purpose: to evaluate patients with advanced retinopathy of prematurity (rop) among neonates referred to poostchi rop clinic in shiraz from march 2006 to february 2008. methods: among referred infants to poostchi clinic for screening and management of rop, medical records of patients with advanced rop (stage 5) at initial examination or during disease progression were evaluated. information rega...

amelogenesis imperfecta is a heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders. its treatment continues throughout the patients' childhood and adolescence and consists of advanced restorative care in severe cases. a thorough prosthodontic treatment plan including orthognatic surgery, full veneer crowns and all ceramic anterior crowns is presented in this clinical report.

esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignancies with a growing occurrence . it presently ranks ninth among the most frequent cancers in the world and the sixth leading cause of death from cancer . for a variety of reasons, the mainstream of patients with esophageal cancer is actually not suitable for esophagectomy. more than 50% have locally advanced unresectable or metastatic tumors a...

During recent years, many advanced oxidation techniques have been investigated for water and wastewater treatment to overcome the shortage of clean water. This review summarizes the background and principles of photocatalysis applied as an advanced oxidation technology. In particular, this paper focuses on modification of photocatalysts with various dopants as well as the novel photocatalytic r...

introduction: antibiotics as a  type of pharmaceutical compounds are widely used in modern medicine and veterinary industries. they enter the environment in different ways, including agricultural runoff, direct discharge of urban wastewater treatment or human waste, direct disposal of medical, veterinary industrial waste and etc. antibiotics have been able to influence the microbial population....

Patients at late stage Parkinson's disease (PD) develop several motor and nonmotor complications, which dramatically impair their quality of life. These complications include motor fluctuations, dyskinesia, unpredictable or absent response to medications, falls, dysautonomia, dementia, hallucinations, sleep disorders, depression, and psychosis. The therapeutic management should be driven by the...

Despite the use of aggressive single or multimodality treatment protocols, patients with advanced cervical metastases, N2 and N3, have a poor prognosis because of their high risk of regional and distal failure. Moreover, N3 class does not allow resectability and curability to be defined. Numerous trials have been carried out in order to improve the oncological outcomes of patients with advanced...

Radical gastrectomy with regional lymphadenectomy is the mainstay of curative treatment for advanced gastric cancer that has penetrated the submucosa: the depth of invasion (i.e extension into the muscularis propria) has been used to divide gastric carcinoma in early and advanced stages (1). The procedure can be undertaken in the context of total or subtotal gastrectomy where D2 lymphadenectomy...

In Poland, morbidity and mortality rates for melanoma are constantly increasing. In the case of inoperable disease or distant metastases, prognosis remains poor. For many years, dacarbazine has been the gold standard in systemic treatment. Recently, a significant progress in melanoma therapy has been observed. Introducing targeted therapy or immunotherapy significantly improved treatment outcom...