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The Value of Physiotherapy after Breast Cancer Treatment

Original article English Dhandapani Prem Kumar, Momen Abdou Alkhir, Premkumar Remya Teaching Staff, Faculty of Public Health, Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, Libya JMJ Vol.8, No.2 (Summer) 2008:97-100 Abstract Objective: Many patients suffer from severe shoulder complaints after breast cancer treatment. Physiotherapy has been clinically observed to improve treatment of these patients. Shoulder and arm exercises …

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ANCA-associated Granulomatousis Vasculitis “Wegener’s Granulomatosis”

Review English Abdalla. F. Saghar, Jumma Ahmed Madi Department of Medicine, Al- Fateh University, Tripoli, Tripoli Medical Centre, Tripoli, Libya JMJ Vol.8, No.2 (Summer) 2008:88-96 Abstract Wegener’s granulomatosis is a multisystemic, rare and fatal grasnulomatous vasculitis distinguished from other vasculitides by the pattern of organ involvement and by the histological features. There are several criteria …

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Mycobacteriosis; Part II: The New Tuberculins

Review English Ahmed A Toweir Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Aarb Medical University, Benghazi, Libya JMJ Vol.8, No.2 (Summer) 2008:84-87 Abstract In developed countries, the decline of human and bovine tuberculosis has helped to unmask nonspecific sensitization to tuberculins or purified protein derivatives (PPDs) in individuals exposed to various species of …

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Non Ketotic Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemia presenting as Epilepsia Partialis Continua.(An unusual presentation of a common disorder)

Case Study English Kamha A Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. Libyan J Med. AOP: 080420 Abstract We report a patient with epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) associated with non ketotic hyperosmolar hyperglycemia. EPC is an uncommon presentation of nonketotic hyperglycemia. This case was reported in the Medical Intensive Care Unit in Hamad …

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Endobronchial Tuberculosis Simulating Lung Cancer and Healing without Bronchial Stenosis

Case Study English Al-Maslamani M 1, Ibrahim WH 2, Chacko K 3, Al-Khal A 4 Infectious disease division 1, 3, 4, Department of Medicine 2 Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar Libyan J Med. AOP: 080330 Abstract Endobroncheal tuberculosis is defined as tuberculous infection of the tracheobronchial tree with microbial and histopathological evidence. The disease is …

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Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Unusual Presentation in a Seventy Two Year Old Man

Case report English Ajaj A, Luhishi E, Metaraiah E Pinderfields General Hospital, Medical & Ophthalmology Department, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trusts, Wakefield, UK Libyan J Med. AOP: 080311 Abstract A 72 year old man with a history of TIAs and stroke with unexplained moderately raised ESR presented a year later with rapid deterioration of vision in …

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Pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum, surgical emphysema, barotrauma, mechanical ventilation.

Case report English Kamha A, Alzeer H, Elithy M. Hamad Medical Corporation, Medical ICU, Qatar Libyan J Med. AOP: 080309 Abstract A 29 year old male patient of Indian ancestry was admitted to an outside hospital with rapid deterioration of his level of consciousness. The patient required mechanical ventilation and transfer to MICU at Hamad …

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Irreversible Kidney Damage due to Multicentric Castleman’s Disease

Case report English Fredrik Kahn 1, Anna Fagerstrِm 2, Mهrten Segelmark 2, Omran Bakoush 2 1-Department of Infectious Disease, 2- Department of Nephrology, Libyan J Med. AOP:080108 Abstract Castleman’s Disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder accompanied by marked systemic inflammatory response. Morphological diagnosis of CD requires biopsy of the whole of the involved lymph …

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