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Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain in Cystic Fibrosis
BMJ Case Reports: first published as 10.1136/bcr-2013-201259 on 12 November 2013. Downloaded from Images in… Transient intussusception: rare cause of abdominal pain in cystic fibrosis Suheil Artul,1,2 Faozi Artoul,3 George Habib,4 Nabil Abboud5 1Department of Radiology, DESCRIPTION Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth, A 26-year-old man with history of cystic fibrosis, Israel 2Faculty Medicine in the presented to the emergency department with a Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, 2-day history of abdominal pain, nausea and vomit- Safed Israel, Maghar, Israel ing. The patient did not have a history of abdom- 3 Department of Nuclear inal surgery. Medicine, Meir Hospital, On presentation the patient was afebrile and Maghar, Israel 4Department of Medicine, normotensive. Abdominal examination revealed Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth, tenderness in the mid-abdomen and no rebound. Israel Laboratory tests showed slight leucocytosis and 5 Department of Surgery, normal level of amylase. Abdominal plain radio- Nazareth Hospital, Nazareth, Israel graph showed gaseous distention of multiple small bowel loops. Contrast CT of the abdomen showed Correspondence to total fatty replacement of the pancreas (figure 1, Dr Suheil Artul, white arrows), dilated small bowel loops up to [email protected] 4.5 cm in diameter (figure 2, red arrows) and a ‘solid mass’ of 6 cm in long axis ‘cobra head sign’ Figure 2 Contrast-enhanced CT of the abdomen showing (figure 2, black arrows) indicating ileo-ileal intus- dilated small bowel loops up to 4.5 cm in diameter (red susceptions, without any sign of bowel wall suffer- arrows), a ‘solid mass’ of6cminlongaxis‘cobra head sign’ ing such as air or oedema of the involved loop. -
The Right Atrium of Patients with Various Heart Diseases Retain Progenitor Cells with Regenerative Capacity
S7 - Prognosis and Outcome in Heart Failure The Right Atrium of Patients with Various Heart Diseases Retain Progenitor Cells with Regenerative Capacity Ayelet Itzhaki-Alfia 1, Jonathan Leor 1,Shiri Netser1, Leonid Sternik 2, Dan Spiegelstein 2, David Mishaly 2, Jacob Lavee 2, Ehud Raanani 2,Barbash Israel M3 1 Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,Tel-Aviv University, 2 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 3 Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel The 55th Annual Conference of the I.H.S and the I.S.C.S 37 S7 - Prognosis and Outcome in Heart Failure The Impact of the NT-proBNP Assay in the Emergency Department on the Diagnosis of Heart Failure and on Outcomes in Patients Admitted for Dyspnea: A Prospective Randomized Placebo-controlled Double-center Trial (BNP4EVER) Simcha Meisel 1, Margarita Medvedovski 2, Moshe Sharist 3, Jalal Ashkar 2,Pavel Pschianski2, Michael Glikson 4, Shmuel Bar Haim 3, Michael Shochat 1, David Blondheim 1, Avraham Shotan 1 1 Heart Institute, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, 2 Emergency Department, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, 3 Emergency Department, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, 4 Heart Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Hadera, Israel The 55th Annual Conference of the I.H.S and the I.S.C.S 38 S7 - Prognosis and Outcome in Heart Failure Echocardiographic and Plasma N-Terminal Pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide Evaluation During Pregnancy in Patients with Preexisting Dilated Cardiomyopathy Alex Blatt 1,Ilya Litovchik1, Ricardo -
Scientific Program
The 63th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery April 12-13 • 2016 • Tel Aviv, Israel SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Paragon Israel (Dan Knassim) Paragon Tel/Fax:03-5767730/7 Israel (Dan Knassim) a Paragon Group Company [email protected] TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2016 08:30-10:00 Interventional Cardiology I Hall A Chairs: Ariel Finkelstein, Ran Kornowski, Israel 08:30 Effect of Diameter of Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Bare-Metal Stents on Late Outcomes: a propensity score-matched analysis Amos Levi1,2, Tamir Bental1,2, Hana Veknin Assa1,2, Gabriel Greenberg1,2, Eli Lev1,2, Ran Kornowski1,2, Abid Assali1,2 1Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:41 Percutaneous Valve-in-Valve Implantation for the Treatment