We herein describe a 71-year-old woman with adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) who developed fever, myalgia, and pancytopenia. The bone marrow aspiration and muscle biopsy revealed hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) and inflammatory myopathy with abundant macrophages (IMAM). Immunostained specimens were positive for expression of retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I), which recognizes viral RNA in ...

Lu and Steinhardt (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1106) claimed the discovery of a large, potentially quasi-crystalline Islamic tiling in the Darb-i Imam shrine but regard the earlier Maragha tiling, previously described as quasiperiodic, as a small isolated motif. We demonstrate that the Darb-i Imam pattern is periodic and that the quasi-crystalline discs superimposed on its lattice are derivat...

background and objectives: a major problem in public health has been the prevalence of chronic diseases. most of these diseases are due to lifestyle changes, especially in the field of nutrition. the iranian islamic teachings have extensive guidelines on the issue of healthy lifestyle and nutrition in particular. on that account, there are many sayings and traditions related to nutrition and it...

This research examines the "Istimta' Limits' For Husbands Toward Wife Who Has Menstruation. In more detail, it discusses ISTIMTA'. is a law that prescribed for couple so there no opportunity husband to commit adultery even though wife menstruating, therefore limit of istimta' towards who menstruating build good family relationships.Opportunities husbands are very few because majority scholars a...

INTRODUCTION More than 50 scoring systems have been published for classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings, so far. The present study aimed to compare the ability of trauma injury severity score (TRISS) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) III in predicting mortality of intensive care unit (ICU) admitted trauma patients. ...

conclusions concerning hand hygiene, the residents had moderate knowledge but overall poor attitudes and practices. the present study underscores the need for further improvement in the existing training programs to address the gaps in kap regarding hand hygiene. patients and methods this cross-sectional kap study was conducted among medical residents in imam hossein hospital, iran, 2013. all m...

The Quran and Hadiths including Infallibles (AS) Hadiths such as Imam Sadegh (AS) were one of compilation references, and also, one of the fields of research for Arabs morphologists from long time ago. Imam Sadegh’s (AS) Hadiths based on Sunni’s lexicon, and then, based on another Islamic science books will be illustrated in this research in order to identify where these Hadiths hav...

BACKGROUND In emergency medicine for determining the intracranial injury (ICI) in children with head trauma, usually brain CT scan is performed. Since brain CT scan, especially in children, has some disadvantages, it is better to find a procedure which could help to choose only the children with real head trauma injury for brain CT scan. AIMS The aim of this study is to find such procedure. T...

BACKGROUND Emergence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has resulted in the treatment failure of related infections and an increase in patient mortality. The presence of class D β-lactamases (oxacillinases) in this organism is an important mechanism underlying resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics. OBJECTIVES The aim of this work was to investigate the correlation between oxacilli...