purpose: to investigate the efficacy of topical cyclosporine a 2% in treating and preventing recurrent graft rejection episodes after penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in patients with history of previous rejection episodes. methods: in this clinical trial, eligible pkp patients were randomly given topical cyclosporine a 2% or placebo in addition to a standard corticosteroid regimen for an episode...

introduction: trauma is the most common cause of mortality in the 1 to 44 years age group and third leading cause of mortality in the world. in general, determination of defects caused by trauma has an essential role in management of traumatic patients. use of scoring systems for evaluation of static and dynamic states of traumatic events can decrease the mortality and morbidity rates. differen...

conclusions fasting in the month of ramadan in two consecutive years, and during the hottest months, in riyadh, saudi arabia, did not adversely affect kidney graft function. objectives to investigate the effect of repeated ramadan fasting during the hottest months of the year on renal graft functions. patients and methods this was a prospective cohort study comparing two groups of renal transpl...

seroresponse to the full three - dose of the hepatitis b vaccine (engcrix-b) was studied in 138 medical and paramedical staff from tehran. the vaccine was found to be highly immunogenic. seroconversion rales, scroprotecthn rates and geometric mean titer were found to be 98.$%, 90% and 902.$ mlu/ml, respectively. tills is the first report of sero-rcsponse in normal iranian subjects to the hepati...

there are various causes for inflation in macroeconomics. one of the important channels of experiencing inflation is through the international economy caused by external shocks. in this context, the impact of exchange rate volatilities on domestic prices known as exchange rate pass-through (erpt) plays a vital role. the present paper deals with the impact of exchange rate pass-through on inflat...