BACKGROUND Tuberculosis control programs rely on accurate collection of routine surveillance data to inform program decisions including resource allocation and specific interventions. The electronic TB register (ETR.Net) is dependent on accurate data transcription from both paperbased clinical records and registers at the facilities to report treatment outcome data. The study describes the qual...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Esophageal cancer is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the Caspian littoral north-eastern part of Iran. The aim of this study was to calculate cure function as well as to identify the factors that are related to this function among patients with esophageal cancer in this geographical area. METHODS Three hundred fifty nine cases of esophageal cancer register...

OBJECTIVE To systematically assess the clinical effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD) of liver-stomach disharmony syndrome by meta-analysis. METHODS Random controlled trials (RCTs) were retrieved from databases, including Pubmed, China national knowledge infrastructure, Wanfang Data, VIP Information, and the Cochrane Library. Trials ...

conclusions our study showed that the combined use of elidel and tretinoin was more effective than elidel alone. objectives in this study, we compared the efficacy of topical elidel alone and elidel accompanied with tretinoin in the treatment of alopecia areata. patients and methods this randomized controlled clinical trial was performed on patients with alopecia areata in rasul-e akram hospita...

PURPOSE We evaluated the long-term outcomes of the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure for the treatment of female urinary incontinence (UI). MATERIALS AND METHODS We included 141 patients who underwent the TVT procedure for UI and responded to a questionnaire at the 6-year follow-up. The questionnaire included selected questions of the Korean version of the Bristol Female Lower Urinary...

AIMS To investigate the clinical characteristics and compare the effects of several methods of treatment of Mooren's corneal ulcer. METHODS 550 consecutive cases of Mooren's corneal ulcer were analysed in patients, including age, sex, laterality of eye, ulcer location, perforative rate, cure rate of surgeries, recurrent rate, the effects of conjunctiva excision, lamellar keratoplasty (LKP), a...

The cure process of epoxy prepreg used as composite pipe joints was studied by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Bohlin Rheometer and other techniques. Isothermal DSC measurements were conducted between 110 and 220 C, at 10 C intervals. The results show that the complete cure reaction could be achieved at 220 C. The isothermal cure process was simulated with the four-parameter a...

BACKGROUND Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the nails caused in most cases by dermatophytes Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Despite numerous available antifungal drugs for therapy of this infection, the cure rate is low, with high rates of relapse after treatment and side effects. OBJECTIVES To present a new option for the treatment of onychomycosis, in search of a ...

Significant numbers of cures of spontaneous mammary adenocarcinoma in CD8F, 9 (BALB/c 9 X DBA/8 Õ) mice have been effected by concomitant administration of three therapeutic modalities: surgery (enucleation) + combination chemotherapy + immunotherapy (nonspe cific immunological adjuvant). The results were obtained following lifetime observation of the animals. Immunotherapy consisted of zymosa...

AIMS Intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD) is a known risk factor for therapy failure after tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) insertion. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the severity of ISD alone or other factors such as urethral mobility and tape localization influence outcomes. METHODS One hundred and nine women with urodynamically determined ISD, a TVT insertion, and a 6-month ...