Search Results - "Balhamar, Abdullah"
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Clinical Characteristics and Predictors of 28-Day Mortality in 352 Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: A Retrospective Study
Published in Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health (01-03-2021)“…Background Since the first COVID-19 patient in Saudi Arabia (March, 2020) more than 338,539 cases and approximately 4996 dead were reported. We present the…”
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Life-threatening COVID-19 presenting as stroke with antiphospholipid antibodies and low ADAMTS-13 activity, and the role of therapeutic plasma exchange: A case series
Published in SAGE open medical case reports (01-10-2020)“…We present a case series of three patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to our intensive care unit due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, brain…”
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COVID-19 in a patient with active tuberculosis: A rare case-report
Published in Respiratory medicine case reports (01-01-2020)“…Scarce data exist about the clinical features of COVID-19 in patients with concomitant active and/or latent tuberculosis (TB). This rare case-report outlines…”
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Insidious development of pulmonary embolism in asymptomatic patients with COVID-19: Two rare case-reports
Published in Respiratory medicine case reports (01-01-2020)“…Scarce data exist regarding the clinical sequelae of COVID-19 and/or the prevalence of thromboembolic disease in asymptomatic patients. Surely, there is…”
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Mortality and Pulmonary Embolism in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome From COVID-19 vs. Non-COVID-19
Published in Frontiers in medicine (04-03-2022)“…There may be a difference in respiratory mechanics, inflammatory markers, and pulmonary emboli in COVID-19 associated ARDS vs. ARDS from other etiologies. Our…”
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New Optic Nerve Sonography Quality Criteria in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Traumatic Brain Injury
Published in Critical care research and practice (01-01-2018)“…Background. New sonographic quality criteria to optimize optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurements were suggested. The latter were correlated to elevated…”
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COVID-19 with spontaneous pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and subcutaneous emphysema in the intensive care unit: Two case reports
Published in Journal of infection and public health (01-03-2021)“…Real-Time-reverse-transcription-Polymerase-Chain-Reaction from nasopharyngeal swabs and chest computed tomography (CT) depicting typically bilateral…”
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A Retrospective Analysis of Thromboembolic Phenomena in Mechanically Ventilated Patients with COVID-19
Published in Critical care research and practice (2021)“…Background. Recent studies have shown an increased prevalence of thromboembolic disease in critically ill patients with the novel SARS-CoV-2 disease…”
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COVID-19 in a patient with a flare of systemic lupus erythematosus: A rare case-report
Published in Respiratory medicine case reports (01-01-2020)“…This is a rare case-report of a young female with systemic lupus erythematosus and end-stage kidney disease (on maintenance hemodialysis) who was admitted to…”
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Co-infection of SARS-CoV-2 and Bordetella bronchiseptica in a young man with idiopathic non-cystic bronchiectasis and vitamin D3 deficiency
Published in Respiratory medicine case reports (01-01-2020)“…This is the first reported case, to our knowledge, of co-infection of Bordetella bronchiseptica and SARS-CoV-2 in a young patient with underlying idiopathic…”
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Therapeutic plasma exchange in patients with life-threatening COVID-19: a randomised controlled clinical trial
Published in International journal of antimicrobial agents (01-05-2021)“…•Open-label randomised clinical trial of ICU patients with life-threatening COVID-19.•Standard treatment plus therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) (n = 43) versus…”
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Continuous renal replacement therapy with the addition of CytoSorb cartridge in critically ill patients with COVID‐19 plus acute kidney injury: A case‐series
Published in Artificial organs (01-05-2021)“…Our aim was to investigate continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) with CytoSorb cartridge for patients with life‐threatening COVID‐19 plus acute kidney…”
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Configuring a hospital in the COVID-19 era by integrating crisis management logistics
Published in Infection control and hospital epidemiology (01-07-2021)“…[...]our hospital has been under pressure to upgrade our ICU services. [...]we have promoted awake prone positioning and more oxygen-support therapies (ie,…”
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Thrombolysis in severe COVID-19 pneumonia with massive pulmonary embolism
Published in The American journal of emergency medicine (01-03-2021)“…No guidelines exist for the management of massive pulmonary embolism (PE) in COVID-19. We present a COVID-19 patient with refractory acute respiratory syndrome…”
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Prospective Longitudinal Evaluation of Point‐of‐Care Lung Ultrasound in Critically Ill Patients With Severe COVID‐19 Pneumonia
Published in Journal of ultrasound in medicine (01-03-2021)“…Objectives To perform a prospective longitudinal analysis of lung ultrasound findings in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)…”
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Residual Lung Injury in Patients Recovering From COVID ‐19 Critical Illness: A Prospective Longitudinal Point‐of‐Care Lung Ultrasound Study
Published in Journal of ultrasound in medicine (01-09-2021)“…Scarce data exist regarding the natural history of lung lesions detected on ultrasound in those who survive severe COVID‐19 pneumonia. Objective We performed a…”
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient with COVID-19
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient with COVID-19
Published in Coronary artery disease (01-06-2021)“…Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text…”
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Residual Lung Injury in Patients Recovering From COVID‐19 Critical Illness
Published in Journal of ultrasound in medicine (01-09-2021)“…Scarce data exist regarding the natural history of lung lesions detected on ultrasound in those who survive severe COVID‐19 pneumonia. Objective We performed a…”
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Co-infection of SARS-CoV-2 and Bordetella bronchiseptica in a young man with idiopathic non-cystic bronchiectasis and vitamin D 3 deficiency
Published in Respiratory medicine case reports (2020)“…This is the first reported case, to our knowledge, of co-infection of and SARS-CoV-2 in a young patient with underlying idiopathic bronchiectasis and vitamin D…”
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