Publications by authors named "Mohamed Hamed Rashad"
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- Acute ischemic stroke can cause serious side effects, including headaches that people often overlook, which can affect recovery.
- Researchers are studying how headaches develop after a stroke and how to manage them better by using special imaging techniques.
- They found that certain blood vessels in the brain, when opened during a stroke, are linked to causing these headaches, and understanding this can help predict when they might happen.
Background And Purpose: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the cerebellar hemisphere represents a new option in treating essential tremor (ET) patients. We aimed to determine the efficacy of cerebellar rTMS in treating ET using different protocols regarding the number of sessions, exposure duration, and follow-up duration.
Methods: A randomized sham-controlled trial was conducted, in which 45 recruit patients were randomly allocated to 2 groups.
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- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic condition characterized by the deterioration of nerve insulation, and the study aimed to assess the effectiveness of metformin combined with interferon beta 1a in patients with relapsing-remitting MS.
- Eighty patients were divided into two groups: one received metformin with IFNβ-1a, while the other only received IFNβ-1a. After six months, no significant differences were found between the two groups in several measured outcomes, including inflammatory markers and disability status.
- Although the addition of metformin showed a potential effect on reducing levels of an oxidative stress marker (MDA), the overall immunological and clinical outcomes did not demonstrate significant
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare, life-threatening, infectious, lytic, demyelinating disease that results from reactivation of the virulent JC polyomavirus (JCV) "major opportunistic infection" in immunosuppressed individuals. We reported a case of a young girl who presented with new onset focal neurological defect, evaluated, and laboratory and radiological findings in the context of a clinical setting confirmed HIV-related-PML infection. However, remyelination does not occur, the patients may develop complications in the long term including cognitive impairment, sensory deficits, motor deficits, and disturbances in balance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite high prevalence of cerebrovascular stroke, headache attributed to ischemic strokes is often undertreated and overlooked. The aim is to detect the relation of a post-stroke headache to cerebrovascular pathology and changes in hemodynamics through a high-resolution duplex ultrasound examination. The present study was a case-control study conducted among 239 patients, who presented with an acute ischemic stroke.
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