A young man presented with abdominal pain and vomiting after eating Naphthalene Mothball. He had dyspnea, central cyanosis (SaO2 on air was 67% air), marked pallor, deep jaundice dehydration. His urine color black; and, his plasma in clotted blood sample brownish. treated as methemoglobinemia due to suicidal Mothball poisoning fluid electrolyte replacement, ascorbic acid, N-acetylcystine exchan...

novel dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (dllme), coupled with high performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection (hplc-dad) has been applied for the extraction and determination of cyproheptadine (cph), an antihistamine, in human urine samples. in this method, 0.6 ml of acetonitrile (disperser solvent) containing 30 µl of carbon tetrachloride (extraction solvent) was ...

objective: the current methods for bladder cancer diagnosis suffer from low sensitivity and specificity. therefore, finding a novel tumor markers with high specificity and sensitivity is of great interest. micrornas (mirna, mir) are small endogenously-produced, non-coding rnas with an important role in regulating gene expression. recent studies show that mirnas expression profiles represent sig...

aim and background: psychotic patients are at the risk of hyponatremia due to numerous reasons .given that severe hyponatremia can cause serious risks including seizures, coma and death, taking the symptoms into account seems necessary when patients referring to medical centers. therefore, the present study aimed to determine the prevalence rate of hyponatremia in psychotic patients in farshchi...

iodine is essential element in thyroid hormones synthesis and normal growth and development of the brain. milk and iodine concentrations can be appropriate indicator of body iodine status; in this study, we evaluated the concentrations of urine and milk iodine in newborns and their mothers.in a cross-sectional study conducted in 2013, urine and milk iodine in 106 neonates and their mothers refe...

background: the aim of this study was using elisa for detection of anti- schistosoma haemato­bium antibodies in both sera and urine of patients with urinary schistosomiasis. methods: thirty three sera and urine samples were collected from patients with acute schisto­somi­asis in diyala province, east of iraq in 2006.   their diseases were confirmed by find­ing   s. haematobium ova in urine exam...

background: the current study was conducted to compare elisa with thin layer chromatography (tlc) methods for diagnosis of morphine in the urine. methods: positive urine samples for morphine confirmed by immunochromatographic strips were collected from the imam reza toxicology laboratory, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran in 2012 for the current study. then, the collated uri...

background: diagnosis of some diseases is difficult due to invasive sampling. urine has been candi-date as a non-invasive and convenient alternative. it has many advantages and easy accessibility but some technical ills should be removed. finding a suitable extraction method for improving urine dna quantity and quality in altering invasive specimens for molecular diagnosis of some infectious di...

BACKGROUND Black patients are at greater of risk of death from bladder cancer than white patients. Potential explanations for this disparity include a more aggressive phenotype and delays in diagnosis resulting in higher stage disease. Alternatively, black patients may receive a lower quality of care, which may explain this difference. METHODS Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results...