Abstract Background Pediatric ulcerative colitis (UC) is characterized by low sustained remission rates and frequent extension of disease even if clinical obtained with therapy. Moderate to severe endoscopic activity a risk factor for relapse while evidence regarding early mucosal healing or persistence inflammation after in children not available. Our aim was evaluate significant common could ...

background: propranolol has been recently indicated to inhibit the rapid growth and involution of infantile hemangioma. in the present study, we investigated the efficacy and safety of propranolol in iranian infants. methods: a total of 30 infants with indications for medical intervention, such as large hemangiomas, wounds with or without secondary infection, or active trauma-induced bleeding, ...

introduction: chronic liver diseases consist of wide spectrum disorders that may be complicated by cirrhosis and therefore need to transplantation. the pediatric end-stage liver disease (peld) score and model of end-stage liver disease (meld) score has been used as predictors of mortality chronic liver diseases listed for liver transplantation. the aim of this study is evaluation of relation be...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire in a Swedish rheumatoid arthritis population. METHODS To investigate the concurrent and convergent validity, 67 patients with rheumatoid arthritis completed the DASH, the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ) and activity-induced pain...

BACKGROUND The 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28) combines scores on a 28-tender and swollen joint count (TJC28 and SJC28), a patient-reported measure for general health (GH), and an inflammatory marker (either the erythrocyte sedimentation rate [ESR] or the C-reactive protein [CRP]) into a composite measure of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study examined the reliabil...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the application of Disease Activity Score 28 (DAS28) to assess joint involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). METHODS Sixty-nine SLE patients, complaining of joint symptoms, and 44 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients were enrolled. In SLE patients disease activity was assessed with SLEDAI-2K. DAS28 was calculated in all the patients. RESULTS Thirty SLE patien...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of cigarette smoking with clinical expression, disease activity and severity in a cohort of Greek patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS From January 1993 until December 2002, 293 patients with early RA were diagnosed and followed up in our rheumatology clinic. All patients fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology criteria for RA,...