objectives: to describe the characteristics and prognostic factors of 28 patients with fournier’s gangrene (fg) referred to our medical center at southeastern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional study including 28 cases of fg that were operated in surgery department of zahedan university of medical sciences during a 10-year period from april 2002 to march 2012. the study analyzed 9 parame...

objective: the aim of this study was to identify prognosis factors associated with recurrence in patients ‎with bipolar disorder.‎‎ method: this retrospective cohort study was conducted in hamadan province, the west of iran. all ‎patients (n = 400) with bipolar disorder who were hospitalized for the second time or more ‎during april 2008 to september 2014 were included in this study. ordinal lo...

background: carbon monoxide (co) poisoning has remained a common, serious and often unrecognized event and constitutes a public health problem in morocco. the objective of this study is to describe the epidemiological and clinical profile and risk factors of co poisoning in the region of fez-boulemane, morocco. methods: this is a retrospective study on co poisoning cases occurred in the region ...

background crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) was a rare disease in iran before 1999. during the last 15 years, it has been reported from different provinces of iran, mostly from southeastern iran. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the factors associated with poor outcome in children and adolescents with cchf. patients and methods we studied all files of children (age < 19 years old) ...

purpose: to assess the relationship between the severity of coronary arteries involvement and the extent and pattern of myocardial scars in cardiac magnetic resonance of patients with history of remote myocardial infarction. materials and methods: the cardiac magnetic resonance images of sixty patients with history of remote st segment or non-st segment elevation myocardial infarction were revi...

oesophageal cancer is one of the most fatal cancer in human in spite of high incidence in the north of Iran and poor prognosis,there is not information regarding prognostic factors in this area.this study was conducted to determine prognodtic factors of the survival of patients with oesophageal cancer under radiotherapy.We conducted a descriptive-analytical study using historical cohort that ha...

Studies investigating factors affecting prognosis in primary myelofibrosis have been numerous over the years because of the high heterogeneity with regard to its natural clinical course. Recently, the increasing application of reduced-intensity conditioning with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as well as the ongoing rapid development of new experimental agents, such as JAK2 i...

A prospective study of 132 patients with severe cornmunity-acquired pneumonia (CAP) treated in the ICU was carried out to determine the causative agents, the value of the clinical, biological, and radiologic features in predicting the etiology, and to define prognostic factors. The study group included 98 men and 34 women (mean age: 58 ± 18 years). The most frequent underlying condition was COP...