Publications by authors named "S Bouhsain"
Background: Hyperthyroidism can lead to diverse hematological disorders, such as microcytosis and a mild increase in hemoglobin A2 fraction.
Methods: This study reported a 31-year-old woman of Moroccan origin recently diagnosed with Graves' disease. Her blood tests revealed microcytosis, hypochromia, and a normal ferritin level.
Background: We report a case of a patient with immunoglobulin A multiple myeloma associated with a masked kappa light chain. Serum immunofixation showed a monoclonal band in the IgA heavy chain lane without corre-spondence with the light chain and a monoclonal band in total kappa light chain lane without correspondence with the heavy chain.
Methods: To distinguish between heavy chain disease and immunoglobulin with "masked" light chains, two tubes containing the patient's serum were incubated with a very high concentration of anti-total kappa and anti-total lambda antisera for 48 hours at 4°C in order to facilitate immunoprecipitation of the involved light chain.
Article Synopsis
- This study focused on monoclonal gammopathies, a group of disorders involving abnormal growth of plasma cells that produce a specific type of protein, aiming to analyze their characteristics in a Moroccan hospital over 19 years.! -
- A total of 443 patients participated in the research, predominantly men (72.23%), with an average age of about 62 years. Common reasons for hospital admission included bone pain and renal failure.! -
- The findings revealed that conditions like multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance were the most common types, with the study highlighting a tendency for male patients and suggesting that diagnoses are often delayed.!
Background: COVID-19 is a true global pandemic since March 2020, and it is responsible in the majority of patients mild symptoms; however, a small number of patients progress to the severe form with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and some of them progress to the very severe form which can be fatal when it comes to multiorgan failure. Thus, it is important to identify as early as possible patients at high risk of progressing to severe forms requiring early and specialized management in order to reduce mortality.
Methods: Our five-month retrospective study (May 2020 - October 2020) included 300 SARS-CoV-2 patients confirmed by RT-PCR and hospitalized in the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Center (CMIT), and in the Intensive Care Unit of the Military Hospital of instructions Mohamed V of Rabat (Morocco).