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Prevalence of cerebral venous thrombosis with the use of oral contraceptive pills during the Holy month of Ramadan

Mohammed AlSheef, Mastourah Alotaibi, Abdul Rehman Z. Zaidi, Areej Alshamrani, Aroub Alhamidi, Syed Ziauddin A. Zaidi, Noor Alanazi, Sarah Alhathlool, Ohoud Alarfaj, Mohammed AlHazzaa, Ghaydaa Kullab, Amany Alboghdadly and Amani Abu-Shaheen
Saudi Medical Journal October 2020, 41 (10) 1063-1069; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.10.25397
Mohammed AlSheef
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mastourah Alotaibi
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdul Rehman Z. Zaidi
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Areej Alshamrani
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Aroub Alhamidi
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Syed Ziauddin A. Zaidi
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Noor Alanazi
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sarah Alhathlool
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ohoud Alarfaj
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed AlHazzaa
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ghaydaa Kullab
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Amany Alboghdadly
From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Amani Abu-Shaheen
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vol. 41 no. 10 1063-1069
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.10.25397
PubMed 
33026046

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received June 29, 2020
  • Accepted September 8, 2020
  • Published online October 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Mohammed AlSheef, MD⇑,
  2. Mastourah Alotaibi, PharmD,
  3. Abdul Rehman Z. Zaidi, MD,
  4. Areej Alshamrani, PharmD,
  5. Aroub Alhamidi, PharmD,
  6. Syed Ziauddin A. Zaidi, MD,
  7. Noor Alanazi, PharmD,
  8. Sarah Alhathlool, PharmD,
  9. Ohoud Alarfaj, PharmD,
  10. Mohammed AlHazzaa, MSD,
  11. Ghaydaa Kullab, MD,
  12. Amany Alboghdadly, PharmD and
  13. Amani Abu-Shaheen, MPH
  1. From the Department of Medicine (AlSheef, Zaidi A, Kullab), from Department of Adult Hematology/BMT (Zaidi S), from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alarfaj), from the National Neuroscience Institute (AlHazzaa), from the Research Center (Abu-Shaheen), King Fahad Medical City; and from the College of Pharmacy (Alotaibi, Alshamrani, Alhamidi, Alanazi, Alhathlool, Alboghdadly), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohammed AlSheef, Department of Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: malsheef{at}kfmc.med.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1651-1158
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