Epilepsy Arabic renaming to cerebroelectric disorder could minimize the stigma.

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.

The correlation between the frequent intake of dietary migraine triggers and increased clinical features of migraine (analytical cross-sectional study from 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.

The effect of ketogenic diet escalation in adolescents and adults with drug-resistant epilepsy: a prospective study.

Background: Ketogenic diet (KD) is an accepted and effective treatment modality in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Different versions of ketogenic diets have been studied, however, the effect of ratio escalation in adolescence and adults has not been previously investigated.

Methods: The current open-labeled interventional study was conducted on 80 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy DRE, 40 patients (intervention group) were exposed to dietary intervention besides their regular antiseizure medication (ASM) and compared to 40 control patients.

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures in Patients With Epilepsy: A Comparative Study With Patients With Pure Epilepsy.

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) represent management challenges, especially if associated with epilepsy. We aimed to evaluate patients with mixed epilepsy (true and PNES) and compare them with pure epilepsy to identify predictors of psychogenic seizures. This study included 40 patients with pure epilepsy and 40 patients with mixed epilepsy matched in age and sex.

Tramadol-associated seizures in Egypt: Epidemiological, clinical, and radiological study.

Background: Tramadol intake related seizures have emerged as a common cause of seizures in Egypt affecting mainly young men.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the percentage of tramadol induced seizures, and to compare the clinical, neurophysiological, and radiological features of tramadol induced seizures group with idiopathic epilepsy group.

Methods: Two phases study; at first phase, data analysis for all Kasr-Alainy epilepsy clinic patients in Cairo during the period from January 2012 through June 2014, then at second phase a group of tramadol induced seizures' patients were compared with a matching group of idiopathic epilepsy patients.

Multiparametric Approach Enhances Detection of Patients with Cerebral TIAs at Risk of Stroke: A Prospective Pilot Case Series.

Background: Patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) are generally clinically unstable, with fear of developing a handicapping stroke. Identification of those at highest and lowest risk of stroke in the first days and weeks after a TIA would allow appropriate use of worthy secondary prevention strategies.

Objective: Incorporation of a clinical scoring system, neurovascular imaging, and magnetic resonance-diffusion-weighted imaging (MR-DWI) to help predicting risk of developing an ischemic stroke following a TIA.

Epilepsy prevalence in Al-Manial Island, Egypt. A door-to-door survey.

Background: Epidemiologic studies of epilepsy are lacking from the majority of the Arab countries; although there are significant needs for such studies. This study was conducted on a sample of Al-Manial Island, Cairo city, one of the highest cities in population density in the world.

Participants And Methods: A community-based, door to door, cross-sectional study using multistage random sample including 512 families (1751 individuals).

Prevalence of intracranial atherosclerosis among patients with coronary artery disease: a 1-year hospital-based study.

Background: There are limited data on the prevalence of intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) worldwide and especially among Egyptians. The purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of ICAD in patients with CAD.

Methods: From January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2013, we recruited 118 consecutive patients who had ischemic heart disease.

Anabolic steroids abuse-induced cardiomyopathy and ischaemic stroke in a young male patient.

We report a case of a 37-year-old man presented with acute stroke and hepatorenal impairment which were associated with anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) abuse over 2 years. Despite the absence of apparent symptoms and signs of congestive heart failure at presentation, an AAS-induced dilated cardiomyopathy with multiple thrombi in the left ventricle was attributed to be the underlying cause of his condition. Awareness of the complications of AAS led to the prompt treatment of the initially unrecognised dilated cardiomyopathy, and improved the liver and kidney functions.