A common strategy used to dismiss arguments against donor conception is that there is no proof donor-conceived persons are harmed in any important way. Their claims of harm are dismissed as anecdotal and "not scientific," and studies carried out on young donor-conceived children, who declare themselves perfectly happy with their parents and families are tendered as evidence that no harm is caus...

Introduction: Donor milk is a new emerging phenomenon in Iran and its banks are currently operating at a limited level. Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes toward this issue play a very important role in the adoption of human donor milk by families. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of nurses working in neonatal intensive care units   regarding the use of human donor...

This paper presents some central findings of an exploratory qualitative study of New Zealand families with children conceived by donor insemination (DI). Drawing on social anthropological and sociological theorising about kinship and contemporary Western families, the paper explores the ways in which parents and their kin actively construct parent-child relationships and kin connections through...

deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) has recently been introduced as an alternative procedure to penetrating keratoplasty (pk) for corneal pathologies not affecting the corneal endothelium. dalk does not rely on donor endothelium and requires less rigid criteria for donor corneal tissue quality. therefore, dalk makes it possible to use donor corneas deemed unsuitable for pk. furthermore, ...

purpose: to evaluate the influence of donor characteristics (age, death-to-preservation time, preservation-to-surgery time, graft rating, and endothelial cell features) on clinical outcomes following deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) in patients with keratoconus. methods: in this retrospective study, 290 consecutive keratoconic eyes underwent dalk using donor corneas of different quali...

purpose: to determine bacterial contamination of corneas and corneal storage media provided from the eye bank of i.r. iran to rasool akram medical center. methods: this descriptive study was performed on 70 corneoscleral rims and corneal storage media. one milliliter of corneal storage media and the corneoscleral rim were sent to microbiology laboratory at the time of penetrating keratoplasty a...

background and objectives: tetanus and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable, infectious diseases with significant morbidity and mortality. immunization by the diphtheria and tetanus toxoid (dt) has been applied in iran for almost 50 years. however, there are very few data about the rate of immunity to these diseases in the adult population. the humoral immunity to tetanus and diphtheria among blo...

closure of donor site of the flap has special problems. reduction of this site will decrease the morbidity of operation. in this study, we present our experience in donor site size reduction. methods between 2006 and 2008, 15 patients with skin and soft tissue defects underwent operation. in all patients, coverage of defect was performed with various flaps. substratum horizontal mat-tress sutur...

background: hepatitis b is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis in the world. a small number of epidemiological studies, show the role of sucking insects in the transmission of hepatitis b as mechanical vector .in order to determine the prevalence of hbsag in patients with malaria and to compare with healthy blood donors, this study was conducted. methods: in this case-control study, ...