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Abderrezak Bouchama
Researcher at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Publications - 78
Citations - 6379
Abderrezak Bouchama is an academic researcher from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heatstroke & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 70 publications receiving 5690 citations. Previous affiliations of Abderrezak Bouchama include Yahoo! & National Guard Health Affairs.
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Yaseen M. Arabi,Hanan H. Balkhy,Frederick G. Hayden,Abderrezak Bouchama,Thomas Luke,J Kenneth Baillie,Awad Al-Omari,Ali H. Hajeer,Mikiko Senga,Mark R. Denison,Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam,Nahoko Shindo,Alison Bermingham,James D. Chappell,Maria D. Van Kerkhove,Robert A. Fowler +15 more
TL;DR: The Middle East respiratory syndrome is caused by a coronavirus that was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and continues to occur in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Prognostic Factors in Heat Wave–Related Deaths: A Meta-analysis
Abderrezak Bouchama,Mohammed Dehbi,Gamal H Mohamed,Franziska Matthies,Mohamed Shoukri,Bettina Menne +5 more
TL;DR: Several prognostic factors are identified that could help to detect those individuals who are at highest risk during heat waves and to provide a basis for potential risk-reducing interventions in the setting of heat waves.
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Prospective evaluation of the protected specimen brush for the diagnosis of pulmonary infections in ventilated patients.
Jean Chastre,François Viau,Patrick Brun,Josiane Pierre,Marie-Christine Dauge,Abderrezak Bouchama,Abdel Akesbi,Claude Gibert +7 more
TL;DR: To determine the relative cultural accuracy of the bronchoscopic protected specimen brush (PSB) in ventilated patients, this method was compared with histologic and bacteriologic examinations of pulmonary specimens and a correlation was evidenced between PSB and lung cultures.
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Severe neurologic syndrome associated with Middle East respiratory syndrome corona virus (MERS-CoV)
Yaseen M. Arabi,A. Harthi,J. Hussein,Abderrezak Bouchama,Sameera M. Al Johani,Ali H. Hajeer,B. T. Saeed,A. Wahbi,A. Saedy,T. AlDabbagh,R. Okaili,Musharaf Sadat,Hanan H. Balkhy +12 more
TL;DR: CNS involvement should be considered in patients with MERS-CoV and progressive neurological disease, and further elucidation of the pathophysiology of this virus is needed.