of Aortic, Mitral and Tricuspid Structural Bioprosthetic Valve Degeneration Uri Landes1, Abid Assali1, Ram Sharoni1,2, Hanna Vaknin-Assa1, Katia Orvin1, Amos Levi1, Yaron Shapira1, Shmuel Schwartzenberg1, Ashraf Hamdan1, Tamir Bental1, Alexander Sagie1, Ran Kornowski1 1Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 2Department of Cardiac Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 08:52 Temporal Trends in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Israel 2008-2014: Patient Characteristics, Procedural Issues and Clinical Outcome Uri Landes1, Alon Barsheshet1, Abid Assali1, Hanna Vaknin-Assa1, Israel Barbash3, Victor Guetta3, Amit Segev3, Ariel Finkelstein2, Amir Halkin2, Jeremy Ben-Shoshan2, -
The Peres Center for Peace, Tel-Aviv April 12Th, 2019
April 12th, 2019 The Peres Center for Peace, Tel-Aviv BREAST CANCER INNOVATIONS The Israeli Society for Clinical Oncology and Radiation Therapy and Roche are Pleased to Invite You to an Enriching and Educating Meeting with our Distinguished Guest Speaker: Prof. Charles E. Geyer Please Send the Attached Registration Form to A.M Knasim No Later than April 1st 2019 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 03-6081520 Fax: 03-6081522 Prof. Charles E. Geyer Friday, 12th April 2019 • Professor of Medicine 08:00-09:00 Welcome Reception • Harrigan, Haw, Luck Families Chair in Cancer Research 09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks • Virginia Commonwealth University, Massey Dr. Noa Efrat Ben-Baruch Cancer Center Head, Israeli Breast Cancer Group • Associate Director of Clinical Research Head, Department of Oncology Kaplan Medical Center Charles E. Geyer, Jr. is Professor of Medicine and the Harrigan, Haw, Luck Families Chair in Cancer Research at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Chairmen: Dr. Georgeta Fried Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Cancer Center. He serves as Associate Director Head Breast Cancer Unit of Clinical Research for the Massey Cancer Center with oversight responsibility Rambam Medical Center for all cancer-related clinical research activities within the Center. Prof. Geyer Dr. Margarita Tokar has devoted most of his academic career on the design and conduct of multi- institutional, phase III clinical trials in breast cancer with a particular focus on Senior Oncologist the development of HER2 targeted therapies. He has served in several leadership Soroka University Medical Center positions for multi-institution research initiatives. These include vice-chair of the 09:10-09:30 Personalized Nanothechnologies in the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Breast Committee Management of Breast Cancer from 1999 until 2007, Associate Director of Medical Affairs from 2002 to 2006 and Director of Medical Affairs for NSABP from 2006 to 2011. -
Cyclosporin for Severe Ulcerative Colitis
Original Articles Cyclosporin for Severe Ulcerative Colitis Timna Naftali MD1, Ben Novis MD1, Itamar Pomeranz MD1, George Leichtman MD1, Yaakov Maor MD1, Rivka Shapiro MD2, Menachem Moskowitz MD3, Beni Avidan MD4, Yona Avni MD5, Yoram Buja- nover MD6 and Zvi Fireman MD7 1Department of Gastroenterology, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, 2Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Schneider Childrens Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, 3Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, 4Department of Gastroenterology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Departments of 5Gastroenterology and 6Pediatrics, Wolfson Hospital, Holon, and 7Department of Gastroenterology, Hillel Yaffe Hospital, Hadera, Israel Key words: cyclosporin, ulcerative colitis, colectomy, corticosteroids For Editorial see page 607 oids both rectally and intravenously [1]. About 30% of patients with severe ulcerative colitis do not respond to Abstract this treatment and require urgent total colectomy [2]. It was recently shown that cyclosporin is effective in this Background: About one-third of patients with severe group of patients. However, experience is limited and the ulcerative colitis do not respond to conventional therapy numbers of patients reported are relatively small. The aim and require urgent colectomy. It was recently shown that of this study was to review the experience with cyc- cyclosporin is effective in some of these patients. losporin for the treatment of severe ulcerative colitis in Objectives: To review the current experience of six six hospitals in Israel. hospitals in central Israel that used cyclosporin in patients with severe ulcerative colitis. Patients and Methods Methods: The files of all 32 patients treated with cyc- The files of all 32 patients treated with cyclosporin for losporin for corticosteroid-resistant ulcerative colitis were ulcerative colitis in six hospitals in central Israel were reviewed. -
