Introduction: The purpose of this study was to develop a statistical model for prediction of radiation induced sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) induced by radiotherapy in patients with brain tumors.   Materials and Methods: CT scan of 18 patients (10 males and 8 females) with brain tumor who were referred to Radiation Center of Milad Hospital in Isfahan in 2...

OBJECTIVE Time-limited manualized dynamic psychotherapy was compared with community-delivered psychodynamic therapy for outpatients with personality disorders. METHOD In a stratified randomized clinical trial, 156 patients with any personality disorder diagnosis were randomly assigned either to 40 sessions of supportive-expressive psychotherapy (N=80) or to community-delivered psychodynamic t...

a 25-year-old woman (gravida 2, abortion 1) was admitted to ghaem hospital affiliated to mashhad university of medical sciences at 24 th week of gestation. her chief complaint was bloody show. she had a history of incompetent cervix, with premature labor at 22 nd week of gestation. she was hospitalized with 4 cm dilatation and 50% effacement of cervix at 24 th week of gestation. following bed r...

BACKGROUND We examined how two indicators of partner involvement, relationship type and paternal support, influenced the risk of pregnancy outcomes (preterm birth, low birth weight) and health behaviors (prenatal care, drug use, and smoking) among African American women. METHODS Interview and medical record data were obtained from a study of 713 adult African American women delivering singlet...

Screening for intimate partner violence and/or abuse (IPV/A) in family mediation is important, perhaps particularly among cases without attorney representation. While most mediators agree that it is ideal to consider IPV/A in case planning, there is less agreement regarding the need to universally and systematically screen for IPV/A among all cases. Such attitudes are of concern, given research...

INTRODUCTION The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is commonly used to treat patients with documented sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF). Arrhythmia recurrence rates in these patients are high, but which patients will receive a therapy and the forms of arrhythmia recurrence (VT or VF) are poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS The therapy delive...

objectives: schizophrenia is responsible for a significant proportion of burden of mental diseases in iran. lack of a follow-up system has resulted in the repeated hospitalizations. in this study it is hypothesized that standardized living skills training delivered to participants with schizophrenia in outpatient and inpatient centers can be effective compared to a  control group (with occupati...

The prevalence of diabetes in Indonesia has increased substantially the last 30 years, where individual chances developing are higher for women than men; and level education is negatively related to mellitus. Independent therapy garden, one functions public park which designed thematically (medication).The objectives Program are: (1) Development a participatory Diabetes Mellitus Self-therapy Ga...

I n this issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, Webb et al. (1) report the 2-year follow-up of the B arm of the PARTNER II (Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves II) trial in which patients with severe inoperable symptomatic aortic stenosis were randomized to receive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with the SAPIEN versus the SAPIEN XT valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, ...