Publications by authors named "Charfi M"

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  • * In fetuses, cardiac symptoms are uncommon and often indicate a poor outlook, making prenatal diagnosis important for timely management.
  • * This text presents a case where the malformation was detected before birth through ultrasound, allowing for better monitoring, as the newborn subsequently faced severe cardiac failure.
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Introduction: Allergic rhinitis (AR) in children is a common condition that is a public health problem. Despite a well-codified treatment, clinical improvement is not the rule.

Aim: To identify factors affecting the improvement of allergic rhinitis in children under symptomatic treatment.

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  • Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn is a temporary condition occurring within the first six weeks of life, requiring careful monitoring for complications, particularly hypercalcemia.
  • Diagnosis can be tricky as it may resemble other conditions like bacterial cellulitis or erysipelas, which necessitates thorough clinical, biological, and histological evaluations.
  • In the reported case, a full-term newborn required a surgical incision due to discomfort and persistent symptoms, after which complications like hypercalcemia and nephrocalcinosis developed, highlighting the importance of follow-up care.
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Introduction: Langerhans cell sarcoma (LCS) is a very rare malignant tumor of Langerhans cells that may metastasize to many organs. The diagnosis of this tumor is difficult and its prognosis is poor.

Aim: To report the difficulty to diagnose LCS, and discuss therapeutic management of this rare entity.

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Introduction: perioperative anxiety in children may lead to psychological and physiological side effects. Clonidine is in increasing use in the pediatric population as an anxiolytic, sedative, and analgesic because of its central alpha2-adrenergic agonist effect. Our study aimed to evaluate the effect of clonidine in the prevention of perioperative children´s anxiety.

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Congenital arhinia or nasal absence is a rare condition, with only less than 100 cases published in the literature to date. It is a rare condition that causes respiratory distress during the neonatal period. Although stabilization of the airway is the priority, management is not clearly defined, given the rarity of the malformation.

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Congenital epulis is a benign gingival tumor whose differential diagnosis includes other oral-facial masses such as teratoma, hemangioma, lymphatic malformation and dermoid cysts. This tumor can cause obstruction of the airway or feeding problems in the newborn. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice.

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Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is one of the rare genetic syndromes which is specified by symmetrical craniofacial dysmorphism without growth abnormalities or neurological disorders. The inheritance is usually autosomal dominant but sometimes it is a sporadic mutation. Prenatal diagnosis could be realized by genetic testing of a chorionic villus sample or amniocentesis if one of the parents is affected.

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Introduction: in 2020, the incidence of breast cancer was 2261419 cases worldwide, 1186598 cases in Africa and 817 cases in Senegal. However, direct medical costs of cancer treatment are not known in Senegal. For a better resource allocation, it is important to estimate costs.

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Hemophilia is a rare constitutional hemorrhagic disorder. There is insufficient epidemiological data on hemophilia in Tunisia. To describe the epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic, and outcome of a cohort of patients with hemophilia in southern Tunisia.

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Introduction: Detrusor thickness (DT) and intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) are closely related to bladder outlet obstruction. The aim of our study was to look for correlation between DT, IPP and maximum urinary flow (Qmax).

Methods: It is a prospective, observational study including men over fifty managed for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

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Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and ischemic heart disease (IHD) are common causes of mortality worldwide, with shared risk factors. COPD continues to be largely underdiagnosed and undertreated, especially in patients with IHD.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of COPD in smokers with confirmed IHD and to compare IHD characteristics between COPD patients and those without COPD.

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Patients with ferromagnetic cardiac devices, particularly cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) such as pacemakers or implantable cardioverter defibrillators, are often inappropriately deprived of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for safety reasons. This consensus document is written by a multidisciplinary working group involving rhythmologists, interventional cardiologists, echocardiographists and radiologists. Its objective is to establish good practice recommendations to optimize the management of patients with cardiac devices requiring MRI examination, while ensuring their safety and facilitating their access to MRI.

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Introduction: Pulmonary toxicity causally related to Imatinib (IM) therapy is uncommon in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Case Report: A 61-year-old patient with chronic myeloid leukemia was treated with IM at 400 mg daily dose. One month within IM, he developed skin lesions and then acute dyspnea and non-productive cough.

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Aim: The aim of the study is to report on epidemiological, clinical, and biochemical characteristics of nonketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH) in Tunisia.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with NKH in Laboratory of Biochemistry at Rabta hospital (Tunis, Tunisia) between 1999 and 2018 were included. Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) free amino acids were assessed by ion exchange chromatography.

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Background: Research concerning factors of death after neonatal surgery is scarce. Insight into mortality might improve perioperative care. This study aimed to identify predictive factors of mortality after neonatal surgery in a low income country (LIC).

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Introduction: Although the use of Reference Management Software (RMS) is increasing in developed countries, they seem to be unknown and less used in low-income countries.

Aim: To discover the major trends in the use of RMS among researchers and Ph.D.

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Background: The evaluation of asthma control, based on symptoms and risk factors for exacerbation does not provide information about airway inflammation, reflected by fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO). The impact of FeNO in the evaluation of asthma control has not been well recognized. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of FeNO measurement in the assessment of asthma control.

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Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare form of chronic pancreatitis that predominantly affects men in their fifth and sixth decades and often presents with obstructive jaundice and pancreatic enlargement. It is relatively easily diagnosed by characteristics of diffuse swelling of parenchyma and irregular narrowing of the main pancreatic duct. However, focal mass-forming AIP is hard to distinguish from pancreatic cancer.

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