background rabies has been reported as the most important endemic zoonotic disease in iran and still remains as a major public health problem. objectives the main objective of the current research was to study the epidemiology of animal bites in borujerd county in iran and to compare its prevalence to other parts of iran from april 2006 to september 2011. patients and methods the data were reco...

pseudomembrane colitis (pmc) and antibiotic associated colitis (aac) are acute disease of the colon. in the case of in adequate treatment, the disease will often become chronic and my lead to the dysplasia of the epithelial cells of the infected areas. previously because of poor knowledge. treatment in this case, one of the method for treatment was surgical ablation of the large intestine while...

background: to manage relapsing‑remitting multiple sclerosis (ms) in the course of acute exacerbations, methylprednisolone (mp) (medrol or solu‑medrol), has the ability to lock the injured blood‑brain barrier and decrease irritation in the central nervous system. the aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the frequency and time interval related to mp pulse therapy in patients with ms....

conclusions according to the results obtained, the largest numbers of deaths and illnesses were due to the high average pm10 concentration or an increase in the number of days of exposure to this pollutant. background particulate matters have harmful effects on human health and can intensify mortality and disease. objectives the purpose of this study was to evaluate the health impacts of partic...

Any link between pancreatic carcinoma and chronic pancreatitis could reflect the malignant potential of a chronic inflammatory process. Four patients with ductal adenocarcinomas had a long history of pancreatic pain (median duration 5 years) and showed clear-cut evidence of chronic pancreatitis "downstream" of the tumour. Four were alcoholics and two heavy smokers. These four cases arose within...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with deranged core-binding factor beta (CBFβ) is usually associated with a favorable prognosis with 50-70% of patients cured using contemporary treatments. We analyzed the prognostic significance of clinical features on 58 patients with CBFβ-AML aged ≤60 years. Increasing age was the only predictor for survival (P <0.001), with an optimal cut-point at 43 years. Whit...

We numerically study the multiple excitation of surface modes in 2D photonic quasicrystal/metal/substrate structure. An improved rigorous coupled wave analysis method that can handle the quasicrystalline structure is presented. The quasicrystalline lattice, which refers to Penrose tiling in this paper, is generated by the cut-and-project method. The normal incidence spectrum presents a broadban...

Substantial evidence exists that poorer children in England, Scotland, and Wales and have considerably higher rates of deaths from injury than their more affluent counterparts. 2 With the exception of specific groups, such as pedestrian injuries and poisoning, however, the socioeconomic profile on non-fatal injuries is less clear cut. The English, Scottish, and Welsh health departments have set...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the interaction of ACTN3 gene polymorphism and muscle imbalance effects on kinematic efficiency changes in combat sports athletes. METHODS Six types of combat sports athletes (Judo, Taekwondo, boxing, kendo, wrestling, and Korean Ssi-reum) participated in the study. ATCN3 gene polymorphism and muscle imbalance in lower extremity were evaluate...

BACKGROUND We investigated the incidence of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in relation to accumulated exposure to particulate matter (PM) in a cohort of aluminum workers. We adjusted for time varying confounding characteristic of the healthy worker survivor effect, using a recently introduced method for the estimation of causal target parameters. METHODS Applying longitudinal targeted minimum l...