abstract background: leukemia is the most common malignancy in childhood, and acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is the second most common leukemia.aml still accounts for more than 30% of deaths from leukemia. aml is classified into several subgroups from m0 to m7 with different presentations, clinical features, and outcomes. material and methods: between march 1996 and october 2003, 47 children with...

conclusions cp is effective for inducing clinical response and maintenance of clinical remission in patients with moderate to severe cd with similar side-effect profile as the control arms. background tumor necrosis factor-α (tnf-α) antibodies are currently used in patients with moderate to severe crohn’s disease (cd) who are unresponsive to conventional therapies. certolizumab pegol (cp) is on...

the present treatment goals for inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) especially ulcerative colitis (uc) include rapid induction of clinical remission, steroid-free maintenance of clinical remission, mucosal healing and improvement of quality of life in uc patients. immunomodulators have been reserved for steroid- dependent or steroid- refractory uc patients. among these agents, azathioprine/6-merc...

Patients admitted to hospital after being diagnosed with first-episode schizophrenia were comprehensively assessed prior to acute treatment (on admission), at the end of the acute treatment (at discharge), and at follow-up after 1 year. The psychopathology was evaluated using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). 93 patients were reassessed after 1 year. 73/93 (78%) of the patients ...

INTRODUCTION Though remission is currently a treatment goal in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the number of patients who achieve and sustain remission in daily practice is still small. It is suggested that early remission will be associated with sustainability of remission. The aim was to study the association between time-to-remission and sustainability of remission in a cohort of ea...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The value of a complete remission in severe lupus nephritis is well known but little is known about the impact of a partial remission in this patient population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term prognosis of achieving a complete or partial remission in a well-defined group of patients with severe lupus nephritis. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, ...

background it has been proposed that reactive oxygen species (ros) is involved in the pathogenesis of various diseases. paraoxonase, a high-density lipoprotein associated enzyme, prevents low-density lipoproteins from oxidation. objectives the aim of the present study was to investigate the serum activities of paraoxonase-1 (pon-1), and aryleterase (are) as well as total antioxidant capacity (t...

background: acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a lymphoid malignancy, resulting from autonomous proliferation of monoclonal abnormal stem cell. the aim of this study was to evaluate the response rate and prognostic factor of adult patients suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who were treated with chemotherapy in south east of iran and demographic methods were used for this study.   method...