Neuromuscular

ABOUT US

The Mansoura neuromuscular unit is a part of the neurology department at Mansoura University Hospitals, and the new division will be at the new specialized center.

The vision of the unit is to promote the highest quality patient-centered neurologic care in various neuromuscular disorders. They also aid other specialized centers to reach their final diagnoses and guide their management like orthopedic, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, and cardiothoracic centers.

Members and contacts:

  1. Dr.Maha Hazem Khalil

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  1. Prof :Dr.Mohammed Abdel - Salam Mohamed Ali

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  1. Prof Mohammed Ahmed Gamal Abdel Rahman El-Sherif

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  1. Dr Aya Zahran

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  1. Eman Eissa

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  1. Dr Dina Elghazawi

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Research activities:

  • The Relation of Vitamin D Blood Level with Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms (SAMS) Thouria Ijazat, K. Eltoukhy, M. Hazem, Kefaya Elsayed Medicine International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal 20 July 2021.
  • Are Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Migraine Related? Ahmed Esmael, Mohamed Reda Ramadan Gomaa, M. Hazem , Medicine, International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal, 20 March 2019

  • PERIPHERAL NERVE DYSFUNCTION AMONG WORKERS WITH LONG-TERM OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES, El-Helaly Me., M. Hazem, Mosad Sm., El Biomy Aa., Medicine 2009.
  • Clinical Relevance of Cryoglobulinaemia and Extrahepatic Neurocutaneous Manifestations of Chronic Hepatitis C, M. Hassan, M. Hazem, Yossef Albayomy, O. S. Eldeen, K. Zalata, 2008.
  • The role of MRI in the evaluation of muscle diseases, Saleh Saleh Elessawy, Mohamed Abd El Ghaffar Borg, Mohamed Abd El-Salam Mohamed, Galal Elsayed Elhawary, Eman Mohamed Abd El-Salam, the Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 607-615.
  • The relationship between exacerbated diabetic peripheral neuropathy and metformin treatment in type 2 diabetes mellitus, Manal Mohammed Hashem, Ahmed Esmael, Abdelfattah Kasem Nassar& Mohammed El-Sherif , Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 1940 (2021).

Patient Services

Inpatient service

Our unit is serving all hospitals of Mansoura University specially these following departments;

  • Neurology (peripheral nerve disorders, muscle disease, AHCs affection, NMJ, ….etc)
  • Neurosurgery (surgical entrapment neuropathy, TOS, post traumatic injury.. etc)
  • Orthopedics ( canal stenosis, surgical disc , post traumatic injury… etc)
  • Pediatric (floppy infant diagnosis, muscular dystrophies, hereditary neuropathies .. etc)
  • Cardiothoracic ( myasthenic patients who are prepared for thymectomy )
  • Internal medicine (neuropathy and myopathy with metabolic association)
  • Also, it is very important in helping researches all over the Mansoura University from neurological specialties’, chest, and other specialties’. )

We work mainly on diagnosis and management of neuromuscular diseases including the following cases;

  • Peripheral nerve disorders (Guillain Barrie syndrome and chronic inflammatory forms, inherited and acquired forms).
  • Muscle diseases like muscle dystrophy diagnosis, myotonic patients, inflammatory muscle diseases
  • Floppy infant diagnosis and we are doing our best for SMA In Presidential Muscular Dystrophy Initiative
  • Patient with fatigability symptoms for detection of any myasthenic findings
  • Patient with AHCs affection like those with ALS, PLS and SMA.
  • Emergency management including cases of GBS, other types of acute polyneuropathies, myasthenic crisis or polymyositis.
  • Neuromuscular clinic providing service to hundreds of patients monthly including financially supported neuromuscular medications and arrangement for IVIg or plasmapheresis
  • Electrophysiological services including NCS, EMG and RNS in the Neurology department at Mansoura university hospitals
  • Neuromuscular ultrasound, diagnosis of CTS and hydrodissection as treatment of CTS.

 

 

 

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Outpatient services:

We receive patients from:

  • Neurology outpatient clinic of Mansoura University
  • Outpatient clinics of all other specialties’
  • Referred patients from other clinics or hospitals all over DAKAHLEYA government and nearby areas

We provide those patients with proper diagnosis and treatment.

 

Educational activities:

Neuromuscular ultrasonography: an overview workshop (2/11/2021)