BACKGROUND Over recent years, the field of medicine has been challenged by the twin epidemic of heart failure and renal insufficiency. The coexistence of the two problems in the same patient, referred to as cardiorenal syndrome (CRS), is defined as 'disorders of the heart and kidneys whereby acute or chronic dysfunction in one organ may induce acute or chronic dysfunction of the other. The mech...

Background: Clinicians and researchers synthesize data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antidepressants to make conclusions about the efficacy of medications for depression. All treatments include nonspecific factors in addition to the specific effects of drugs, and study design may influence patient outcomes via nonspecific fac tors. This study investigated whether placebo control a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of our study was to compare outcome and its determinants in familial subarachnoid hemorrhage and in sporadic subarachnoid hemorrhage in a large and well-documented patient population. METHODS Patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) treated at the Department of Neurosurgery, Kuopio University Hospital, from 1977 to 1995 were included. Patients with...

background: sepsis is a common clinical diagnosis. knowing the outcome of these patients is very important because it alerts the physicians. the goal of this research is to find an easy, inexpensive and accessible way for this purpose and to study the correlation between thyroid hormones and cortisol levels and the outcome of patients in sepsis. methods: in this study 55 sepsis patients were ex...

Several software programs have been designed for outcome prediction of orthodontic and surgical treatments. This study aimed to review the accuracy and characteristics of cephalometric software programs for outcome prediction of orthognathic surgeries. This study reviewed studies that compared cephalometric software programs in terms of accuracy and characteristics for outcome prediction of o...

Unfortunately just a few number of children and adolescents use sufficient amounts of fruit and vegetables. This study aimed to investigate the association between fruit and vegetables consumption and perceived self-efficacy, outcome expectations and outcome evaluation in adolescent girls in Shahrekord city.This is a descriptive analytic study conducted on 308 high school girls (first grade) wh...

background: despite of higher pregnancy rate after frozen embryo transfer (fet) which is accepted by the majority of researches, the safety of this method and its effect on neonatal outcome is still under debate. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate pregnancy and neonatal outcome of fet compare to fresh cycles. materials and methods: in this study,1134 patients using fresh et and 28...