in this prospective descriptive study, all patients with acute lower limb ischemia who presented to shohada tajrish hospital (sth) between july 200 1 and july 2003 were analyzed and followed for 6 months. the total population of 109 patients, with no significant difference in sexual distribution had a mean age of 64± 16 years. 23% had af and 31 % had a history of mi, 'but in the ecg of 30%...

purpose: to compare visual and refractive outcomes as well as graft survival after penetrating keratoplasty (pk) in keratoconic patients with or without acute hydrops. methods: in this comparative interventional case series, 14 eyes of 14 keratoconic patients with acute hydrops (group 1) and 37 eyes of 37 keratoconic patients with no history of acute hydrops (group 2) underwent pk. visual acuit...

abstract objective immune thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) manifests as an easy bruising or extravasation of blood from capillaries into skin and mucous membranes. the characteristics of acute itp in infants have rarely been described. in order to better understand acute itp in infants, the characteristics of the disease at this age group was investigated. material and methods the present descrip...

introduction and aims: noscapine has been recently known as an antagonist of bradykinin, and in this study its effect on the animal model of acute pancreatitis has been evaluated. materials and methods: 49 male wistar rats have been evaluated in five experimental and four control groups. common bile duct has been ligated by means of surgery to induce acute pancreatitis in rats. the resulted inf...

background: acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency of the childhood. its diagnosis is really challenging. a constellation of through history taking, physical examination, radiographic investigations, and laboratory analysis should be used to balance the risk of delayed operative intervention against the removal of a normal appendix. here a case with misdiagnosis of acute appen...

aim : the aim of this study was to identify and compare the pattern of acute viral hepatitis in two regions of iran. background : the epidemiological pattern of acute hepatitis varies across the globe depending on geographic region, health status, socioeconomic conditions and differences in exposure to etiological factors. patients and methods : a cross-sectional study was carried out among 357...

background: interaction between killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (kir) and human leukocyte antigen (hla) class i molecules is important for regulation of natural killer (nk) cell function. objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of compound kir-hla genotype on susceptibility to acute leukemia. methods: cohorts of iranian patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml;...

embolectomy has long been the gold standard for treating limbs acutely threatened by arterial occlusion. delayed embolectomy has not been investigated adequately due to the belief that accompanying mortality and morbidity render the case futile. following our previous experience with late arterial repair for leg or knee salvage i we applied the same principle to limbs threatened with prolonged ...

endocarditis due to aspergillus infection is a rare complication in patients with hematological malignancies. here, we present a case of aspergillus endocarditis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia (aml) successfully treated with antifungal therapy and surgical treatment. the patient was a 51 years old male, a known case of aml who was admitted to our medical center for evacuating his valv...