the study was undertaken to answer the question that how many patients with pigmentation of back and arms actually have amyloid deposits in pathology. 44 patients presenting with diffuse pigmentation of back and arms (dpoba) were selected. skin biopsies were performed in all cases from the affected sites. on all formalin fixed and paraffin embedded specimens, the following histochemical stains ...

Background: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease which is characterized by B-cell abnormality and auto-antibody generation. Since bacterial infections are the most important causes of mortality in these patients, pneumococcal vaccination is recommended for children with SLE. Objective: To investigate humoral immunity and specific-antibody formation in response to a...

background: hepatitis b infection is a major public health problem worldwide. given that immune response towards the vaccine is not perfect, we aimed to evaluate circumstances of immune response in vaccinated students. materials and methods: in this study, 219 medical students of ardabil university of medical sciences were recruited, who had been administered vaccine series for the first time, ...

After unsuccessful treatment with intercostal tube drainage and antibiotics intrapleural streptokinase was used to treat successfully an empyema in a man with AIDS and advanced cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma who was unfit for surgical decortication. The role of this technique in the management of HIV positive patients with empyema is discussed.

There has been rapid proliferation of understanding and experience with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Over the last few years, selective intracoronary infusion of lytic therapy has been replaced by intravenous administration because of the fundamental importance of time to reperfusion. Newer thrombolytic agents, such as tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and acylated st...

type i diabetes mellitus (dm) is frequently associated with autoimmune thyroid disease (atd). association of atd and type i dm has been described with varying frequencies but there is still debate about the situation in the iranian population. we investigated the prevalence of anti thyroid peroxidase (anti-tpo) antibodies and atd in children and adolescents with type i dm. a total of 145 patien...

introduction: leukocytes causing a wide variety of side effects after transfusion are present in all blood products prepared by standard methods. as a consequence, the use of filter technology for leukoreduction has been widely practiced .according to aabb accreditation in 1996, leukoreduced blood components must contain less than 5×106 leukocytes per unit, but sometimes this value is higher ev...

about 8% of the general population suffers from autoimmune diseases, from which 78% are women. one of the most important causes of thyroid diseases is autoimmunity in origin, and it seems that people with thyroid diseases present more signs of asthma. this study was therefore designed to investigate the frequency of autoimmune thyroid diseases in women suffering from bronchial asthma. in a cros...

background: in lupus nephritis (ln), deposition of pathogenic autoantibodies in the glomeruli is mediated via cross-reactivity with alpha-actinin. association of serum alpha-actinin antibody (aαa) with ln has been shown in a few studies but the results are controversial. methods: eighty patients into entered the study. the diagnosis of sle was confirmed according to the american college of rheu...