IMPORTANCE Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Recently, various immunosuppressant medications were introduced as therapeutic options for preventing relapse of NMOSD. However, our understanding of the effectiveness of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in treating patients with NMOSD is based on only a small number of stu...

substance use disorder is conceptualized as a chronic relapsing condition where relapse is usually defined as the return to problematic substance use following treatment. an issue of great importance is the identification of the predictors of relapse and the development of treatments that may help prevent relapse. one of the strongest predictors of relapse is craving. the purpose of the present...

To assess the healing and relapse rate of duodenal ulcer (DU) treated with H2 receptor antagonists in helicobacter pylori (HP) positive vs negative cases, we analysed 95 cases of endoscopically proven duodenal ulcer. H. pylori colonization was found in 73 (77%) patients before treatment. No difference was observed in the pre-treatment characteristics between patients with HP positive and HP neg...

was 1.60 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02-2.51), P = .04. 2. Of those subjects who received a PPI and vancomycin alone, the relapse rate was 28.0% (7/25), compared to 10.3% (8/78) in those who received vancomycin alone and no PPI. The unadjusted OR was 3.40 (95% CI, 1.0910.63), P = .05. 3. Of those who received any treatment (metronidazole or vancomycin or both) and a PPI, the relapse rate w...

This report examines the effect of Structural Ecosystems Therapy (SET) for (n=143) HIV+ African-American women on rate of relapse to substance use relative to both a person-centered approach (PCA) to therapy and a community control (CC) group. A prior report has shown SET to decrease psychological distress and family hassles relative to these 2 comparison groups. In new analyses, SET and CC had...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate whether quality of life (QoL), as measured by the SF36 and the Quality of Life Interview (QoLI), is predictive of relapse for patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Using data from a multicenter cohort study conducted in France, Germany, and the United-Kingdom (EuroSC), we performed Cox proportional-hazards models to estimate the associatio...

objectives : schizophrenia patients often experience relapses once and even more with no limit on number of relapses. the time among relapses are rarely considered in studies. the aim of this study was to identify some risk factors of time to elapses in schizophrenic patients with recurrent events model in survival analysis. methods : in a retrospective longitudinal study, the medical records o...

enterococci are normal inhabitants of gastrointestinal tract, being responsible for 5 to 18% of infective endocarditis and the incidence appears to be increasing. eleven patients with enterococcal endocarditis were studied. in a case series group, 10 men (average 57 years) and one woman (37 years) were studied. two patients had rheumatic heart disease, 5 patients arteriosclerotic disease and on...

background: the treatment of human brucelosis is controversial. the purpose of this study was to search published clinical trial papers to provide a simple and effective treatment in brucellosis. methods: many studies on brucellosis treatment in a twenty- year span from 1993 to 2012 were searched in pubmed, web of science (isi), scopus, google scholar, magiran, iranmedex and sid. the studies th...

Background & Aims:Therapeutic community(TC) is an approach that its primaryaim is to help people with problems of substance abuse. The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of TC in the improvement of life skills and reduction of relapse in male addicts. Method: This research was a quasi-experimental study by using pre-post tests and Follow-up.Research population constitutes all ...