Annals of Saudi medicine
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Little attention has been paid to the problem of male osteoporosis in Saudi Arabia. In this prospective study we assessed the prevalence of male osteoporosis among Saudi Arabs. ⋯ Our study indicates that the prevalence of osteoporosis among Saudi Arabian males is higher than among Western males. More studies are needed to determine the national prevalence of male osteoporosis. It is recommended that serious measures to be undertaken to prevent male osteoporosis to stop any future epidemic of catastrophic osteoporosis-related fractures.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Nov 2006
Hematological parameters in sickle cell anemia patients with and without priapism.
Priapism was associated with certain hematological parameters in sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients in one report but not in another. We studied differences in haematological parameters between SCA patients with and without priapism. ⋯ SCA patients with priapism had a lower rate of hemolysis, resulting in a higher hematocrit and greater blood viscosity, which increased the risk of corpora cavernosal sickling and blockade. Hence, a relatively high hematocrit is a risk factor for the development priapism in patients with sickle cell anemia.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Nov 2006
Outcome of patients with severe asthma in the intensive care unit.
Because little has been reported about the outcome of severe asthma outside the US and western Europe, we performed a retrospective case analysis of patients treated in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of a university hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to determine the management, complications and outcome of severe asthma requiring ICU admission. ⋯ Our results suggest that severe asthma requiring ICU admission is now safely managed in ICUs. Our results are comparable to recently published data on the treatment of severe asthma in the ICU.