Background: Most of patients with bullous pemphigoid are at old age and its differentiation from other bullous diseases is important. There is no report of it in Iran. Objective: This study was done in order to determine clinical and paraclinical features, natural course and response to treatment in patients with bullous pemphigoid admitted in Loghman Hakim Hospital in 1992-1997. Patients and M...

Adverse cutaneous reactions to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are often mild but may nevertheless prompt drug cessation or switching, with potential loss delay of desired therapeutic effects for depression and anxiety. This case notes article presents an example sertraline-related pruritis which a precipitating cause was identified, namely chocolate, resolved simple lifestyle advice wi...

introduction: prolonged and intermittent oxygen pre-exposure is associated with protection against ischemic reperfusion (ir) injury. in the current study, attempts were made to investigate the relationship between exposure to prolonged and intermittent normobaric hyperoxia (nbho) and expression of excitatory amino acids transporters (eaats) and tnf-α level. method: rats were divided into four m...

JOURNAL OF WOUND CARE JANUARY, VOL 9, NO 1, 2000 Most wound healing is well controlled, but over-abundant deposition of collagen may result in hypertrophic or keloid scarring.1 These scars are raised, hard, lumpy and erythematous, and pruritis is invariably a distressing symptom.2 The prime clinical feature distinguishing keloid from hypertrophic scarring is that keloid scar tissue progressivel...

An 80-year-old Caucasian woman presented with a 3-week history of painless jaundice, pruritis, dark urine and weight loss. Blood analysis demonstrated an obstructive jaundice pattern. A CT scan demonstrated a gas-filled duodenal diverticulum arising from the second part of the duodenum. Once food material was cleared from the diverticulum endoscopically, there was clinical and biochemical impro...

Vulvar cancer is rare accounting for less than 5% of gynecological cancers. It mainly affects elderly women. We here report the case of a 70-year old woman. Clinical symptoms were dominated by vulvar pruritis evolving over a 6-years period, neglected by the patient. This lesion preferentially affects labia majora. The patient had ulceronecrotic lesion involving right labia majora and extending ...

intermittent drying is a satisfactory technique for drying of heat sensitive grains especially rough rice. this method consists of two separate stages applied intermittently: drying and tempering. in this work, intermittent drying of rough rice is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. in order to characterize this process; a multi-scale model consisting of macroscopic and microsco...

objectives in this study, we aimed to investigate the changes in brain lipidomics following prolonged and intermittent ischemic preconditioning. materials and methods two groups underwent bilateral common carotid artery occlusion either intermittently (for 3 continuous periods within a timeframe of 20 minutes, releasing 3 consecutive times, yielding a total of 9 minutes (intermittent bilateral ...