1146Prevalence of blood borne viruses in the dialysis unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait

Relationship between Cortisol Increment and Basal Cortisol: Implications for the Low-Dose Short Adreno-

Cortisol: Implications for the Low-Dose Short Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Stimulation Test, Suhail A.R. Doi, Ibrahim Lasheen, Khaldoon Al-Humood, and Kamal A.S. Al-Shoumer (Divisions of 1 Endocrinology and 2 Medicine, Mubarak Al Kabeer Teaching Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait; * address correspondence to this author at: Division of Endocrinology, Mubarak Al Kabeer Teaching Hospital, PO Box 64849 Shuw...

Gastric Calcifying Fibrous Tumor Resembling Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: A Case Report

Calcifying fibrous tumor (CFT) is a rare mesenchymal tumor, affecting children and young adults with a predilection for the soft tissue and the abdominal cavity. CFT of the tubular gastrointestinal tract is very rare with less than 20 cases of gastric CFTs reported in English literature. This benign hypocellular fibrosclerotic calcifying lesion can resemble other spindle cell tumors particularl...

Myiasis in Kuwait: nosocomial infections caused by lucilia sericata and Megaselia scalaris.

Myiasis, the invasion of live human tissue by larvae of Diptera, is reported in the nasopharynx and a leg wound in two patients who were hospitalized for more than 72 hours in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Teaching Hospital in Kuwait City, Kuwait. On the fourth and fifth days after a 10-year-old Kuwaiti boy was admitted to the hospital intensive care unit in a bloodied and comatose state following a traffi...

Co-existence of Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)

Hospital management of children with acute asthma exacerbations in Kuwait: adherence to international guidelines.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the in-patient management of children with acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma and its adherence to international guidelines. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records of 100 consecutive admissions for acute exacerbation of asthma to the paediatric wards at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait, from October through December 1999 were retrieved. Data relevant to asthma sympt...