Successful Management of Severe Unresponsive Snake Bite Envenomation Using Plasmapheresis and Corticosteroid at Egyptian National Environmental and Clinical Toxicology Research Center: A Case Report.

Snakebite is a significant public health issue in which venom-induced consumption coagulopathy is a common and serious complication that results from the activation of the coagulation pathway by snake toxins. We report a male patient, 56 y old, who was thought to have been bitten by a snake on his left foot. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he received analgesics and 3 snake polyvalent antivenom vials, and then he was transported to our hospital after 12 h.

Successful treatment of intermediate syndrome in a COVID-19 patient with severe organophosphate toxicity.

Organophosphate (OP) poisoning is one of the most common causes of poisoning in the world, due to its easy availability, low cost, and wide occupational exposure. It has a significant death and morbidity rate. Cholinergic syndrome, intermediate syndrome (IMS), and syndrome of delayed polyneuropathy are the three primary syndromes that define OP poisoning.

Work performance among healthcare workers with post COVID-19 syndrome and its relation to antibody response.

Purpose: Health care workers (HCWs) are frontliners in facing Cornoravirus disease (COVID-19) and hence are amongst the high risk groups of acquiring COVID-19 infection. The impact of COVID-19 infection and post-infection sequelae on work performance has deleterious effects on HCWs and the whole community. The aim of the current study is to assess the impact of COVID-19 infection particularly those with post-COVID-19 syndrome on work performance among HCWs and to determine if a possible relationship with antibody response exists.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphisms and hypertension in occupational noise exposure in Egypt.

Background: The gene-environment interaction in the pathogenesis of hypertension has not been extensively studied in occupational noise.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between noise and hypertension in Egyptian workers, the interaction of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphisms as modifiers, and the possible relationship between noise hearing impairment and hypertension.

Methods: Study subjects were divided into two groups depending on noise exposure level.

Liver functions in silica-exposed workers in Egypt: possible role of matrix remodeling and immunological factors.

Background: Brick manufacturing constitutes an important industrial sector in Egypt with considerable exposure to silica.

Objectives: We aimed for evaluating hepatic functions in silica-exposed workers in the clay brick industry, and the possible role of matrix remodeling and immunological factors.

Methods: A case-control study, 87 workers as exposed and 45 as control subjects.