background: familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm) is caused by mutations in genes encoding cardiac sarcomere proteins. nowadays genetic testing of hcm plays an important role in clinical practice by contributing to the diagnosis, prognosis, and screening of high-risk individuals. the aim of this study was developing a reliable testing strategy for hcm based on linkage analysis and appropri...

background: the study was conducted to estimate and compare the validity and performance of two screening methods for uri­nary schistosomiasis: the interview - reporting blood in urine- and detecting microhematuria by reagent strip. methods:  in year 2003, 515 schoolchildren from five schools in abyan and taiz governorates in yemen, were in-terviewed by healtworker for hematuria, and then urine...

background: malaria is well known for its fatalities worldwide, plasmodium vivax and the plasmodium falciparum are the two important species of malaria reported from pakistan and creating lots of morbidities across the country. method: study was conducted to determine the surveillance of malaria in south punjab by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (pcr). result : 40 samples out of 100 pa...

how to cite this article: javadzadeh m. prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling for niemann-pick c disease. iran j child neurol. 2015 autumn;9:4(suppl.1): 22.   pls see pdf.

background : leishmaniasis is one of the infectious parasitic diseases of highest incidence in the world. cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) has long been reported in shiraz, southern iran. there is a need to find a sensitive and specific method for treatment and control of the disease. methods: we have compared the sensitivity of the conventional methods microscopy and cultiva­tion of lesion scrapes...

background: the evaluation of prosthetic valves is very difficult with two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography alone. doppler and color flow imaging as well as transesophageal echocardiography are more reliable to detect prosthetic valve dysfunction. however, doppler study sometimes tends to be misleading due to the load-depending characteristics of peak and mean pressure gradients. the ...

conclusions at present, no single diagnostic procedure is able to cause damage to the embryo or fetus. there are possible harmful effects for doses above 0.2 - 0.25 gy (20-25 rad). context many women of reproductive age and pregnant women require diagnostic tests involving ionizing radiation. fetal exposure to radiation worries both the patient and the obstetricians and could lead to inappropri...

background: more diagnostic techniques require a better understanding of the forces and stresses developed in the wall of the left ventricle. the aim of this study was to differentiate significant coronary artery disease (cad) patients using a non-invasive quantification of myocardial wall stress in the diastole phase. methods: sixty male subjects with sinus rhythm (30 patients with significant...

background : retakes of intra oral radiographs happen frequently in dental practice although radiographic courses train dental students in consecutive semesters. to reduce the patient exposure as much as possible it is mandatory to reduce the number of retakes both in radiology clinics and educational centers. materials and methods : 3188 periapical radiographs taken by bisect-angle technique w...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of arterial blood gases (abgs) in determining the type of intoxication. methods: medical charts of all patients who had referred to the toxicology ward of baharloo hospital between january 2009 and december 2009 were evaluated. after excluding the patients with multi-drug toxicity, data, including age, sex, type of intoxication (the...