Abstract Lifetime prognoses are fundamentally important to improve products regarding safety, costs, availability and sustainability. To modelling the lifetime of a system or its components subsystems different methods model approaches available, which not compatible in any case. Depending on system, use case available data, existing differently suitable for precise prediction. In this contribu...

background: focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (fsgs) is a type of nephrotic syndrome which is diagnosed by renal biopsy. degree of the proteinuria, renal dysfunction, histologic findings and the response to therapy are some factors used for evaluating the prognosis of fsgs. objectives: in the present study, we attempted to discover some protein candidates for disease prognosis related to glome...

conclusions prognosis of this type of tumor, apart from its size and differentiation level, depends on infiltration in tumor-surrounding tissue, perineural and perivascular spread. therefore, it is always necessary to analyze the removed skin especially on margins. introduction squamous cell carcinoma is the most common type of lip and oral cavity cancers. in majority of cases it follows quite ...

background urinary tract infection (uti) is common in children. uti with or without vesico-ureteral reflux (vur) may result in renal scarring. severe renal scarring impairs renal function and may result in hypertension, renal insufficiency, and end stage renal disease requiring dialyses or transplantation. beta 2 micro-globulin (ß2mg) is a low molecular weight protein freely filtered by the glo...

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...

results the median level of pbmcs htert mrna in survivors increased with treatment time and was significantly higher than the corresponding level in non-survivors after 14 days of treatment (p < 0.001). subgroup analyses showed that the levels of pbmcs htert mrna were remarkably higher in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure than in those with chronic liver failure (p < 0.05). in patien...

background: gastric and colorectal adenocarcinoma are the second and the fifth most common cancers in iran, respectively. expression of cytokeratin 7 (ck7) is established in most malignancies including gastric and colorectal adenocarcinoma. demonstration of ck7 could be related to prognostic factors and help to the better management of the patients. the objective of our study was to evaluate th...