Objectives: The management for chronic suppurative otitis media is tympanoplasty. The aim of the surgery is to prevent recurrent ear discharge and improve hearing. Several influencing factors are presumed to affect the outcome of tympanoplasty; however, their effect is considered controversial. No study in Oman evaluat …
Pheochromocytomas are tumors derived from chromaffin cells within the medulla of adrenal glands, whereas paragangliomas are tumors derived from extra-adrenal chromaffin cells of the sympathetic prevertebral and paravertebral ganglia. The growing deployment of genetic testing has shown that approximately 30% of pheochro …
A 17-year-old male diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) at the age of six months presented to the endocrine clinic with pain and swelling in both testes. When he was seven years old he developed signs of precocious puberty and was treated with triptorelin 3.75 mg (intramuscular) once a month between 2007 …
Objectives: Our study aimed to estimate the rate of white coat hypertension (WCH) and effect, and masked hypertension in patients attending a tertiary care hospital for 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (24-h ABPM). Methods: A total of 231 adult patients were referred to the Department of Clinical Physiology …