KASCH Pediatric Imaging Department

KASCH Pediatric Imaging Department

The pediatric radiology department at King Abdullah Specialized Children's Hospital (KASCH) is dedicated to giving patients high-quality care and improving children's health using new technologies and advanced equipment efficiently and effectively. The goal is to carry out and support clinical, academic, and research activities.

Mission of KASCH Pediatric Imaging

To give patients of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs the best, most timely, and correct diagnostic and interventional pediatric radiology imaging services.

Vision of KASCH Pediatric Imaging

To be the fully specialized Pediatric Imaging Department that uses the most advanced technology and has fellowship programs recognized worldwide.

Objectives of KASCH Pediatric Imaging

• Ensure the highest standards of care in the region.
• Increase the capacity of pediatric imaging services to accommodate and serve more patients.
• Decrease patient's waiting time for pediatric imaging services.
• Utilize and implement new advances in medical imaging to achieve the highest standards of care.
• Develop and launch pediatric neuroimaging fellowship training program.
• Enhance the research activities through the section.
• Contrast enhanced ultrasound.

KASCH Pediatric Imaging Programs

1. Portable and departmental X-Ray imaging.
2. Ultrasound imaging for diagnostic and screening purposes.
3. Fluoroscopy which can be used for diagnostic and treatment purposes as in patients with intussusception.
4. Computed tomography (CT).
5. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR) for both pediatric body and neuroimaging.
6. Pediatric interventional radiology which provides therapeutic and diagnostic services.
7. Solid/lymphoma tumor Board: Twice monthly
8. Pediatric Neuro-oncology: Twice monthly.

KASCH Pediatric Imaging Education and Training

Diagnostic Imaging Residency Program:

1. Weekly lectures.
2. Day to day direct training with subspecialized pediatric radiology consultants.

Pediatric Body Imaging Fellowship:

1. Weekly lectures.
2. Day to day direct training with subspecialized pediatric radiology consultants.
3. Tumor board rounds.
4. Monthly fellow-driven academic activities for following Pediatric departments: Pediatric Surgery, General Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Urology.
5. Clinical research.

KASCH Pediatric Imaging Achievements and Awards

1. Accommodate larger number of diagnostic and interventional procedures.
2. Improvement in the TAT (Turn-around-time) for ER, IP and OPs.
3. Maintain 24-hourse role for imaging in-patients.
4. Improvement in out-patients waiting time though increment of requests number.
5. Entertain advanced technique for MR imaging e.g fetal imaging and vessel wall imaging.
6. Participate in conjoint twins diagnostic and intervention procedures.
7. Increase the number of teaching rounds to other pediatric specialties.
8. Participate in radiology and non-radiology pediatric and neurology courses, workshops and conferences throughout the kingdom.
9. Approved expansion of the fellowship program capacity by the Saudi Commission of Health Specialties.
10. Accommodate more residents during monthly rotation (currently 5 residents per month).

KASCH Pediatric Imaging Research and Publications

Poster Presentations

1. Dr Amna Kashgari -Imaging spectrum of VWMD - Radiological society of north America annual meeting RSNA , 30 th Nov/5 th Dec 2019 , Chicago USA.
2. Dr Amna Kashgari, Ahamd Alzahrani, Abdullah Alhammad, Hesham Alshalan - Road though myelin neonatal leukodystrophy- Radiological society of north America annual meeting RSNA, 30th Nov/5th Dec 2019, Chicago USA.
3. Oct 1999 - The Incidence of Misdiagnosis of Acute Appendicitis in a Teaching Hospital in Riyadh performed and presented to the Family & Community Department at King Khalid University Hospital

Publications

• Sep 2005 - A Case Report of a Very Rare Disease as (MRI Finding of Haller-Vordenn Spatz Disease) published in Neurosciences 2006; vol.11(4).
• Can Assoc Radiol J. 2011 Nov;62(4):272-9.doi: 10.1016/j.carj.2010.04.014. Epub 2010 Jul 1.Fluid levels in pediatric imaging: a pictorial review Mohammed O S Alotaibi 1, Kamaldine Oudjhane, Mutaz Alnassar.

• Congenital intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt.Kashgari A, Al Otibi M.Int J Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2020 Mar;7(1):56-57. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpam.2020.03.004. Epub 2020 Mar.

• Lobar pneumonia in pediatric patient with COVID-19.Kashgari A, Al Otaibi M, Alharbi M.Int J Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2020 Sep;7(3):155-156. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpam.2020.07.002. Epub 2020 Jul 18.

