OBJECTIVES:Prenatal infections are one of the fundamental causes of early puerperal complications in mothers and neonates. These infections are mostly due to colonized organisms in pregnant woman's genitor-urinary system. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of streptococcus group B (GBS) colonization in parturient women and the rate of pathogen transmission to the newborn. METH...

Background Infants’ discharge from neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) creates high level of anxiety for parents, especially mothers; therefore, some strategies are needed to reduce parental anxiety. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of home-visit training program on the anxiety of mothers of preterm infants. Materials and Meth...

Background: Nausea and vomiting of early pregnancy (NVP) is a common complaint affecting approximately 50-80% of pregnant women.NVP can have a significant impact on social and personal life of pregnant women. Nevertheless, a pregnant woman is often reluctant to take any drug, because of their side effects. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of acupressure on quality of life of pregna...

Background: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of vertigo and nystagmus in clinics. Vertigo has many causes and the recurrence of vertigo is unknown. Among a lot of factors, vitamin D deficiency is more important. This study was conducted to determine the effect of vitamin D supplementation on torsional nystagmus in BPPV patients. This study wants to show the d...

Background: Mature cystic teratoma of the ovary is one of the most common benign ovarian tumors, which may be confused with other adnexal lesions due to its extensive manifestations on ultrasound. Therefore, in this study, we tried to reduce the need for pathology frozen sections by examining more accurate preoperative ultrasound results and classifying ovarian lesions based on them. Methods: ...

background: vitamin d has a potential to modulate inflammatory response against noxious particles in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd). the present study was conducted to determine the status of serum vitamin d in copd versus healthy group. methods: the patients presented to the outpatient pulmonary clinic of ayatollah rouhani hospital, babol iran. diagnosis of copd was...

background: non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignant tumor in humans. the role of ultraviolet radiation is well-known in the pathogenesis of basal cell carcinoma (bcc) and squamous cell carcinoma (scc). cd10 is a zinc-dependent metallopeptidase known as common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (calla). although cd10 expression has been investigated in some cutaneous tumors, to o...

Background: In the elderly population joint swelling, effusion and pain indicate local synovitis and the presence of inflammation. At present, no serum marker has been shown linking to knee synovitis in KOA. With regard to serum high sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) as a measure of inflammation, this study aimed to determine the association of systemic inflammation with local synovitis, as ...

Abstract Background: Vitamin D (vit D) deficiency has been found to have an inverse relationship with the occurrence of type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study was to assess the vit D level in type-2 diabetic patients. Methods: One hundred-twenty DM patients selected as case group and 120 healthy individuals as control group were investigated in this study from October 2011 to S...

Background: Observing the enhancing plaques in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most valuable diagnostic modalities in confirming the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), its recurrence and for better detection of active disease. Since active lesions discovery can improve designating diffusion in time diagnosis of MS and controlling disease activity, and there is not any definite...