The present study was conducted to determine the relationship of alexithymia and family social support with the mental health of patients with cardiac condition. The correlational method was used in the study. 200 individuals were selected as sample, using consecutive sampling method, from patients with cardiac condition who visited Imam Ali Hospital in Kermanshah, Iran during March and April 2...

Postpartum hemorrhage is an important cause of maternal morbidity and mortality after delivery. Active management of postpartum hemorrhage by an uterotonic drug decreases the rate of postpartum hemorrhage. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of rectal misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage. This double blind randomized clinical trial was performed on full term pregnan...

INTRODUCTION Resilience and Psychological Wellbeing are two important concepts in adaption of patients to chronic disease conditions. GOAL To compare resilience and psychological wellbeing in women with irritable bowel syndrome and normal women. METHODS This was an analytical-comparative study. The statistical population consisted of all patients with irritable bowel syndrome visiting Imam ...

Lu and Steinhardt (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1106) claimed the discovery of a large, potentially quasi-crystalline Islamic tiling in the Darb-i Imam shrine but regard the earlier Maragha tiling, previously described as quasiperiodic, as a small isolated motif. We demonstrate that the Darb-i Imam pattern is periodic and that the quasi-crystalline discs superimposed on its lattice are derivat...

imam ali (a) has paid special attention to human awareness of death and the necessity for remembering death. he attempts to lead man to a high degree of self-knowledge and meaningfulness of life through a comprehensive understanding of death. as is considered, death is essentially interrelated to life and, therefore, every lack of correct knowledge toward the former would affect human self-know...

This research contains data which were obtained during the analysis of treated patients with aspirin who were referred to Imam Hospital (Imam H) of Ahvaz, Iran; and the effect of this type of treatment (Helicobacter pylori eradicate (HPE)) on reducing the incidence of gastrointestinal complications. Studies have shown that taking aspirin in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection is associa...

We herein describe a 71-year-old woman with adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) who developed fever, myalgia, and pancytopenia. The bone marrow aspiration and muscle biopsy revealed hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) and inflammatory myopathy with abundant macrophages (IMAM). Immunostained specimens were positive for expression of retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I), which recognizes viral RNA in ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the serum levels of leptin, ghrelin and tumour necrosis factor-alpha in children with cyanotic and acyanotic congenital heart disease. METHODS The prospective cohort study, was conducted at imam Ali Hospital, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, in 2009-10 and comprised 64 subjects, including patients and controls. Using enzyme-linked immunosorpent assay kits...