Shumaila Zia

Background: Imposter syndrome (IS) first described in 1978 is recently gaining more importance due to its long lasting, strong and detrimental implications on the Medical students as well as the institutions and society. The sufferers are competent objectively but they have a secret fear in them, that they are inadequate in the skills and knowledge...

Aim: To compare the efficacy of misoprostol and dinoprostone in inducing labour at term cases. Results: Mean age of patients was recorded as 25.04+4.342 and 25.26+4.105 in Group-A & B. We recorded 43(86%) patients in Group-A and 34(68%) in Group-B delivered vaginally, caesarean section was carried out in 7(14%) in Group-A and 14(28%) in Group-B. Ca...

p> Abstract Objective: To determine the clinical characteristics of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children under15 years of age. Cross sectional study conducted at Aseer Central Hospital Abha, South-western Saudi Arabia from June 2011 – May 2015. Patients and Methods: Study included 141 Saudi children, < 15 years old with ne...

Objectives:Evaluation of risk factors, frequency, causes and measures took to save patients life in relaparotomies.Methods:This retrospective, descriptive study was conducted from January 2012 December 2014 in a tertiary care hospital.Results:This study includes 38 cases, 29 (76.3%) obstetrical and nine (23.7%) gynaecological Relaparotomy incidence...

Background: Hypertensive disorders are common causes of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Objective: This study aimed to examine the prognostic value of risk assessment at level of antenatal care clinics in predicting pre-eclampsia at a high altitude (3133 m above sea level). Methods: This cross-sectional study, carried out in Abha Matern...

Objective To determine whether complications related to surgery increase with increasing number of cesarean sections (CSs) in upper segment placenta. To compare the complications in urgent and elective high order (4-6) repeat CSs. Methods A retrospective analysis of 519 women who underwent repeat CS was performed from January to December 2012. Wom...

Objective To study the incidence, causes and maternal outcome in emergency peripartum hysterectomy. Materials and methods Retrospective, descriptive study of emergency peripartum hysterectomy by analyzing the labor records of patients undergoing the procedure in the past 5 years. Results There were 57 emergency hysterectomies among the 28940 deli...

To compare the pregnancy and neonatal outcome in sickle cell disease and trait women. The retrospective comparative study was conducted at Abha General Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia, from January 2009 to December 2011. The records of women having sickle cell disease and trait were reviewed for antenatal and postnatal complications. Pregnancy and foe...

Abstract Zellweger syndrome (ZS) is the severest variety of peroxisomal biogenesis disorder (PBD). This is a fatal hereditary, autosomal recessive disorder. It is characterized by the absence of peroxisomes in the cells which are essential for many metabolic functions especially beta oxidation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs). We report the...

The purpose of this study was to determine if placental location is associated with adverse pregnancy outcome and to assess whether any association exists between different blood groups and location of the placenta. Medical records of women were reviewed retrospectively and placental position as documented in the case notes at routine antenatal (20...

Objectives To determine the impact of improved obstetric care on the incidence, risk factors, management modalities and fetomaternal outcome of uterine rupture. Materials and methods Retrospective analysis of clinical records of uterine rupture cases at the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Abha General Hospital, Abha, KSA, from January 200...

Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome (COFSS) is a recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder. We describe an 8 months old Saudi girl, a product of consanguineous parents with unremarkable pre-natal and postnatal history and birth weight 2 kg. She was having microcephaly, micrognathia, micro-ophthalmia, large low set ears, upper lip overhangi...

Sexual violence has been defined as any sexual act that is perpetrated against someone's will. It is estimated that 1 in every 3 women worldwide is a victim of sexual assault. The present study was carried out to study and analyze the profile of sexual assault cases at a tertiary care hospital. Retrospective analysis of all medico-legal cases atten...

Abetalipoproteinemia is a rare genetic disorder. A 5-month-old Saudi boy presented with chronic diarrhoea and failure to thrive since 3 months of age. He was cachectic. His peripheral blood picture showed many acanthocytes and he had very low lipid profile. He improved on medium chain triglyceride (MCT) formula and administration of fat soluble vit...

Objectives: 1. To determine the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on birth weight (BW) and birth length (BL) of newborns. 2. To find out the mean birth weight (MBW) and mean birth length (MBL) of a cohort of 500 babies delivered in the hospital from February to August 2003. Study Design: Descriptive cross sectional study. Set Up & Duration: Depa...