APF Newsletter, Winter 2006 – 2007
Winter 2006-2007 APF A Newsletter of the From The President AmericanEmergency Physicians andFellowship Disaster Preparednessfor Medicine in Israel Course News in Israel From The President Israel in Crisis Mission August 2006 would like to share with our members and donors the important by Dr. Dan Moskowitz I APF activities of the past 6 months. his past August, I had the privilege of being invited to par- 1. APF ISRAEL CRISIS FUND REPORT After placing on our T ticipate in an Emergency APF Mission to Israel with APF website and sending a special crisis appeal from Dr. Danny Laor, Board members Drs. Mike Frogel, Paul Liebman and Charles the Deputy Minister for Emergency Preparedness, on the critical Kurtzer. Dr. Boaz Tadmor organized an incredible, whirlwind needs of the Northern hospitals, it was very gratifying indeed that over $100,000 tour for us, only two days after the cessation of hostilities in was received for our Crisis Fund. All of this will be distributed to hospitals such as Israel. We were provided with a unique glimpse of the Israeli Sieff Hospital in Safed, Poriya in Tiberias, Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, and Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, with the hospital CEO’s given the healthcare system under stress, including face-to-face meet- discretion as to how best to utilize these funds to help their hospital in light of the ings with top healthcare officials, as well as visits to the trau- recent crisis. matized hospitals in northern Israel. Perhaps most importantly, we visited 2. MISSION TO ISRAEL Three APF Board members, Drs. -
YEHUDA SHOENFELD, MD, FRCP(Hon.)
YEHUDA SHOENFELD, M.D., FRCP(Hon.) CURRICULUM VITAE 2013 Chaim Sheba Medical Center The Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Tel: 03-5302661 Fax: 03-5352855 E-mail: [email protected] - 2 - CURRICULUM VITAE YEHUDA SHOENFELD, M.D. Date and place of birth: February 14, 1948, Slovakia. Marital Status: Married + 3 (Nettea, Amir, Guy) EDUCATION 1965 - 1972 Hadassa Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1972 - M.D. Thesis: "Osteogenesis Imperfecta" (Advisor: Prof. A. Fried) cum laude 1976 - 1978 Diploma cum laude upon completion of post graduate studies in internal medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, Tel Aviv University 1976 - Senior resident, Department of Internal Medicine "D" and Out-Patient Clinic of Hematology and Immunology, Beilinson Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel 1978 (3m) - Clinical Fellowship, Hematology/Oncology, Department of Hematology, City of Hope, Duarte, California (Director: Prof. E. Beutler) 1979 (3m) - Clinical Fellowship Hematology/Oncology, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass. (Director: Prof. Robert S. Schwartz) 1980 (3m) - Clinical Fellowship Hematology/Oncology, Cornell Medical Center, New York Hospital (Director: Prof. R. Nachman) 1980 - Master in Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, Tel-Aviv University 1983 - 1984 Senior Physician, department of Internal Medicine "D", Beilinson Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel 1985 - Head, Department of Medicine "D" and Outpatient Clinic for Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel 1985 - Head of the Hybridoma Unit and Research Laboratory for Autoimmune Diseases, Soroka Medical Center, and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel 1989 - Head of Department of Medicine "B" Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. -
Prof. Ayala Pollack MD Ayala Pollack, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology
