ulcerative colitis (uc) and crohn's disease (cd) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases with uncertain etiology thought to be triggered by interactions between various environmental, genetic and immunologic factors. incidence rate of cd and uc is different in various geographic areas around the world, between 0.1-11 and 0.5-24.5 per 100,000 people for cd and uc, respectively. recent studies in...

crohn's disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) of unknown etiology that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus and shows extra-intestinal involvement. it characteristically shows skip lesions. this case report reported in 2014 describes a middle age pakistani male known to have documented evidence of significant crohn's disease since past 18 ...

crohn’s disease (cd) is rarely presented with lower gi bleeding (lgib) which eludes the clinician. a 25-year-old lady with severe rectorrhagia was presented with no history of constipation, diarrhea or abdominal pain. colonoscopy revealed ulcers in the rectum, sigmoid colon, and terminal ileum. crohn’s pathologic features were detected in the terminal ileum. the bleeding was controlled via supp...

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the united states and other industrialized countries, and the reported prevalence in the developing countries is also rather high. this disease is associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality and damage to the other organs. the cardiovascular system is, perhaps, the most vulnerable organ to nafl...

background and aims: plant certification programs need reliable, fast, cheap and sensitive methods for detection of systemic pathogens with special interest in virus and viroid detection. reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) has been documented as an alternative assay for certification of plant propagating materials. the main object of the present study was the optimization ...

background: celiac disease (cd) has been found in up to 10% of the patients presenting with unexplained abnormal liver function tests (lft). as there is no precise data from our country in this regard, we investigated the prevalence of cd in patients presenting with abnormal lft. methods: from 2003 to 2008, we measured iga anti-tissue transglutaminase (t-tg) antibody (with elisa technique) with...

background: one third of patients with parkinson’s disease (pd) have mentioned “dysphonia” as their most debilitating communication deficit. patient-based measurements, such as voice handicap index (vhi) add necessary supplementary information to clinical and physiological assessment. there are a few studies about relation between vhi and disease severity in pd, although none of them showed any...

case presentation we presented a case of tb lymphadenitis in association with celiac disease that mimicked kfd in a young child. conclusions celiac disease, also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy and nontropical sprue, is an autoimmune disease with chronic inflammation of small intestine, which is associated with increased risk of tb infection. tb lymphadenitis can mimic kfd. therefore, in ...