female fertility begins to decline many years prior to the onset of menopause despite continued regular ovulatory cycles. age related infertility is due to oocyte abnormalities and decreased ovarian reserve. treatment of infertility when the cause is limited to decreased ovarian reserve is empirical at present except for oocyte donation. this mini review of the literature covers all available e...

introduction: many epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine the prevalence of the various types of the dental anomalies. the aim of the present study was determination of developmental and acquired dental anomalies in patients attending the faculty of dentistry in rasht, iran. materials and methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, 1224 digital panoramic ra-diographs...

iniencephaly is a rare kind of neural tube defect that is classified into two types of iniencephaly apertus and iniencephaly clausus. this anomaly could be diagnosed prenatally by obstetric ultrasonography and terminated by therapeutic abortion; however, it could be undiagnosed until birth similar to our case due to the abnormal position of the fetus or lack of experience of the sonographer. du...

nuchal translucency (nt) measurements in the first trimester screening between 11 and 14 weeks’ gestation are regarded as a clear marker for aneuploidies. the presence of a thickened nt, even if the karyotype is normal, can be associated with structural abnormalities. having an abnormal screening of nt, parents and physicians could face dilemma over abortion particularly in a case of ivf/icsi f...

extended abstract introduction zanjan has recently enjoyed considerable population and physical growth. the rapid irregular growth in population number caused unfavorable formation of informal settlement areas in the city. islamabad is of the largest informal accommodation regions in zanjan which was built as a consequence of massive rural migration during 1970s. although the area, at present,...

background: the goal of the present study was to report the results of two parallel works in which the incidence of fetal deaths and also congenital malformations among the progenies of the iranian chemical victims were studied. methods: the subjects were progenies of a randomly selected population from survivors of chemical attacks during iran-iraq conflict. totally 807 male cases ranged 18-85...

reproductive abnormalities cause major losses of sheep production. abattoir materials were used todetermine the extent of reproductive wastage. reproductive tracts were collected from 524 ewes slaughtered at urmia slaughter-house in urmia, northwest of iran, during a period of 12 months. overall, 30.10% of the ewes examined were pregnant. a total of 149 (28.44%) tracts developed acquired reprod...

introduction pelvic pain results from many causes such as primary dysmenorrhea, uterine anomalies, menstrual outflow obstruction, endometriosis, myoma and adenomyosis. this study reports on a rare case of non-communicating functional rudimentary horn. case presentations a 15-year-old nulligravida young woman with a history of severe intermittent pelvic pain presented a 4-5 centimeter mass. a su...

background: cardiac manifestations that occur in a majority of patients with organophosphate (op) poisoning may range from innocuous electrocardiographic manifestations, such as sinus tachycardia, to life-threatening complications, including cardiogenic pulmonary edema and myocardial necrosis. in this study, we evaluated the various electrocardiographic manifestations in patients with op poison...

background: hematological abnormalities are a common complication of hiv infection and occur in all stages of the infection. these abnormalities increase as the disease advances. we aimed to evaluate the diagnostic utility of bone marrow sampling in hiv-positive patients. methods: 40 hiv-infected individuals were screened for hematological abnormalities. investigations such as iron studies, hem...