background: prognosis of small intestine artesia, the most common agents causing intestinal obstruction in neonates, has improved in last decades. some variable such as weight change, type of feeding, post operation oral feeding starting time, and adequacy of energy and protein intake can change patients clinical outcomes. we performed a retrospective study to evaluate all neonates with small i...

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during the period of 1984-1995, nine young patients were admitted to shiraz university hospitals with a chief complaint of abdominal mass, weight loss and chronic diarrhea. clinically, these cases were diagnosed as intestinal tuberculosis or lymphoma. laparotomy revealed a huge mass involving the upper small intestine. histologic sections showed diffuse infiltration of the intestinal wall with ...

low calorie diets are always difficult for obese subjects to follow and lead to metabolic and behavioral adaptation. therefore, we evaluated the effect of caffeine treatment with calorie shifting diet (csd) on weight loss. female subjects (n=98; bmi≥25) completed 4-weeks control diet, 6-weeks csd (3 repeated phases; each 2-weeks) and 4-weeks follow-up diet, with or without caffeine treatment (5...