conclusions: considering the low rate of ceftriaxone resistance amongst isolated pneumcocci.in this study, only ceftriaxone treatment of adult patients with invasive pneumococcal infections (other than cns infections) is sufficient; but pediatric patients and patients with cns infections should be treated with ceftriaxone and vancomycin. apparently, diminution of vancomycin use can be resulted ...

objective: depression is the most common co-morbid psychiatric disorder in patients with epilepsy. yet it remains under recognized and under-treated. for depression screening in this patient need to a convenient questionnaire for patients with epilepsy. this questionnaire has shown high sensitivity for depression screening in many studies. the center for epidemiological studies depression scale...

introduction amblyopia is a leading cause of visual impairment in both childhood and adult populations. our aim in this study was to assess the epidemiological characteristics of the amblyopia screening program in iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was done on a randomly selected sample of 4,636 iranian children who were referred to screening program in 2013 were participated i...

background in 1996, donovan and colleagues represented a scoring system for better prediction of hirschsprung disease (hd). objectives our objective was to devise another scoring system that uses a checklist of radiologic and clinical signs to determine the probability of hd in suspicious patients. patients and methods in a diagnostic accuracy study, 55 children with clinical manifestations of ...

conclusions serum ada activity with high specificity percentage may be a useful alternative test in restricted resource areas to rule out diagnosis of ptb. however, serum ada activity is not a useful tool for tb diagnosis. mean serum ada level in the ptb group was clearly higher than the mean serum ada in the other three groups. mean serum ada was 26 iu/l in ptb patients, 19.48 iu/l in patients...

emergency physicians, like other specialists, are faced with different patients and various situations each day. they have to use ancillary diagnostic tools like laboratory tests and imaging studies to be able to manage them. in most cases, numerous tests are available. tests with the least error and the most accuracy are more desirable. the power of a test to separate patients from healthy one...

abstract background the aim of this study was to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of mediastinal sonography, and compared with ct, in detection of anterior mediastinal neoplasms. materials and methods the sonography with convex probes (5.0 and 7.5 mhz) was done prospectively for 34 patients (from 2 to 25 years old) with mediastinal mass. the results were compared with the results of contras...

introduction: ankle fracture is one of the most common joint fractures. x-ray and physical examination are its main methods of diagnosis. recently, ultrasonography (us) is considered as a simple and non-invasive method of fracture diagnosis. this study evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of us in detection of ankle fracture in comparison to plain radiography. methods: in this diagnostic accuracy ...