conclusions this study showed that ifnβ-1a decreased oxidant impacts in ms patients, but had no influence in improving mitochondrial dysfunction. results in the patients group (30 patients), a significant difference was observed in their measured biochemical factors in comparison to the control group (p = 0.001), however, after six months of using ifnβ-1a, only mda was shown in the main (p = 0....

BACKGROUND Preoperative fasting is a requirement to be made by anesthesiologists, but they generally depend on nurses to ensure it is carried out by patients. Lack of updated knowledge among nurses may cause complications. METHOD The objective of this study was to understand the knowledge of nurses about preoperative fasting. The multi-unit study was conducted in the units of our hospitals us...

background: management of multiple sclerosis (ms) is based on the usage of immunosuppressive and immune-modulating medications. cytokines play an important role in the pathogenesis of ms. objective: to evaluate the effects of rapamycin on the concentrations of th1/th2/th17 serum cytokines in patients with ms. methods: six patients with relapsing remitting ms as a case group and 6 healthy indivi...

Newer outcome-based assessment methods have been developed that complement and improve upon the ability of historical clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcome measures to measure multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity, patient functionality, treatment efficacy, and the risk of MS disease progression. These newer MS outcome assessments include instruments to evaluate cognitive fun...

results in the current study, no statistically significant differences were found between the study groups in demographic variables (p > 0.05). analysis of covariance revealed significant differences between the study groups in all the 3 variables in posttest compared to the pretest. the mean scores of depression, anxiety, and stress in the micbt group were significantly lower than the control ...

The Effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on mental health sexual desire women with MS during Covid-19 Pandemic

drug and intravenous thrapy basic clinical skills in nursing students at the end of third year     haji hossaini f [1] *, sharifnia sh [2] , nazari r [3] , rezaei r [4] ,saatsaz s [5]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 oct, 2011     abstract:   background & aims : learning drugs and intravenous therapy are necessary for nursing students. this study was done with the aim of assessing the dru...

UNLABELLED Since 1993 the Federal Drug Administration approved the use of immunomodulatory therapy in multiple sclerosis (MS), modifying the natural course of disease, as demonstrate our experience in treatment of MS patients at the MS Treatment Center (CATEM). OBJECTIVE To evaluate patient behavior using immunomodulatory therapy for a period of five years treatment. METHOD We selected 390 ...