abstract background a vast variety of factors may cause recurrent pregnancy loss. blood group incompatibility of parents could cause abortion. the examination of couples or twins, blood groups showed that the blood group incompatibility can affect adversely the outcome of pregnancy. couples with blood group incompatibility are more involved in spontaneous miscarriage. antigenes in two different...

Introduction: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children. Recurrent UTI causes serious complications such as renal scarring, proteinuria and hypertension. Recent studies have  reported  that hypercalciuria  may  be considered  a  risk  factor  for  recurrent  UTI. Materials and Methods: In this study 110 children 2months to 13years o...

recurrent sigmoid volvulus is a clinical entity characterized by recurrent episodes of partial or complete sigmoid volvulus. although it is commonly seen in the elderly, it can be occasionally seen in younger patients. patients with recurrent partial sigmoid volvulus are relatively asymptomatic or present with mild abdominal pain. early diagnosis and treatment is essential to prevent conversion...

conclusions antipospholipid antibodies based on number of abortions and gestational age of abortions were increased. mean antipospholipid and anticardiolipin antibodies in all patients remained in high level just in first 5 years post abortion and then began to fall. results mean age of participants was 24-39 years old. the average rate of antiphospolipid antibodies in patients with normal anti...

background: frequent infections is among the most frequent clinical dilemmas for primary care physicians. immunodeficiency disorders are a heterogeneous group of illnesses that predispose patients to the recurrent infections, autoimmunity and malignancies. the aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and laboratory data collected for the final diagnosis of patients referred with recurrent...

this report presents an 11 year-old girl with benign recurrent cholestasis (bric) who developed episodes of severe jaundice and pruritus at the ages of 2.5 and 10 years. each episode lasted for 3-4 months. the peak level of serum bilirubin reached 33-37 mg/dl.liver function tests were all normal during the attack except for increased alkaline phosphatase and prolonged prothrombin time responsiv...

background: recurrent pregnancy loss is (rpl) a heterogeneous condition. while the role of acquired thrombophilia has been accepted as an etiology for rpl, the contribution of specific inherited thrombophilic gene polymorphisms to the disorder has been remained controversial. methods: one hundred women with a history of two or more consecutive abortions and 100 women with at least two live birt...

recurrent abortion is a critical problem in which many factors play a crucial role such as anticordiolipin antibody and antiphospholipid antibody. this study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of anticardiolipin antibody and antiphospholipid antibody in pregnancy failures in women with the history of recurrent pregnancy loss. in 154 women with the history of two or more recurrent pregnancy...

background:   objective: in this study we performed linkage analysis on a large x linked rsa pedigree to find a novel susceptibility locus for rsa.   materials and methods: a linkage scan using 11 microsatellites was performed in 27 members of a large pedigree of hereditary x-linked rsa. two point parametric linkage was performed using superlink v 1.6 program. results: evidence of linkage was o...