For the last few years, antibiotic resistance has become one of the major concerns within medical society. On one hand, pathogens have mostly acquired resistance against the major conventional antibiotics used in the treatment of microbial infections. These included even first-line antibiotics, which are critical in the treatment of severe infections. This catastrophic situation has occurred du...

in its course of evolution, the sassanian rule accepted a change in temporal exigencies, condition and manner of governance of each ruler where more attention was paid to the institutional establishment, grades/ranking, titles, symbols and administrative hierarchy. in a way, the organizational manner, to a larger extent, could engulf the period into a curtain of ambiguity. one of those ranks wa...

pithos burial is a common burial method in arsacids era. various cemeteries of this era have been unearthed until now but there wasn’t any reference about historical and archaeological condition of marivan’s region and the existence of pithos because of the lack of enquiry and archaeological studies. fortunately, by with research effort, some pithos cemeteries with diverse burial from arsacids ...

play is an ancient literary form in the history of human art which has undergone different developments. different ears during which this human art has developed could be classified as: greek, roman, middle ages, classic era, romantic era and realism era. play appeared with preliminary dances and music in religious ceremonies and has developed into modern plays and movies after all the mentione...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, there has been a steep rise in the number of people with complex medical problems who require dialysis. We sought to determine the life expectancy of elderly patients after starting dialysis and to identify changes in survival rates over time. METHODS All patients aged 65 years or older who began dialysis in Canada between 1990 and 1999 were identified from th...

PURPOSE Postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) has been shown to benefit breast cancer patients with 1 to 3 positive lymph nodes, but it is unclear how modern changes in management have affected the benefits of PMRT. METHODS AND MATERIALS We retrospectively analyzed the locoregional recurrence (LRR) rates in 1027 patients with T1,2 breast cancer with 1 to 3 positive lymph nodes treated with ...

BACKGROUND Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) used to be a relative contraindication for liver transplantation (LT). This obstacle has been dealt with following the improvement of LT-related techniques. OBJECTIVE To compare the outcome of adult patients with PVT who underwent LT before and after adopting MELD. METHODS We retrospectively searched our database for deceased donor LT recipients who h...

PURPOSE Translational cancer research increasingly relies on human tissue biospecimens and this has coincided with a shift in tissue biobanking approach. Newer biobanks (post year 2000) deploy standard operating procedures to reduce variability around biospecimen collection. Because current translational research is based on pre-2000 and post-2000 era biospecimens, we consider whether the colle...