Machine learning approach for hemorrhagic transformation prediction: Capturing predictors' interaction.

Background And Purpose: Patients with ischemic stroke frequently develop hemorrhagic transformation (HT), which could potentially worsen the prognosis. The objectives of the current study were to determine the incidence and predictors of HT, to evaluate predictor interaction, and to identify the optimal predicting models.

Methods: A prospective study included 360 patients with ischemic stroke, of whom 354 successfully continued the study.

Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as a marker for disability and activity in multiple sclerosis.

Background: There is limited data regarding the association of Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) inflammatory marker with multiple sclerosis (MS) disability and activity.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate validity of NLR as an inflammatory marker for MS disability and activity.

Methods: A case-control study including 140 MS patients and 140 age, sex and body mass index matched healthy controls was performed.

Metabolic syndrome components and disease disability in egyptian multiple sclerosis patients.

Background: There is limited and inconsistent data on metabolic syndrome (MetS) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of MetS and its components in MS patients and to evaluate their association with disease disability in Egyptian MS patients.

Methods: A cross-section study was carried out on 60 patients (19 males and 41 females) with relapsing remitting MS.

Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Cerebral Microbleeds in Egyptian Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation.

Background: Few studies addressed the prevalence of cerebral microbleeds (CMB) and associated risk factor profile in Egyptian ischemic cerebral stroke patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).

Methods: The prevalence of CMB was estimated in 150 cases of AF ischemic stroke patients and compared to the prevalence in 150 age- and sex-matched controls of ischemic stroke patients without AF. CMB-associated risk factors were identified by comparing AF ischemic stroke patients with and without CMB.

Early post-stroke seizures in a sample of Egyptian patients with first-ever stroke.

Background: Cerebrovascular stroke is considered as the most common cause of symptomatic seizures. Post-stroke seizures herald a poor functional outcome, a high mortality rate, and a long in-hospital duration of stay.

Aim: To assess the incidence and risk factors responsible for early seizures after the first-ever cerebral stroke, and its relation to the functional outcome and the in-hospital mortality following stroke as well as the duration of stay.

Infarction Size, Interleukin-6, and Their Interaction Are Predictors of Short-Term Stroke Outcome in Young Egyptian Adults.

Background: A trend of increasing incidence of first-ever cerebral ischemic stroke in young adults has been recently reported. The current study was conducted with the objective of identifying independent predictors of short-term outcome of first-ever cerebral ischemic stroke affecting young Egyptian adults.

Methods: The present hospital-based study included 50 patients, 23 males and 27 females, aged 18-45 years, with first-ever ischemic stroke confirmed by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging.