Assessment of the Quality of Life among Diagnosed Hypertensive Patients Attending Primary Health Centers in Majmaah, Saudi Arabia

Introduction: Very few studies have been successful in assessing the health-related quality of life among diagnosed hypertensive patients attending clinics or hospitals for follow-ups. Since the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia has dedicated a separate webpage to tackle this problem; feedback through community-based studies is needed to ensure proper planning and implementation. Methodology: A community based cross-sectional study was done to find out the correlation between the quality of life and hypertensive patients undergoing treatment in Majmaah, Saudi Arabia. Results: A total of 184 participants with a mean age of 57.8 years completed this study. Female participants (26.8%) overwhelmingly rated their quality of life as excellent as compared to male participants (4.9%) even though an equal number of both participants (20.2%) considered it to be good. Conclusion: A longitudinal study is needed to find out this significant difference in the symptomatology of Saudi male and female hypertensive patients on long term medication.

evaluation of routine central nodal dissection in radiologically node negative differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Background: thyroid cancer is the most common malignant disease in endocrine system and is rapidly increasing in incidence. The use of routine prophylactic central neck dissection for the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer has been an area of debate over the past few decades

Aim of the Work: the primary aim of surgery was to resect disease, minimize the chance of recurrence and achieve this with minimal morbidity. Selecting the appropriate procedure is critical as not only does surgery provide initial therapy, but also optimizes the patient for adjuvant radioactive iodine [RAI] therapy when required

Patients and Methods: this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic central lymph nodal dissection in patients diagnosed with differentiated thyroid carcinoma from several points of view including operative time, hospital stay, postoperative complications and most importantly the recurrence. Our patients were operated upon between August 2016 and August 2017 with minimal follow up of 6 months and follow up extended to 2 years after surgery

Results: Operative time was significantly higher in group B with a mean time of 141.68 +/- 12.72 as compared to group A. The most outstanding difference in terms of complications was detected in transient hypoparathyroidism that occurred in 16% of group B patients. A single case of recurrence was detected at 12 month in group A that was confirmed by fine needle aspiration cytology which required reoperation

Conclusion: there was no convincing evidence that pCND leads to an improvement in recurrence rate, overall survival, or any clinically significant variable when applied indiscriminately to DTC patients

Assessment of quality of life among children with atopic dermatitis

Patients with skin diseases experience a wide range of symptoms, which affect their lives, ranging from trivial problems to major handicaps. Sometimes, these symptoms are caused by objective changes that impair daily life directly and measurably, while at other times the impairment is subtle and occurs mainly on psychological level. The aim of this work is to study the impact of atopic dermatitis on the quality of life [QOL] among affected children. The aim of this work is to study the impact of atopic dermatitis [AD] on the quality of life [QOL] among affected children. One hundred child aged 7-13 years were the cases of the study. They were selected from the patients attending the dermatology outpatient clinic at El-Hussin University Hospital. Also, one hundred child were selected as a control with age and sex matching. Quality of life was assessed for patients and controls through a specific questionnaire. The QOL was good among 24% of cases in comparison to 88% of controls. It was observed that 91.3% with severe AD had poor QOL, while, 37.5% with mild severity had good QOL with statistical significance difference. The QOL of patients with atopic dermatitis is clearly impaired with comparison to control group. QOL showed strong negative effect with increase the severity of the disease

MR imaging of Schistosomal myelitis

Schistomiasis is a parasitic infestation that affects an estimated 200 to 300 million people worldwide. Spinal involvement is a rare complication of schistosoma mansoni or schistosoma hematobium infestation. The prevalence of spinal cord shistosomiasis in patients with systemic disease ranges from 0.3% to 13% in different published studies. The pathological findings of spinal shistosomiasis include a granulomatous intramedullary mass of the caudal spinal cord, radicular involvement with granulomatous changes surrounding the conus medullaris and cauda equina nerve roots, granulomatous necrosis and haemorrhage and asymptomatic deposition of ova in the spinal cord. Different imaging modalities have been employed for diagnosis of spinal schistosomiasis including conventional water-soluble contrast myelography, computed tomography [CT], CT myelography and magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]. In this study, we report imaging findings in 5 patients with shistosomal myelitis on CT myelography [1 case] and MRI [4 cases]. Three patients were operated upon and two patients had follow-up MRI after 6 months of antiparasitic therapy. We concluded that MRI should be the primary diagnostic modality employed in patients suspected to have shistosomal myelitis on a clinical and laboratory basis

Factors affection prevalence of bacterial vaginosis in non-pregnant women

A hospital-based study was carried out on 311 non-pregnant women. They were interviewed to complete a predesigned questionnaire and their vaginal smears were examined bacteriologically for bacterial vaginosis. The results showed that the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis was 36% among the studied sample. The prevalence was higher among illiterate, low socioeconomic standard, high parity women and those frequently used vaginal douche. It was concluded that some lifestyle and demographic factors appear to increase or decrease the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis. Douching increased the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis, whereas education decreased this prevalence