Objectives: To describe the clinical phenotype of eight children diagnosed with CD59
deficiency and their ultimate neurological outcome. Methods: The data of our cases were …

Background Acute chest syndrome has been defined as a new infiltrate visible on chest
radiograph associated with one or more symptoms, such as fever, cough, sputum production, …

Objective To identify reports of randomized trials by handsearching 2 Bahrain medical
journals, which are indexed in the biomedical database EMBASE and to determine any added …

Background and objective: Sickle cell disease (SCD) has a relatively higher incidence in
the Kingdom of Bahrain. The disease causes frequent crisis that may require hospitalization. …

Background Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder, caused by mutations in regulatory
genes and transmitted as an autosomal recessive disorder, which results in a reduced rate of …

Objective: To uncover the molecular basis of hemoglobin H (HbH) disease in the population
of Bahrain and correlate the underlying genotypes with phenotype presentations. Design: A …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES : Previous studies that have assessed patient awareness
of the management of sickle cell disease (SCD) indicated a lack of awareness of the …

Introduction. The incidence of genetic blood disease in Bahrain has declined gradually since
1984 when the Ministry of Health (MOH) instituted a prevention campaign. The national …

Methods All issues of the Annals of Saudi Medicine (July 1981 to April 2005) were searched
by hand from cover to cover for reports of trials involving prospective assignment to one of …

A six-year-old boy presented with generalized tonic-clonic seizures and myoclonic jerks; the
patient was treated with anti-epileptic medication and his seizures ceased into remission. …