BACKGROUND Normal tissue toxicity is the dose-limiting side effect of radiotherapy. Spatial fractionation irradiation techniques, like microbeam radiotherapy (MRT), have shown promising results in sparing the normal brain tissue. Most MRT studies have been conducted at synchrotron facilities. With the aim to make this promising treatment more available, we have built the first desktop image-gui...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries (RTIs) constitute 45% of injury mortality in Egypt; 75% of these injuries are pedestrians related. Traditionally, research on road traffic safety has focused on the traffic environment and the vehicles. However, little attention has been given to road risky behaviors and perceptions of road safety by pedestrians as risk factors associated with high pedestrian in...

Background: Bidirectional Glenn shunts have long been available as palliative procedures for patients with single ventricle physiology that is, unsuitable biventricular repair. In our country they are performed at an older age than recommended by the literature. So, we aim to assess post bidirectional shunt detect presence of any complications and evaluate their functional capacity. Methods: Th...

Patients and methods: The study group included 40 patients, selected consecutively from patients presented to Ain Shams university Hospitals with coronary artery disease as proved by diagnostic coronary angiography and recommended for potential coronary revascularization. Each patient underwent baseline transthoracic echocardiography, in addition to low dose dobutamine echocardiography using TD...

Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran. Food and Drug Laboratory Research center and Food and Drug Control Laboratory, MOH & ME , Tehran, Iran Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Me...

Professor Abdel Moneim Mahmoud Ashour started his brilliant career after graduating in 1957 from Kasr al-Aini faculty of Medicine, as a Physician officer in the Egyptian Medical Corps in 1958 to start an 18 year military medical carrier. In 1977, he left the Egyptian Medical Corps as a Colonel to join Ain Shams faculty of Medicine as a lecturer of neuropsychiatry and continued his academic carr...

Introduction: Crohn’s disease (CD) is classically described as a chronic granulomatous inflammatory bowel disease, laryngeal and other otolaryngologic manifestations of CD are uncommon and may be subtle, as laryngeal involvement by CD has been reported in only six cases in the medical literature. Objective: we describe a case of an Egyptian man with extra intestinal CD that involves the supragl...