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Rates of cerebrospinal fluid infection and the causative organisms following shunt procedures in Saudi Arabia

A retrospective study based on radiological findings

AbdulAziz M. Al-Sharydah, Yaser A. Abu Melha, Sari S. Al-Suhibani, Abdulrazaq A. Alojan, Tareq H. Al-Taei, Iba I. Alfawaz, Lateefah T. AlShammari, Saeed A. Al-Jubran and Ahmed S. Ammar
Saudi Medical Journal June 2020, 41 (6) 607-613; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.6.25095
AbdulAziz M. Al-Sharydah
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Yaser A. Abu Melha
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Sari S. Al-Suhibani
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Abdulrazaq A. Alojan
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Tareq H. Al-Taei
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Iba I. Alfawaz
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Lateefah T. AlShammari
From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Saeed A. Al-Jubran
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Ahmed S. Ammar
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vol. 41 no. 6 607-613
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.6.25095
PubMed 
32518927

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received January 21, 2020
  • Accepted January 27, 2020
  • Published online June 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. AbdulAziz M. Al-Sharydah, MD,
  2. Yaser A. Abu Melha, MD,
  3. Sari S. Al-Suhibani, MD⇑,
  4. Abdulrazaq A. Alojan, MD,
  5. Tareq H. Al-Taei, MD,
  6. Iba I. Alfawaz, MD,
  7. Lateefah T. AlShammari, MD,
  8. Saeed A. Al-Jubran, MD and
  9. Ahmed S. Ammar, MD, PhD
  1. From the Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Department (Al-Sharydah, Al-Suhibani, Al-Taei, Alfawaz, Al-Jubran); from the Neurosurgery Department (Ammar, Alojan, Lateefa), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar; and from the Microbiology Department (Melha), Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Sari S. Al-Suhibani, Consultant of Neuroradiology, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Department, King Fahd Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, AlKhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: ssuhibani{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4480-994X
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