selective deficiency of immunoglobulin a (iga) is the most frequent primary hypogammaglobulinemia. as some iga-deficient patients have iga antibodies in their plasma which may cause anaphylactic reactions, blood centers usually maintain a list of iga-deficient blood donors to prepare compatible blood components. in this study we determined the incidence of selective iga deficiency (sigad) in no...

background: to explore a possible rela!onship among blood groups and the prognosis of breast cancer, this case- control study was carried out in arak city, arak province, iran. materials and methods: one hundred and thirty four pa!ents with breast cancer were inves!gated. abo blood groups were obtained from medical records. mul!variate analyses were performed, including size of tumor, axillary ...

background: blood transfusion is one of the most crucial needs of the society in multiple diseases and injuries. the only source of blood is donation. students consist a large and healthy group who are able of providing a large number of blood donation, however, blood donation is rare amongst them. this study was conducted to evaluate students awareness and attitude towards blood donation in ke...

abstract: genotyping of the hepatitis c virus (hcv) is important for designing therapeutic strategies and regional specific diagnostic assays. the aim of this study was to identify the hcv genotypes in hcv infected blood donors. this is the first report on hcv genotypes in blood donors in iran. in this cross-sectional study, 103 blood donors with hepatitis c were investigated for hcv genotypes....

objectives microscopy of giemsa-stained thick and thin peripheral blood smear (pbs) remains as the standard laboratory method for the diagnosis of symptomatic malaria. this study was done to compare pbs with polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method for detecting asymptomatic malaria parasitemia. patients and method blood samples were collected from 900 asymptomatic school children between 7-11 ye...

abstract background: aprotinin has been used increasingly to reduce postoperative blood loss in open-heart operations due to the potentialities for complications and high cost, it would seem reasonable to use aprotinin more selectively in small doses in the prime solution of the pump. methods: we prospectively studied the effect of preoperative low dose aprotinin [2 million units (230mg)] on bl...

objectives : platelet preparations are commonly used to enhance bone and soft tissue regeneration. considering the existing controversies on the efficacy of platelet products for tissue regeneration, more in vitro studies are required. the aim of the present study was to compare the in vitro effects of plasma rich in growth factors (prgf) and platelet-rich fibrin (prf) on proliferation and viab...

background: diabetes is a chronic disease that despite of medical and specific treatments has reminded as an important medical problem. various herbal were presented for treatment of diabetes. one of these plants is prosopis farcta that was used as hypoglycemic agent in traditional medicine. the aim of this study was investigation of hypoglycemic effect of prosopis farcta root in diabetes and h...