Mortality was greater for OLT recipients on dialysis than would be expected from a matched, nontransplant, dialysis cohort. Kidney transplantation may abrogate some of this increased mortality risk.

Among the secondary glomerular diseases, lupus nephritis was the commonest condition with a female preponderance. Among the primary glomerular diseases, FSGS was the commonest. These results are consistent with global trend. IgA nephropathy is not common as the case in the Caucasian population. Vasculitis was not common and there was no report of anti-GBM disease.

Purpose: To assess the prescribing and utilization pattern of vancomycin in Sultan Qaboos UniversityHospital (SQUH)

A nasogastric tube was inserted in a 35-year-old man before a surgical procedure. After the operation when the tube was being removed, the patient experienced an excruciating pain in his nasopharynx. The tube could not be advanced outward or inward. A radiograph showed a knotted nasogastric tube in the patient's nasopharynx (Figure 1). The tube was eventually removed through the oral cavity by use of a McGill forceps. Upon further review of the radiograph, we saw that the tube was coiled in the patient's stomach, which could have led to it becoming knotted when it was being pulled out.

Pulmonary mucormycosis is an uncommon, but important, opportunistic fungal pneumonia which is often diagnosed late. Renal failure as the predominant presenting feature is not common in mucormycosis. Moreover, sudden, massive hemoptysis is not a usual complication. In this report we describe fatal pulmonary mucormycosis in a young patient with a previously undiagnosed chronic renal failure.