Prof. Ayala Pollack MD Ayala Pollack, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology from the Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. Until recently she was the Chairperson of the Eye Department, Kaplan Medical Center, the Head of the Eye Research Laboratory and the Director of Ophthalmology Clinical Trials Unit, at Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, affiliated to Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School, Prof. Ayala Pollack graduated medical school at the Tel Aviv University Sackler Medical School and completed residency at Kaplan Medical Center. Spent two years of Research and Clinical Fellowship in Vitreo-Retinal Diseases with famous late Paul Henkind at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein Medical School New York. In l997 became the Chairperson of the Eye Department, Kaplan Medical Center, Main fields of interest are retinal diseases. Her famous unique clinical pioneering research relates to the course of maculopathy following cataract surgery in particular in the diseases age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. She published numerous papers in the most prestigious journals, was invited as guest speaker, gave numerous presentations in meetings all over the world. Her work was rewarded for Excellent Papers presented at conferences and meetings. Involved in multicenter clinical trials, participated in many of the most important studies related to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy and vein occlusion. As a retinal surgeon, very much interested in research related to retinal detachment. -
Sarah Shimoni, MD
1 Sara Shimoni, MD December 2020 Sarah Shimoni, MD 1. CURRICULUM VITAE December 2020 A. 1. Personal data Family status: married Number of children: 5 Permanent address: Hish st 18, Rehovot, Isreal Home phone number: 08-6339231 Work phone number: 08-9440144 Fax: 08-9440145 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 2. Academic education 1985 Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, B Med Sc. 1990 Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, MD. 1988 Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Rotating internship. 1989-90 Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Residency Internal Medicine. 1990-91 The Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Cell Biology, Rehovot. Research Fellow. 1991-1992 Rabin Medical Center, Campus Beilinson, Residency Internal Medicine . 1993 Certified specialist in Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health, Israel. 1993-5 Kaplan Medical Center, Heart Institute, Rehovot, Fellow, Cardiology. 1995 Certified specialist in Cardiology, Ministry of Health, Israel. 1998-2000 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Fellow, Echocardiography. 2000- 2005 Kaplan Medical Center, Heart Institute, Senior Cardiologist and consultant Physician in charge, echocardiography service. 2005 Head of non invasive cardiology, Heart Institute, Kaplan Medical Center. - 3. Appointments in the Hebrew University 1/10/2000 Instructor, Internal Medicine (Cardiology), Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. 1/4/2003 Lecturer, Internal Medicine (Cardiology), Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. 4/2010 Senior Lecturer ( clinical), Internal Medicine (Cardiology), Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 9/2017 Associate Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine (Cardiology), Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 4. Additional Functions at the Hebrew University 2006 - Internal medicine 4th year final exam committee. 2004-2017 Student tutor in cardiology department 2015-participating in the OSCE exams 2018-Academic coordinator in Kaplan Medical Center 6. -
Neuro-Ophthalmology in Israel
Worldwide Neuro-Opthalmology Section Editor: Kathleen B. Digre, MD Neuro-Ophthalmology in Israel Ruth Huna-Baron, MD, Eitan Zvi Rath, MD FIG. 1. Pioneers of neuro-ophthalmology in Israel. euro-ophthalmology was introduced in Israel during challenge of the rapid development of new and expensive N the late 1970s by Riri Manor, Yochanan Goldhammer, diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, a committee of the and Isaac Gutman (Fig. 1). They trained with from William Ministry of Health each year announces new technologies Hoyt, Lawton Smith, and Myles Behrens, respectively. These and therapies to be included in basic health coverage. There pioneers trained many local ophthalmologists, neurologists, are 18 magnetic resonance imaging devices in Israel and 5 and neuro-ophthalmologists in Israel, and their efforts resulted interventional neurovascular units, and most medical in 21 neuro-ophthalmologists currently serving a population centers in the country have a neuro-ophthalmology service of 8 million. Many Israeli neuro-ophthalmologists did fellow- (Table 1). Much like in the United States, referrals come ships in the United States with a variety of other mentors, from neurologists, ophthalmologists, neurosurgeons inter- including Ronald Burde, Joel Glaser and Norman Schatz, ventional neuroradiologists, and endocrinologists. Mark Kupersmith, Byron Lam, Neil Miller, Barry Scarf, In 1997, the Israeli Neuro-Ophthalmology Society was and Jonathan Trobe. founded by Ririo Manor as a subspecialty section of the In Israel, each citizen is entitled to health care services Israeli Ophthalmology Society. Two annual meetings are under the National Health Insurance Law. To meet the organized by the society, of which one hosts a leading TABLE 1. -
