introduction: the aim of this study is to assess the therapeutic efficacy and safety of a particular brand of ifn alpha (pdferon b®) in combination with ribavirin (rlba) on iranian patients with chronic hepatitis c (chc). the addition of riba to the standard treatment with interferon (ifn) alpha led to an improvement in sustained virologic response (svr) from less than 20% with ifn monotherapy ...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to evaluate vertical facial and dental changes after orthodontic treatment with extraction of first four premolars, and to find whether long facial height could influence the treatment result. methods: fifty-six orthodontic patients with the minimum age of 15, whose treatment plan involved extracting four first premolars, participated in the study. th...

introduction: to assess the efficacy of foeniculum vulgar, menthe longifolia and garlic in iranian children. methods and matherials: nine databases such as medline, scopus and the cochrane central register of controlled trials as well as domestic  database (persian) such as sid, iranmedex, magiran, medlib, irandoc, and google scholar were searched using keywords such as  “child” and “complement...

background: ewing sarcoma family of tumors (esfts) is the second most common primary tumors of bone in childhood. the decision regarding the optimal modality for achieving local tumor control remains uncertain. the aim of this study was to report the clinical features and outcome as well as reviewing risk factors in patients. materials and methods: this retrospective study included 75 esfts pat...

introduction: lymphoma may involve the gastrointestinal tract either primarily or as a manifestation of extensively disseminated systemic disease. stomach being the most frequent site of primary gastroin-testinal lyphoma, followed by the small bowel and colon respectively (1&2&3). for diagnosis of pi-mary small intestinal lymphoma (psil), one most satisfies the criteria specified by dawson and ...

abstract   background: parosteal osteosarcoma is rare low-grade malignancy which arises on the surface of the metaphysis of long bones it has a low propensity to metastasize. different surgical treatment options including marginal resection, wide resection and amputation were recommended for the tumor. the purpose of the study was to assess the results of different surgical treatment of the les...

background & aims: prevalence of uremic itch is 30% in patients on dialysis, and routine treatments are often ineffective.   materials & methods: we selected 40 hd patients and prescribed 100 mg gabapentin after each hd session for 20, and prescribe placebo for the other 20 patients. initial dose of gabapentin was 100mg after every thrice-weekly hd and altered the administered dose in the base ...

background: conventional wastewater treatment is a combination of physical and biological processes designed to remove organic matter from solution. waste sludge drawn from these processes is thickened and processed for ultimate disposal wastewater contains various kinds of infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. correct treatment in wastewater treatment plants is imp...

repeated bone marrow examination was found to be of value in assessing response to treatment in megaloblastic anemia. the objective of this study was monitoring the response of megaloblastics to treatment, concerning the location of neutrophilic myeloperoxidase and myeloperoxidase index (mpxi) and their variation in megaloblastic erythroid progeny. it is possible to follow up megaloblastic case...

evaluation of the factors associated with treatment process of leukemia and comparison with current related approaches in developed countries can present a good indicator to assess the weak and strong points in healthcare system of our country in leukemia treatment. the objective of this research is general and specific description of the challenges and shortcomings in iranian healthcare system...