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  1. Bell’s palsy (BP) is a common idiopathic cranial mononeuropathy. The electrophysiological tests are one of supportive tools for localizing the site of facial nerve lesion, and to determine the severity and pro...

    Authors: Ibrahim Tharwat Abdelal, Enas Abdelkader Eliwa, Amany Mohammad Ebaid and Marwa Mohammad Abdelfattah
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:24
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  2. Specific autoantibodies are considered as an important marker in autoimmune rheumatic diseases and are of great value for the diagnosis and prognosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. A total of ...

    Authors: Sahar A. Elsayed and Omar M M. Mohafez
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:39
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  3. Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are considered as an autoantibody-mediated disorder that targets aquaporin-4 (AQP4); other autoantibodies could be detected in such spectrum of diseases, includi...

    Authors: Basant Elnady, Sabry M. Fathy, Tohamy Elkhouly and Sahar Ganeb
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:15
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  4. The infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve (IPBSN) contains only sensory fibers that innervate the knee regarding its anteromedial aspect and the anterior-inferior portion of its capsule. IPBSN damage has...

    Authors: Dalia Salah Saif and Mohamed Ahmed Eltabl
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:19
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  5. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a worldwide disease. HCV-related arthritis is one of the extrahepatic manifestations of the disease. The treatment of chronic HCV has been revolutionized with the introduct...

    Authors: Samah M. Alian, Mohamed Othman Wahba, Ahmed Fathy Gomaa and Sahar S. Khalil
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:16
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  6. To compare the clinical efficacy of platelet rich plasma (PRP) subacromial injection and extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) on refractory non-calcific partial thickness supraspinatous tendon tear.

    Authors: Samah M. Alian, Rabab S. Zaghlol and Sahar S. Khalil
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:17
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  7. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-organ autoimmune disorder with wide variety of clinical presentations. Recently, red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been used as an inflammatory marker, s...

    Authors: Osama Sayed Daifallah Mohamed, Gehan Joseph Azmy and Esam Mohammed Abu Elfadl
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:38
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  9. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune multi-systemic disease with predominant affection of connective tissue. Skin is characteristically affected in SSc and is almost responsible for oral complications as ...

    Authors: Enas A. Elattar, Mona G. Balata and Reem El Mallah
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:37
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  10. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is highly prevalent in Egypt. It was found to be 7.0% in a study done in 2015. There are some studies on the prevalence of HCV in rheumatoid arthritis, but to our knowledge, n...

    Authors: Safaa Ali Mahran, Alaa A. A. Mohamed, Dalia A. Nigm, M. Z. A. Abu Rahma, S. Abd-Elsalam, Hesham Hamoud, M. Hamdy, M. I. Risha, Ahmad Hamdy, Mohamed M. Abdelkareem, Saad Ghanem, Mohamed Hanafy, Abdelhafeez Moshrif, A. Fehr, Fatma H. ElNouby, A. Osman…
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:1
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  11. Impaired deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair may induce an autoimmune response in susceptible individuals. The association between DNA repair gene XRCC1 Arg399Gln gene polymorphism and susceptibility of systemi...

    Authors: Mohamed A. Mortada, Haidy E. Zidan, Noha A. Abdelsalam and Mirvat A. Eltoukhy
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:2
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  12. Albumin and derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (dNLR) are known biomarkers that can reflect systemic inflammation and it has been hypothesized that combination of both markers in one score (albumin-dNLR sc...

    Authors: Sahar Ganeb, Sami Egaila, Asmaa Hamed and Waleed Hassan
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:5
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  13. The aim of this study was to retrospectively investigate the prevalence and characteristics of neuropsychiatric (NP) involvement in a cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients from a single tertiar...

    Authors: Basma M Medhat, Abdelkawy Moghazy and Mervat Eissa
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:18
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  15. Osteoporosis is a common complication of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) even in the early stages of disease; however, previously published studies have demonstrated large discrepancies in the reported incidence o...

    Authors: Yasmin Adel, Mohamed Ali El Adalany and Sherine Abdel Rahman Abdel Karim Bassiouni
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:35
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  16. Ultrasonography (US) measurement of median nerve cross-sectional area (m-CSA) at pisiform is increasingly utilized in identification of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), but there is still no agreement about the i...

