Publications by authors named "Shahad Almuammar"
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- The MDS-UPDRS is a key tool for assessing Parkinson's disease, and this study aimed to validate its Arabic translation and analyze its structure compared to the English version.
- The research involved translating the scale into Arabic, conducting cognitive pretesting, and testing the new version on over 400 Arabic-speaking patients to examine its psychometric properties.
- Results showed the Arabic version matches the factor structure of the English version, confirming its validity and establishing it as an official MDS-UPDRS variant for use in Arabic-speaking populations.
This comprehensive MDSGene review is devoted to the three autosomal-dominant PD forms: PARK-SNCA, PARK-LRRK2, and PARK-VPS35. It follows MDSGene's standardized data extraction protocol, screened a total of 2,972 citations, and is based on fully curated phenotypic and genotypic data on 937 patients with dominantly inherited PD attributed to 44 different mutations in SNCA, LRRK2, or VPS35. All of these data are also available in an easily searchable online database (www.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Immunocompromised patients are at increased risk for developing meningitis or, rarely, brain abscess with opportunistic organisms like Listeria monocytogenes.
Case Report: A 52 year-old Saudi Arabian woman who was diagnosed with pemphigus vulgaris and diabetes and had been on prednisolone and azathioprine for about 4 years. She presented with headache, low-grade fever, and left-sided weakness 2 weeks after receiving the second dose of rituximab infusion.