Severe Recurrent Pancreatitis in a Child with ADHD After Starting Treatment with Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine Volume 2014, Article ID 319162, 3 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/319162 Case Report Severe Recurrent Pancreatitis in a Child with ADHD after Starting Treatment with Methylphenidate (Ritalin) Suheil Artul,1,2 Faozi Artoul,3 George Habib,4 William Nseir,2,4 Bishara Bisharat,2,4 and Yousif Nijim5 1 Department of Radiology, Nazareth Hospital, EMMS, Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2 Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel 3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Meir Hospital, 44410 Betah Tekva, Israel 4 Department of Internal Medicine, EMMS Hospital, 16100 Nazareth, Israel 5 Pediatric Department, Nazareth Hospital, Israel Correspondence should be addressed to Suheil Artul; [email protected] Received 9 November 2013; Accepted 5 January 2014; Published 11 February 2014 Academic Editors: H. Kawaratani, J. Vecht, and O.¨ Yonem¨ Copyright © 2014 Suheil Artul et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We present a case of a 10-year-old boy, who had severe relapsing pancreatitis, three times in two months within 3 weeks after starting treatment with methylphenidate (Ritalin) due to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Pancreatitis due to the use of (methylphenidate) Ritalin was never published before. Attention must be made by the physicians regarding this possible complication, and this complication should be taken into consideration in every patient with abdominal pain who was newly treated with Ritalin. 1. -
List of Higher Education Institutions Applicable for Financial Aid As Recognized by the Student Authority
List of Higher Education Institutions applicable for financial aid as recognized by the Student Authority: Universities: ● Ariel University, Shomron ● Bar Ilan University ● Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Eilat Campus ● Haifa University ● Hebrew University of Jerusalem ● Open University of Israel ● Technion- Israel Institution of Technology, Haifa ● Tel Aviv University ● Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Colleges and Academic Institutions: ● Achva Academic College, Kiryat Malachi ● Ashkelon Academic College ● Western Galilee College, near Akko city ● Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem ● Kinneret Academic College, Jordan Valley ● Sapir Academic College, near Sderot ● Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, near Afula ● Zefat Academic College ● Tel Aviv – Yaffo Academic College ● Tel-Hai Academic College ● Ruppin Academic Center, near Netanya Colleges and Institutions of Higher Education in the Fields of Science, Engineering and, Liberal Arts: ● Afeka – Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering ● Jerusalem College of Technology- Lev Academy Center ● Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem ● The Jerusalem (Rubin) Academy of Music and Dance ● The Braude ORT College of Technology, Karmiel ● Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem ● Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva and Ashdod Campus ● Shenkar College of Textile Technology and Fashion, Tel Aviv ● The Holon Center for Technology Studies Institutions of Higher Education Recognized by the Student Authority, not subsidized by the Israeli Government *These Institutions are recognized by the Committee of Higher Education, and are recognized for financial aid by the Student Authority. *Tuition Cost for the following institutions is higher than 25,000-35,000 Shekels a year. *The Student Authority provides financial aid equivalent to regularly subsidized tuition costs of 11,000 Shekels yearly for Undergraduate Degree and, 13,700 Shekels for Master's Degree.