Search Results - "Turki Ben Youssef, Ilhem"
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ABCB1 Polymorphisms and Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in a Tunisian Population
Published in Disease markers (2019)“…Background. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders with about 30% treatment failure rate. An interindividual variations in efficacy of…”
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Postencephalitic parkinsonism and selective involvement of substantia nigra in childhood
Published in Brain & development (Tokyo. 1979) (01-01-2015)“…Abstract Parkinsonism is a rare complication of encephalitis in childhood. Association to an isolated involvement of substantia nigra is exceptional…”
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Relationship between ABCB1 3435TT genotype and antiepileptic drugs resistance in Epilepsy: updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in BMC neurology (15-02-2017)“…Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are effective medications available for epilepsy. However, many patients do not respond to this treatment and become resistant…”
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Neuronal ceroïd‐lipofuscinosis: Clinical, electroencephalographic, imaging, and genetic study of a maghrebian series
Published in Clinical genetics (01-08-2022)“…Our study included 13 patients diagnosed with neuronal ceroidlipofuscinosis. It is a group of rare genetically‐determined neurodegenerativediseases…”
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Alpha-mannosidosis in Tunisian consanguineous families: Potential involvement of variants in GHR and SLC19A3 genes in the variable expressivity of cognitive impairment
Published in PloS one (06-10-2021)“…Alpha-Mannosidosis (AM) is an ultra-rare storage disorder caused by a deficiency of lysosomal alpha-mannosidase encoded by the MAN2B1 gene. Clinical…”
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Tremor Ataxia With Central Hypomyelation Phenotype Related to a Recurrent POLR3A Mutation in Six Unrelated Tunisian Families
Published in Molecular genetics & genomic medicine (01-10-2024)“…ABSTRACT Background POLIII‐related leukodystrophies are a group of recently recognized hereditary white matter diseases with a similar clinical and…”
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Homozygous 2p11.2 deletion supports the implication of ELMOD3 in hearing loss and reveals the potential association of CAPG with ASD/ID etiology
Published in Journal of applied genetics (07-02-2019)“…Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by early-onset difficulties in social communication and unusually…”
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Childhood opsoclonus–myoclonus syndrome: A case series from Tunisia
Published in Brain & development (Tokyo. 1979) (01-10-2017)“…Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is a rare immune-mediated disorder characterized by opsoclonus, myoclonus, ataxia and behavioral changes. The aim of our…”
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Rasmussen’s Encephalitis: A Report of a Tunisian Pediatric Case and Literature Review
Published in Case reports in neurological medicine (24-06-2020)“…Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. It is characterized by unilateral hemispheric atrophy,…”
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A Case of Progressive Chorea Resulting From GLUT1 Deficiency
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RTN2 deficiency results in an autosomal recessive distal motor neuropathy with lower limb spasticity
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (05-07-2024)“…Heterozygous RTN2 variants have been previously identified in a limited cohort of families affected by autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia…”
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Severe dysautonomia as a main feature of anti-GAD encephalitis: Report of a paediatric case and literature review
Published in European journal of paediatric neurology (01-05-2018)“…Anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (anti-GAD65) antibodies are a rare cause of autoimmune encephalitis. This entity is mainly recognized in adults and very few…”
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Germline homozygous missense DEPDC5 variants cause severe refractory early-onset epilepsy, macrocephaly and bilateral polymicrogyria
Published in Human molecular genetics (27-01-2023)“…DEPDC5 (DEP Domain-Containing Protein 5) encodes an inhibitory component of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway and is commonly implicated in…”
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Next-generation sequencing of Tunisian Leigh syndrome patients reveals novel variations: impact for diagnosis and treatment
Published in Bioscience reports (01-09-2022)“…Abstract Mitochondrial cytopathies, among which the Leigh syndrome (LS), are caused by variants either in the mitochondrial or the nuclear genome, affecting…”
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Expanding the genetic spectrum of mitochondrial diseases in Tunisia: novel variants revealed by whole-exome sequencing
Published in Frontiers in genetics (12-01-2024)“…Inherited mitochondrial diseases are the most common group of metabolic disorders caused by a defect in oxidative phosphorylation. They are characterized by a…”
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Autoimmune Encephalitis in Tunisia: Report of a Pediatric Cohort
Published in Journal of immunology research (2021)“…Background. Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a rapidly progressive encephalopathy caused by antibodies targeting neurons in the central nervous system…”
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Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis in Tunisia: A Retrospective Study over 11 Years
Published in BioMed research international (01-01-2017)“…Introduction. Pediatric multiple sclerosis (pMS) is a rare demyelinating disorder with an onset before the age of 18 years. In this study, we aimed to…”
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Letter to the editor: “A case of Guillain-Barré syndrome with meningeal irritation”
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Anti-Ma2-encephalitis in a 2 year-old child: A newly diagnosed case and literature review
Published in European journal of paediatric neurology (01-11-2015)“…Abstract Background Anti-Ma2-associated encephalitis is a rare paraneoplastic neurological syndrome characterized by isolated or combined limbic, diencephalic,…”
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Clinical and Biochemical Profile of Tyrosinemia Type 1 in Tunisia
Published in Clinical laboratory (Heidelberg) (2015)“…Hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by a defect of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase. This study aimed to estimate the…”
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