abstract background and objective: diabetes mellitus is one of complications that thalassemia major patients face with. hence, blood glucose monitoring is of vital importance to these patients. because of high level of fetal hemoglobin in these patients, the measurement of hemoglobin a1c is not reliable and should be displaced by fructosamine test. material and methods: the current descriptive ...

pulse oximetry measures the relative concentration of arterial oxygenated hemoglobin and reduced hemoglobin. this paper presents the design of a pulse oximeter, which measures the presence of a third substance, carboxyhemoglobin (hbco), by unfiltered leds at 660 nm, 810 nm, and 940 nm. background information is given on the theory of pulse oximetry. theoretical approximations and calculations w...

conclusions this investigation revealed that berberis fruit extract has beneficial metabolic effects in patients with type ii diabetes. barberry may improve glucose catabolism via glycolysis pathway, stimulate insulin secretion or improve insulin function and finally decrease glucose uptake. our results indicated that berberis fruit regulates glucose metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes....

abstract         background and objective: normal hemoglobin (hb) is formed of a heme group and a protein group known as globin. globin is made of four polypeptide chains and in hemoglobinopathies, the structure of one of these four polypeptide chain becomes abnormal. cellulose acetate method is a common way to differentiate haemoglobinopathies. inability to identify the components of hb low co...

background and objective: the anemia of esrd is a complex disorder, associated with serious complications, which increases patients’ mortality and morbidity. treatment of this anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-epo) is well established. this clinical trial study was conducted within 20 months, from may 2005 to december 2006, in order to evaluate the efficacy of pdpoetin (rh-epo al...

conclusions not using iron supplementation did not cause of anemia in women with hb concentrations greater than 13.2 g/dl during pregnancy; thus, the systematic care and control of iron status markers without iron supplementation is recommended for these women. results there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in hb (p = 0/03) and ferritin (p = 0/04) levels at the ...

results overall, 1252 patients with morbid obesity were included in the study. the mean age of participants was 39.77 ± 10.84 years (ranged 10 to 70 years) and 80.3% of them were female. the mean body weight was 126.75 ± 21.58 kg and the mean bmi was also 46.99 ± 5.87 kg/m2. in result, 9.8% were anemic according to the low value of hemoglobin level, 46.6% had ferritin lower than the normal rang...

hemoglobin (hb) h disease is a moderate form of α- thalassemia resulting from various genetic defects. hbh disease is not necessarily a benign disorder as has been generally thought. we present hereby a 25- year-old iranian pregnant woman whom referred to our hospital for blood transfusion. she exhibited the clinical and hematological manifestation of hbh disease. her father carries a common α-...