introduction klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most important gram-negative bacteria causing hospital-acquired infections. case presentation in this report is presented a patient with an abdominal infection caused by carbapenemase producing-klebsiella pneumonia (k. pneumonia). in spite of administrating the combination therapy, successive resistance to last-resort antimicrobial agents (colist...

Background Anti-N-methyl- d-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune neurological disorder that usually occurs as a paraneoplastic syndrome and is particularly associated with ovarian teratoma. Standard therapy for severe cases is not established and the prognosis in patients who do not respond to first-line treatment is poor. Case Report An 11-year-old boy complained ps...

background this prospective study was designed to examine the role of fibrosis staging on selection and success of treatment options for autoimmune hepatitis (aih). materials and methods the project was conducted on 110 selected aih patients who, based on the results of liver biopsy, had been assigned into one of the three groups (mild, stages 1 and 2, moderate, stages 3 and 4, and severe, stag...

background: degenerative joint disease (djd) is the most common joint disease in human beings. previous studies have explained that glucosamine is preferred as placebo and in efficacy compared with nsaid’s in treatment of patients’ knee osteoarthritis. alendronate was used to treat osteoporotic patients and its efficacy was established. objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the effic...

purpose : the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of social skills training, drug therapy and their combination in the treatment of females with major depressive disorder.   method : 21 females with major depression were randomly selected and were then randomly assigned to three (drug therapy, social skills training and combination therapy). in order to control the variables such ...