Background: The description on patients with pigmented back patches is rarely reported in the literature. We decided to study the clinicopathological aspects of these patients for reaching a better understanding of this disease.Method: In this study, the clinicopathological aspects and probable responsible factors in the manifestation of posterior pruritic pigmented patches in patients referred...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Some recent studies have shown an association between diabetes and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and survival. We aimed to investigate whether there is an association between the presence of diabetes mellitus and survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with an in-hospital cardiac arres...

1. Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway 2. Dept. of Modern Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3. Division of Applied Medicine, Medical School, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK 4. Dept. of Biology, Un...

BACKGROUND Preeclampsia is one of the common complications during pregnancy with considerable maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Hypercoagulability due to thrombophilic factors is discussed as the etiology involved in this disease. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate selected thrombotic factors among pregnant women with preeclampsia and normal pregnant women. MATERIALS ...

Prematurity and poor weight gaining are important causes for neonatal hospitalization. The present study aimed to investigate the role of medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil via massage therapy as a supplementary nutritional method on the weight gain of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)-hospitalized neonates. This randomized clinical trial performed among 121 stable premature neonates hospit...

intrbackground and objectives: good medical nutrition therapy (mnt) is crucial to inpatients' health and treatment, and is part of routine hospital cares. surgery ward is a highly danger-prone section in any hospital. the present study was conducted for a proactive risk analysis of nutrition and food distribution in mashhad qaem hospital’ women’s surgery ward in 2013 through health care fa...

Background: One of the alternatives for lower-limb orthopedic surgery is spinal anesthesia. It can affect hemodynamic status and cause prolonged motor sensory blocks, as well urinary retention, which are less common in unilateral technique. Different drugs used to improve quality block reduce its complications. Dexmedetomidine, a selective alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist, fentanyl, an opioi...

background & aim: cervical ectopic pregnancy is a rare variant of ectopic pregnancy, and placenta percreta is a complex and dangerous condition; patients with these conditions are difficult to manage. in this study, we present a rare case of placenta percreta in cervical pregnancy. case report: a 32 -year-old woman with 19 weeks of gestation and gross hematuria was admitted to qaem hospital in ...

Background and Purpose: During the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, a considerable number of studies have focused on difficulties for accessing medical services telemedicinerelated issues. However, it is not clear whether COVID-19 affects clinical course epilepsy. Therefore, in current study we aimed to assess effects infection seizure frequency patients with epilepsy (PWE).Methods: ...

Introduction: Esophagus injuries secondary to caustic ingestion occurs frequently in children. Oral damages cannot give us a clear image of what has happened in upper GI. Therefore endoscopy is only diagnostic way to evaluate upper GI injuries. In this study, we found out the endoscopic results in children admitted with caustic ingestion in Qaem(A. S.) hospital between 2011 to 2013 , and comp...