background: liver cirrhosis is an end-stage condition fornumerous chronic liver diseases. limited data exists on the epidemiology,natural history and complications of liver cirrhosis in ahvaz, iran. in a cross-sectional study we have retrospectively evaluated 165 patients from september 1, 1999 until september 1, 2008. materials and methods: patients with evidence of cirrhosis of the liver seen...

introduction: preventing and starting early treatment of infections in patients whose immunity system is weak due to malignancies like leukemia can reduce mortality. this study aimed to determine microbial and antibiotic resistance patterns in clinical samples of patients with acute leukemia to start early treatment before the results of clinical tests are known. subjects and methods: in this c...

Introduction: Eagle’s syndrome is a constellation of signs secondary to an elongated styloid process or due to mineralization of the stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligament or the posterior belly of the digastric muscle. The syndrome includes symptoms ranging from stylalgia (i.e. pain in the tonsillar fossa, pharyngeal or hyoid region) to foreign-body sensation in the throat, cervicofacial pain,...

OBJECTIVES Several studies have been published in western literature on incidence, prevalence, clinical course, outcome and mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). There are very few studies on the pattern of ARDS seen in Indian population. There are anecdotal reports of ARDS associated with different tropical diseases and the exact association of these life-threa...

Celecoxib is the first COX-2-specific inhibitor approved for relief of the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as well as for treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis. For both OA and RA, celecoxib has been shown to be significantly superior in efficacy to placebo and similar in efficacy to traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Its advantage,...