central nervous system’s disorders including chronic meningitis (cm) have considerable mortality and irreversible complications, and diagnosis and treatment of cm is difficult. in this retrospective study we reviwed epidemiological and clinical findings, treatment results and prognostic factors of 97 patients with cm admitted in imam khomeini hospital for the last 10 years. important etiologica...

background: chronic illnesses are by definition long lasting and without a definitive cure. in iran, like in many other developing countries, chronic diseases are not merely diseases of the elderly. they also affect a much higher proportion of people during their prime working years and more so than in the developed countries. therefore, it is essential to understand the factors influencing the...

background: chronic kidney disease is asymptomatic until its last stages and though it is increasing globally, we are faced with paucity of a population-based model to assess this disease, particularly in developing countries. therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and trends of ckd according to a new estimation method.   methods: using multiplier method, we estimated t...

background: chronic kidney disease is asymptomatic until its last stages and though it is increasing globally, we are faced with paucity of a population-based model to assess this disease, particularly in developing countries. therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and trends of ckd according to a new estimation method.   methods: using multiplier method, we estimated t...

allergic fungal sinusitis (afs) has been recognized as an important cause of chronic sinusitis commonly caused by aspergillus spp. and various dematiaceous fungi like bipolaris, alternaria, curvalaria, and etc. ulocladium botrytis is a non pathogenic environmental dematiaceous fungi, which has been recently described as a human pathogen. ulocladium has never been associated with allergic fungal...

conclusions it seems that cohort studies with larger sample sizes on the relationship between periodontitis and cholesterol level (total, hdl, ldl) are necessary. background many studies show that periodontitis is a risk factor for serum lipid levels increase. on the other hand, the increase of serum lipids is clearly a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. objectives the current study aimed...

allogeneic bone marrow transplantation is the only definie cure in thalassemia and its most important complication is chronic graft-versus-host disease (cgvhd). we analysed the incidence of cgvhd and its associated risk factors in a group of 89 iranian thalassemic patients of hla-identical sibling transplants surviving at least 90 days after transplantation.in the majority of cases (39) cgvhd o...

conclusions both the cases discussed in our study have inv(9) as the sole abnormality and are found to confer a relatively poor prognosis. case presentation we present the case of a chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) patient who showed intermittent relapse on treatment, with a rare appearance of clones with dual inversion (9) breakpoints [inv(9)(p22q34); inv(9)(p11q21)]. we also present the first r...

introduction: despite presence of a body of evidence in support of high accuracy of cholecystokinin cholescintigraphy (cck-cs) , for diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis(cc) , some authors have claimed that  gallbladder ejection fraction (gbef)  has poor predictive diagnostic values. the purpose of this study was to determine if there is any difference in gbef between normal individuals and patie...