objective: schizophrenia and other psychoses have devastating personal and social impacts and many efforts have been devoted to study ‎prodromal syndromes for psychosis in order to achieve earlier detection and interventions. however, only few studies have been ‎performed in developing countries on this subject, and there is a dearth of evidence in the iranian population. in this study, we ‎foc...

purpose: to evaluate topographic corneal changes in relatives of patients with keratoconus (kcn). methods: this study was performed on 300 eyes of 150 relatives of 45 kcn patients. complete slit lamp examination, refraction, and corneal topography was performed on all eyes. the topographic indices for diagnosis of keratoconus was based on rabinowitz criteria. results: the study included 84 (56%...

Examination of intrafamilial contacts among the first degree relatives of 400 hanseniasis patients, revealed an additional 101 cases. Distribution pattern of disease types detected in the contacts, in relation to that found in the index cases, are analysed. An attempt has been made to evaluate the role of genetic factor in determining the type of hanseniasis in a patient.

background: it is presumed that gastric cancer has several etiologies. first-degree relatives of patients with gastric cancer are suggested to be at higher risk compared to others. this is the first study aimed at estimating this risk, using meta-analysis of case-control studies. materials and methods: all records prior to february 2008 in pubmed and embase were searched for case-control studie...