Epilepsy unit is the oldest unit in Neurology department, Ain Shams University, working continuously since 1991.
Vision & Mission
Our mission is to provide care to people affected by epilepsy by promoting public awareness and education, by undertaking research and by delivering specialist medical care and support services.
Our vision is a full life for everyone affected by epilepsy. We want everyone affected by epilepsy to have the best opportunity for a full life as free from seizures as possible.
Education
Clinical Services
• Emergency epilepsy management including cases of refractory and super refractory status epilepticus with a state of art protocol 24/7.
• Out-patient epilepsy clinic providing service to hundreds of patients monthly including financially supported antiepileptic medications.
• EEG services including routine EEG, prolonged and sleep EEG, portable EEG and polysomnography in both El Demerdash and Ain Shams University Specialized hospitals.
• Continuous research projects in epilepsy.
• Regular scientific meetings provided by expert staff to teach those who interests in epilepsy the state of art of diagnosis and management.
• Continuous collaboration with other departments such as Neurosurgery department and radiology department to introduce other modalities of epilepsy treatment such as epilepsy surgery and vagal nerve stimulation.
Community Services
• Emergency services.
• Outpatient clinic services.
• Diagnostic services as EEG and polysomnography.
• Public awareness campaigns.
Fellowships and Observerships
National and International Collaboration
Our unit has a registry of more than 500 epileptic patients including their full epidemiological, clinical, neurophysiologic and imaging data with the intent to share this data with its implications with the relevant national and international collaborations.
Publications
Rei Enatsu , Kazutaka Jin, Sherif Elwan, Yuichi Kubota, Zhe Piao, Timothy O’Connor, Karl Horning, Richard C Burgess, William Bingaman, Dileep R Nair.
Correlations between ictal propagation and response to electrical cortical stimulation: a cortico-cortical evoked potential study. Epilepsy Res 2012 Aug;101(1-2):76-87.
2- Elisabeth Stogmann , Eva Reinthaler, Salwa Eltawil, Mohammed A El Etribi, Mahmoud Hemeda, Nevine El Nahhas, Ahmed M Gaber, Amal Fouad, Sherif Edris, Anna Benet-Pages, Sebastian H Eck, Ekaterina Pataraia, Davide Mei, Alexis Brice, Suzanne Lesage, Renzo Guerrini, Friedrich Zimprich, Tim M Strom, Alexander Zimprich.
Autosomal recessive cortical myoclonic tremor and epilepsy: association with a mutation in the potassium channel associated gene CNTN2. Brain2013 Apr;136(Pt 4):1155-60.
3- Sherif A Elwan , Norman K So, Rei Enatsu, William E Bingaman.
Pseudotemporal ictal patterns compared with mesial and neocortical temporal ictal patterns. J Clin Neurophysiol 2013 Jun;30(3):238-46.
4- Ayman Kilany, Ehab R. Abdel Raouf, Ahmed A. Gaber, Taha Kamel Aloush, Hany A. Aref, Mona Anwar, David C. Henshall, M. Osama Abdulghani.
Elevated serum Bcl-2 in children with temporal lobe epilepsy. Seizure
Volume 21, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 250-253.
5- SherifElwan, AndreasAlexopoulos, Diosely C.Silveira, PrakashKotagal.
Lateralizing and localizing value of seizure semiology: Comparison with scalp EEG, MRI and PET in patients successfully treated with resective epilepsy surgery. Seizure Volume 61, October 2018, Pages 203-208.
6- Sherif A Elwan , Guiyun Wu, Steve S L Huang, Imad M Najm, Norman K So.
Ictal single photon emission computed tomography in epileptic auras. Epilepsia 2014 Jan;55(1):133-6.
7- Kamel, H.R.,Khalil, S.H., Nada, M.M., Zakieldine, H.M., Mahmoud, L.H.
Quantified electroencephalogram (QEEG) abnormalities in patients with epileptic vertigo and related disorders. Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and NeurosurgeryVolume 50, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 89-94.
8- Elewa, M.K., Mostafa, M.A.
The subclinical epileptiform discharges among nonepileptic cerebral palsy patients. Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and NeurosurgeryVolume 53, Issue 4, October-December 2016, Pages 268-273.
9- Eissa, M.A., Abdulghani, K.O., Nada, M.A., Elkhawas, H.M., Shouman, A.E., Ahmed, N.S.
Serum zinc and copper levels in a sample of Egyptian epileptic children. Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and NeurosurgeryVolume 56, Issue 1, 1 December 2020, Article number 79.
10- Tork, M.A.,Rashed, H.R., Elnabil, L., Salah-Eldin, N., Elkhayat, N., Abdelhady, A.A., Abdulghani, M.O., Abdulghani, K.O.
Sleep pattern in epilepsy patients: a polysomnographic study. Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and NeurosurgeryVolume 56, Issue 1, 1 December 2020, Article number 5.
