BACKGROUND Despite its benefits and importance, clinical counseling affects the patient both psychosocially and socially. Illness labeling not only leads to many problems for patient and his/her family but also it imposes high costs to health care system. Among various factors, doctor-patient relationship has an important role in the clinical counseling and its medical approach. The goal of thi...

OBJECTIVE Sulfur mustard (SM) causes various systemic disturbances in human beings. This study aimed to assess paraclinical changes caused by exposure to SM gas in Iranian veterans during the war between Iraq and Iran. METHODS A literature review was carried out in international and national medical databases including ISI, Medline, Scopus, Iranmedex and Irandoc. Both Farsi and English litera...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE The aim of the present preliminary study was to assess the demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, echocardiographic, and therapeutic profile as well as in-hospital outcome of patients with infective endocarditis at a referral center for various infectious diseases in Iran. METHODS Required demographic, clinical, plausible complications and paraclinical data...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the accuracy and errors of linear measurements of mesiodistal dimensions of Kennedy Class III edentulous space using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in comparison with clinical measurements. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen Kennedy Class III dental arches were evaluated. An impression was made of each dental arch and poured with dental stone. The di...

Considering that destructive articular lesions may occur in the first stages of the illness, it is difficult but necessary to establish a diagnosis of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in due time. The authors present the case of a 9-year-old girl admitted to the Pediatrics Clinic of the "Filantropia" Municipal Hospital in Craiova, Romania, on November 26, 2002, for bilateral pain in the tars...