Barada, Sana Ali; Itani, Siham Moh'd Kheir(2011-05-05)
Osteoporosis is one of the commonest public health problems of modern medicine. It is the major underlying cause of bone fractures in postmenopausal women and elderly. Factors that influence the occurrence of osteoporosis ...
In the second half of this century, emphasis on diet related diseases increased as the major cause of mortality shifted from infections to chronic diseases. Cardiovascular disease (CYD) has been the number one killer in ...
Background: Treatment regimens for Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) usually combine an acid reducing agent (proton-pump inhibitor, H2-antagonist) with two or three antibiotics (macrolide, metronidazole, tetracycline, ...
(Aspicot®) is an enteric coated aspirin that is being extensively used among patients in the Middle East, including Lebanon where this drug is manufactured, without any clinical in-vivo implication showing or confirming ...
Availability of oral antibiotics with superior pharmacokinetic profiles and safety has enabled early conversion from parenteral to oral antibiotic therapy in attempt to reduce overall cost. In Lebanon, no hospital has set ...
Purpose: The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) III guidelines have been
hailed as an improvement in their potential to identify individuals at risk for coronary
heart disease (CHD) complications. Compared ...
Some abnormalities that occur in the fetus and the newborn are of genetic origin,
some result of an infection , some are due directly or indirectly to incidental
complications of pregnancy and in some cases the cause is ...
Background:
Bipolar disorder is a relatively common disorder and is characterized by
"unpredictable swings in mood from mania to depression".
Mania is a disease state which induces difficulties in work performance
and ...
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the safety and efficacy of a 1 a-day twice daily
rabeprazole-based triple therapy for Helicobacler pylori (H .pylon).
METHODS: H. pylori infected patients as confirmed by a rapid urease test
were ...
Glibenclamide is a second generation sulfonylurea oral hypoglycemic agent
that plays an important role in the therapy of type II diabetes mellitus (DM-II);
moreover. glibenclamide (Glibamid®) is being extensively used ...
The emergence of resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae strains have led to
the development of several guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired
Pneumonia (CAP). Our purpose is to compare CAP empiric treatment ...
Background: Appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis can reduce the incidence of
surgical site infections (SSI) in many procedures. Although its role is still
controversial in a clean surgery such as cardiac, antibiotic ...
This thesis is a retrospective study on 300 medical records between January 2003 and
June 2003 in Makassed General Hospital (MGH). The objective of this study is to
determine if tropisetron use at MGH was appropriate, ...
Parkinson's disease (PO) is a neurodegerative disorder predominantly characterized
by the progressive loss of dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra pars compacta
(SNPC). Striatal dopamine concentration gets significantly ...
The clinical use of assisted reproductive techniques nowadays is intimately
dependent on the use of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. Ovarian
hyperstimulation with Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone analogues (GnRHa)
suppression ...
Background: Appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis can reduce the incidence of surgical site infections (55I) in many procedures. Its role in acutely inflamed appendicitis remains controversial. Complicated appendicitis is ...
Doumit, Rita(Loyola University Chicago, 2017-10-30)
Background: Newly admitted college students are subject to a massive input of
stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. An expanding
body of literature suggests that inadequate responses to ...