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  • Primary health problems in rural school children in Lebanon 
    Helou, Mariana C.; Adib, Salim M. (2019-06-03)
    Background: Primary health problems among school children are rarely disaggregated between urban and rural areas. This report describes findings in children examined during school health visits in a rural region in South ...
  • Health status of Lebanese university students 
    Helou, Mariana; Sakr, Rania; Tanios, Alain (2019-06-03)
    Background: In order to assess the health status of the students in Lebanese Universities, an epidemiological study was conducted in 3 Lebanese universities during the year 2014-2015. Methods: A standard anonymous ...
  • Association of waterpipe smoking with myocardial infarction and determinants of metabolic syndrome among catheterized patients 
    Platt, Daniel E.; Hariri, Essa; Salameh, Pascale; Helou, Mariana; Sabbah, Nada; Merhi, Mahmoud; Abchee, Antoine B.; Zalloua, Pierre A. (2019-06-03)
    Background: Waterpipe smoking is a rising global public health epidemic perceived by many users to be less harmful, though its toxicity overlaps or even exceeds that of cigarette smoking. Short-term cardiovascular changes ...
  • Type II diabetes mellitus and hyperhomocysteinemia 
    Platt, Daniel E.; Hariri, Essa; Salameh, Pascale; Merhi, Mahmoud; Sabbah, Nada; Helou, Mariana; Mouzaya, Francis; Nemr, Rita; Al-Sarraj, Yasser; El-Shanti, Hatem; Abchee, Antoine B.; Zalloua, Pierre A. (2019-06-03)
    Background Elevated homocysteine (Hc) levels have a well-established and clear causal relationship to epithelial damage leading to coronary artery disease. Furthermore, it is strongly associated with other metabolic ...
  • Facial nerve palsy in the newborn: incidence and outcome 
    Falco, NA; Eriksson, E (2019-06-03)
    This study retrospectively identifies and characterizes patients with facial palsy related to birth trauma and describes the natural history of this disorder. The records of infants born with facial weakness or paralysis ...
  • Infantile digital fibromas 
    Falco, Nancy A.; Upton, Joseph (2019-06-03)
    A series of 15 digital lesions in 8 pediatric patients is presented. All infantile digital fibromas appear early in life at the distal or proximal interphalangeal joint level, characteristically involve the ulnar three ...
  • Nasal reconstruction with auricular microvascular transplant 
    Pribaz, JJ; Falco, N (2019-06-03)
    A free flap derived from the ascending helix of the ear has been used to reconstruct an anatomically diverse set of defects of the distal nose in 6 patients. Our cadaver injection studies have demonstrated that the blood ...
  • Vascularization of skin following implantation of an arteriovenous pedicle 
    Falco, Nancy A.; Pribaz, Julian J.; Eriksson, Elof (2019-06-03)
    In a rat model, a skin flap was fabricated by implantation of a distally ligated arteriovenous pedicle. The femoral artery and vein were implanted as a unit beneath the abdominal skin, a portion of which was later raised ...
  • Idiopathic facial palsy in pregnancy and the puerperium 
    Falco, NA; Eriksson, E (2019-06-03)
    Back to Results Idiopathic facial palsy in pregnancy and the puerperium. (PMID:2781450) Abstract Citations Related Articles Data BioEntities External Links Falco NA , Eriksson E Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics ...
  • Regulation of microvillus structure 
    Mooseker, M.S.; Graves, T.A.; Wharthon, K.A.; Falco, N.; Howe, C.L. (2019-06-03)
    The bundle of filaments within microvilli of intestinal epithelial cells contains five major proteins including actin, calmodulin, and subunits of 105-, 95-, and 70-kdaltons. It has been previously shown (Howe, C. L., M. ...
  • The diabetic foot 
    Veves, Aristidis; Giurini, John M.; LoGerfo, Frank W. (Humana Press, 2019-06-03)
  • Portal hypertension. Update on pathophysiology and management 
    Chatila, R. (2019-05-31)
    A lot has been learned about the pathophysiology of portal hypertension and its complications. This knowledge has led to vast advancements in therapy for this serious disease. I believe the future will carry more breakthroughs ...
  • Primary lymphoma of the gallbladder: case report and review of the literature 
    Chatila, R.; Fiedler, P. N.; Vender, R. J. (2019-05-31)
    The term extranodal lymphoma refers to lymphoma arising in tissues other than lymph nodes or major lymphoid organs (1). The GI tract is commonly involved by lymphoma. Although lymphomas of the liver and the biliary tree ...
  • Assessment of bleeding in chronic liver disease and coagulopathy using the IMPROVE bleeding criteria 
    Chamoun, Nibal; Ramia, Elsy; Lteif, Christelle; Salameh, Pascale; Zantout, Hala; Ghanem, Georges; Chatila, Rajaa (2019-05-31)
    Background: In this study, the authors utilized the IMPROVE (International Medical Prevention Registry on Venous Thromboembolism) bleeding definition to explore the safety profile of pharmacologic venous thromboembolism ...
  • Affordance Equivalences in Robotics: A Formalism 
    Andries, Mihai; Chavez-Garcia, Ricardo Omar; Chatila, Rajaa; Giusti, Alessandro; Gambardella, Luca Maria (2019-05-31)
    Automatic knowledge grounding is still an open problem in cognitive robotics. Recent research in developmental robotics suggests that a robot's interaction with its environment is a valuable source for collecting such ...
  • The pattern of self‐poisoning among Lebanese children and adolescents in two tertiary care centres in Lebanon 
    Sinno, Durriyah; Majdalani, Marianne; Chatila, Rajaa; Musharrafieh, Umayya; Al-Tannir, Mohamad (2019-05-30)
    Aim: Self‐poisoning in childhood and adolescence is a major problem for health authorities all over the world. The objective of this study was to determine the pattern of self‐poisoning in Lebanese children and ...
  • Differential diagnosis of bile duct injury and ductopenia 
    West, A.B.; Chatila, R. (2019-05-30)
    Injury and loss of intrahepatic bile ducts are relatively common manifestations of liver disease in both adults and children. They occur in a wide variety of conditions ranging from developmental abnormalities and errors ...
  • Intractable cough and abnormal pulmonary function in benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis 
    Chatila, R.; Bergasa, N. V.; Lagarde, S.; West, A. B. (2019-05-30)
    Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC) is a syndrome characterized by recurrent episodes of cholestasis with associated pruritus. The intensity and duration of cholestatic episodes, and the length of the intervening ...
  • Intestinal pseudoobstruction in acute Lyme disease 
    Chatila, Rajaa; Kapadia, Cyrus R. (2019-05-30)
    We report here a case of acute Lyme disease in a 61-yr-old man who developed a facial nerve paralysis and a relentless intestinal pseudoobstruction 2 wk after the initial prodrome. Both the facial nerve paralysis and ...
  • Endoscopic resection of a choledochocele 
    Chatila, Rajaa; Andersen, Dana K.; Topazian, Mark (2019-05-30)
    CASE REPORT The patient, a 35-year-old woman, had a long history of postprandial epigastric pain and pressure. She had not had jaundice or overt pancreatitis but did have occasional fever. The patient underwent laparoscopic ...

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