there is some evidence that leukocytosis without infection is associated with increased hospital mortality, but data in this regard are very incomplete. this study was designed to investigate the relationship between leukocytosis at the time of admission and mortality among patients hospitalized in general wards. during july to nov 2004, all deceased patients who had a white blood cell (wbc) co...

schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and 25% of the patients need long term hospitalization. they have somatic illness that may be ignored and lead to death. considering the lack of information regarding the causes of death in schizophrenic patients, the aim of this study was to determine the main causes of death in the long term hospitalized schizophrenic patients in s...

Many types of cancers develop in the oral and maxillofacial region. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common cancer and constitutes over 90 percent of these tumors. Malignant transformation is a genetic process, which later makes a phenotyping change at the cellular level. Some cancers such as oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCCs) develop from pre-malignant lesions and conditions. Despite adv...

BACKGROUND There are limited data regarding the relative merits of biomarkers as predictors of mortality or time to initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART). METHODS We evaluated the usefulness of the CD4 cell count, CD4 cell percentage (CD4%), human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) load, total lymphocyte count (TLC), body mass index (BMI), and hemoglobin measured at 32 weeks' gestatio...

background: ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction is one of the most dramatic manifestations in one of the most investigated fields in the past few decades. in this study, the prognostic value of white blood cells count in patients with myocardial infarction (mi) was investigated in a six months follow-up. methods: in this cohort study, 106 patients with mi were investigated. w...

a 'worst case' laboratory method was employed for evaluating total effect of four pesticides (imidacloprid, dichlorvos, pymetrozine and abamectin) on the nymphs mortality and adults reproduction in orius albidipennis reuter (hemiptera: anthocoridae). the bioassays were carried out in laboratory using drum cell method, under controlled conditions of: 27±1?c, rh of 65±5% and 16-h photo ...

introduction there are one million deaths from asphyxia in newborn annually. management of this newborn is only supportive. autologuse stem cell therapy may reduce mortality and long term morbidity. outcome of asphyxiated newborn is related to damage cns cells. stem cells prevent apoptosis and induce repairmen of injured neurons. methods in a review study all article related to three keywords o...