Below, is a list of some selected cases presented and discussed by Dr. Al-Attia at the regular postgraduate meetings held
at Mafraq and Al Jazeira hospitals, Abu Dhabi, UAE.


1.       Multiple neurofibromatosis.

2.       Bushcke-Ollendorff syndrome (Published).

3.       Usher’s syndrome.

4.       SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis,osteitis).

5.       Hereditary angioneurotic oedema (C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency) in a family.

6.       Two cases of Crouzon and chotzen syndromes.

7.       Pulmonary mycetoma associated with bronchial asthma.

8.       Soft tissue plasmocytoma, disseminated lytic lesions in constipated myeloma.

9.       Two cases of male pseudohermaphroditis (5 alpha reductase deficiency0 in a family (Published).

10.    Extensive soft tissue calcinosis in SLE/ myositis overlap syndrome (Published).

11.    Pendred’s syndrome in an 18-year old male (Published).

12.    PDA, cephalad kidney and duplex ureter in a female (Published).

13.    Kallman’s syndrome in an 18-year old male (Published).

14.    Progression of PAPS (Hughes syndrome) to serological SLE (Published).

15.    Unilateral non-tuberculous pleural effusion in a case of ankylosing spondylitis.

16.    Kikuchi fujimoto syndrome (Published).

17.    Concurrent SLE and rheumatoid arthritis (Rhupus).

18.    Leukocytoclastic vasculitis, protein S deficiency and purpura fulminans in the progression of ITP into lupus-like disease.

19.    Immotile cilliary syndrome.

20.    Cockayne syndrome in two siblings.

21.    Mullerian aplasia associated with aberrant ovaries (Published).

22.    Anti-topoisomerase antibody in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus without scleroderma (Published).

23.    Noonan’s, Turner’s and allied syndromes.

24.    Case of Lymphangiolieomyomatosis in a young girl (Published).

25.    CREST syndrome.

26.    Blue rubber bleb naevi syndrome (BRBN) with multiple congenital anomalies in a young boy: an overlap or a new syndrome (Published and included in Possum update).

27.    Primary antiphospholipid syndrome.

28.    Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis as a complication of chronic HCV infection in a 32 year old male.

29.    Acquired haemophilia in 75 year old female.  

30.    APS/Incomplete Lupus overlap cases with endocrinological associations.

31.    Concurrent enteric fever and tuberculous peritonitis.

32.    Thalassemia, DM, hepatitis C, haemochromatosis and hypogonadism in 2 male brothers.

33.    Evolution of gender role and identity of four patients with male pseudohermaphroditism (Published).

34.    Genes and penalties (young syndrome in female, Myotonia congenita & Xeroderma pigementosum in three siblings).

35.    Raynaud’s phenomenon and gangrene in B cell-lymphoma.

36.    Hypo-hyper syndrome (Published).

37.    Prolonged fever and rigors in disseminated tuberculosis (Published).

38.    IPF/HCV in a patient with dyspnea and abnormal LFT.

39.    Mental retardation, shortness of stature and minor anomalies syndrome associated with insertion of 3q material into 18p (Published).

40.    Anti PR3 in AOSD: polyserositis and arthropathy (Published).

41.    Localized scleroderma in idiopathic polymyositis; an unusual overlap syndrome (Published).

42.    Churg-Strauss syndrome.

43.    Concurrent tuberculosis and sarcoidosis in a patient.

44.    A relatively silent multiple cerebral tuberculomas in a young man.

45.    Intra-colonic ”body paking” of heroin packages (Published).

46.    Case of BOOP in a male with near drowning syndrome.

47.    Osler-Rendu-Weber syndrome.

48.    Role if bone marrow examination in disseminated TB.

49.    Two cases of GI and CNS AIDS.

50.    Arthropathy and neuropathy in granulomatous disease.

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