• Renal lymphangiomatosis, a rare differential diagnosis for autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease in pediatric patients.Kashgari AA, Ozair N, Al Zahrani A, Al Otibi MO, Al Fakeeh K.Radiol Case Rep. 2016 Dec 23;12(1):70-72. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2016.11.016. eCollection 2017 Mar

• Childs Nerv Syst. 2020; 36(12): 2971–2979. Published online 2020 May 4. doi: 10.1007/s00381-020-04621-7 Reduction of severe intraventricular hemorrhage, a tertiary single-center experience: incidence trends, associated risk factors, and hospital policy” Wafa Sattam M. Alotaibi, Nada S. Alsaif, Ibrahim A. Ahmed, Aly Farouk Mahmoud, Kamal Ali, Abdullah Hammad, Omar S. Aldibasi, Saif A. Alsaif

• Epilepsy in Propionic Acidemia: Case Series of 14 Saudi Patients Afnan AlGhamdi, MD, Muhammad Talal Alrifai, MD, Abdullah I. Al Hammad, MD, Fuad Al Mutairi, MD, Abdulrahman Alswaid, MD, Wafaa Eyaid, MD, Majid Alfadhel, MD, MHSc, FCCMG. First Published July 17, 2018.

• Effectiveness of Sclerotherapy in Treatment of Patients with Primary Aneurysmal Bone Cysts at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC) Wazzan ALjuhani, Badr Almanna and Mohammed Alotaibi.Acta Scientific Orthopaedics (ISSN: 2581-8635) volume 2 Issue 10 October 2019.

• Amna A. Kashgari, Hadeel M. Al-Mana, Yusuf A. Al-Kadhi Intrahepatic splenosis: Case report. Saudi Med J 2009; Vol 30(3): 1296-1299.
• Ahmed Alzahrani, Ali Alassiri, Amna Kashgari, Jihad Alrehaili, Hesham Alshaalan, Reem Zakzouk Extraneural Metastasis of an Epndymoma: A Rare Occurrence. The Neurology Journal;Vol27(2):175-178

• Fuad Al Mutairi ,Fatema Alzahrani ,Farouq Ababneh, Amna A. Kashgari, Fowzan S. Alkuraya . Mendelian form of neural tube defect caused by a de novo null variant in SMARCC1 in an identical twin. Annals of neurology 2018 Vol. 83 (2):433-436

• Amna A. Kashgari, Al Rajeh A, Abdulrahman S, Alrasheed E, AL Faleh H, Al Abdulkarem M, Dhukeir A, Othman A, Khashoggi M, Al Shaalan H and Jamil S.Does my child really need a CT Scan? A retrospective review of use of CT Scan in minor head trauma. Trauma and emergency care 2018 ; Vol 3 (1):1-3

• Leen Hijazi, Amna A.Kashgari, Majid Alfadhel. Multiple sulfatase deficiency: a case serious with novel mutation. J Child Neurol 2018 Aug.

• Saud Alsahli, Aziz AlAnazi, Maher M.A lHatlani, Amna A.Kashgari, Fahd AlSufiani, MajidAlfadhel,andFuadAlMutairi. Severe Crohn’s Disease Manifestations in a Child with Cystathionine b-Synthase Deficiency. ACGCaseRepJ2018;5:e93.doi:10.14309/crj.2018.93.Publishedonline:December 5,2018.

• Amna Kashgari. Neonate with classic Zellweger syndrome. International journal of pediatric and adolescent medicine 6(2019):165-166.
• Amjad Khan, Manal Alaamery,Salam Massade, Abdulrahman Obaid, Amna A. Kashgari, Wafaa Eyaid. PDCD6IP,encoding a regulator of the ESCRT in microcephaly. Medical genetic. April 2020.The positive color Doppler sign post biopsy: effectiveness of US-directed compression in achieving hemostasis
• Mohammed Alotaibi, Jason Shrouder-Henry, Joao Amaral, Dimitri Parra, Michael Temple, Philip John & Bairbre Connolly Pediatric Radiology volume 41, pages362–368 (2011)
• J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. Solitary Hepatic Nodule Adjacent to the Right Portal Vein: A Common Finding of Alagille Syndrome? Abdullah Alhammad 1, Binita M Kamath, Rose Chami, Vicky L Ng, Govind B Chavhan.​​