introduction:  asthma exacerbation is common in children. treatment with oral corticosteroids (ocs) and inhaled corticosteroids are suggested for asthma exacerbation. it is shown that inhaled corticosteroids has similar outcome in reducing asthma symptoms compared to ocs. but few studies have evaluated the pulmonary function changes in these two treatments. in this study, we evaluated the chang...

  Background and Objectives: Apoptosis of eosinophils is of significant value in assessing the airway inflammation in patients with asthma. Our purpose was to investigate the degree of expression of the Bcl-2 protein in sputum eosinophils during acute asthma exacerbation and its relationship with exacerbation severity.    Materials and Methods: The study was carried out in Mostafa Khomeini Ho...

background and objectives: apoptosis of eosinophils is of significant value in assessing the airway inflammation in patients with asthma. our purpose was to investigate the degree of expression of the bcl-2 protein in sputum eosinophils during acute asthma exacerbation and its relationship with exacerbation severity.    materials and methods: the study was carried out in mostafa khomeini hospit...

the role of chlamydia pneumoniae in asthma has drawn much attention in recent years. in this study we assessed the prevalence of c. pneumoniae infections in patients with chronic stable and acute exacerbation of asthma and compared it with normal population. twenty adult patients with chronic stable asthma and 21 patients with acute exacerbations of asthma and 41 matched control subjects were s...

conclusions we found statistical differences in pct levels that would differentiate cap from acute exacerbation of copd in the ed setting. further studies are required to verify this finding. methods this cross-sectional prospective descriptive study was performed in the emergency department (ed) on patients with cap and acute exacerbation of copd. a total of 53 patients were included in this s...

chronic hepatitis c might lead to several immunological dysfunctions. studies have shown a positive association between hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection and psoriasis. these results suggest that the infection may be one of the triggering factors for the development or exacerbation of psoriasis. here, we present a case of chronic hcv infection with psoriasis who developed exacerbation of skin l...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of intravenous magnesium sulfate on patients with copd exacerbation requiring hospitalization. in this randomized clinical trial 30 patients with copd exacerbation were studied. patients were randomly assigned to group a (case) who concurrent with standard therapy received 2g magnesium sulfate in normal saline infused in 20 minutes on days one...

introduction: high prevalence of rhinoplasty in the community and lack of structured studies about its minor skin and soft tissue complications, point out the necessity of performing precise and comprehensive studies. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of minor cutaneous and soft tissue complications of rhinoplasty.  materials and methods: 110 patients (30 male and 80 female, ...

Background Exacerbation history is used to grade the risk of COPD exacerbation, but its reliability and relationship to other risk factors and prior therapy is unclear. To examine these interrelationships, we conducted a post hoc analysis of patients in the TIOSPIR trial with ≥2 years' follow-up or who died on treatment. Patients and methods Patients were grouped by their annual exacerbation ...