osteomyelitis is an inflammatory infectious condition of bones, occurring either acutely or chronically. the clinical course of the disease leads to destructive or sclerosing patterns of the involved bone. this report presents a case of chronic focal sclerosing osteomyelitis in a 19-year-old male with a history of an uncontrolled convulsive condition. the lesion was first diagnosed as an osteob...

introduction: auto – immune disorders have been implicated as a cause for chronic uricaria and/ or angioedema and thyroid autoimmunity has been increasingly introduced to be associated with that. this study explores the association of thyroid autoimmunity with chronic urticaria and / or angioedema in isfahani patients. methods: anti – thyroperoxidase (ani – tpo) and anti – thyroglobulin (anti –...

objective: chronic infection of hepatitis b and hepatitis c are considered as the most important infectious diseases, which lead to drastic consequences such as liver dysfunction. depression is a psychiatric disorder which is concomitantly present in these patients, and decreases the patients’ quality of life. it may lead to suicide, homicide or intentional transmission of infectious to others....

conclusions people with chronic kidney disease regardless of their age, gender, state of health, and duration of hemodialysis experience high levels of fatigue; it is particularly important for health providers to understand this level of fatigue which affects the daily life of patients. results all the patients experienced degrees of fatigue and 50 (30.7%) of the participants experienced a hig...

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) and chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) are the most common leukemias of the elderly (>43 year). however, the sequential occurrence of cml followed by cll in the same patient is extremely rare. in our report, a 52-year-old female was diagnosed with cll (type of bone marrow (bm) infiltration was nodular and interstitial) and was treated with chlorambucil. 64 months ...

background: chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (copd) are planned to rank fifth in burden of disease and third with respect to mortality by 2020. carrying out research regarding different aspects of copd is mentioned as important health priorities by academic institutions and governments. the burden of lung disease (bold) initiative was designed a decade ago to develop robust models that ca...

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