purpose: to report the outcomes of surgical and non-surgical treatment for sixth nerve palsy and paresis in our center. methods: hospital records of 33 patients (35 eyes) with sixth nerve dysfunction who were referred to labbafinejad medical center from september 1996 to september 2006 and underwent surgical procedures or botulinum toxin injection were reviewed. results: patients were divided i...

background: hepatitis b virus is one of the most common causes of chronic liver diseases. vaccination is the best way of prophylaxis and is of utmost importance. this study was conducted to compare the prophylactic effect of intradermal and intramuscular injection of hepatitis b vaccine. methods: a blind randomized clinical trial was performed among subjects who presented to the infectious dise...

BACKGROUND Epidural steroid injection (ESI) is known to be an effective treatment for lower back or radicular pain due to herniated intervertebral disc (HIVD) and spinal stenosis (SS). Although repeat ESI has generally been indicated to provide more pain relief in partial responders after a single ESI, there has been little evidence supporting the usefulness of repeat injections in cumulative c...

Background—Anal fissure is perpetuated by high sphincter pressures and secondary local ischaemia. Pharmacological approaches include topical nitrates and botulinum toxin (BT) which act to reduce anal pressure. BT lowers anal pressure by preventing acetylcholine release from nerve terminals while topical nitrates act by donating nitric oxide (NO). The aims of the present study were to compare th...

BACKGROUND Anal fissure is perpetuated by high sphincter pressures and secondary local ischaemia. Pharmacological approaches include topical nitrates and botulinum toxin (BT) which act to reduce anal pressure. BT lowers anal pressure by preventing acetylcholine release from nerve terminals while topical nitrates act by donating nitric oxide (NO). The aims of the present study were to compare th...

Objective: B-2 lymphocytes characteristic of patients with CVID in the process forming a post-vaccination response to peptide vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Materials and methods: 10 people diagnosis were included study among cohort primary immunodeficiency under supervision Research Institute Department Clinical Immunology allergology Rostov State Medical University. For immunoprophylaxis COVID-1...

The ocular toxicity of liposome-intercalated amphotericin B and commercial amphotericin B were compared after intravitreal injection in healthy pigmented rabbits. Ophthalmoscopic observations over 5 weeks following a single intravitreal injection showed vitreal band formation and focal retinal damage after doses of commercial amphotericin B as low as 5 micrograms. Such lesions were not seen in ...