    Authors: Amany Salama El-Bahnasawy, Mohammad K. Senna, Amr El-Sayed Okasha and Ola Gharbia
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:34
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  17. Deep friction massage (DFM) has long been proven to be effective in treatment of some tendinopathies. The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy of this physical modality in the treatment of plantar fas...

    Authors: Abdelhfeez Moshrif, Mohamed Elwan and Osama S. Daifullah
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:11
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  18. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common peripheral entrapment neuropathy. Typical symptoms and signs include numbness, tingling, pain, or burning sensation in the digits supplied by the median nerve an...

    Authors: Souzan E. Gado and Hanaa S. EL-Banna
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:4
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  19. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by presence of localized and generalized osteoporosis. The mechanism of decreased bone mass is complex and multifactorial, a possible mechanism behind increased bone ...

    Authors: Ola Gharbia, Aliaa Hegazy, Rania Elhelaly and Atif ElGhaweet
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:22
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  20. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a typical complex degenerative articular ailment that shows focal cartilage loss, new bone formation with involvement of entire joint tissues. Dkk-1 assumes a job in controlling the patt...

    Authors: Noha Hosni Ibrahim, Samia Mohammed Abdel-Monem, Abdel-Wahab S. E. Elbarashy, Heba A. W. Elhussieny and Rasha A. H. Elsayed
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:13
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  22. The incidence rate of anemia of chronic disease (ACD) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) ranges between 30 and 80%. Serum iron is the main regulator of hepatic hepcidin production. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) upre...

    Authors: Abeer M. El-Shafey, Lamiaa M. Kamel, Abeer A. Fikry, Mohamad M. Nasr and Sahar M. Abdel Galil
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:14
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  23. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disabling autoimmune disease with predilection to synovial joints and many extraarticular manifestations. Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs are the cornerstone and initia...

    Authors: Safaa A. Mahran, Tayser Mohamed Khedr, Esraa Moustafa Mohammed and Eman Mohamed Hussein El-Hakeim
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:3
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  24. The association between carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and ulnar nerve entrapment is unclear, and the extra-median paresthesia in the ulnar nerve territory innervation in CTS is unexplained. Our purpose is to ev...

    Authors: Aliaa Omar El-Hady, Soad Said Ahmed El Molla and Rehab Ali Ibrahim
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:9
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  26. Obesity is an important feature of metabolic syndrome, and the link between them has been attributed to the state of chronic inflammatory process.

    Authors: Dalia M. E. El-Mikkawy, Maha A. EL-Sadek, Mohja A. EL-Badawy and Dalia Samaha
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:7
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  27. To assess the subclinical cardiovascular affection in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) Egyptian patient subtypes using Doppler ultrasonography (US) for carotid and femoral arteries and detecting their predi...

    Authors: Samah M. Alian, Hanan A. Esmail, Marwa M. Gabr and Enass A. Elewa
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2020 47:6
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  28. To evaluate the role of soluble Fas (sFas) and soluble Fas ligand (sFasL) in the pathogenesis of distal symmetrical polyneuropathy (DSPN) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and to analyze the relations...

    Authors: Mowaffak M. Abd Elhameed, Noha A. Elsawy, Magdy H. Zekry Mgalaa, Sarah S. El-Tawab, Reham A. Abo Elwafa and Marwa R. Abd Elfadeel
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040321
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  30. Quality of life (QOL) is a multidimensional concept that is used to describe the individuals’ perceptions, satisfaction, and evaluation of different areas of their own lives, such as physical health and functi...

    Authors: Samar H. Goma, Mohamed Raouf Abdel Razek and Nesreen M. Abdelbary
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040304
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  31. To evaluate the efficacy of botulinum toxin A on relieving the clinical symptoms caused by median nerve compression in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.

    Authors: Shymaa A. Hablas, Doaa W. Nada, Doaa S. Alashkar and Ahmed A. Elsharkawy
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040299
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  32. To study clinical, electrophysiological, and laboratory properties of peripheral neuropathy (PN) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and their association with disease activity.

