introduction: alloimmunization is a reaction of the immune system to foreign antigens. for prevention of alloantibody formation, performing of type and screen test is necessary on a patient's blood specimen as part of pre-transfusion testing. materials and method: in this cross-sectional study, type and screen test done for 1420 patients with elective surgery for detection of alloantibody in im...

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background: micropatterning is becoming a powerful tool for studying cells in vitro. this method not only uses very small amount of material but also mimic the microenvironment structure present in living tissues better than flask culturing techniques. in previous studies using micropatterning of extracellular matrix proteins on glass surfaces, the rate of protein detachment from the surface wa...

how to cite this article : sabzehei mk, basiri b, bazmamoun h. the etiology, clinical type, and short outcome of seizures in newborns hospitalized in besat hospital/ hamadan/iran. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):24-28. objective seizures in neonates are very different from those of older children and adults. the aim of this study was to determine the etiology, clinical presentation, and o...

stanford type a acute aortic dissection (aad) is a very rare complication, with potentially lethal consequences in pregnancy. in fact, pregnancy has been regularly associated with the possibility of aortic. dissection in almost half of young women. herein, we present the case of a 38-year-old woman in her 37th week of pregnancy. the patient’s medical history was indicative of g4l2ab1(4 gestaiti...

tyrosinemia type ii is a rare autosomal recessive disorder wich can present itself with recurrent epithelial keratitis, hyperkeratotic skin lesions and mental retardation. this article reports the rare occurrence of this disease in both offsprings (two brothers) of a family (consanguinous'marriage) who were managed with a lowprotein diet and a special regimen.

background: tyrosinemia type 1 is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder, which typically affects liver and kidneys. it is caused by a defect in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase or fumarylacetoacetase (fah) enzyme, the final enzyme in the tyrosine degradation pathway. the disease typically manifests as early onset type in early infancy with acute hepatic crisis with hepatomegaly and bleeding te...

background: the abo blood types are thought to affect the roots of human behavior and act as a predictor of individuals’ personality. the present study aimed to evaluate the relationship between personality factors and the abo blood group. methods: this cross-sectional study used quota, convenience sampling to select 160 students from shahid beheshti university of medical sciences (tehran, iran...