King Fahd Medical City

Decoding the causes of ischemic stroke despite ongoing oral anticoagulation and their clinical impact: the ASPERA-R study

BACKGROUND: Oral anticoagulants (OACs), including vitamin K antagonists and direct OACs, reduce stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF), yet breakthrough ischemic stroke still occurs in 1-2% of patients annually despite adequate therapy. The mechanisms underlying these events rem...

Clinical characteristics and follow‑up of Saudi patients with adrenal incidentalomas: single‑center experience

Abstract Background Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are increasingly detected owing to the widespread use of cross-sectional imaging. However, real-world adherence to guideline-recommended evaluation remains variable. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, characteristics, an...

EUS-guided and US-guided percutaneous splenic biopsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of separately pooled diagnostic and safety outcomes

Ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous splenic biopsy has been widely used to evaluate focal or diffuse splenic lesions and has shown promising efficacy and safety. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided biopsy has emerged as an alternative approach for tissue acquisition from splenic l...

Cerebral Microbleeds and Superficial Siderosis: Vascular Correlates and Cognition in a Memory Clinic

OBJECTIVE: Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and cortical superficial siderosis (cSS) are increasingly recognized in patients with cognitive impairment and are considered markers of cerebral small vessel disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). However, their associated variable...

Rheumatoid Factor‐Positive Polyarthritis as a Complication of Dabrafenib and Trametinib in a Child With BRAF V600E‐Mutated Pediatric Low‐Grade Glioma

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new datasets were generated or analyzed.