background: clinical manifestations of strongyloides stercoralis are variable from asymptomatic to hyperinfection and devastating disseminated infections. hereby, clinical characteristics of a large series of iranian strongyloidiasis indigenous cases are described. methods: the records of people referred to the helminthological diagnostic la-boratory of school of public health, tehran universit...

objective: to determine the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory characteristics as well as outcome of 411 patients with bowel obstruction in southern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in shahid faghihi hospital of shiraz between 2006 and 2012. we reviewed the medical charts of the 411 patients with initial diagnosis of bowel obstruction who were admitted to our c...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common problem in pediatric neurology that occur s in 3– 4% of children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate demographic and clinical characteristics of first febrile seizures in children admitted to the hospital. methods: in a descriptive retrospective study, medical records of children with first febrile seizure, admitted between march 2004and a...

introduction: breast cancer is the most common of all malignant neoplasms in women worldwide. this study aims to demonstrate certain biological, clinical and pathological characteristics of patients treated at the university hospital oncology unit. methods: a descriptive study was conducted during a period of 2 years, from october 2003 through september of 2005 in kermanshah, iran. 555 patients...

background and aims: since the epidemiological, clinical and experimental characteristics of meningitis are different for various locations, this study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of meningitis patients admitted to hospitals of yazd in the 2009 to 2013. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional and descriptive study, all 261 patients with meningitis were considered in ...

conclusions parents were blood relatives in 33 (33%) of the patient cases, which is a very high rate. therefore, non-random mating is an important issue in developing countries that needs more attention results 100 patients with down syndrome and congenital heart disease were evaluated; 52 were female (52%) and 48 were male (48%). the average birth weight of the subjects was 2745 ± 523 (mean ± ...

introduction: the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of patients with congestive heart failure (chf) have been described by a number of previous studies, but very little information is available on this issue in iran. this study aimed to delineate the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of iranian patients hospitalized with chf. methods: during an observational, analytical, descrip...

Background and aim: Vitiligo is an acquired idiopathic hypomelanotic disease. The purpose of this study was to review clinical characteristics of vitiligo and their significance in the progression of vitiligo.Materials and methods: Eight hundreds and sixteen cases of vitiligo were studied from February 2005 to October 2006. All of the patients were referred to dermatolo...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate and promote the importance of applying a scientific process to health IT design and implementation, and of basing this on research principles and techniques. METHODS A review by international experts linked to the IMIA Working Group on Technology Assessment and Quality Development. RESULTS Four approaches are presented, linking to the creation of national professio...