Incorporating geriatrics into undergraduate medical education in Lebanon [0.03%]
黎巴嫩将老年医学融入本科医学生教学体系中
Rania A Tohme,Ramzi R Hajjar
Rania A Tohme
Background: Although the proportion of older adults in Lebanon is expected to increase rapidly over the next few decades, the current healthcare workforce is unprepared to address the needs of this population. Currently, ...
Family relations and health over the life course. A Lebanese perspective [0.03%]
人生历程中的家庭关系与健康问题——以黎巴嫩为例
Kristine J Ajrouch,Sawsan Abdulrahim,Toni C Antonucci
Kristine J Ajrouch
The link between family relations and well-being in old age has received ample attention in the international literature, but remains least examined in the Arab region where cultural ideals assume positive intergenerational relations within...
Abla Mehio Sibai,Anthony Rizk,Nabil M Kronfol
Abla Mehio Sibai
Lebanon is currently experiencing unique and dynamic demographic shifts towards an aging population: past and present fertility are among the lowest in the Arab region and crude mortality rates have decreased in the past few decades from 9....
Aging and society [0.03%]
老龄化与社会
Sawsan Abdulrahim
Sawsan Abdulrahim
Sanam Moradan
Sanam Moradan
Germ cell tumors are derived from the primordial germ cells of the ovary and immature teratoma is the second most common germ cell malignancy. About 50% of pure immature teratomas of the ovary occur in women between the ages of 10 and 20 ye...
Rami Jabbour,Janah Maddah,Rita Makhoul et al.
Rami Jabbour et al.
We report two rare cases of Bellini duct carcinoma, a rare variant of renal cell carcinoma. Case 1: The patient, a 73-year-old female, was admitted to the...
Constantin El Habr,Zarouwi Meguerian,Rita Sammour
Constantin El Habr
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α inhibitors are being widely and increasingly used for the management of a spectrum of rheumatologic diseases that are refractory to conventional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. Various cutaneous side e...
[Bladder and bowel migration of staples used for inguinal hernia repair via transperitoneal laparoscopy] [0.03%]
经腹腔镜下腹股沟疝修补钉合迁移致膀胱、肠管穿孔
Pierre Sarkis,Fadi Sleilaty,Jean Biajini
Pierre Sarkis
Introduction of foreign bodies inside abdominal cavity may migrate to hollow organs like bladder and bowel. This can occur after various laparoscopic or open abdominal and pelvic surgeries in which synthetic materials are used. We report an...
The cleft sternum: a possible role for pliable prosthetic reconstruction [0.03%]
裂胸骨：关于采用可弯曲的假体进行重建的作用的一些思考
Imad L Kaddoura,Mounir Y Obeid
Imad L Kaddoura
Background: Faced with our intraoperative inability to primarily close a very wide isolated cleft sternum of a pediatric patient without causing cardiovascular decompensation, we describe our use of a synthetic material f...
David Atallah,Charbel Salameh,Riad Sarkis et al.
David Atallah et al.
Background: Ninety per cent of cases of congenital vaginal agenesis are represented by the Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, the remaining 10% being represented by the testicular feminization syndrome and vaginal ...