Background: Gallbladder carcinoma is the fifth most common gastrointestinal malignant neoplasm and the most frequent malignant tumor of the biliary tract. It has a poor prognosis, with a 50% 1-year survival rate for patients ...

The role of autoimmune etiologies in the genesis of epilepsy and encephalitis has been recently discovered. Historically, infectious and to a lesser degree metabolic etiologies have also been implicated in convulsive and ...

Background: Clinical and molecular data on the occurrence and frequency of inherited neuromuscular disorders (NMD) in the Lebanese population is scarce. Objective: This study aims to provide a retrospective overview ...

Introduction The presence of hypsarrhythmia and occurrence of infantile spasms constitute a severe form of epilepsy in infants that warrants early identification and treatment. The aim of this study is to evaluate the EEG ...

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is associated with endothelial dysfunction. Pharmacologically targeting the different mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction may improve clinical outcomes and lead to reduced ...

The Caprini and Padua venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment models (RAMs) are used to assess VTE risk in surgical and in medical patients respectively. This study aims to compare the proportion of medical inpatients ...

Aim Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) accomodates a spectrum of cardiac abnormalities. This study aims to investigate whether DCM is associated with changes in cyclic adenosine 3′-5′ monophosphate (cAMP) signaling, particularly ...

Learning Objectives: After reading this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Describe the pathogenesis of pyogenic spontaneous spondylodiscitis in children and adults. 2. Describe the clinical presentation, ...

Learning Objectives: After reading this article, the participant should be able to: Define the principles of conservative and surgical treatment of pyogenic spontaneous spondylodiscitis. Describe the indications for ...