S everal investigators have shown the flow patterns and morphologic characteristics of perforator veins in healthy subjects and in patients with chronic venous disease (CVD). The complex nature of CVD, having many different factors associated with disease severity and deterioration, has made it difficult to elucidate the role of perforator vein incompetence. In this article, many of the importa...

Introduction Liver biopsy is the gold standard for the liver fibrosis evaluation in patients affected by chronic liver disease. In healthy livers the vascular input is provided by the portal vein and hepatic artery, with the portal vein representing the main source of blood supply and normally the oxygenation of the liver is carefully auto-regulated. As hepatic fibrosis progresses it is thought...

background and aim: kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute childhood febrile illness with world­wide incidence and the highest incidence occurs in asian children, with coronary arteritis being the main complication. sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) has also been described as a comp­lication of kd in several articles. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of snhl in patients with kd t...

Pulmonary hypertension is an important factor that determines the prognosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. Echocardiography is a noninvasive and useful bedside method for measurement of pulmonary artery pressure. However, this method is sometimes difficult because of the overinflated lungs in COPD patients. This study attempted to estimate pulmonary hypertension in CO...

Behcet'sdisease is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by oral ulcers, genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions. Furthermore, Behcet's disease can manifest as vascular lesions, such as, those of vasculitis, venous thrombosis, or thrombophlebitis or as an arterial aneurysm. Here, the authors report the case of a pulmonary artery aneurysm and deep vein thrombosis in a 41-year-old woman ...

recent studies suggested the role of white blood cells (wbcs) in the pathogenesis and complications of type 2 diabetes. increased wbc counts predict mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd). in this study alterations in wbc subpopulations in diabetic patients with non-dialysis dependent ckd are investigated. this was a cross-sectional study  on 376 participants, including   272 d...

background :attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is the most common childhood neurological disorder. this disorder is more prevalent in some chronic diseases. the aim of this study was to investigate adhd in children with early stages of chronic kidney disease (ckd) and to compare it with healthy children.   methods : seventy five 5-16-year-old children with early stages of ckd (stag...

introduction chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a chronic disorder with many systematic complications and one of the most important reasons for patients to require mechanical ventilation, admission in intensive care unit and prolonged mechanical ventilation. although the first attempt in separation of mechanical ventilation is failed in half of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

context medication non-adherence is a commonly observed problem in the self-administration of treatment, regardless of the disease type. text messaging reminders, as electronic reminders, provide an opportunity to improve medication adherence. in this study, we aimed to provide evidence addressing the question of whether text message reminders were effective in improving patients’ adherence to ...

asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) are highly prevalent chronic diseases in the general population. both are characterized by similar mechanisms: airway inflammation, airway obstruction, and airway hyperresponsiveness. however, the distinction between the two obstructive diseases is not always clear. multiple epidemiological studies demonstrate that in elderly people with o...