Publications- Department of Haematology 2010 Journal Publications :1.Pathare AV, Taher A, Daar S. “Deferasirox (Exjade(R)) significantly improves cardiac T2* in heavily iron-overloaded patients with betathalassemia major.” Ann Hematol. 2010 Apr;89(4):405-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00277-009-0838-z 2. Alkindi S, Al Zadjali S, Al Madhani A, Daar S, Al Haddabi H, Al Abri Q, Gravell D, Berbar T, Pravin S, Pathare A,Krishnamoorthy R. Forecasting hemoglobinopathy burden through neonatal screening in Omani neonates. Hemoglobin. 2010 Jan;34(2):135-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03630261003677213 3.Battersby AJ, Knox-Macaulay HH, Carrol ED. Susceptibility to invasive bacterial infections in children with sickle cell disease. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Sep;55(3):401-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pbc.22461 4. Alkindi S, Khan S, Riyami D, Farooqi M, Pathare A. Coexistence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura and idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis successfully treated with rituximab. Platelets. 2010; 21(7): 575-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09537104.2010.494744 5. Daar S, Ahmed S, Berdoukas V. Rapid Iron Loading in Heart and Liver in a Patient with Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia after Brief Poor Compliance with Iron Chelation Therapy. Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2010 Dec;10(3):401-4. 6.Taher AT, Musallam KM, Karimi M, El-Beshlawy A, Belhoul K, Daar S, Saned M, Cassaretti C, Cappellini M. Splenectomy and thrombosis: the case of thalassaemia intermedia. J Thromb Haemost. 2010 Oct;8(10):2152-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.15387836.2010.03940.x 7.Ali Taher, Khaled Musallam, Amal El-Beshlawy, Mehran Karimi, Shahina Daar Khawla Belhoul, , Mohamed-SalahEldin Saned, Giovanna Graziadei, Maria Cappellini. Age-related complications in treatment-naïve patients with thalassemia intermedia. Br J Haematol. 2010 Aug;150(4):486-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.13652141.2010.08220.x 8.Ali Taher, Abdullah Al Jefri, Mohsen Saleh Elalfy, Kusai Al Zir, Shahina Daar, Diana Rofail, Jean François Baladi, Dany Habr, Ulrike Kriemler-Krahn, and Amal El-Beshlawy. Improved Treatment Satisfaction and Convenience with Deferasirox in Iron-Overloaded Patients with -Thalassaemia: Results from the Escalator Trial. Acta Hematologica, April 2010;123 (4): 220-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000313447 9. Ali Taher, Khaled Musallam, Mehran Karimi, Amal El-Beshlawy, Khawla Belhoul, Shahina Daar, Mohamed-SalahEldin Saned, AbdulHamid El- Chafic, Maria Fasulo, Maria Cappellini, Overview on Practices in Thalassemia Intermedia Management Aiming for Lowering Complication-rates Across a Region of Endemicity: the OPTIMAL CARE study. Blood, 2010; 115: 1886-1892. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood2009-09-243154 10.Muhmmed Suliman MA, Bahnacy Juma AA, Ali Almadhani AA, Pathare AV, Alkindi SS, Uwe Werner F. Predictive value of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome. Arch Med Res. 2010 Nov;41(8):618-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcmed.2010.11.006 11.Puig N, Pintilie M, Seshadri T, Al-Farsi K, Nagy T, Franke N, Tsang R, Keating A, Crump M, Kuruvilla J. Different response to salvage chemotherapy but similar post-transplant outcomes in patients with relapsed and refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma. Haematologica. 2010 Sep;95(9):1496-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2009.019943 12.Alkindi S, Al-Maini M, Pathare A. Clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with sickle-cell and autoimmune/connective tissue diseases. Rheumatol Int. 2010 32(2), 373-378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00296-010-1632-x 13.Aljurf M, Zaidi SZ, Hussain F, Ghavamzadeh A, Alimoghaddam K, Jahani M, Mahmoud HK, Haddad A, Adil S, Ben Othman T, Sarhan MM, Dennison D, Ibrahim A, Benchekroun S, Ayas M, Al Zahrani H, Al Mohareb F, El Solh H. Status of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO). Transfus Apher Sci. 2010 Apr;42(2):169-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2010.01.012 14. Al-Khabori M, Minden MD, Yee KW, Gupta V, Schimmer AD, Schuh AC, Xu W, Brandwein JM. Improved survival using an intensive, pediatric-based chemotherapy regimen in adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2010;51(1):61-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10428190903388376 15. Dalal B, Al Riyami A, Yenson P. Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia and hyposplenism in angiosarcoma. Br J Haematol. 2010 ;151(5):413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.2010.08281.x 16. Mousa SA, Al Momen A, Al Sayegh F, Al Jaouni S, Nasrullah Z, Al Saeed H, Alabdullatif A, Al Sayegh M, Al Zahrani H, Hegazi M, Al Mohamadi A, Alsulaiman A, Omer A, Al Kindi S, Tarawa A, Al Othman F, Qari M. Management of painful vaso-occlusive crisis of sickle-cell anemia: consensus opinion. Clin Appl Thromb Hemost. 2010 Aug;16(4):365-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1076029609352661 17. Eosinophilia Case 5067 ASCP check Path, J.Ford, A.Z Al-Riyami, Clinical Pathology 2010, Quarter 2 Conference Presentations 2010 1. Khabori MA, El-Emary M, Messner H, et al. Two-Digit Resolution Typing Of Class-I Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Does Not Compromise Outcomes In Adults Undergoing Matched Unrelated Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation: Journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2010;16(2):S219. 2. El-Emary M, Khabori MA, Buitron N, et al. Long Term Outcomes Of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation For Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation: Journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2010;16(2):S275-S276. 3. Ali AlMadhani, Alkindi S, AlZadjali S, Misquith R., Pathare A, Krishnamoorthy R. Neonatal Screening of Newborns: Targeted Versus Universal Approach as a Cost Effective Strategy. 15th Congress of the European Hematology Association, Barcelona, Spain, 10-13th June, 2010. 4. Ho CH, Gravell D. Can very high value of D-dimer predict the presence of thromboembolic disorders? Haematologica 95(Suppl 2):292, 2010. (Abstract 699). 15th Congress of the European Hematology Association. Barcelona, Spain, June 10-13, 2010. 5. A Taher, K Musallam, A El-Beshlawy, M Karimi, S Daar, K Belhoul, , M Saned, G Al-Helou, G Graziadei, M Cappellini. Age-related complications in treatment-naïve patients with thalassemia intermedia. EHA, Barcelona, June 2010. 6. K Musallam, M Cappellini, A El-Beshlawy , M Karimi , S Daar , K Belhoul, M Saned, C Cassaretti, A Taher. Splenectomy and thrombosis: the case of thalassaemia intermedia. EHA, Barcelona, June 2010 7. Farsi KA, Zadjali SA, Falahi KA, Al-Khabori MK, Pathare A, Alkindi S. Inherited Thrombophilia In Omani Women with Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts)2010;116:5124. 8. Al-Khabori MK, Guyatt G, Minden MD, et al. A Prognostic Score of Overall Survival In Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts)2010;116:2730. 9. Al-Khabori MK, Yee K, Gupta V, et al. Validation of Monosomal Karyotype Based Model In the Risk Stratification of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts)2010;116:2745. 10. Al-Khabori MK, Pathare A, Al Farsi K, Al Huneini M, Alkindi S. Prevalence of Thrombophilia In Patients with Sickle Cell Disease and Osteonecrosis. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts)2010;116:3184. 11. Octaplex Usage one year after implementation at a tertiary care hospital, A.Z Al Riyami, K.Roland, K.Chipperfield. Canadian society of transfusion medicine 2010, & UBC Pathology day 2010. 12. AV. Pathare, S. Al Zadjali, R. Misquith, S. Alkindi, D Dennison, Sahaya Pravin, Tsouria Berbar, R. Krishnamoorthy. Pharmacogenomic variants of CYP2C9, CYP4F2 and VKORC1 and its relation to warfarin response in native Omani patients. 15th Congress of the European Hematology Association, Barcelona, Spain, 10-13th June, 2010. 13. S Daar, F Al Salmi, V Ableen, W Jacob, Z Jabeen and A Pathare T2* MRI- an effective tool to increase chelation compliance in thalassaemia major. 15th Congress of the European Hematology Association, Barcelona, Spain, 10-13th June, 2010 Year of Number Publication of Scientific papers published in the SQU Journal 2010 1 Number of scientific papers published in other scientific journals Number of scientific papers published as a conference proceeding Number of scientific paper published as a book chapter Number of scientific papers published as a book 16 13 NIL NIL