background : in this study we evaluated the knowledge and practice of patients with breast cancer about complication of chemotherapy referred to chemotherapy ward of nemazee hospital in shiraz, shiraz province, iran, in 2004. methods: forty patients suffering breast cancer and under chemotherapy, were selected with a simple random sampling method. all were interviewed and a questionnaire was co...

to determine the complications of gold sodium thiomalate therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (ra), 32 patients with active ra (27 female, 5 male) treated for a mean period of 28 ? 14 weeks were studied. from these patients, 62.5 (46-79) percent showed at least one drug reaction. pruritus was the most common complication occurred in 59 (42-76) percents, and was accompanied by skin rush in 37 (15-57)...

While there was no denial of the organic etiology of delirium, based on a huge body of references that surpassed million hits related to the subject. The etiologies of delirium are diverse and multifactorial and often reflect the pathophysiological consequences of an acute medical illness, medical complication or drug intoxication. Delirium can have a widely variable presentation, and is often ...