background: the aim of this study is evaluation of the validity and reliability of the persian version of knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (koos) in patients with isolated meniscus injury. materials and methods: one hundred people with isolated meniscal injury (29 females and 71 males with a mean age ± standard deviation [sd] = 32.37 ± 9.97 years) and ?fty normal people with no knee...

The treatment effects literature is about how some outcome of interest, such as earnings, is affected by some treatment, such as a job training program. Evidently such treatment effects must be related to structural models, where the outcome of interest is the left hand side variable and the treatment is a right-hand side variable. Indeed, as we will see, treatment effects can be thought of as ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated granuloma formation can be viewed as a structural immune response that can contain and halt the spread of the pathogen. In several mammalian hosts, including non-human primates, Mtb granulomas are often hypoxic, although this has not been observed in wild type murine infection models. While a presumed consequence, the structural contribution of the granulom...

BACKGROUND Blunt thoracic trauma is one of the critical injury mechanisms in multiply injured trauma victims. Although these patients present a plethora of potential structural damages to vital organs, it remains debated which injuries actually influence outcome and thereby should be addressed initially. Hence, the aim of this study was to identify the influence of critical structural damages o...

Background & aim: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are among the severe medical disorders peculiar to pregnancy. It is one of the risk factors during pregnancy either for the mother or fetus or both. Therefore, this study aimed to assess fetal and neonatal outcomes of mothers with hypertensive disorders of Pregnancy. Methods: This hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted on neonate...

purpose: to evaluate the outocmes and complications of dacryocystorhinostomy (dcr) in the ophthalmic centers of yazd medical sciences university, yazd, iran. method: the outcomes of external dcr (ex-dcr) operation on 187 patients were evaluated. patients were selected consecutively. results: overall success rate was 90.4% (ci 95%; 86.3 - 94.5%). success rate was 90.9% in females and 89.1% in ma...

background infective endocarditis is one of the most important complications of injection drug use, which is associated with significant mortality and morbidity. the aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of vegetation size and localization on outcome and in-hospital mortality of infective endocarditis. patients and methods a total of 34 patients were admitted to a university hospital ...