Publications by authors named "Fadel Hicham"
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- Cocaine use can lead to serious health issues, including strokes and a rare condition called cocaine-induced multiple leukoencephalopathy.
- An 18-year-old woman, with no prior health issues, experienced this condition after using cocaine and was treated with intravenous methylprednisolone, showing some improvement.
- Recent findings suggest that levamisole, a common adulterant found in cocaine, may also contribute to the development of multiple leukoencephalopathy.
Winged scapula is a rare musculoskeletal condition with numerous etiologies including spinal accessory nerve (SAN) palsy. Sport activities are rarely implicated with few scattered case reports. We report a case of an 18-year-old bodybuilder who suffered SAN palsy secondary to weightlifting exercises.
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- - Crossed cerebellar diaschisis is a rare condition where one side of the cerebellum is depressed due to a lesion in the opposite cerebral cortex, mainly caused by increased neural activity in certain pathways.
- - It is commonly seen after ischemic strokes but can also occur in some cases of epilepsy.
- - This report details a patient's recovery from status epilepticus, showing motor and visual deficits initially, but later improved MRIs and complete recovery of her symptoms.
Chorea paralytica (or chorea mollis) is a very rare variant of Sydenham's chorea, characterized by a profound hypotonia, resulting in severe disability. Given the rarity of this condition, data on its prognosis are lacking. Most reports suggest that the delay from onset to recover total autonomy is long, usually several weeks to months which strongly affects the quality of life of these children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs), a group of neurodegenerative movement disorders, are among the genetically most heterogeneous clinical conditions. Still, the more than 50 forms known so far apparently explain less than 80% of cases. The present study identified two large HSP families, which seemed to show an autosomal recessive and an X-linked inheritance pattern.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBenign myoclonic epilepsy of infancy is a rare idiopathic generalized epileptic syndrome occurring below the age of 3 years. Although benign outcome is presumed, some recent studies suggest less favorable outcome. A 14-year-old boy had a history of repeated episodes of myoclonic jerks of the shoulders and upper limbs in infancy (age 5 months).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Neurological manifestations in Gougerot-Sjogren syndrome (GSS) are valued differently. This is essentially the achievement of the peripheral nervous system.
Methods: We report 9 cases of neurological manifestation revealing primitive Gougerot-Sjogren syndrome collected over a period of 8 years (1997-2004).