objective: the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy (mct) and cognitive-behavior therapy (cbt) in treating iranian patients with major depressive disorder (mdd). methods: thirty three outpatients meeting dsm-iv-tr criteria for mdd without any other axis i and ii disorders were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions, i.e. mct, cbt and pharmaco...

objectives analysis of ns5a polymorphisms in hcv genotype 1b pre-treatment serum samples from estonian patients and their effect on the treatment response. patients and methods twenty-nine complete ns5a sequences obtained from patients with chronic hcv-1b infection who had received combined therapy with pegifnα-2a/rbv were analyzed and compared with the prototype strain hcv-j. twelve patients a...

Background and Objectives: Kerman Province, especially city of Bam in the southeast part of Iran, is epidemics for dry type cutaneous leishmaniasis (DTCL). This study was conducted to compare the effect of different treatments on parasite DNA load following therapies using Real-Time PCR method. Materials and Methods: Fifteen patients were divided into three groups under therapy with intralesio...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of monotherapy with interferon alpha-2b and combination therapy with interferon alpha-2b plus ribavirin on chronic hepatitis c infection in thalassaemic patients. methods: in parallel group randomized, double blind, controlled trial, 32 thalassaemic patients with chronic hepatitis c infection completed the study. in a random fa...

introduction: low-level laser therapy (lllt) is shown effective in healing diabetic foot ulcer when combined with conventional therapy. since; diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of impaired wound healing. the aim of this study is to determine the effect of different diabetic control’s methods on the healing response of diabetic foot ulcer in those patients treated with low level laser therapy...

objective infantile spasms (is) or west syndrome is a convulsive disease characterized by brief, symmetric axial muscle contractions (neck, trunk, and/or extremities).the therapy universally recognized as most effective in the treatment of is, is treatment with the adrenocorticotropic hormone (acth) or oral corticosteroids. this therapy however has important side effects. many studies have soug...

Introduction: Radiation-induced bystander effect (RIBE) is a well-known response associated with the induction of radiation effects in non-irradiated cells via signaling of hit ones. As this so-called phenomenon has been largely investigated in low dose levels, few studies focused on higher dose levels such as grid therapy. Grid therapy or spatially fractionated gri...

A 65 year old male with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) in the liver was referred for selective internal radionuclide therapy (SIRT) following a history of extensive systemic chemotherapy. 90Y PET imaging was performed immediately after treatment and used to confirm lesion targeting and measure individual lesion absorbed doses. Lesion dosimetry was highly predictive of eventual response in ...

background: gastric outlet obstruction (goo) due to peptic stricture is one of three known complications of peptic ulcer disease and usually requires therapeutic intervention for symptoms relief. after benjamin sb who primarily used balloon dilation for treatment of goo in 1982, some series has been published investigating procedure efficacy with different results. the purpose of this study is ...