background: vitamin d (vit d) is linked to various conditions including musculoskeletal, metabolic and   cardiopulmonary diseases. however, it is not clear whether correction of vit d deficiency exerts any beneficial effect in patients with pulmonary hypertension. methods: this study was a prospective uncontrolled longitudinal study. patients with pulmonary hypertension and vit d deficiency wer...

non:union: is common complication of fracture management. various factors are involved in its occurring. metabolic and endocrine factors are often overlooked. so that aim of study was to evaluate the level of vitamin d and pth in patients with unexplained non:union: and fractures due to low energy trauma. in the case control study, 30 patients with tibial non:union: compared with 32 patients wi...

background: the iron deficiency anemia (ida) is a common cause of referral to medical departments. chronic gastrointestinal (gi) blood loss is important cause of ida and also an alarming sign of serious underlying disease. the information concerning ideal evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract in patients with the ida is scant. we designed a prospective study to determine the frequency of gi ...

background: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is one of the most known enzyme defects in iran with various genetic mutations. we aimed to study the predisposing factors of hemolysis in children with g6pd deficiency. methods: this study was done during 2007-2012 in two referral centers of mofid children's hospital and baqiyatallah hospital, tehran, iran. the hospital records of...

this study was undertaken to define the epidemiological aspects of thyroid carcinoma in iran, an area of endemic iodine deficiency nearly until recently. the tehran cancer institute data system registry (tcidsr) was used to identify patients with different histological types of thyroid cancer (tc) in iran. data were analyzed from 438 thyroid cancer cases identified by the tcidsr in 1998-99. dis...

primary immunodeficiency diseases (pid) consist of a group of long-term illnesses which had permanent psychiatric effects on the patients and their parents. this study was designed to find out the most important origins and aspects of stressor in parents of pid patients.to assess the  impact of  psychiatric aspects in parents  of pid  patients, a valid and reliable questionnaire was compiled ba...

factor xiii deficiency (fxiiid) is an extremely rare hemorrhagic disorder with a prevalence of 1/3-5 million. management of disease is performed by fresh frozen plasma (ffp), cryoprecipitate (cp) or fxiii concentrate (fibrogammin p®). our objective was to assess safety and effectiveness of fibrogammin p® in patients with fxiiid. for this purpose we designed this long-term follow up study on a l...

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background and objectives: complement proteins are some of the most important plasma proteins of the innate immune system. impaired immune function is reported in subjects who are iron deficient, and there are documents that these patients are prone to infection. this study was conducted to show whether serum c3 and c4 complement change in adult nonpregnant female with iron deficient anemia or ...