Publications by authors named "H Slimane"
Background: Behcet's disease (BD) is a multisystem autoimmune relapsing vasculitis with an almost unknown etiology involving both large and small vessels. The neurological involvement called neuro-Behcet's disease (NBD) is rare. NBD can be responsible for tumor-like masses mimicking low-grade gliomas in only a few cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Cardiothyreosis (CT) or thyrotoxic heart disease is associated with higher morbidity and mortality than the other forms of hyperthyroidism. Its risk factors have been analyzed in a limited number of studies. The aims of our study were to investigate the prevalence of CT and its risk factors in patients with hyperthyroidism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pituitary tuberculosis is very rare. Its diagnosis is difficult unless a bacteriological or histological evidence of tuberculosis.
Observation: We report the case of a 54 years old woman who presented with a pituitary coma that occurred two weeks after the initiation of antituberculous therapy for cervical lymph node tuberculosis.
Introduction: Diabetic papillopathy is a rare ocular complication of diabetes. Its pathophysiology is not well known. It is a unilateral or bilateral optic disc edema with variable degrees of visual loss.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Variations in the fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) has been associated with obesity in many populations, but the results are conflicting.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the rs9939609 polymorphism in the FTO gene on obesity risk and plasma leptin, adiponectin, insulin and lipid concentrations in Tunisians.
Materials And Methods: Four hundred and ninety-four subjects with obesity and 334 non-obese participated in this study.