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Maitha Al Asmi

Publications 4

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A Central Venous Catheter Line Misadventure: "Doctor why do I have a humming sound in my ear?"

Edwin Stephen, Maitha Al Asmi, Thekra Al Hadhrami et al. · Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal · 2025 · 10.18295/squmj.1.2022.010

We report a 32-year-old female patient who was referred to a tertiary care hospital in Muscat, Oman, in 2021 with an iatrogenic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) that presented as a neck swelling which developed few weeks after an attempt of central venous catheterisation through the right internal jugular vein. The fistula …

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Nummular keratitis: A rare manifestation of brimonidine allergy

Maitha Al Asmi, Aisha Al Busaidi · Oman Journal of Ophthalmology · 2023 · 10.4103/ojo.ojo_99_23

A 32-year-old male, with juvenile open-angle glaucoma on chronic antiglaucoma therapy and recently introduced brimonidine eye drops to the treatment regimen, developed bilateral follicular conjunctivitis with subepithelial infiltrates (SEIs) initially resembling common infectious keratoconjunctivitis entities. The pers …

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Clinical and demographic profile of pediatric cataracts among Omani children presenting to a tertiary eye care center, Oman

Muzna Al-Riyami, Hajar AlAamri, Maitha Al Asmi et al. · Oman Journal of Ophthalmology · 2023 · 10.4103/ojo.ojo_31_23

Context: This study aimed to know the clinical and demographic profile of pediatric cataracts in Oman. Aims: The aim of this study was to describe the demographic and clinical profile of pediatric cataracts in a tertiary care hospital, Oman. Settings and design: This was a hospital-based, retrospective observational st …

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A Rapidly Enlarging Soft Tissue Lesion of the Back

Ghaitha Al Mahruqi, Maitha Al Asmi, Maha Al Shaibi et al. · Oman Medical Journal · 2023 · 10.5001/omj.2023.12

A 17-year-old male, with no comorbidities, presented with a mass from the left lateral chest extending to the back. At age seven, he had a small mass in the left lateral chest wall at the mid-axillary line which was excised in a periphery hospital (no official medical report). Six years after the surgery, another mass …

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