objective: to determine the effects of application of anti-adhesive films (orthowrap™) in traumatic decompressive craniectomy on prevention of adhesion formation and facilitation of subsequent cranioplasty. methods: this was a retrospective cohort study being performed in shahid rajaei hospital (shiraz level i trauma center) during a 12-month period (from march 2012 to april 2013) including 93 ...

OBJECTIVE Interventions improving adherence to antipsychotic medication are needed. The present study examined the effects on medication adherence of 2 years of integrated treatment for patients with schizophrenia. METHOD Adherence to medication was examined in a randomized controlled trial of 2 years of integrated treatment versus standard treatment. The 50 included patients were consecutive...

allergic rhinitis is the most common cause of allergic diseases. the recent guidelines of allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (aria) group, classified it to intermittent (less than 4 days per week and for less than 4 weeks) and persistent (more than 4 days per week or lasting more than 4 weeks regardless of the number of days per week). the present study evaluates the patients with aria ...

purpose: to determine the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone (ivt) injection on visual acuity in patients with ischemic central retinal occlusion (crvo). methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed on patients with ischemic crvo referred to the retina clinic at feiz hospital in 2007-2008. inclusion criteria were: duration of crvo less than one month, normal iop, no sign of diabetic ...

Edward Long Fox, B.A., D.M., F.R.C.P. was born in 1832 in Brislington. His father was a doctor, and both his uncle Henry Hawes Fox, and grandfather, Edward Long Fox, had been physicians to the Bristol Royal 'nfirmary. His grandfather founded an asylum in Brislington and was interested in mesmerism, but also achieved fame by having 22 children! With this background you will not be entirely surpr...

Preferences play an important role in our everyday lives. CP-networks, or CP-nets in short, are graphical models for representing conditional qualitative preferences under ceteris paribus (“all else being equal”) assumptions. Despite their intuitive nature and rich representation, dominance testing with CP-nets is computationally complex, even when the CP-nets are restricted to binary-valued pr...

The pharmacological treatment of migraine may be acute or preventive. Frequent, Severe, complicated and long lasting migraine attacks, more than 2 attacks in month require prophylaxis. Traditional preventive drugs such as ?-Blockers, antidepressants, calcium blockers and anticonvulsants, despite their documented efficacy, have many side effects. This study was conducted to determine the effect ...

introduction: ramadan is the holiest month in islamic calendar and muslims abstain from eating, drinking, and smoking from dawn to sunset, in which there are changes in quality of food and eating patterns. the purpose of this study was to know whether these changes provide nutritional needs, and supply all of necessary macronutrients for individuals in the month. method: a prospective observati...

OBJECTIVES Epidemiologic studies on physical exposure during computer use have mainly focused on average exposure duration. In this study, we aimed to relate periods of high peak exposure during computer use with the occurrence of neck-shoulder (NS) and arm-wrist-hand (AWH) symptoms. METHODS A prospective cohort study among 1951 office workers was carried out for two y...