A 25-year-old man presented with abdominal pain. The patient was in his usual state of health until three months prior to admission, when diffuse abdominal pain developed, most severe in the epigastria. He reported a sharp, constant pain usually unrelated to eating. Upper endoscopy was performed several times and revealed no significant finding. Abdominal pain was progressive and fever, night s...

This paper presents a collection of 28 pristine symptoms which are used for the identification of Hyperthyroid disease which are heartwarming to humankind. Ghastly, Hyperthyroid affect people without being noticed until the end. In this Health Diagnose Expert Advisory System (HDEAS) we proposed a method for diagnosing the Hyperthyroid disease by enabling a list of symptoms that the person is li...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Baculoviral inhibitor of apoptosis repeat-containing 5 (BIRC5) gene is an inhibitor of apoptosis that expresses in human embryonic tissues but it is absent in most healthy adult tissues. The copy number of BIRC5 has been indicated to be highly increased in tumor tissues; however, its association with the age of onset in breast cancer is not well understood. METHODS Forty tumor tiss...

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 GB virus C (GBV-C) is a flavivirus that was characterized in 1995. The prevalence of GBV-C RNA in HIV-infected subjects has not been previously studied in Iran and was therefore determined. METHODS We have investigated serum samples of 80 patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran, whose HIV infection was confirmed in our laboratory by Western-blotting. We used nested-PCR t...

OBJECTIVE Medically unexplained symptoms are physical symptoms, which cannot be explained by organic ‎causes. This study aimed to investigate mental health in patients with medically unexplained ‎physical symptoms. ‎ METHOD One hundred outpatients who were admitted to the Electro Diagnosis Clinic of Imam Khomeini ‎hospital, Ahvaz/Iran, participated in this study. Data were collected using phy...