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Inflammation May Be the Culprit Behind Our Deadliest Diseases
In the early days of my medical residency, I met a man whom we’ll call Jason. He arrived to our emergency room on a holiday, nonchalant yet amiable, and complained of mild chest pain. Jason was tall and trim, with a strong South Boston accent and fingertips still faintly stained from his last home-improvement project. He was only 45 years old, but he looked much younger. He didn’t smoke, barely drank alcohol, and his cholesterol levels had always been normal. No one in his family had a history of heart disease. He asked us if we could work quickly—he wanted to be home for dinner with his daughters. [time-...
Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shilpa Ravella Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news

Pre- and in-hospital delays in the use of thrombolytic therapy for patients with acute ischemic stroke in rural and urban Egypt
ConclusionThe limited availability of stroke-ready hospitals in rural Egypt leads to delays in stroke management, with subsequent treatment inequality of rural patients with acute stroke.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - January 20, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Electroencephalographic Findings in a Cohort of Egyptian Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients with Neuropsychiatric Manifestations
ConclusionNot all patients with NPSLE must have abnormal brain MRI or EEG. EEG is a useful assistant tool in diagnosing and studying the different manifestations of NPSLE especially seizure disorder and acute confusional state, but it cannot be used as a screening test alone for detecting NPSLE and must be supplemented by neuroimaging studies.
Source: QJM - October 1, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

A Morphological Study of Left Atrial Appendage in Egyptian patients Using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT)
ConclusionEgyptian patients had predominantly windsock morphology in males and cactus morphology in females.
Source: QJM - October 1, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Safety and Efficacy of Pharmaco-invasive Approach Using Streptokinase Compared With Primary Percutaneous Coronary Angiography
Conclusion: Utilizing streptokinase in early re-perfused patients by PI approach (≤3 hrs) seems safe and efficient when PPCI delay (>120 min from symptom onset) is the other option.
Source: Critical Pathways in Cardiology - August 28, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Original Study Source Type: research

A Novel Homozygous Non-sense Mutation in the Catalytic Domain of MTHFR Causes Severe 5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Deficiency
Conclusion: We identified a novel non-sense mutation in MTHFR gene in a single Egyptian family with severe MTHFR deficiency. The present investigation is clinically important, as it adds to the growing list of MTHFR mutations, which might help in genetic counseling of families of affected children and proper genotype-phenotype correlation. Background Severe 5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR; OMIM 236250) deficiency is a rare inborn error of metabolism and inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion. It is a very common disorder of folate metabolism and is clinically characterized with low plasma methion...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 23, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Subclinical myocardial dysfunction by tissue Doppler echocardiography in primary antiphospholipid syndrome: Preliminary results
ConclusionThe present study demonstrated subclinical myocardial dysfunction using TDI in asymptomatic PAPS patients. TDI is non-invasive and cost effective. Prospective studies including a large number of participants in order to confirm these preliminary data are needed.
Source: The Egyptian Rheumatologist - July 10, 2018 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research