purpose: to evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivt) on clinical, angiographic, and optical coherence tomographic parameters in refractory diabetic macular edema (dme). methods: in a double-masked placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial, 88 eyes of 61 patients with dme refractory to previous laser therapy or not suitable for such treatment were included in the stud...

introduction: impaired wound healing in diabetic patients is a major clinical problem, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. estrogen has positive effects on neoangiogenesis, reepithelialization and cell proliferation. in this research, effect of estrogen on wound healing in diabetic male rats was investigated. methods: this study was performed on male wistar rats (body ...

purpose : to determine the association between retinal vascular diameter and its branching angles with diabetic retinopathy (dr) stages in diabetic patients methods : a descriptive analytic cross-sectional study was conducted in 62 diabetic patients (120 eyes) referred to farabi eye hospital between june 2008 and december 2009. digital fundus photography pictures were imported into photoshop so...

nigella sativa is the miraculous plant having a lot of nutritional and medicinal benefits, and attracts large number of nutrition and pharmacological researchers. n. sativa seed composition shows that it is the blessing of nature and it contains and many bioactive compounds like thymoquinone, α-hederin, alkaloids, flavonoids, antioxidants, fatty acids many other compounds that have positive eff...

during a six year period (1969-1974), 29,233 records of the hospital admissions were carefully reviewed from the standpoint of age, sex incidence, precipitating factors, method of treatment and results in diabetes and diabetic coma patients in the isfahan university medical school’s hospitals. two hundred and fifty cases of diabetic patients were found (0.8% of the total), from which 25 (8%) we...

background personal, behavioral, psychological, social and psychological factors disorders can influence the outbreak of psychological disorders. the study aimed to examine the prevalence and severity of depression and relationship with self-efficacy in diabetic patients of fereydan and chadegan cities. methods: the research was a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional, which studies 403 pati...

conclusions physicians are recommended to take microbiological cultures before starting empirical therapy recommended to cover gram-negative microorganisms in order to lower the risk of antibiotic resistance. objectives the current study aimed to determine the most common microorganisms involved in diabetic foot infection in order to minimize the failure of antibiotic therapy and the risk of de...

objective: hypoglycemia with multiple etiologies is a common in diabetic patients. the current study describes the probability of interaction between maprotiline, selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors like citalopram for induction of hypoglycemia. case presentation: a 47 year-old diabetic woman used tablet citalopram 20mg daily because of generalized anxiety disorder from two years ago, but ...

introduction: hyperalgesia is considered as one the marked signs of subchronic diabetes mellitus that could affect the life style of patients. considering the evidence on the antidiabetic and analgesic effects of nigella sativa (ns), this study was designed to investigate the analgesic effects of ns on formalin-induced nociceptive responses (standard formalin test) in streptozotocin (stz)-induc...

introduction: there is evidence that diabetes affects seizure susceptibility. ginger (zingiber officinale roscoe) which is used in traditional medicine has antioxidant activity and neuroprotective effects. the aim of this study was to evaluate the seizure threshold induced by pentylenetetrazole (ptz) in diabetic mice after induction of diabetes with streptozocin and to examine the possible role...