background: this study examined the factors affecting on musculoskeletal disorders and its frequency among administrative employees of kerman university of medical sciences in 2015. materials and method: this cross-sectional study conducted among 300 employees (94% response rate) from different department of kerman university of medical sciences, kerman, iran. the data were collected by standar...

Strategic Planning of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Development in Kerman Province (Application Fuzzy Hierarchical Analysis and SWOT)

BACKGROUND Recognizing mortality pattern and observing its trend will help us in determining health priorities, allocating health resources and priorities in health section, eliminating main factors of premature deaths and carrying out epidemiological research. OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to determine avoidable mortality in Kerman province. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study...

Introduction: Central nervous system involvement by SARS-CoV-19 appears to be very rare in neonates. We report a case of viral meningitis neonate admitted Kerman Afzalipour Hospital Southeastern Iran. Case Presentation: The patient was 15-day-old who presented with lethargy, fever, and poor feeding the day before admission. After initial evaluation experimental treatment, diagnosed SARS- CoV-19...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers. The aim of this study is determination its trends in Kerman province and individual cities separately until year 2016. This analytical and modeling study was based of cancer registry data of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, collected during 2001-2010. Among 20,351 cancer case, 792 were colorectal cancer cases in age group 18-93 years wi...

BACKGROUND Smoking is one of the major modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Our aim was to report the pattern of active and passive smoking using the data collected through a population-base household survey in Kerman, Iran [(KERCADRS) Kerman Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors Study]. METHODS Using a cluster random sampling design, we recruited 5900 adult persons (15-75 ye...

AIMS [Formula: see text] multislice multiecho cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) allows quantification of the segmental distribution of myocardial iron overload (MIO). We evaluated whether a preferential pattern MIO was preserved between two CMR scans in regularly chelated thalassaemia major (TM) patients. METHODS AND RESULTS We evaluated prospectively 259 TM patients enrolled in the MIO in Tha...

background mycoplasma synoviae is an important avian pathogen which can cause both respiratory disease and synovial joint inflammation (synovitis) in poultry. mycoplasmas spp. may cause the respiratory system infection in ostriches with symptoms such as inflammation of the nose, trachea and also damages of lungs. objectives the current study aimed to use the m. synoviae specific polymerase chai...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis constitutes a major public health problem in many parts of the world including Iran. The primary objective of this study was to identify Leishmania species in endemic districts of Kerman Province, south-eastern Iran. METHODS This study was conducted by random sampling as cross- sectional descriptive between 2008 and 2010. Overall, 203 skin scraping smears we...