background: chronic graft versus host disease (cgvhd) is one of the most serious potential complications of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. study design and method: we analyzed the incidence of cgvhd and its associated risk factors in a group of 161 iranian recipients of hla-identical sibling transplants, with at least 90 days post-transplantation survival. in the majority of cases (n=7...

abstract background: the incidence of early wound related complications is assessed in laparoscopic versus open abdominal surgeries. complications of surgical wounds (esp. wound infections) are considered as a major problem in surgery wards. complications of surgical wounds are classified as early and late. common and early complications are hematoma, seroma and wound infection. methods: the me...

background: to date, studies on methadone overdose in adults have not been ‎reported in iran. hence, this study was performed to determine the frequency of ‎methadone overdose and its associated complications in baharloo hospital of tehran ‎between august 2011 and august 2012.‎ methods: this cross-sectional study was done on 390 cases. all patients with ‎methadone overdoses and positive urine s...

background:intraventricular hemorrhage is the most common intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants. the objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between intraventricular hemorrhage and blood leukocyte count. materials and methods:this was a cross-sectional simple sampling study conducted from the beginning of 2006 to 2010 in ali-asghar children’s hospital. inclusion crite...

aim : to assess the complications of bile duct injury in laparoscopic cholecystectomy in loghman medical center, tehran. background : the incidence of complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has increased dramatically since the introduction and widespread use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy.  patients and methods : from january 1998 to january 2002, a total of 155 laparoscopic cholecystec...

chronic granulomatous disease is an infrequent primary immunodeficiency characterized by defective intracellular killing of ingested microorganisms thereby making patients highly susceptible to recurrent lite threatening bacterial and fungal infections. in this study, we review the medical course of an 8 yr old girl with ar-cgd. she suffered from recurrent dermal and deep abscesses, retractable...

introduction: bone marrow transplantation is a good therapeutic modality for beta thalassemia. liver complications are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality following bmt. determination of the factors of liver injury leads to earlier  diagnosis after bmt and improves prognosis. method: we studied 113 major beta thalassemic patients who have been transplanted from 1990- 2000 in bone...

background: bone marrow transplantation is a good therapeutic modality for beta thalassemia. liver complications is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality following bmt. determination of the factors of liver injury leads to earlier diagnosis after bmt and improves prognosis. materials and methods: we studied 113 major beta thalassemic patients who have been transplanted from 1990- 2...

we evaluated the clinical experience of 120 women with early stage cervical cancer who underwent radical hysterectomy combined with pelvic lymphadenectomy (class iii rutledge) in our gynecologic oncology clinic. of these, 74 patient. (61.66%) were in stage i and 46 patients (38.34%) were in stage ii a. intraoperation complications comprised of great vessel injuries encountered in 4 (3.3%) patie...