A Saudi medical team from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh received an international award for scientific research presented by the 25th International Conference on Epilepsy, after the team reached a treatment for tuberous tumors that affect the nervous system, which results in a cure for epilepsy. And this during an international conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Samari, a consultant neurologist at the Specialty Hospital, told the Al-Bayan website that a research team consisting of seven doctors studied medical files for ninety-three patients with tuberous tumors of the nervous system who were visiting the Specialist Hospital from 1983 to 2001, and found that 6.23 of them were injured. % Of epilepsy as a result of having a tuberculosis.
Dr. Salah Al-Baz, one of the participants in the scientific research, explained that the new research conclusion was that 90% of those treated for tuberculomas were cured of epilepsy as a result of their recovery from tuberculosis and did not need to continue taking the epilepsy drugs that are often administered to the patient throughout his life. The research team indicated that this research study was decided to be conducted due to what the medical team noticed of the spread of tuberculosis tumors that affect the nervous system significantly in Saudi Arabia without accurate statistics available about them.
This research team consists of Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Samari, Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Rajhi, and Dr. Fahd Al-Rabiah, who are a consultant of infectious diseases, Dr. Salah Al-Baz, Dr. Naguib Qadi, Dr. Ayed Karim, and Dr. Thamer Al-Khair Allah, and they work as fellows in the Department of Neurosciences at the Specialty Hospital
