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Diab, Khalil; Noor, Aliya

Negative pressure pulmonary edema is a well-described complication of acute upper airway obstruction. It occurs as a result of a markedly negative intrathoracic pressure generated by forced inspiration against a closed ...

Comparison of Pulmonary Complications after Nonmyeloablative and Conventional Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant

Diab, Khalil J.; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wood, Karen L.; Shmalo, James A.; Sheski, Francis D.; Farber, Mark O.; Wilkes, David S.; Nelson, Robert P.

Nonmyeloablative conditioning before allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) is an alternative to conventional conditioning in older patients and those with comorbidities. It is not known whether the decreased tissue ...

Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Use for Subclassification and Genotyping of Lung Non-Small-Cell Carcinoma

Diab, Khalil; Raad, Samih; Hanna, Nasser; Jalal, Shadia; Bendaly, Edmond; Zhang, Chen; Nuguru, Shashank; Oueini, Houssam

OBJECTIVES:Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is the primary method for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. The purpose of this study was to assess the yield of EBUS-TBNA in ...

Osteosarcomatosis with rothmund-thomson syndrome

El-Khoury, J.M.; Haddad, S.N.; Atallah, N.G.

We describe the second reported case of multicentric osteosarcoma associated with Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS), a rare hereditary cancer-prone genodermatosis characterized by typical cutaneous lesions and other ...

MR arthrography of the hip: normal intra-articular structures and common disorders

El-Khoury, J.

This pictorial review illustrates the anatomical features of normal intra-articular components of the hip and their common disorders on MR arthrography. On T1-weighted MR arthrograms, the normal contrast-filled joint cavity ...

Major depression among young men who have sex with men in Beirut, and its association with structural- and sexual minority-related stressors, and social support

Mokhbat, Jacques; Wagner, Glenn J.; Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; El Khoury, Cynthia; Abi Ghanem, Carol; Balan, Elie; Kegeles, Susan; Mutchler, Matt G.

Guided by the minority stress model, we assessed depression and its relationship to structural and sexual minority-related stressors and social support in a sample of 226 young (age 18–29 years) men who have sex with men ...

Global prevalence, treatment, and prevention of hepatitis B virus infection in 2016

Mokhbat, Jacques

Background The 69th World Health Assembly approved the Global Health Sector Strategy to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030. Although no virological cure exists for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, existing therapies to ...

Prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic patterns of lebanese dentists for the management of dentoalveolar abscesses

Mokhbat, J.; Asmar, G.; Cochelard, D.; Lemdani, M.; Haddadi, A.; Ayoubz, F.

General dentists issue approximately 10% of antibiotic prescriptions across the global medical community consummation. The use of antibiotics for the management of dentoalveolar infections should be considered only in the ...

Screening for antiretroviral drug resistance among treatment-naive human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals in Lebanon

Mokhbat, Jacques M.; Zalloua, Pierre; Melhem, Nada M.; El-Khatib, Ziad

Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been successful at decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. HIV-1 drug resistance ...

Investigating the adoption of integrated STEM education within classrooms. (c2018)

El-Sayegh, Nour Adel (Lebanese American University, )

Education is facing, in the 21st century, various global challenges such as climate change and pollution. Solutions to these problems require the integration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). ...

Entrepreneurial Intentions of Undergraduate Students. (c2018)

Arab, Lara Al (Lebanese American University, )

It is generally accepted that the educational system of universities has to provide an academic environment that is beneficial to graduate students to meet the challenges of the workplace. The aim of this study was to ...

Migration and the formation of upper class. (c2018)

Abi Rafeh, Rami Amin (Lebanese American University, )

The topic of emigration has always been a unique aspect of the Lebanese society and has been extensively covered by academics. However, no research has examined return migrants, in particular, the role of migration ...

Social media and the facilitation of second language acquisition. (c2019)

Hamadeh, Wissam (Lebanese American University, )

While the concept of utilizing technology in educational settings is nothing new, the technology being applied normally serves one function and is solely educational in purpose. Given that students today are just as modern ...

Automated knowledge-based nutrition health assessment, recommendation, progress evaluation, and meal planning. (c2018)

Salloum, George Kamil (Lebanese American University, )

Establishing a healthy lifestyle has become a very important aspect in people’s lives. The latter requires maintaining a healthy nutrition by considering the nature and quantity of foods being consumed, as well as maintaining ...

Legislation of Cyber Law and Digital Forensic in Lebanon. (c2018)

Shehab, Maher Salim (Lebanese American University, )

Computer related crimes are highly emerging in the crime scene as human beings are relying vastly on computers in terms of communication, information gathering, data storage and much more. Hence, many countries worldwide ...

A dynamically turbo-charged heuristic for graph coloring. (c2018)

Chahine, Bachir (Lebanese American University, )

We launch a study on the dynamic form of the graph coloring problem proving it to be fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the edit-parameter. This leads us to present a new turbo-charged heuristic for the problem ...

Successes and Challenges of The EU External Aviation Policy. (c2018)

Mazloum, Hamza Sobhi (Lebanese American University, )

An industry that is more than a hundred years old, commercial aviation first started in 1914 when the first scheduled revenue flight was operated. Commercial aviation currently carries more than four billion passengers ...

The U.S mediation team's role in Camp David II. (c2018)

Maalouf, Nicholas (Lebanese American University, )

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict dates back to 1882 with the first Jewish immigration to Palestine and its intensification in the 1900s. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict eventually escalated and expanded to include other ...

Rescue cerclage

Khoury, Alfred; DeStefano, Kimberly A; Lin, Jung-Tz; Al-Kouatly, Huda; Bronsky, George; Barbara, Nies

OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of outcomes of rescue cerclage at our institution. METHODS: A retrospective study of women who received rescue McDonald cerclage, from January 2002 to December 2004, at Inova Fairfax Hospital. ...

Demographic and obstetric factors influencing pregnancy outcome in twin gestations

Khoury, Alfred; Tarter, Jennifer; Barton, John R.; Sibai, Baha M.

Objective: Our purpose was to identify the influence of parity and previous preterm delivery on pregnancy outcome in twin gestations. Study Design: A retrospective comparative analysis of women with twin gestations completing ...

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