introduction: although the synergistic effects of opioids and other analgesic drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) have been established in relieving acute pain due to renal calculi, no studies today have evaluated the concomitant administration of opiates and other drugs with analgesic effects, such as serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. considering the high prevalence of r...

study of a family with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseases (adpkd) in five generations, including 96 healthy and 47 affected individuals, has been carried out in tehran. investigation on individuals, including final diagnoses by clinical findings, sonography, radiography and laboratory results, have lead to the completion of genealogical chart of the family. the affected individuals h...

genitourinary tuberculosis (gutb) is difficult to diagnose in the earlier stage owing to the non-specific symptoms. usually, renal tuberculous involvement is unilateral and the imaging finding is renal calcification, but associated calcifications of bilateral ureter and bladder are rare. we report a 66-year-old man who presented with diffuse calcification of the urinary system (including bilate...

abstract background: renal insufficiency is a potential complication after infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and is a significant risk factor for postoperative mortality and morbidity. the aim of this study was to analyze the effect of this risk factor, before and during operation. methods: in this prospective study, between 2003 and 2006, 45 patients underwent repair of an infrarenal...

objective(s) there are some reports in recent years indicating that renal ischemia - reperfusion (ir) induces deleterious changes in remote organs such as liver. the aim of this study was to investigate whether leukocytes have a role on the induction of oxidative stress in liver after renal ir. materials and methods inbred mice in ir donor group were subjected to renal ir injury. in sham donor ...

objective(s): the aim of study was to determine history of genitourinary diseases in war related bilateral lower limb amputees who were injured during iran-iraq war (1980-1988).   methods: subjects with war related bilateral lower limb amputation (335 persons) were examined by two physicians for any history of genitourinary diseases and their documents were reviewed.   results: the mean age was...

human cytomegalovirus (hcmv, cmv) is a major infectious complication of renal transplantation. the objective of this survey was to optimize and establish a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) technique for rapid and early detection of cmv disease in renal transplant recipients. in a cross sectional study, a total of eighty-one edta-blood samples were collected as simple nonrandomized (sequential) w...

the prevalence of vesicoureteral reflux (vur) among siblings of children with vur has been reported to be from 4.7% to 51%. the incidence of vur in the general population is less than 1% but it is high in risk groups. in a prospective study we started identifying the incidence and severity of vur and renal parenchymal lesions in the siblings of patients known to have urinary tract infection (ut...

background and aims: p504s (amacr) is a mitochondrial enzyme expressed in renal cell carcinoma. some of immunohistochemical markers in renal cell tumors are independent prognostic factor and show relation with histologic grading. amacr expression increases with higher histological grading in different tumors; however, in rcc it is not obvious. in this study, we tried to investigate if any relat...

introduction one of the highly toxic mushrooms that are common in the northwest region of iran is amanita phalloides, which might result in renal or liver failure. case presentation this is a case report of a patient referred a few days after consumption of wild mushrooms to emergency department having gastrointestinal complaint whose experiments indicated liver and renal failure. the supportiv...