Zahra Ahmadinejad
Department of Infectious Diseases, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
[ 1 ] - Sensitivity and specificity of adenosine deaminase in diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Background :Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is one of the most common chronic rheumatic diseases in children with unknown etiology and pathogenesis. It also has no diagnostic test and its clinical diagnosis is made through ruling out other types of arthritis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of ADA (Adenosine Deaminase) in the serum of JIA patients and to compare it with th...
[ 2 ] - Rare Association of Severe Cryptococcal and Tuberculosis in Central Nervous System in a case of Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem noncaseating granulomatous disease with a propensity for lung, eye, and skin which recently have been proposed that mycobacterium tuberculosis may contribute in its pathogenesis, and rarely involves central nervous system (CNS). Despite CD4+ lymphocytopenia, sarcoidosis by itself does not increase risk of opportunistic infections other than cryptococcosis.Nonethel...
[ 3 ] - تب و نوتروپنی بهعلت سیتومگالوویروس بهدنبال شیمیدرمانی سرطان پستان: گزارش موردی
Background: Fever in neutropenic patients is a medical emergency which may happen in patients undergoing chemotherapy. The definition of neutropenia varies from institution to institution but is usually defined as an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < 500 cells/l or < 1,000 cells/l with a predicted nadir of < 500 cells/l. Bacterial and fungal infections are the most important in neutropenic pat...
[ 4 ] - بررسی سطح سرمی پروکلسیتونین در افتراق سندرم پاسخ التهابی سیستمیک عفونی و غیرعفونی: مطالعه سه ساله
Background: Sepsis is the leading cause of hospital admission and mortality. One marker for differentiation between infectious and non-infectious diseases is serum procalcitonin (PCT) level. The goal of this study was evaluation of serum procalcitonin level for differentiation among infectious & non infectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).Methods: In a cross sectional study 26...