background: methamphetamine (ma) is a potent psychomotor stimulant with high abuse and addictive potential. ma is a neurotoxic drug which is widely abused by females of childbearing age, raising serious public health concerns in terms of exposure of the fetus to the drug. neurotoxic effects of ma on adult are well known, such as dopaminergic nerve terminal degeneration and cell death in regions...

We describe a case of 2-month-old girl presented with more than 60 papules and nodules hemangiomas involving the skin sclera, endocanthion, lower lip, labium majus pudenda without visceral laboratory abnormality. A biopsy showed numerous scattered, clearly limited, irregular cellular lobules in dermis circumvoluted into capillaries comprising incomplete vessel walls, which was consistent diagno...

purpose : to evaluate the visual results of amblyopic therapy in pediatric patients with monocular abnormalities. methods : the hospital records of visually immature patients with unilateral organic ocular abnormalities and decreased visual acuity, who presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic over a one year period, were reviewed. those who had 8 years old of age or less and underwent am...

a study of the relationship between the disorder of glucose metabolism and ischemic heart disease was performed on 122 patients and 100 controls in loghman-dowleh adham’s medical center in tehran. the gtt abnormality was found in only 8% of the control group while for the patients with the heart ischemia the prevalence was 62.3%. prevalence of glucose metabolic disorder among men with acute myo...

Hypokalemia is a common electrolyte abnormality often encountered in daily practice. While mild hypokalemia asymptomatic, moderate-to-severe usually manifested as significant symptoms such muscle weakness. In this paper, we presented case of 23-years-old male coming to our emergency department because weakness all his four limbs when he woke up the morning. Physical examinations were within nor...

background: according to some provincial reports, prevalence of hepatitis a has had a decreasing trend during the past decade in iran. we aimed to overview clinical manifestations and laboratory findings of iranian pediatric patients diagnosed with hepatitis a infection. materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed on 162 consecutive pediatric cases of hepatitis a infection. da...

objective: approximately 15-20% of clinically recognizable pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion. the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in those abortions is as high as 50%.a modest but clinically important proportion of spontaneous abortions is caused by a balanced chromosomal aberration in one of the parents. this results from the production of gametes and embryos with unbalanced chrom...

On average, 24% of women with a cervical abnormality detected by a cervical smear test (Papanicolaou or Pap test) do not receive any follow-up. Without follow-up, the cervical abnormality may go unnoticed and progress. Recall letters sent by a cytology registry to the health care provider and the woman can, in 18% to 24% of such instances, trigger a follow-up encounter. For Pap tests analyzed b...