systemic sclerosis is a generalized disorder of connective tissue, in which the pattern of disease extent, progression and outcome is heterogenous. to determine clinical features, disease extent and progression, we studied our patients in two phases of disease early (the first 3 years) and late phases (after 6 years of disease). 19 patients had diffuse cutaneous and 34 patients had limited cuta...

systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a chronic autoimmune disease which results in damage to various organs. some animal studies have revealed that activation of toll-like receptors (tlrs) is important in the pathogenesis of sle. in the present study, the percentage of different immune cell subsets in 35 sle patients and 38 control subjects was analyzed by flow cytometry. we also assessed the ...

the present study aims to investigate the system of the visual transitivity by analyzing the images of american english file (2014) and cutting edge (2005) series based on halliday’s (1976) systemic functional linguistics and kress and van leuween’s (1997-2006) social semiotics. the system of visual transitivity refers to a type of process which determines how represented participants are label...

background one of the main components involving in the pathogenesis and prognosis of sepsis and septic shock is natriuretic peptide. hemodynamic changes in sepsis or septic shock might explain increased plasma levels of these peptides circulations. objectives the present study aimed to assess the value of brain natriuretic peptide (bnp) in prediction of sepsis state and its related morbidity. w...

objective(s): systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a multi-factorial autoimmune disease which may be characterized by t lymphocytes dysfunctions. th17 cells have been identified as new effector cells, which play an important role in the pathogenesis. in recent years, immunomodulatory effect of vitamin d3 has been noticed. in the present experiment, the effect of vitamin d3 on the expression of...

isolated hematuria and its association with proteinuria, and urinary cast and systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) disease activity, and decision for renal biopsy is a dilemma for physician in sle patients. the aim of this study was to investigate 1. whether isolated hematuria is associated with active sle, 2. to determine duration between hematuria and proteinuria and urinary cast, and 3. to det...

among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. following halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an english applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding persian translati...

aim and background: systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a chronic autoimmune disease usually associated with high levels of pain and impairment in different systems, producing high levels of stress in patients who suffer from it. the purpose of this study was to consider the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management (cbsm) therapy on stress of female patients with sle. methods a...

background: diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric lupus is still a major challenge in clinical practice. we investigated the association between depression and anti-ribosomal p (anti-p) antibodies in a sample of iranian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (sle). materials and methods: th is cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients with sle referring to a referral out-p...

background: few investigations have focused on the patients with lupus nephritis (ln) and neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (npsle). this study was aimed to investigate the clinical features, mortality, and the predictors for mortality of this group of patients. patients and methods: medical records were retrospectively reviewed in sun yat-sen memorial hospital from 1996 to 2012. da...