Kuwait Medical Journal



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Table of Contents of the March 2005  Issue

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EDITORIAL
 

Needless Interventions in Medicine                                                                                                              1
Belle M Hegde

REVIEW ARTICLE
 

Vaccine Immunotherapy for a Deadly Disease Like Malignant Melanoma: Where Do We Stand?        4
Farid Saleh, Ghada Ibrahim, Hussein Dashti, Pedro Romero, Abdullah Behbehani, Hilal Al-Sayer, Sami Asfar, Ali Dashti, Waleed Renno,
Suad Abdeen, Ivo Klepacek

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
  Long Term Effects of Hydrochlorothiazide on Diabetic Control and Blood Pressure in Nigerians          18
Emmanuel O Okoro, Benjamin A Oyejola
Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern in Urinary Tract Pathogens and its Impact on Empirical Therapy in
General Practice
                                                                                                                                            
22
Sana M Al-Ali, Asia S Al-Hamdan, Fotooh AAl-Jarki, Jamila M K Al-Faraj, Samia S Al-Musalem
Utility of Exercise Electrocardiographic Stress Test forAssessment of Cardiac Autonomic Function in
Hypertensive Patients
                                                                                                                                  
28
Aly M Hegazy, Bader AAbdulkader
Intracavernous Injection of Prostaglandin E1 for the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction in Spinal Cord
Injured Patients: Experience with 30 Patients
                                                                                            
33
Musaed Faraj Khamees, Maria Kondeva Ivanova, Mohammed Akbar Ali, Tiberiu Raibulet
Aluminum Inhibits Delayed-rectifier K+ Current in Drosophila Neurons                                                 38
Waleed B Alshuaib, Mini V Mathew
CASE REPORTS
 

 

 

 

 

 

Fat Necrosis and Why the Classic Abdominoplasty Should be Avoided in Obese Patients                     43
George Alexander, Mohammed K Ebrahim, Ibrahim Ghoneim
Idiopathic Perforation of Caecum in a Neonate : Case Report                                                                  47
Sunil Kumar Yadav, Safwat Helmi, Saleema Al-Ramadan
Hypoglycaemic Coma in a Young Girl: First case of Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase
(MCAD) Deficiency Identified in Kuwait
                                                                                                    50
Dina G Ramadan, Ibrahim Al-Sharkawy, Fayka AAl-Ruqum
Small Bowel Perforation as a Complication of the Liposuction                                                                  54
Mohammad A Fouad, Ahmed Mossalam, Nael Al-Naqeeb
Efficacy of Carvedilol in the Treatment of Doxorubicin-induced Cardiomyopathy in a Pediatric Patient 56
Esmail Redha, Sulaiman Alsaad, Ali Alhassan

SELECTED ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE BYAUTHORS IN KUWAIT                                                                       59 

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS                                                                                                                                                   65

WHO-facts sheet                                                                                                                                                                                                     71

1. Eliminating Iodine Deficiency Worldwide is Within Reach
2. Increased Benefits Found from Wider Use of Anti-Parasite Drugs
3. Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, the Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable
4. First International Standard for Common Genetic Test Approved by WHO

ARABIC ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THIS ISSUE                                                                                                                       76

 

 



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