the hematological malignancies associated with nephrotic syndrome are mainly hodgkin’s and non-hodgkin’s lymphomas and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) has rarely been described in associated with nephritic syndrome. we report a rare case of acute myelogenous leukemia who presented with nephrotic syndrome. a previously healthy 62-year-old man was admitted in nephro...

conclusions the current study indicated that h. pylori infection occurs at a higher rate in patients with down syndrome and mental retardation. this may provide more reasons to control the transmission of h. pylori among them. results the differences between the groups were compared by t-test and x2 test. seropositivity for h. pylori was significantly higher in patients with down syndrome and m...

how to cite this article: tonekaboni sh, ebrahimi a, bakhshandeh bali mk, houshmand m, moghaddasi m, taghdiri mm, nasehi mm. sodium channel gene mutations in children with gefs + and dravet syndrome: a cross sectional study. iran j child neurol. 2013 winter; 7 (1):25-29.   objective dravet syndrome or severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (smei) is a baleful epileptic encephalopathy that begins ...

hyper ige syndrome (hies) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease. most of hies cases are sporadic. hies type ad is caused by mutation in signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (stat-3). a number of mosaicism hies has been reported that is associated with intermediate phenotype. autosomal recessive hies (ar-hies) is due to mutation in dock-8 or cytokine sis 8 and tyk2 or tyrosine...

background: phytoestrogens are a group of plants derived compounds with weekly estrogen effect that appear to have protective effects on metabolic and hormonal abnormalities of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). so the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of soy phytoestrogens on reproductive hormones and lipid profiles in pcos women. methods: in this quasi-randomized trial...

background: the correlation of metabolic syndrome and migraine headache was evaluated in some previous studies. however there is no study that compared the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the patients with and without migraine. control of coincidental factors such as metabolic syndrome reduces therapeutic resistance in migrainous patients. the aim of this study was to compare prevalence of ...

conclusions in our study, portal venous thrombosis was detected in the patient who died during the acute period only. a study including large numbers of budd-chiari-syndrome patients with behcet’s disease and portal venous thrombosis would be helpful to determine the prognostic significance of portal venous thrombosis in budd-chiari-syndrome patients with behcet’s disease. in addition, patients...

modeling of relationship between ventilation rate of buildings and sick building syndrome symptoms hosseinpoor s , gholamiborujeni f *, mohammadian y received: 22 aug, 2013 accepted: 23 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: indoor air pollution with microbilal, chemical and physical pollutants lead to sick building syndrome (sbs). suitable ventilation of buildings, is one of the best methods t...

turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. the 45, xo karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with turner syndrome and 45, xo karyotype presenting with short stature. she had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. to ...