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Table of Contents of the September 2008 Issue

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EDITORIAL
 

Daring Heroes of the Distant Past                                                                                                     181
Belle M Hegde

REVIEW ARTICLE
 

The Crisis of Lifestyle Conditions in the Middle East With Special Attention to Kuwait:
An Unequivocal Evidence-based Call to Action                                                                                 184
Elizabeth Dean
ORIGINAL ARTICLES  
 

The Relation between Salt Intake and Blood Pressure among Iranian                                           191
Morteza Rafiei, Maryam Boshtam, Nizal Sarraf-Zadegan, Shiva Seirafian
Internet and Computer Use by Medical Students in Traditional and Problem Based Learning Systems                                                                                                                                                196
Abiola C Senok, Corrado Pipan, Yousif Edan, Giuseppe A Botta
Management of Unicameral Bone Cyst of Proximal Femur: Experience of 14 Cases and Review of
Literature                                                                                                                                             202
Magdy M Abdel-Mota’al, Abdul Salam Othman Mohamad, Kenneth Chukwuka Katchy, Amarnath A Mallur, Fawzy Hamido Ahmad, Barakat El-Alfy
Steroids for Reducing Post-Tonsillectomy Morbidity                                                                       211
Monther Ali Alajmi, Hamoud Saud Al Noumas, Khalid A Al-Abdulhadi, Gopalan Kavitha
Impact of Adherence to Asthma Management Guidelines in Asthmatic Patients: A Primary Healthcare Center Study                                                                                                                    216
Samia Salem Al-Musallam, Fotooh Ahmed Al-Jariky, Asia Saad Alhamdan, Jassim MA Ibrahim, Seham Ahmed Ali
Clinico-hematological Profile of Pancytopenia in Manipur, India                                                     221
Phurailatpam Madhubala Devi, Rajesh Singh Laishram, Phurailatpam Sarojkumar Sharma, Ahongshangbam Meina Singh,
Moirangthem Kulachandra Singh, Yanglem Mohen Singh
Genotype – Phenotype Correlation in 46, XY Females                                                                    225
Leelavathy Nanjappa, Sayee Rajangam


 
CASE REPORTS
 

Metformin Induced Lactic Acidosis in a Patient with Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report and LiteratureReview                                                                                                                                230
Faridah Redha, Mohammed Al-Shemmeri, Hamdi Ibrahim
Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms in a Young Infant with Kawasaki Disease                               233
Esmail Redha, Khalida Rashid, Jasem Ibrahim
Vertebrobasilar Artery Dissection Complicating Cervico-Dorsal Intramedullary Ependymoma:
A Case Report                                                                                                                                     235
Yousef Al-Awadi, Tarik Al-Sheikh, Hisham Yousri
Pyridoxine for Severe Metabolic Acidosis and Seizures due to Isoniazid (INH) Overdose                                                                                                                                              239
Dalal Al Mutairi, Mokhtar Elbayer, Saleh Al Enezi
Difficulties in the Diagnosis of Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis                              241
Sherif A Sadek, Nada Al Terkait
Neonatal Cardiac Failure - A Pulsating Brain                                                                                   244
Sulaiman Al Saad, Hussein Fathy, Atef Abu Taleb
Congenital Chloride Diarrhea Associated with Sensorineural Deafness, and Epilepsy in a Kuwaiti Girl                                                                                                                                                       248
Ameer M Mohsen, Hanan F Al-Mutairi, Othman A Abou Shanab

SELECTED Abstracts of articles published elsewhere by authors In Kuwait                                       251         FORTHCOMING Conferences AND MEETINGS                                                                                              257 

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

WHO-FACTS SHEET                                                                                                                           263
1. New checklist to help make surgery safer
2. 2.5 billion live with poor sanitation facilities
3. Noncommunicable diseases now world’s biggest killers
4. New rapid tests for drug-resistant TB for developing countries
      

 
 
 

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