background: parkinson's disease (pd) is a neurodegenerative disorder impairing motor, verbal and other abilities. visual evoked potential (vep) assessment is a useful method for analysis of visual system and its function. the present study was designed in order to evaluate whether vep changes are associated with pd. m aterials and methods: in the present study, 100 subjects encompassing 40 pati...

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introduction: to identify changes in oaes parameters in treatment course of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (issnhl). materials and methods: in aprospective studyfromaugust 2005 to january 2009, 26 patients with issnhl underwent conventional audiometry/tympanometry and two types of oaes (teoaes and dpoaes) before and after the completion of standard drug therapy.the changes in pre-...

background: familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (ibgc) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder which is usually transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. ibgc is genetically heterogeneous and slc20a2, on chromosome 8p21.1–8q11.23, is the first gene found in ibgc-affected patients with varied ancestry. on the other hand, several candidate genes for ibgc on chromosome 2q37, including t...

abstract   background: to evaluate proximal junctional segment changes in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis(ais) the posterior spinal fusion and also instrumentation also and finding of probable risk factors, were all considered in this study.   methods: we retrospectively reviewed radiographs of 121 consecutive patients who underwent posterior spinal fusion for ais from t3 or below, with a mean ...

background: to determine the colon transit time (ctt) in patients complaining of functional constipation and to evaluate the correlation between abnormal transit times and the types of constipation and the correlation with age and sex. materials and methods: the signs and symptoms of 84 patients with infrequent or difficult defecation, 33 males and 51 females, with a median age of 33.7 were rec...

In the article “Video NeuroImages: Idiopathic Recurring Stupor: An Unusual Clinical Condition Responding to …

nonspecific activity-related arm pain is characterized by an absence of objective physical findings and symptoms that do not correspond with objective pathophysiology. arm pain without strict diagnosis is often related to activity, work-related activity in particular, and is often seen in patients with physically demanding work. psychological factors such as catastrophic thinking, symptoms of d...

background :juvenile idiopathic arthritis (jia) is one of the most common chronic rheumatic diseases in children with unknown etiology and pathogenesis. it also has no diagnostic test and its clinical diagnosis is made through ruling out other types of arthritis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the level of ada (adenosine deaminase) in the serum of jia patients and to compare it with that...