Background & Aims: Surgeons are not willing to participate in thyroid surgeries due to dangerous, although rare, complications of the procedure. Post thyroidectomy complications are divided in early and late onset; hypocalcemia, bleeding, thyroid storm and recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury are the most important ones. This study was performed to compare the frequency of recurrent laryngeal...

Hajj, a unique yearly mass gathering pilgrimage of more than 2 million Muslims from around the world, presents enormous challenges to the Saudian Arabia government.1 The potential for deadly epidemic outbreaks of bacterial and viral diseases leading to upper respiratory infection and meningitis and human stampedes call for prompt attention from both pilgrims and the ministry of healt...

purpose: to report the clinical, radiological, pathological and therapeutic features of a case of recurrent cavernous hemangioma. case report: a 32 year old lady with progressive decrease of vision in her right eye associated with blepharoptosis was diagnosed to have orbital cavernous hemangioma which was excised. 10 years later she presented with recurrent proptosis and progressive eye deviati...

Background: To determine the incidence of an abnormal glucose tolerance test in patients with recurrent spontaneous abortion and whether metformin would safely reduce the rate of first trimester spontaneous abortions in patients without polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as well as with PCOS and an abnormal glucose tolerance test. Materials and Methods: Patients with a history of recurrent sponta...

background :the incidence of recurrence in patients undergoing primary discectomy due to lumbar disc herniation (ldh), is regularly reported as 5-15%. in this study we aimed to evaluate surgical outcome of instrumented transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (tlif) in the patients suffering from recurrent ldh.   methods : we retrospectively studied 51 patients (30 female, 21 male) from august 20...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common type of seizure that occurs in 3– 4% of children below the age of 5 years. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of recurrence of febrile and afebrile seizures after the first febrile seizure. methods: in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6months to 6years old) admitted between march 2004and august 2005 at yazd sha...

background: this study aimes to evaluate the failure to thrive (ftt) recurrent event over time. methods: this longitudinal study was conducted during february 2007 to july 2009. the primary outcome was growth failure. the analysis was done using 1283 children who had experienced ftt several times, based on recurrent events analysis. results: fifty-nine percent of the children had experienced th...

background: the study was developed in order to find a subset of potential factors, which affect birth distance pattern, regarding consideration on correlation of events of birth in a family and correlation within clusters/centers which other studies omit these correlations. methods: referring to documents that were registered for family in the health care centers on socio-economical zone, we c...

introduction: recurrent abortion (ra) may be a consequence of aberrant expression of immunological factors during pregnancy. although the relative importance of immunological factors in human reproduction remains controversial, substantial evidence suggests that autoantibodies contribute to reproductive failure. production of such antibodies is under the control of cytokines; and leptin, beside...

recurrent spontaneous rupture of the urinary bladder has rarely been reported in english articles. this condition may be difficult to diagnosis before a laparotomy due to acute peritonitis. herein we describe a case of recurrent spontaneous rupture of the bladder in a 39-year-old woman with human t-lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-1) -associated myelopathy/topical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp).