conclusion we believed that the nonspecific clinical and laboratory finding of the present case and also the rarity of disease in our area especially in immunocompetent patients made his diagnosis confounding. patient we report an immunocompetent 43 years old iranian man who was in excellent health status until 3 weeksbefore hospitalization when he developed headache. he experienced a 5-week de...

Background: Hospitalization compared to outpatient care leads to better diagnosis. Stability of diagnosis varies among different psychiatric disorders and is associated with some demographic and mental health variables. Objective: The current study evaluated the stability of diagnosis in Baqiyatallah Hospital Psychiatric Ward.  Methods:</str...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of economic status and level of education on the choice of address terms by iranian couples in shahrekord, iran. to this end, 50 couples were selected, based on their educational and economic statuses, and were studied in terms of their choice of address terms. a discourse completion task was used as the data elicitation technique and chi-square was c...

conclusions this study showed that pcs and mcs score were slightly more than overall results while kdcs was slightly less than overall results. in addition, dialysis adequacy with kt/v between 1 and 1.2 is associated with lower rate of hospitalization. patients and methods a total of 6,930 chronic hemodialysis (hd) patients enrolled. kdcs-sf version 1.3 questionnaire was used to assess the heal...

conclusions in veterans' family, psychological health of the veterans and marital adjustment of the parents have a significant relationship with their children's quality of life and happiness. results global severity index (gsi) scores of veterans and veteran's age were inversely correlated with the scores of children's quality of life, while marital adjustment of parents and number of rooms in...

Autoimmune myelofibrosis (AIMF) is considered as an infrequent cause of bone marrow fibrosis (BMF) and a rare complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Due to its rarity, it is mistakenly diagnosed as primary myelofibrosis (MF). We describe the clinicopathologic features of a secondary form of AIMF in a 33- year- old female patient with an undiagnosed SLE which presented with acute b...