purpose: to compare repeated intravitreal injections of bevacizumab (ivb) with triamcinolone acetonide (ivt) for treatment of acute branch retinal vein occlusion (brvo). methods: this randomized clinical trial included, 86 eyes with recent onset (less than 12 weeks) brvo. participants were randomly assigned to two treatment groups: the ivb group (43 eyes) consisted of patients who received mont...

one of the signifiant risk factor of ischemic stroke is carotid artery occlusion. although surgical treatment was disappointing in these patient but there is a growing reports of sucessful endovascular treatment recently. in this technical note 56 year-old man who suffered from bilateral carotid occlusion was revascularized. the penumbra thrombosuction system was applied to reduce the risk of d...

statement of problem comprehensive diagnosis is regarded as an important base for orthodontic treatment. an effective way to achieve a correct diagnosis is to compare the craniofacial skeleton of patients with normal cases in the same race through lateral cephalograms. purpose the present study was designed to determine the cephalometric norms of senior high school students in the city of hamed...

purpose: to determine the frequency of risk factors for retinal vein occlusion (rvo) in patients referred to a private clinic in rasht during 1995-2001. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on all patients with rvo who were referred to the clinic. sex, age, hypertension (htn), cardiovascular diseases (cvd), diabetes mellitus (dm), hypercoagulable states, glaucoma, smoking, hyperlip...

purpose: to investigate aqueous humor nitric oxide (no) levels in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (brvo) and central retinal vein occlusion (crvo) and to compare these with age-matched controls. methods: eight consecutive patients with brvo and 16 patients with crvo were included in this study. aqueous humor specimens were obtained within 21 days of diagnosis. samples of aqueous hum...

statement of problem: nowadays, evaluation of the development of occlusion in deciduous teeth for creating corrective occlusion in permanent teeth is one of the most important objectives of pediatric dentistry. in other countries, a vast number of researches have been accomplished on the details of occlusion in deciduous teeth. but, unfortunately, there is still no accurate information about th...

statement of problem: due to the appearance of palatal height difference in orthodontic patients we decided to carry out this study. purpose: the purpose of this research was to determine palatal height in persons with normal occlusion and different malocclusions (class i, ii div i and iii) and comparing them with each other. materials and methods: in this cross sectional research, 240 subjects...

recently multiple studies have shown that elevated homocysteine levels may be associated with ophthalmic vascular disease. to investigate the role of high plasma levels of homocysteine in the patients with retinal vein occlusion, 21 patients with retinal vein occlusion (rvo) and 20 age and sex matched controls without rvo were included in this retrospective case–control study. information regar...

Background: Infertility, defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after twelve months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. infertility is an important health problem in the society .tubal pathology is one of the main causes of infertility.it is estimated to account for 12-33%.hysterosalpingography is a method used for screening purposes in the routine infertility eva...

introduction: the objective of this study was to gather information about normal occlusion and arch dimensions in the primary teeth of the children belonging to an iranian population. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 68 children from the city of mashhad in the 3-5 age range. dental arch dimensions, interrelationships of primary canine and second molars, overbite ...