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...

background: the purpose of this research was to determine the relation between negative or positive qualitative troponin i test and the short term prognosis of patients presenting to emergency department with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms. methods: we assessed the qualitative rapid troponin i in patients with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms after at least 4 hours and then we...

conclusions primary scec is a rare and highly aggressive tumor. however, prognosis is poor and long-term survival is exceptional. crt could be an appropriate alternative to operation. patients and methods this brief report was carried out by reviewing the medical records of 22 patients with newly histologically proven scec that were treated between 2000 and 2010 at 2 tertiary academic hospitals...

in order to identify the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of childhood guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) in east azarbaijan province, clinical and electrophysiological data on 40 consecutive children with gbs, admitted to tabriz children's medical center from march 21st 1999 to march 20th 2002, were analyzed. all patients received intravenous immunoglobulin, 400 mg /kg/ day fo...

As one of most important aspects of condition-based maintenance (CBM), failure prognosis has attracted an increasing attention with the growing demand for higher operational efficiency and safety in industrial systems. Currently there are no effective methods which can predict a hidden failure of a system real-time when there exist influences from the changes of environmental factors and there ...

objectives : this finite element method study aimed to compare the amount of stress on an isolated mandibular second premolar in two conventional reciprocal parallel interface designs of removable partial dentures (rpds) and the same rpd abutment tooth (not isolated). materials and methods: a kennedy class 1, modification 1 rpd framework was simulated on a 3d model of mandible with three differ...

to determine the prognostic value of response to treatment in patients with focal segmental glomerulo-sclerosis. fsgs includes 10-15% of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in children. bulk of evidence supports disease relationship with immune system. unfortunately, responses to immunosuppressive drugs are not desirable and progression to end-stage renal disease is common. we analyzed 62 out of 99 c...

early recognition of developmental disorders is an important goal, and equally important is avoiding misdiagnosing a disorder in a healthy child without pathology. the aim of the present study was to develop an artificial neural network using perinatal information to predict developmental disorder at infancy. a total of 1,232 mother-child dyads were recruited from 6,150 in the original data of ...

a number of epidemiologic studies have reported a positive relationship between heart rate, cardiovascular disease and mortality. to examine the correlation between heart rate and mortality after acute myocardial infarction (ami), 2147 patients hospitalized in coronary care units in isfahan were investigated in a cross-sectional study. their heart rate was measured according to an electrocardio...