Publications by authors named "Asmae Biaz"
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- This study focused on monoclonal gammopathies, a group of disorders involving abnormal growth of plasma cells that produce a specific type of protein, aiming to analyze their characteristics in a Moroccan hospital over 19 years.! -
- A total of 443 patients participated in the research, predominantly men (72.23%), with an average age of about 62 years. Common reasons for hospital admission included bone pain and renal failure.! -
- The findings revealed that conditions like multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance were the most common types, with the study highlighting a tendency for male patients and suggesting that diagnoses are often delayed.!
Double heterozygosity SC is a major sickle cell syndrome. Its course may be marked by severe or irreversible complications, such as bone infarction. We here report the case of a 17-year-old patient presenting with compound heterozygous SC sickle cell disease following severe knee pain (gonalgia) in order to highlight the risk of delayed diagnosis as well as the need for prevention policies guiding early screening, thus improving patients' management and prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of multiple myeloma of unexpected discovery in an old patient admitted to the emergency department of cardiomyopathy. This observation emphasizes the need for exploring any anemia before linking it to heart failure or kidney disease. Serum protein electrophoresis remains crucial especially in the elderly patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The retinopathy is an uncommon complication in individuals with sickle cell trait except for the cases of sickle cell trait associated with systemic arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, syphilis, tuberculosis and sarcoidosis.
Case Presentation: A retinopathy in a 16 year-old child with no history of consanguinity in the parents revealed a sickle S trait associated to heterozygous alpha thalassemia. His mother has Sickle cell anaemia (Hb SS) and his father is a carrier of heterozygous alpha-thalassemia status that it was unknown before.
Unlabelled: This study aimed to compare the vitamin D status in healthy Moroccan men and women aged 50 years and older. A total of 186 Moroccan women and 68 men, who had no previous diagnosis of osteoporosis, were recruited prospectively. We found in this study a high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D with no difference between men and women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Vertebral Fractures (VFs) are associated with bone loss that occurs before menopause but is accelerated at menopause as a result of sex hormone deficiency. To determine the association of sex hormones, bone remodeling markers and vitamin D levels with bone mineral density (BMD) and asymptomatic VFs prevalence using vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) in a cohort of Moroccan menopausal women.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted from October 2012 to April 2013 with menopausal women aged 50 years old and over.