stasis Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Qarib Street, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran, Iran Royan Institute International Journal of Fertility and Sterility Vol 11, No 3, Oct-Dec 2017, Pages: 234-237 It is not to be denied that one of the greatest breakthroughs of modern medicine is the day-today improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Global statistics show a declining rat...

Hydatid disease commonly involves liver but in rare cases, it can involve cardiac structures. A 75-yr-old farmer from Parsabad-Moghan, northwestern Iran was presented to the Emergency Room of Tehran Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran with dyspnea and without chest pain in 2014. A lesion compatible with hydatid cyst was found in echocardiography and confirmed by serology and MRI. Surgical trea...

INTRODUCTION Alloimmunization is a reaction of the immune system to foreign antigens. For prevention of alloantibody formation, performing of type and screen test is necessary on a patient's blood specimen as part of pre-transfusion testing. MATERIALS AND METHOD In this cross-sectional study, type and screen test done for 1420 patients with elective surgery for detection of alloantibody in Im...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the impact of lymphovascular space involvement (LVSI) on recurrence and survival in early stage of endometrial cancer (EC). METHODS Patients with EC referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran were examined and enrolled over a 10-year period (2004 - 2015). The effect of LVSI on recurrence and overall survival was analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier ...

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the efficacy of on-demand versus daily dosages of tadalafil in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. METHODS The case-control double-blind study was conducted at the Department of Urology, Tehran University of Medical Science, Imam Khomeini Hospital, from March 2008 to January 2010. It comprised 100 males suffering from erectile dysfunction who were randomised...

Background and Objectives Cryptococcal meningitis is one of the main opportunistic infections associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Despite the present and increasingly availability of specific treatment for cryptococcosis, the mortality rate of this infection is still high, particularly in patients with advanced immunsupression and advanced cryptococcal diseases. Mate...

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is characterized by recurrent episodes of infections and unexplained fever, anhidrosis (inability to sweat), and absence of reaction to noxious stimuli, self-mutilating behavior, mental retardation and damages to oral structures. CASE PRESENTATION In this article, we have demonstrated the signs and symptoms of 4 ...

INTRODUCTION The pathogenesis of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is not clear. Risk factors including environmental factors have been implicated in the pathogenesis of few congenital anomalies. We aimed to assess the effect of season on the incidence of CDH and mortality rate in the southwest of Iran. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective study, the records of 60 patients with CDH ...

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