subchondral insufficiency fracture of the femoral head (siffh) is characterized by acute onset hip pain without overt trauma. it appears as a low intensity band with bone marrow edema on t1-weighted mri. the most common course of treatment is protected weight bearing for a period of several weeks. total hip arthroplasty (tha) has been commonly used if the patient does not respond to the initial...

abstract successful treatment of drug abusers is hard to achieve without the abusers’ taking part in counseling and group therapy interventions. the present study compared the effectiveness of two group interventions, i.e., life enrichment and enhancement program (leap) and reality therapy (rt) with a sham control on improving the abusers’ improvement indicators. participants (n = 30) were in-t...

the aim of the present case report is to describe the outcome, hematological and biochemical changes of treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenia in a terrier dog using human intravenous immunglobulin. the complete blood count, serum biochemistry, indirect immunofluorescence antibody and direct coomb’s tests, radiography and sonography were performed. laboratory findings indicated sever thromboc...

the previous large retrospective studies demonstrated that treatment with statins reduces both the incidence of prostate cancer by 50% and serum prostate specific antigen (psa) level up to 40%. however the main problem in those studies was the absence of control groups of men with hypercholesterolemia without statin treatment. we performed a small prospective controlled clinical trial to assess...