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Stroke and seizure continue to be the major brunt of in patient neurology care

An observation from teaching hospital

Azra Zafar, Majed Alabdali, Rizwana Shahid, Danah Aljaafari, Fahd A. Al-khamis, Aishah I. Albakr, Saima Nazish, Abdulla A. Al Sulaiman and Alon Abraham
Neurosciences Journal January 2018, 23 (1) 13-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.1.20170207
Azra Zafar
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Majed Alabdali
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Rizwana Shahid
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Danah Aljaafari
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Fahd A. Al-khamis
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Aishah I. Albakr
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Saima Nazish
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Abdulla A. Al Sulaiman
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Alon Abraham
From the Department of Neurology (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), College of Medicine, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Zafar, Alabdali, Shahid, Aljaafari, Alkhamis, Albakr, Nazish, Alsulaiman), Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (Abraham), Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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