background: acute poisoning is a major public health problem in bangladesh. it is a common method for suicide. a clear picture regarding clinical presentation, most commonly used toxic agents, background factors and outcome of poisoned patients is necessary in every region. the aim of this study was to investigate frequency and outcome of acute pharmaceutical and chemical poisoning cases in nor...

background: organophosphorus (op) poisoning is a major public health problem in developing world. op pesticides inhibit carboxylic esterase enzymes including plasma cholinesterase (pche). clinical manifestations following op poisoning can be associated with the extent of decrease of pche. this study was designed to investigate the relevance of pche level to clinical manifestations in op poisoni...

acute leukemia is characterized by the accumulation of neoplastic cells in the bone marrow and peripheral blood. currently, chemotherapy and differentiating agents have been used for the treatment of leukemia. recently, plant extracts, either alone or in combination with chemo agents, have been proposed to be used for the treatment of cancers. the aim of the present research was to study the cy...

conclusions preoperative echocardiography, applied before elective and emergency percutaneous coronary interventions, plays a key role in detecting many intervention-related complications in the post-intervention period. case presentation a 65-year-old male patient was admitted to the emergency department and acute inferolateral myocardial infarction was diagnosed. the left atrial hematoma as a...

conclusions our findings indicated that mdm2 40-bp ins/del polymorphism was not associated with all in our iranian population. further studies with larger sample sizes and diverse ethnicities are required to verify our findings. background the human murine double minute 2 (mdm2), an oncoprotein, is the major negative regulator of p53. objectives the purpose of this study was to evaluate the imp...

introduction: to investigate 28 days survival rate following first acute myocardial infarction (ami) associated with the presence of classical risk factors and treatment modalities in gorgan, north of iran. materials and methods: our cohort including all patients hospitalized due to ami from 2010 to 2013. data were collected on demographic, prophylactic drugs and classical coronary risk factors...

stroke is an important cause of disability and death worldwide, with the majority of strokes occurring in older people. thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (r-tpa) is the approved treatment for acute ischemic stroke. a major concern of physicians, who treat acute ischemic stroke with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (r-tpa,) is the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage...

how to cite this article: taghdiri mm. type 2 gaucher disease (acute infantile gaucher disease or neuropathic type). iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6:4 (suppl. 1):12.   pls see pdf.

chemotherapeutic agents used in patients with cancer cause to generate the enormous amounts of free radicals associated with cell injury. in this study we assess the effects of chemotherapy regimen on oxidant/antioxidant status in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml). 38 newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia were recruited in this study. all patients received cytarabine and...

introduction: toxoplasma gondii (t. gondii) is distributed worldwide and infects most species. the serious incidence and severe or fatal injury caused by t. gondii infection clearly indicates the necessity for the event of a vaccine. the current study goals were to evaluate serological applications of toxoplasma gondiirhoptry protein 1 (rop1) antigen. materials and methods: we created a polymer...