introduction: pediatric intensive care unit (picu) has a specific location for management of children with serious and severe diseases. methods: this is s crass-sectional – analytical study was performed on all children admitted in boali hospitals picu from march 2010 to march 2012 (2 years). 937 patients were analyzed. results: out of 490 patient admitted in picu (march2010 to march 2011), 35 ...

background : fourniers gangrene caused by synergic aerobic and anaerobic organism is a life threatening disorder.   methods : the medical records of 8 among 839 patients admitted to imam ali general hospital zahedan university of medical sciences with fourniers gangrene during the 10 months period between 2012 and 2013 were reviewed.   results : the most common etiology and presentation were ab...

objectives: the purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. methods & materials: the descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to sina, shohada and fayaz-bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. a pre-prepared questionnaire inc...

in this study the causes of mortality in children less than 5 years of age has been investigated. in this retrospective cross-sectional study, results were analysed by a descriptive analytic method. the investigation was carried out among 597 children less than 5 years including 296 boys and 301 girls. the sample was selected by census method and the necessary information was collected using qu...

background: sickle cell disease (hbss) is a major health problem in nigeria and ma-laria has been implicated as a leading cause of morbidity/mortality in sickle cell disease patients. few reasons were put forward to explain the observed morbidity/mortality of hbss subjects due to plasmodium falciparum (p. falciparum) malaria. objectives: to determine the level of immunoglobulin classes (igm, ig...

results there were no significant differences between the 4 groups in white blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and esr at baseline (p > 0.05). the number of platelet units was remarkably higher, but the number of mpv and hco3 was considerably lower in patients with loss/ failure criteria. conclusions mpv is higher in the case of platelets destruction, and this is commonly observed in inf...

 Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) can be found within the cell rich zone of dental pulp. These stem cells, under specific stimuli, differentiate into many cell types which have wide therapeutic applications.   The dental stem cells are derived from both deciduous and permanent teeth. The viable dental stem cells are very simple to collect, without any mortality and morbidity. Dental pulp stem c...

The authors conducted a 10-year prospective cohort study of mortality in relation to white blood cell counts of 437,454 Koreans, aged 40-95 years, who received health insurance from the National Health Insurance Corporation and were medically evaluated in 1993 or 1995, with white blood cell measurement. The main outcome measures were mortality from all causes, all cancers, and all atherosclerot...