background one of the most painful experiences of women in life is labor. the use of non-drug methods for pain relief is on the increase. this study aimed to compare mono-stage and bi-stage acupressure at sp6 point on the severity of labor pain and the delivery outcome. methods this is a quasi-experimental single blind study from december 2010 to june 2011 in which 150 term pregnant women in la...

results endometrial thickness in patients who had 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 d&c; were 10.00 ± 0.58, 9.83 ± 0.47, 8.90 ± 0.92, 7.42 ± 0.18 and 7.40 ± 0.07, respectively one day before ovulation (spearman’s correlation coefficient = -0.33) and 10.62 ± 0.68, 9.64 ± 0.49, 8.48 ± 0.96, 6.32 ± 0.15 and 6.90 ± 0.04, respectively, 5-7 days after ovulation (spearman’s correlation coefficient = -0.66) estradiol a...

background: using bouginage or balloon dilatation is the standard treatment for benign esophageal strictures. aùžbout two-thirds need repeated dilatations. for preventing recurrent strictures, many medications such as mitomycin-c have been used. mitomycin-c is a special antibiotic with anti-neoplastic characteristics, which inhibits fibroblast proliferation, reduces collagen production and decr...

Dear Editor Sir, the recent publication on hyperbilirubinemia and pelvicaliceal dilatation is very interesting. Akil et al concluded that “hyperbilirubinemia might not have a direct effect on outcome of the pelvicaliceal dilatation [1].” There were several problems on this work that limited the conclusion. The few subjects and no control of confounding factor (such as genetic disorders that can...

ANYONE who has taken part in joint clinicopathological investigations will be aware of the discrepancies that often exist between the clinical and functional estimates of disease and the histopathological findings. In cardiovascular disease the pathologist encounters cases in which the morphological changes in the myocardium at necropsy are minimal, but the functional changes in life were gross...

fascioliasis is a health problem in several countries including the islamic republic of iran.  in a review of the medical publications during 1990-2002, only 22 cases of biliary tract obstruction by fasciola hepatica have been reported.  herein, we are adding a new case of fasciola hepatica causing bile duct obstruction and presenting with intermittent colicky pain, eosinophilia and bile duct d...