Publications by authors named "Hala A Shaheen"
Article Synopsis
- Early diagnosis and proper management of epilepsy are crucial, yet Egypt faces significant challenges in healthcare practices, leading to poor outcomes for patients.
- A group of Egyptian experts used a modified Delphi method to develop a nationwide consensus on epilepsy diagnosis and treatment after reviewing recent literature and guidelines.
- Out of 278 statements discussed, a strong agreement was reached on 256, aiming to enhance the quality of care and improve treatment outcomes for those living with epilepsy in Egypt.
Background: The severity of stroke-induced disruption to the corticospinal tract (CST) would be predictable to affect motor outcome. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a noninvasive technique that can be applied to assess the structural integrity of the CST.
Aim Of The Work: To assess the value of DTI in patients early presenting with acute ischemic stroke as a prognostic modality to predict the clinical outcome PATIENTS AND METHODS: Thirty-four patients with acute ischemic stroke underwent clinical assessment using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Modified Rankin Scale (mRS), Medical Research Council (MRC) score, Morticity Index (MI), and DTI to detect the degree of reduction of fractional anisotropy (FA), and pattern of CST at baseline and after 6 months follow up.
Prevalence of Stroke in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt: A Community-Based Study.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis
September 2019
Background: Stroke is a highly prevalent disease with consequent mortality and morbidity. Few community based studies have been conducted only in upper Egypt to estimate prevalence of stroke.
Objectives: This study was designed to find out the prevalence of stroke in Fayoum Governorate & to study some associated risk factors.
Aim: The aim of this work was to detect chicken B-cell marker 6 () gene in some native breeds in Egypt and find the relationship between founded genes in these different breeds to determine the resistance of native Egyptian breeds of chicken to Marek's disease (MD).
Materials And Methods: A total of 14 different chicken breeds (30 each) including ten native breeds in addition to SPF Lohmann, High Line, Bovans, and Roodiland were used. Blood samples were collected for the detection of () by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay and sequenced to determine the presence or absence of 6 gene.
The relationship between the severity of disability and serum IL-8 in acute ischemic stroke patients.
Egypt J Neurol Psychiatr Neurosurg
September 2018
Article Synopsis
- Stroke is a major health issue, being the third leading cause of death and a primary cause of disability in adults, particularly due to inflammation that worsens brain damage in survivors.
- A study analyzed 44 patients with acute ischemic stroke within 48 hours, measuring their serum IL-8 levels alongside assessing their disability using established scales like NIHSS and mRS.
- Results indicated that higher IL-8 levels are significantly associated with increased severity of disability, suggesting that monitoring IL-8 could help evaluate and potentially manage post-stroke recovery.
Background: It has been suggested that vitamin D influences the immunoregulation and subsequently affects the risk for conversion of clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) to clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS). There is little information regarding the relationship between levels of vitamin D and CIS conversion to MS in Egyptian patients.
Objective: It is to study contribution of vitamin D deficiency to conversion of CIS to clinically definite multiple sclerosis (CDMS) and correlation of vitamin D level to cognitive and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results.
Convulsive status epilepticus is a common neurologic emergency in pediatrics. We aimed to study the etiology, clinical features, and prognostic factors among pediatric patients with convulsive status epilepticus. Seventy patients were included in this cohort study from pediatric emergency department of the specialized Children Hospital of Cairo University.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The extent and clinical relevance of the association between epilepsy and sleep apnea are not previously studied in Egypt. What we wanted to know was the frequency of sleep apnea in Egyptian children with epilepsy and its influence on seizure frequency, other seizure characteristics, sleep complaint, and architecture.
Methods: All patients with epilepsy, aged up to 18 years, who underwent polysomnography were studied.