features of acute spermatic cord torsion were investigated in eight dogs. Serial sonography following torsion demonstrated unambiguous abnormalities in all experimental subjects within one hour. ...
  • An exploratory study of HIV risk behaviors and testing among male sex workers in Beirut, Lebanon 
    Mokhbat, Jacques; Aunon, Frances M.; Wagner, Glenn J.; Maher, Rabih; Khouri, Danielle; Kaplan, Rachel L. (2017-02-10)
    Male sex workers (MSW) are a particularly high-risk subset of men who have sex with men in Lebanon and report higher numbers of sex partners and lower rates of condom use. The purpose was to explore the factors influencing ...
  • Exploring the thesis experience of Master of Health professions education graduates 
    Youssef, Nazih; Skeith, Leslie; Ridinger, Heather; Givi, Babak; Harris, Ilene (2019-05-10)
    Objectives To explore the thesis experience of recent Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) graduates in the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) program. Methods This is a qualitative case study exploring ...
  • Exposure rates to hepatitis C and G virus infections among HIV-infected patients 
    Mokhbat, J.; Ramia, S.; Klayme, S.; Naman, R.; Sibai, A. (2017-02-13)
    The importance of sexual transmission in the epidemiology of hepatitis G virus (HGV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) was evaluated in two groups of HIV-1-positive Lebanese patients. Members of one group (90 patients) were ...
  • Expression of androgen, estrogen, and progesterone receptors in salivary gland tumors 
    Nasser, Selim M.; Faquin, William C.; Dayal, Yogeshwar (2017-02-02)
    The expression of sex hormone receptors in some tumors suggests a role for these receptors in tumor pathogenesis and therapy. Previous studies of the expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors in salivary gland ...
  • Extended hepatectomy in patients with hepatobiliary malignancies with and without preoperative portal vein embolization 
    Abdalla, Eddie; Barnett, Carlton; Doherty, Dorota; Curley, Steven; Vauthey, Nicolas (2015-11-10)
    Hypothesis Preoperative portal vein embolization (PVE) allows potentially curative hepatic resection without additional morbidity or mortality in patients with hepatobiliary malignancies who are marginal candidates for ...
  • Extended Preoperative Chemotherapy Does Not Improve Pathologic Response and Increases Postoperative Liver Insufficiency After Hepatic Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases 
    Kishi, Yoji; Zorzi, Daria; Contreras, Carlo; Maru, Dipen; Kopetz, Scott; Ribero, Dario; Motta, Manuela; Ravarino, Nicoletta; Risio, Mauro; Curley, Steven; Abdalla, Eddie; Capussotti, Lorenzo; Vauthey, Jean-Nicolas (2015-11-19)
    Background The optimal duration, safety, and benefit of preoperative chemotherapy in patients with colorectal liver metastases (CLM) are unclear. We evaluated the association between the duration of preoperative chemotherapy ...
  • External fixators in the treatment of fractures in children 
    El Hayek, Toni; Abou Daher, Ahmad; Meouchy, Wissam; Ley, Paul; Chammas, Nizar; Griffet, Jacques (2016-09-21)
    New properties are being modified in the external fixator instrumentation that are leading to the more indicated use of this type of fixation especially in children's lower limb fractures. Dynamization, the ability to ...
  • Extracranial traumatic carotid artery dissections in children 
    Chamoun, Roukoz B.; Mawad, Michel E.; Whitehead, William E.; Luerssen, Thomas G.; Jea, Andrew (2019-07-12)
    Object Currently, no diagnostic or treatment standards exist for extracranial carotid artery dissection (CAD) in children after trauma. The purpose of this study was to review and describe the characteristics, diagnosis, ...
  • Extrahepatic Bile Duct Adenocarcinoma 
    Borghero, Yerko; Crane, Christopher; Szklaruk, Janio; Oyarzo, Mauricio; Curley, Steven; Pisters, Peter; Evans, Douglas; Abdalla, Eddie; Thomas, Melanie; Das, Prajnan; Wistuba, Ignacio; Krishnan, Sunil; Vauthey, Nicolas (2015-11-16)
    Background Patients with resected extrahepatic bile duct adenocarcinoma who have microscopically positive resection margins and/or pathologic locoregional nodal involvement (R1pN1) have a high-risk of locoregional recurrence, ...
  • Évaluation préopératoire et positionnement peropératoire de la patella au cours d’une prothèse totale du genou pour genu varum, à propos d’une série continue de 256 cas 
    Assi, Chahine; Bonnel, François; Auteroche, Pierre; Teissier, Philippe (2015-11-19)

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