Moyamoya disease is a rare vaso-occlusive illness with an unknown etiology characterized by stenosis of the internal carotid arteries with spontaneous development of a collateral vascular network. A 15-month-old girl was referred to the emergency ward of Imam Reza Hospital due to decreased level of consciousness, focal seizures and fever during the previous 24 hours with an impression of enceph...

OBJECTIVE To detect a reduction in the incidence of no-reflow, and a possible improvement in angiographic and clinical outcome after stepwise stenting in comparison with conventional method in the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of patients with anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction. METHODS Between March 2007 and December 2009, patients with anterior acute myocardial infarctio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of fatigue and its association with demographic variables and disease specific variables in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. METHODS In this study, 300 patients (72% female, 28% male) with clinically definite MS admitted to the outpatient MS clinic of Imam Reza Hospital, affiliated to Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, were evalua...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is increasingly reported worldwide. We aimed to determine the frequency of invasive CA-MRSA in children admitted to the pediatric wards of Imam Reza and Ghaem hospitals of Mashhad, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, data regarding S. aureus isolates from pediatric patients' ...

Objective: Food waste is a progressive concern and is contributed to reduce energy and protein intake. The aim of this study is to investigate the amount of food waste in different wards of Qaem and Imam Reza hospitals of Mashhad. Design and subjects: This cross-sectional study was performed during one week in the Imam Reza and Qaem hospitals. The study population consisted  of 425 patients in ...

Farhad Assarzadegan, Atoosa Gharib, Shirin Behbahani, Meysam Ebrahimi-Abyaneh 1 Department of Neurology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Pathology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Scienc...

Department of Gastroenterology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Pathology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Scie...

1Department of Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplantation Division, Imam-Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of Surgical Pathology, Cancer Institute, Imam-Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Department of Surgery, Cancer Institute, Imam-Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran...