Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of fingolimod in Omani multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Fingolimod is one of the oral drugs used to treat MS. However, there is limited information on its effectiveness and safety among the Omani population. Methods: This retrospective real-world st …
Objective: This study aimed to explore the clinical profiles of Omani patients with true-positive autoimmune encephalitis (AE) autoantibodies and compare them with those having false-positive autoantibodies. The incidence of AE is rising due to growing awareness and the detection of new autoantibodies. Coinciding with …
Peri-ictal water drinking (PIWD) is a rare vegetative manifestation of temporal lobe epilepsy without a definite lateralisation value. We report a case of PIWD in a 22-year-old Omani male patient with post-concussion syndrome and epilepsy presented to a tertiary care hospital in Muscat, Oman, in 2021 for evaluation of …
Objectives: Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) is known to cause lymphopenia when used to treat patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, research on DMF therapy in the Arab world, especially in Oman, is scarce. This study aimed to analyse the prevalence of lymphopenia among Omani patients with MS and their reasons for disc …
الأهداف: استكشفت العديد من الدراسات آراء العاملين في مجال الرعاية الصحية حول استخدام الطب التكميلي والبديل (CAM) في علاج الصرع. سعى هذا البحث لاستطلاع آراء الأطباء غير المتخصصين في الأعصاب وغير الأطباء النفسيين في عمان حول استخدام CAM لعلاج الصرع. الطرق: استخدمنا عينة ملائمة لتجنيد الأطباء (باستثناء أطباء الأعصاب والأط …