Publications by authors named "Leila Ben Othmen"

This study aimed to explore the relationship between antioxidant enzyme activities and neurological soft signs (NSS) in a sample of patients with schizophrenia. Sixty clinically stable patients with schizophrenia treated mostly by first-generation antipsychotics and 30 matched healthy controls were recruited. NSS were assessed in two groups by a standardized neurological examination (Krebs et al.

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The primary distal renal tubular acidosis is characterized biochemically by the inability of the kidney to produce appropriately acid urine in the presence of systemic metabolic acidosis or after acid loading (e.g. ammonium chloride).

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The deficiency in factor I or fibrinogen is a largely unknown genetic disease. It is a rare condition inherited as an autosomal recessive, whose clinical events are variable, ranging from moderate to minimal bleeding or cataclysmic hemorrhage. We report a case of congenital afibrinogenemia in a 17 years-old patient hospitalized in surgical ICU for hemoperitoneum medium abundance discovered by abdominal ultrasound performed before a picture of abdominopelvic pain lasting for 24 hours.

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Objective: To determine Red Blood Cell (RBC) antioxidant enzyme activities and plasma Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances (TBARS) in clinically stable patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings.

Methods: A case-control study carried out on three groups: 60 schizophrenic patients treated with neuroleptics, 33 of their unaffected siblings and 30 healthy controls with no family psychiatric history. Biological markers were measured on fasting patients after a period of tobacco abstinence: RBC antioxidant enzyme activities - superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), catalase (CAT) - by spectrophotometry and plasma levels of TBARS by spectrofluorimetry.

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