Intravenous Lidocaine for Refractory Chronic Orofacial Pain Two case reports and a literature review

Tis report presents the results of treatment of two adults, at the Pain Center of Montreal General Hospital, Canada, with intravenous lidocaine for intractable orofacial pain. Repeated lidocaine infusions (mg/kg in a...

Defning a Mutational Panel and Predicting the Prevalence of Cystic Fibrosis in Oman

Objectives: Cystic fbrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutations form distinct mutational panels in different populations and subgroups. Te frequency of cystic fbrosis (CF) mutations and prevalence are...

Factors Contributing to the Spread of Odontogenic Infections A prospective pilot study

Spreading odontogenic infections (SOI) are the commonest type of serious infections encountered in the orofacial region. A prospective multi-centre study was conducted in the West of Scotland to investigate the contrib...

Pearson’s Marrow-Pancreas Syndrome

Effect of Zinc Supplementation on Morbidity due to Acute Diarrhoea in Infants and Children in Sanaa, Yemen A randomized controlled double blind clinical trial

Objectives: To study the impact of zinc administration on the morbidity and mortality attributed to diarrhoea among children less than 5 years old. Methods: Te study design was a randomized double blinded controlled cli...