background: cystic fibrosis (cf) is a common genetic disorder chiefly characterized by respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical presentation and growth status in cf patients at the time of diagnosis and following conventional treatment. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 67 cf patients who enrolled for at leas...

background besides the great importance of the issue in terms of public health, there is a lack of studies evaluating the performance of several of the currently used point of care tests (pocts) for the detection of anti-hcv. objectives to investigate the performance of two pocts for anti-hcv detection and to assess the impact of the reading time on diagnostic performance. patients and methods ...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and possible variables on the change of diagnosis in mood disorder patients to schizophrenia. methods: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 at razi psychiatric hospital. the study included all of the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with diagnosis of a mood disorder....

The clinical pathologist is involved in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis in a variety of ways. Many of the traditional hemotologic and biochemical studies performed in study of patients suspected of having sarcoidosis are, however, of little diagnostic assistance. Hypercalcemia is now an infrequent manifesta­ tion of sarcoidosis and routine study of calcium metabolism in asymptomatic patients with ...