pendred's syndrome is defined as a triad of congenital perceptive hearing loss, goiter, and abnormal perchlorate test. three brothers with pendred's syndrome [p.s.] are reported. the oldest brother has hearing loss (he has been deaf and mute since childhood) and has a large goiter. a thyroid scan revealed euthyroid multinodular goiter and a perchlorate test was performed, and reported...

a 76-yr-old man with unipolar ventricular pacemaker, previously implanted in the right ventricular apex, presented with syncopal attack and twitching of the right pectoralis muscle. he finally was diagnosed as having twiddler's syndrome. the patient had a pulse rate of 36/min and cannon waves in the neck veins. chest radiography showed a dislodged pacing lead completely wrapped around the pulse...

usher's syndrome is a genetically inherited autosomal recessive disorder resulting in the double handicap of deafness and progressive blindness, known as retinitis pigmentosa. the disease is also associated with psychoses, mental retardation, and other major neurophysiological changes. it appears to be more common among jewish individuals and consanguinous marriages. while it is rare in th...

a:4:{s:9:"Objective";s:192:"The aim of the present study was to compare Quinagolide with Cabergoline in prevention of ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome among high risk women undergoing intra cytoplasmic sperm injection.";s:19:"MaterialsAndMethods";s:948:"Material and Methods: This Randomized clinical trial study was performed from March 2015 to February 2017. One hundred and twenty six women u...

background: the most common neoplasm of the salivary glands is pleomorphic adenoma and the most common complications of its surgical removal are facial nerve dysfunction (temporary or permanent) and auriculotemporal syndrome (frey’s syndrome). one of the surgical techniques in pleomorphic adenoma is partial parotidectomy. the whole excised tumor is surrounded by a safety margin of parotid tissu...

conclusions the stress due to psychosomatic changes in the menstrual cycle is associated with premenstrual syndrome. measures of s-iga, rather than cortisol or subjective responses to stress, may be most closely associated with pms. background several studies have demonstrated the associations between premenstrual syndrome and perceived stress, and no studies quantifying stress based on biochem...

a fifteen-year-old torkaman girl with turner's mosaic kariotype is presented. she has had congenital esophageal stenosis with severe dysphagia since birth and iron deficincy anemia in addition to other classical features of the syndrome. according to author's knowledge this is the first report of a new congenital structural gastrointestinal anomaly with this disease.