background & aim: spinal cord injury (sci) has a very long history, and its cases form a large proportion of patients admitted to trauma centers in iran. studies show that repair after spinal cord injury can be done. in fact, many pharmaceutical agents, such as erythropoietin (epo), are applied to reduce secondary injury following the initial disorder and to maintain the nerve tissue. methods &...

objective(s): the increasing use of methamphetamine (meth) in the last decades has made it the second most abused drug. advancs in the area of intravenous lipid emulsion (ile) have led to its potential application in the treatment of poisoning. the present study aims to investigate the potential role of ile as an antidote for acute meth poisoning. materials and methods: two groups of six male r...

a mobile caecum and ascending colon is an uncommon congenital disorder, and it is even rarer as the cause of an acute abdomen during childhood. this report presents the case of a 6-year-old boy with acute gangrenous appendicitis with a mobile caecum and ascending colon. data from the surgical course, as well as laboratory and imaging studies, were acquired and carefully examined. emergency ultr...

background: low back pain (lbp) is one of the most common musculoskeletal complications of today’s societies which, poses a big portion of health expenses and work absentees. lumbar disc herniation is claimed to be one of the several causes of lbp. conservative therapies like physiotherapy are found to be beneficial for treatment in such a kind of lbp. however, there is low evidence proving tra...

introduction: the ministry of health and medical education of iran, and similar institutions in many other countries, advises physicians to use current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (aom). however, there has been no evaluation of the effectiveness of such guidelines or whether physicians in iran adhere to them. thus, as laryngologists are the most important gr...

background: the recent studies show that rotavirus is important cause of the acute gastroenteritis. the aim of this review is to estimate the number of rotavirus infection among iranian children by performing a systematic review and estimating a pooled data. methods: we performed a systematic literature review in relevant databases including pubmed, medline, ovid, sid, magiran, and iranmedex. s...

background: acrylamide (c3h5no) is a vinyl monomer. this water-soluble crystalline solid is a colorless, odorless agent which is used in scientific laboratories and some industries. acrylamide has cellular oxidative effects. acute or chronic poisoning with this agent happens as a result of skin, respiratory, or oral contacts. clinical manifestations depend on the dose, duration, and frequency o...

midface bones are an unusual site for primary presentation and relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. herein, we describe a case of acute pre b cell lymphoblastic leukemia with leukemic infiltration of maxilla and bone marrow involvement. at the time of relapse, the patient presented again with maxilla involvement and the phenotype changed to biphenotypic lymphoblastic leukemia. our case sugg...

objective(s):therapies with high levels of oxygen are commonly used in the management of critical care. however, prolonged exposure to hyperoxia can cause acute lung injury. although oxidative stress and inflammation are purported to play an important role in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury, the exact mechanisms are still less known in the hyperoxic acute lung injury (hali).   materials a...

results of all 93 assessed children (52 male, 41 female) with mean age 6.45 y/o, 18 cases (19.4%) had abnormal renal parenchymal echogenicity (equal or more than liver).the final diagnosis of the cause of abdominal pain in 43 cases (46.2%) was acute appendicitis, in 8 cases (8.6%) was mesenteric adenitis, in 4 cases (4.3%) was gastroenteritis and in 2 cases (2.2%) was invagination. conclusions ...