Atherosclerotic renovascular disease (ARVD) is a common condition in both elderly patients and those with other vascular disease. No published randomized controlled trial has demonstrated an overall benefit of revascularization on any clinical or biochemical end-point, and optimal medical therapy in this condition is not clearly defined. In this review we consider the epidemiology of ARVD and d...

o bjective: to determine the etiology, signs and symptoms, angiography indications and angiography findings in patients with limb penetrating injuries suspected to have arterial injury. m e thods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in imam reza hospital affiliated with mashhad university of medical sciences, iran between september 2011 and march 2013. we included those patients wi...

how to cite this article: barzegar m, sayadnasiri m, tabrizi a. epilepsy as a rare neurologic manifestation of oculodentodigitalis dysplasia. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 39-43. oculodentodigitalis dysplasia (oddd) is an extremely rare inherited disorderinvolving the development of the face, eyes, teeth and limbs. in addition,some patients develop neurological problems mostly a spastic parap...

the rare form of skeletal dysplasia is thanatophoric dysplasia. the meaning for thanatophoric dysplasia is death bearing which is derived from greek word. it occurs 1in 20,000 to 50,000. it is mainly due to mutations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3gene. features of thanatophoric dysplasia are frontal bossing, prominent eyes, narrow thorax, protruded abdomen and bowed legs. the knowle...

introduction: leukoplakia is the most common precancerous lesion of the oral mucosa and may range microscopically form benign hyperkeratosis to invasive squamous cell carcinoma. p53 is a tumor suppressor protein; whereas, proliferative cell nuclear antigen (pcna) is a proliferative marker. the aim of this study was to evaluate the immunohistochemical expressions of p53 and pcna in oral leukopla...

schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia is a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, immunodeficiency, and spondyloepiphy-seal dysplasia. mutations in swi/snf2 related, matrix associated, actin dependent regulator of chromatin, subfamily a-like 1 (smarcal1) gene are responsible for the disease. the present report describes, for the first tim...

Abstract Introduction Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a rare, non-atherosclerotic, non-inflammatory vascular disorder that primarily affects renal and cerebrovascular vessels. Limited data are available on the clinical characteristics of FMD, particularly from UK/Europe. Methods We performed retrospective cohort analysis all cases carotid/cerebrovascular FMD presenting to our regional service,...

Sylvia Nai-Yu Hu, Douglas G. Adler MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, University of Utah School of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Huntsman Cancer Center, Salt Lake City, UT been used in esophageal dysplasia and cancer, to treat bleeding caused by gastral antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) and radiation proctitis, and in other contexts. This manuscript will review the current applications of endosco...