background: intracerebral  hemorrhage (ich) is the  most fatal subtype  of stroke.  despite  limited effective therapy, there  is no  accepted clinical grading  scale to  predict  in- hospital  mortality,  especially  in developing  nations.  the purpose  of this study was to assess the  predictors  of in- hospital mortality among a sample of iranian patients  with spontaneous ich for use at th...

background: studies on the prognosis of st elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) versus non-st elevation myocardial infarction (non-stemi) have shown different results. the present study was designed to compare the early outcome and left ventricular systolic function of patients with st and non-st elevation myocardial infarction. methods: the patients' information was derived from 10,065 cons...

background the evidence saying that the rate of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) is high in patients with advanced cirrhosis and portal hypertension, this could have negative outcome on patients prognosis. methods this prospective study included 109 cirrhotic patients who were admitted to imam khomeini hospital, affiliated with orumieh university of medical sciences, during 2011-2...

purpose: to compare long-term results of excimer laser sub-epithelial keratectomy (lasek) and laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) for low to moderate myopia. methods: in a comparative case series, visual outcomes in 415 lasik-treated eyes (212 patients) and 359 lasek-treated eyes (194 patients) with myopia ranging from -1.5 to -5 diopters (d) and astigmatism up to -2.75 d using a flying spot e...

a casual comparative study was made to determine the effect of pregnant women's working conditions on   pregnancy outcome (fetal death, gestational age and birth weight).   600 women, delivered or treated for spontaneous abortion in eleven hospitals of tehran, were interviewed, 200   were working women (the study group) and 400 housewives (the control group).   for collecting information a...

background: at present, surgery is the best method for chronic anal fissure, but by acquiring more knowledge about the pathogenesis and function of internal anal sphincter, non surgical treatment such as using of glycerin trinitrate, isosorbide, bethancol, diltiazem and butilinum toxin has been suggested. there is controversy about using of l-arginine. the aim of the present study was to compar...

background:   objective: the aim of our study was to assess the effect of storage duration of frozen embryo on art outcome.   materials and methods: in this retrospective study the data of 651 frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles were assessed over a 36-months period. our patients were categorized according to storage time of freeze. group i: less than 90 days, group ii: between 90-365 days. gr...

background: vitamin d supplementation during pregnancy has been supposed to defend against adverse gestational outcomes. objective: this randomized clinical trial study was conducted to assess the effects of 50,000 iu of vitamin d every two weeks supplementation on the incidence of gestational diabetes (gdm), gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and preterm labor, vitamin d status at term and...

khataminia g, md*; keramati ag, md ahvaz jondi shapoor university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran *corresponding author: [email protected] purpose: to report the demographics and clinical profile, and outcomes of canalicular laceration repaired with mini monoka monocanalicular stent. method: all patients who had undergone canalicular laceration repair over 4 years (2004-2008) at imam khom...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (ci) on speech intelligibility. methods: aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for ci. all children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. they were followed up until 5 ...