Publications by authors named "R Shamloul"
Background: Naming is an important part of human communication. The precision of medical terms greatly influences the patients and their caregivers. "Alsara'الصرع " is the Arabic term defining epilepsy.
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- 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.
Despite the high prevalence of primary headaches, the role of food in modifying clinical characteristics among migraine patients is often overlooked. The aim is to detect the correlation between adopting unhealthy dietary habits and migraine severity and identify foods that have a greater chance of triggering specific subtypes of migraine. The present study was a cross-sectional analytical study that was conducted at Kasralainy Hospital, Cairo University, headache clinic at Alexandria University Hospital, and Al-Azhar University Hospitals from January to June 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Available data about sexual-related problems among Egyptian women with epilepsy (WWE) are scarce. Hence, this work aimed to study the pattern and predictors of sexual dysfunction in a sample of Egyptian WWE.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, sexually active WWE and age and years of marriage-matched healthy controls were included.
Objectives: The international league against epilepsy (ILAE) recommended the harmonized neuroimaging of epilepsy structural sequences (HARNESS-MRI) to improve the detection of epileptogenic lesions in patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). The application of this protocol is still limited in low-resource countries, mainly due to apparent high costs. We aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the HARNESS-MRI protocol in Egypt and highlighted our experience.
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