Publications by authors named "Emile Muallem"
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- The study aimed to evaluate if adding intrathecal morphine (ITM) to standard pain management reduces the need for postoperative pain relief after pediatric spine surgery.
- A meta-analysis of 5 studies involving 636 participants showed that ITM significantly prolonged the time before the first pain demand and reduced overall analgesic consumption at both 24 and 48 hours after surgery.
- While ITM improved pain management, it did not significantly affect pain scores or the incidence of common side effects like nausea and respiratory depression compared to the control group.
Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant with 1 per 1000 cases of MS and 3 per million cases per year. TMS can mimic clinical and radiological features of a neoplasm, infarction, or abscess and therefore can be diagnostically challenging for clinicians. We present a clinical scenario of a patient presenting with left homonymous hemianopia with atypical radiological features initially thought to be more consistent with neoplasm or infraction.
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