Background: Children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura who are treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy might experience a decline in their absolute neutrophil count. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of neutropenia following intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura undergoing intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. ...

BACKGROUND Heat shock protein (HSP) 47, a collagen-specific molecular chaperone, is involved in the processing and/or secretion of procollagens, and its expression is increased in various fibrotic diseases. The aim of this study was to determine whether quantitative immunohistochemical evaluation of the expression levels of HSP47, type I procollagen and alpha-smooth muscle actin (SMA) allows th...

abstract study design . a retrospective radiographic review was undertaken in patients treated for ais. objectives. to determine the most important preoperative factors that affect on postoperative junctional kyphosis complication. methods sagittal spine profilewere measured on the standing radiographs before, after and in the last follow-up visit of the operated patients for ais. the following...

background chromosomal aberrations are one of the most common causes of mental retardation (mr). objectives in this study, in order to identify the rate of chromosomal abnormalities in idiopathic mr, 50 mr patients at a charity center in hamadan, iran, were investigated. methods fifty mentally retarded male patients without specific chromosomal abnormalities (e.g., down syndrome, fragile x synd...

background many factors effect on management (surgical and nonsurgical) of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (ais). objectives the purpose of this study was evaluation of the effects of generalized ligamentous laxity (gll) on surgical treatment of ais. materials and methods 72 patients with ais were studied between 2002 and 2009. 24 cases (33.4%) were placed in group a (normal) while 48 patients ...

conclusion our study suggests that breast mri findings of igm have a wide spectrum. rim enhancement patterns are frequently seen on contrast enhanced images, but the imaging findings are nonspecific and cannot be used definitively to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions. patients and methods a retrospective analysis was conducted on 20 patients with igm who had been diagnosed by nee...

introduction: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura is one of the most common causes of thrombocy-topenia with varius clinical courses and different responses to its treatment modalities. therefore, we decided to evaluate the clinical course of this disease in our patients. methods: in this case series study, from march 1998 to march 2004, we evaluated 121 patients. as a first line of treatment, ...

how to cite this article: asadi-pooya aa, emami m. is interictal eeg correlated with the seizure type in idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies? iran j child neurol 2012;6(2): 25-28.   objective we investigated the correlation between different interictal eeg abnormalities observed in patients with idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies (iges) and their seizure types. material & metho...

results within the 10-month study course, 126 patients (70.8%) completed this study. after intervention and comparison of the results between the two groups, ielt, sexual indexes, and qol improved in the study group, but significant differences were observed only in the ielt and qol findings. objectives our objective in this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of clomiphene as a selec...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the parenchymal and extracellular matrix remodeling process in two histologic patterns-nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) and usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)-in cases of idiopathic and sclerosis/systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated interstitial pneumonia. METHODS We examined 15 cases of idiopathic NSIP, 10 cases of idiopathic UIP, 5 case...