abstractin this study the main goal is explain the achievements of development after the revolution as a unique and special phenomenon as “various local development” based on the specific realities of iranian society. for this purpose have been used of analytical and concept framework weber’s sociology in explaining the qualitative transformation. according to this model, in creating evolution ...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic and chronic disease. Combined indicators, such as disease activity score or DAS-28, can be used to categorize quantitative status recovery. But in this calculation there no difference between using ESR CRP. Some studies have showed that CRP instead of will cause the severity underestimated. The aim study was comparison DAS-28 determining patients w...

Hydatid disease commonly involves liver but in rare cases, it can involve cardiac structures. A 75-yr-old farmer from Parsabad-Moghan, northwestern Iran was presented to the Emergency Room of Tehran Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran with dyspnea and without chest pain in 2014. A lesion compatible with hydatid cyst was found in echocardiography and confirmed by serology and MRI. Surgical trea...

INTRODUCTION Alloimmunization is a reaction of the immune system to foreign antigens. For prevention of alloantibody formation, performing of type and screen test is necessary on a patient's blood specimen as part of pre-transfusion testing. MATERIALS AND METHOD In this cross-sectional study, type and screen test done for 1420 patients with elective surgery for detection of alloantibody in Im...

background: rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is the most prevalent chronic infl ammatory disease of the joints. it is correlated with periodontal disease due to similar factors that exist in both diseases. the present study assessed the relationship of periodontal disease with ra and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (jia). materials and methods: in this case-control study, 30 ra and 30 jia patients along...

A male infant with high-output heart failure who had been found to have a hepatic arteriovenous malformation by ultrasound imaging was referred to our center (Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran) for further evaluation. Computed tomography angiography revealed a large hepat...

Background and Objectives Cryptococcal meningitis is one of the main opportunistic infections associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Despite the present and increasingly availability of specific treatment for cryptococcosis, the mortality rate of this infection is still high, particularly in patients with advanced immunsupression and advanced cryptococcal diseases. Mate...