colorectal cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in the world. it's survival expectancy depends on the time of diagnosis, stage and grade of the tumor, and general condition of the patient. survival expectancy of this type of cancer reveals the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic services in the community. to improve and standardize the treatment modalities in this field, much rese...

Therapeutic interpersonal relationships are the primary component of all health care interactions that facilitate the development of positive clinician-patient experiences. Therapeutic interpersonal relationships have the capacity to transform and enrich the patients' experiences. Consequently, with an increasing necessity to focus on patient-centered care, it is imperative for health care prof...

this survey was performed on 45 oncology nurses in three hospitals, and cancer institute in tehran. the purpose of this study was investigating the stressors during the care of cancer patients and its importance from the oncology nurses’ view. data gathering tool was a questionnaire with 42 questions, according to research specific goals and had two parts. first part included demographic charac...

obesity with an increasing prevalence rate worldwide is correlated with multiple comorbidities. unfortunately, the currently available therapies such as the pharmacotherapy, bariatric surgery or gene-transfer technology are associated with a number of disadvantages including undesirable side effects, poor compliance or transient effectiveness. therefore, modifications of the lifestyle factors m...

sirolimus is a potent immunosuppressive agent administered as prophylactic agent to prevent rejection after organ transplantation. sirolimus must be used within a narrow therapeutic window. due to inter- and intra-variability, sirolimus blood concentrations may be affected, therefore, there is no possibility of predicting the sirolimus blood concentrations based on the dose patients received. t...

Therapeutic futility in intensive care units (ICUs) is still little discussed among nursing professionals responsible for implementing prescribed procedures, which they might disagree on. Therefore, interviews were carried out with ICU nurses to understand how they are coping with the implementation of futile treatments. Based on the analysis of collected data, the following categories emerged:...

fecal microbiota transplant (fmt) research trials are growing in diverse intestinal and extraintestinal conditions that are thought to be either caused or correlated with gut microbiota dysbiosis. although, the mechanism by which the microbiota results in disease initiation or progression is not fully understood, it is speculated that restoring the symbiosis by fmt could have therapeutic benefits.

conclusion superselective tae for lgi bleeding has a high success and low complication rate. there are no statistical correlations between the clinical success rate and several variables, including embolic material, embolization site, and anticoagulant or antiplatelet medication. patients and methods fifty-two patients who underwent superselective tae for lgi bleeding between 2003 and 2011 were...

discussion splenic artery aneurysm is a very uncommon cause of page kidney and to our knowledge, it was the first case of its kind ever reported in the literature. introduction the page kidney is a rare phenomenon that refers to hypertension resulting from any external compression of a kidney by a hematoma, tumor, lymphocele, or urinoma. the activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone syste...