background: improving life is the main goal of therapeutic interventions for chronic diseases. although we needed to determine quality of life by various variables. this study aimed to determine quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) in kerman. materials and methods: this is a cross sectional study of 143 patients with ibs referred to a specialist, assessed by ibs-qol.3...

background: celiac disease (cd) may be misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) resulting in long delays in diagnosing cd. there are contradictory reports on the association of cd with ibs.appropriateness of screening all patients with ibs for cd and how to screen them are still under question. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 328 ibs patients (rome ii) referred to the p...

inflammatory bowel diseases are a general term for a group of chronic inflammatory diseases with unknown etiology that involve gastrointestinal system. the diagnosis of these diseases is possible with rule out of other diseases because there are not special diagnostic tests for them. nevertheless, clinical feature of these diseases are very specific and in most cases definite diagnosis are poss...

background there are few reports from iran about the epidemiology and clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). this study aims to determine the epide­miologic profile and clinical features of ibd in northwest iran referral centers. methods in a cross-sectional setting, we evaluated 200 patients with definitive diagno­ses of ibd who referred to tabriz educational hospitals during t...

background inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) are debilitating diseases that lead to a variety of problems in a patient's daily life and are a huge burden for the health care system. since this group of diseases are multifactorial and complex, long-term longitudinal studies are clearly needed to understand them better. a population-based registry (ibd-far) has been established in fars, a souther...

the present treatment goals for inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) especially ulcerative colitis (uc) include rapid induction of clinical remission, steroid-free maintenance of clinical remission, mucosal healing and improvement of quality of life in uc patients. immunomodulators have been reserved for steroid- dependent or steroid- refractory uc patients. among these agents, azathioprine/6-merc...

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a 13 years old boy with severe abdominal pain and history of intermittent (ii bleeding since the aye of 3 months, is presented. different diagnostic procedures were unremarkable. a tc-99m pertechnetate abdominal study revealed abnormal radionuclide accumulation in small bowel region. duplication of small bowel was suspected which was confirmed by surgery and pathologic examination.

Background: Since the treatment of meconium ileus is very different from other types of intestinal obstruction, it is very important to distinguish these two entities. The aim of this study was to assess sonographic findings to differentiate meconium ileus from other types of obstruction. Methods: This study was performed in Dr. Sheikh and Akbar hospitals, Mashhad Medical University of Science...