    Authors: Mohamed Hassan Imam, Hamdy Khamis Koriem, Marwa Mohamed Hassan, Abeer Shawky El-Hadidi and Niveen Abdallah Ibrahim
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040285
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  33. Simultaneous injury of two or more knee ligaments with concurrent tears involving the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments is considered to be associated with femorotibial knee dislocations (KD). ...

    Authors: Reddy Ravikanth, Manu J. Abraham, Anoop Pilar and Ashok Alapati
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040278
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  34. To study the utility of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index-5 (RADAI-5) as a valid tool for daily rheumatoid arthritis (RA) monitoring and to compare its predictability to assess RA activity with r...

    Authors: Vikram S. Tanwar, Harpreet Singh, Anjali Saini, Gagandeep Sukhija, Sameer Arora and Ankit Kalra
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040269
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  36. To study the frequency, types, and outcome of vascular involvement in a cohort of Egyptian patients with Behcet’s disease (BD) and its relation to traditional risk factors for vascular affection.

    Authors: Marwa Abdo, Alkhateeb Alkemary and Reem El Mallah
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040257
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  38. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease with activation of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Vitamin A deficiency causes imbalance of T helper 17 (Th17) and regulatory T cell (...

    Authors: Dina S. Fettouh, Dalia S. Saif, Saga F. El Gazzar and Ahmed A. Sonbol
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040244
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  39. Assessment of quality of life (QOL) in patients with hemophilia is important for the disease outcome. In patients with hemophilia, repeated occurrences of hemarthrosis lead to limitations in range of motion (R...

    Authors: Manal Anwar El Hawary, Hanaa Hassan EL Dash, Nermeen Ahmed Foaud and Mona Hussien Mohamed
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040237
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  40. Obstetric brachial plexus birth injury (OBPBI) is a relatively common form of birth injury that might lead to a weighty physical disability. Early microsurgical intervention for properly selected patients will...

    Authors: Diaa F. Mohasseb, Marwa M. Hassan, Ahmed E. Semaya, Hayam M. Abdelghany and Sarah N. Hassan
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040229
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  41. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive debilitating autoimmune disease, affecting 1% of the world population, leading to cartilage and bone destruction caused by insufficient apoptosis in the inflamed RA s...

    Authors: Eman Abdel Alim Baraka, Mounir Serag El Din, Ahmed El Shambky, Nehad A. Fouad and Mona Abdullah Abdelkader
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040221
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  42. To evaluate whether serum matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is associated with peripheral neuropathy (PN) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to determine the relationship between MMP-9 se...

    Authors: Mohamed Hassan Imam, Hamdy Khamis Koriem, Marwa Mohamed Hassan, Abeer Shawky El-Hadidi and Niveen Abdallah Ibrahim
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46040211
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  44. Lateral epicondylitis (LE) is the most frequent cause of chronic lateral elbow pain in adults that represents an encumbrance on social and professional life of patients. Many treatment modalities that have bee...

    Authors: Amr E. Okasha, Amany S. El-Bahnasawy, Ola M. Gharbia and Sherief E. Farrag
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46030202
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  46. Osteoarthritis is the most common degenerative joint disease. Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is the most common disability due to pain and dysfunction; it typically affects the medial tibiofemoral joint compartment.

    Authors: Amal M. S. Eldin Abbas Hamed, Mona L. Zamzam, Mona A. El-Sebaie and Sahar F. Ahmed
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46030189
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  47. This study aimed to discuss the role of interleukin-35 (IL-35) in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its relation to disease activity and radiological severity.

    Authors: Nahed El-sayed El-sayed Akl, Soheir Mohammed Abd El-Halim, Maaly Mohamed Mabrouk, Doaa Shawky Ashkar and Shymaa Ahmed Hablas
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46030177
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  48. The aim of this study was to detect changes occurring in some tendons, for example, Achilles, quadriceps, and supraspinatus tendons, using musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) imaging in patients with chronic kid...

    Authors: Samia M. Abdelomnem, Sami E. Egila, Rasha M. Fawzy, Mohamed A. Mohamed and Nora A. Abdelkader
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46030154
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  49. The aim of this study was to evaluate left ventricular diastolic function parameters as an early predictor of cardiac involvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without any evidence of hypertension...

    Authors: Rasha M. Ghaleb, Mervat I. Abd Elazeem and Osama A. Amin
    Citation: Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2019 46:46030148
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