background : joint proprioception plays an important role in limb movement and awareness of position sense. diabetes has a lot of complications such as lossof sensoryfunction, which canleadtoimpaired balance, thus the aim of this study to evaluated joint proprioception and balance in diabetic patients. methods: twenty type ii diabetic patients and20healthy controls participated in this case-con...

BACKGROUND Many noninvasive tests exist to determine whether patients should undergo coronary angiography. The routine use of coronary angiography without previous noninvasive testing is typically not advocated. OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic strategies for patients with chest pain. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis. DATA SOURCES Published data. TARGET POPU...

Introduction To define the clinical features, biochemical and histological findings and outcome of three forms of autoimmune hepatitis.   Materials and Methods In a cross sectional study between November 2001 to January 2008 in Tehran and Mashhad university of medical sciences, 61 children who diagnosed as AIH (40 girls and 21 boys) have been analyzed for their clinical, serological, and histol...

conclusions cgm is a non-invasive technique recently developed for quantitative three-dimensional vectorial analysis of myocardial activity and detection of ischemia and infarction. this technique is clearly more sensitive and more specific than a standard resting 12-lead ecg. results the coronary angiography showed a normal coronary artery in 263 patients (67.4%). a median of cgm score was 1 (...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Prognostic value programmed electrical stimulation (PES) in Brugada Syndrome (BrS) remains controversial. Substantial controversy exists regarding usefulness PES identifying BrS patients at risk sudden cardiac death (SCD). Implantation an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is the only reliable form SCD prevention ...