Atherosclerosis is a disease of the arterial wall, with increasing wall thickness representing an early event in the progression of the disease. It has been suggested that iron overload, as assessed by increased serum ferritin concentration, may be a risk factor for atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the influence of intravenous (IV) iron therapy ...

(Case 1) A 13-years-old female had multiple arthralgia and butterfly rush, when she admitted in our hospital in May 2001. Nephropathy, hemolytic anemia (Hb 6.3 g/dl and direct Coombs 3+) and high titers of antinuclear antibodies and anti-ds-DNA antibody were disclosed and she was diagnosed as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although combination therapy of PSL 60 mg/day with a steroid pulse ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy of two sequential therapy regimens of IV cefuroxime followed by oral cefuroxime axetil for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). DESIGN Prospective, multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel-group study. SETTING Sixty-six centers in 11 countries (Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Poland, Portugal, ...

Objective: To compare patients who received preoperative intravenous (IV) plus postoperative maintenance IV tranexamic acid (TXA) therapy and perioperative periarticular TXA to those did not receive during total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in terms of blood loss, transfusion requirements, length hospital stay.
 Material Method: Data from 194 underwent TKA between 2016 2019 were reviewed. A 106...

BACKGROUND An optimal therapy for the treatment of pneumonia caused by drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii remains unclear. This study aims to compare various antimicrobial strategies and to determine the most effective therapy for pneumonia using a network meta-analysis. METHODS Systematic search and quality assessment were performed to select eligible studies reporting one of the followi...

BACKGROUND In cystic fibrosis (CF) the upper (UAW) and lower airways (LAW) are reservoirs for pathogens like Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The consecutive hosts' release of proteolytic enzymes contributes to inflammation and progressive pulmonary destruction. Objectives were to assess dynamics of protease : antiprotease ratios and pathogens in CF-UAW and LAW sampled by nasal lavage (NL) and sputum be...

purpose : the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of change in parents’ coping strategy in the treatment of enuresis in their children. method: this experimental study was carried out in schools in the two districts of tehran in 1999. subjects were selected based on dsm-iv diagnostic criteria and were then randomly assigned to 3 groups (experimental, drug therapy and combine...

The gag reflex is a somatic natural response in which the body attempts to eliminate instruments or agents from the oral cavity by muscle contraction. Some patients suffered from such severe retching that behavioral techniques did not sufficiently reduce gagging in dentistry. In these patients, pharmacological management was thought to be the last alternative to eliminate the reflex. However, t...

Lehmann et al.1 pointed out that taken together, the large cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) trials included 10,803 patients, the majority of who were in congestive heart failure (CHF) New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III, but only 451 patients (4.2%) were class IV. The role of CRT in NYHA class IV patients remained uncertain until recently when Lindenfeld et al.2 reported the resu...