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Short communication English Suliman Mohamed Eldurrija and Fatheia Ahmed Elrishy Misurata Central Hospital, Misurata- Libya JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 216-218 Abstract Objective:The purpose of this prospective study is to evaluate the efficacy of the extra-amniotic Foley catheter balloon as a method of cervical ripening. Study design: Pregnant women admitted for induction of labour …

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Short communication English Khaled A Youseif, Rabia M Gwedar, and Fauzi A Sagher Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Tripoli Medical Centre. Faculty of Medicine, Elfateh University, Tripoli, Libya JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 211-214 Abstract Objectives: Ten patients with hyper-ammonia were revised to improve early recognition and management of this potentially lethal …

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Original article English Mohamed Elkabir and Khalifa Elbakkush 1-Oral and Maxillofacial surgery department Tripoli Medical Centre. 2-Tripoli Eye Hospital JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 206-210 Abstract Trauma to the face can result in fracture of facial bones such as the mandible, maxilla zygomatic complex, nasoethmoid and/or orbit. Orbital fracture depending on the severity and …

Management of orbital floor fractures TMC experience Read More »

Original article English Amira Shabash1, Asthma Shagleb1, Rabia Gwedar1, Meloda Rajab2 and Fauzi Sagher1 1) Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, TMC; 2) Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Elfateh University, Tripoli, Libya JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 202-205 Abstract In order to determine the frequency of cow’s milk protein intolerance in …

Cow’s milk protein intolerance; Hospital based study Read More »

Original article English Ehtuish F Ehtuish and Anuj Mishra National Organ Transplant Program, Tripoli Central Hospital, Tripoli, Libya JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 197-201 Abstract Objectives – Review of the angiographic data of 118 live related kidney donors was done to assess the renal vessel anatomy, compare the findings with the per operative findings, …

The pattern of renal vessels in our live related potential donors Pool:A multislice spiral C.T. Angiography Read More »

Original article English Mohamed Mansouri1and Jacek Szmidt2 1) Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya; 2) Department of Vascular Surgery and Transplantology, Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 192-196 Abstract Drug therapy may control blood pressure in some cases of renovascular hypertension (RVH), but ineffective in others. Early …

Extra-anatomical bypass procedure in the surgical treatment of renovascular disease Read More »

Original article English Rabia Gwedar1, Khaled A Youseif1, Bashir Elgarmoul2 and Fauzi Sagher1 1) Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, TMC. Faculty of Medicine Elfateh University; 2) Department of Paediatric Surgery, TMC, Tripoli, Libya JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 186-191 Abstract In the newborn, jaundice for more than 14 days is pathological and …

Prolonged neonatal cholestasis; think of biliary atresia first Read More »

Original article English Ammurah M. El-Arnaoti, Lotfia Ghandouri and Abdurraouf M. Aghila Department of Radiation Oncology, Tripoli Medical Centre, Tripoli, Libya JMJ Vol.4 No. 3 (Winter) 2005: 180-185 Abstract Between Jan. 1999 and Dec. 2003, 2847 patients were referred to the radiotherapy department in Tripoli Medical Centre, out of them 2735 were cancer patients. Head …

Nasopharyngeal cancer TMC experience Read More »

Original article English Nakai K, Habano W, Nakai K, Fukushima N, Suwabe A, Moriya S, Osano K, Gurwitz D. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka 020-8505, Japan. knakai@iwate-med.ac.jp Life Sci. 2005 Nov 19;78(1):107-11. Abstract CYP2C9 is a major P450 2C enzyme, which hydroxylates about 16% of drugs that are in current clinical use …

Ethnic differences in CYP2C9*2 (Arg144Cys) and CYP2C9*3 (Ile359Leu) genotypes in Japanese and Israeli populations. Read More »

Original article English Elfituri A, Sherif F, Elmahaishi M, Chrystyn H. School of Pharmacy, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK. Maturitas. 2005 Sep 16;52(1):52-9. Abstract Most previous studies designed to evaluate the efficacy of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have been carried out in Europe, North America and Australia, involving Caucasian women for 6 months …

Two hormone replacement therapy (HRT) regimens for middle-eastern postmenopausal women. Read More »