Introduction: Acute rheumatic fever is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects the large joints. Early treatment of a throat infection following group A streptococcus prevents of acute rheumatic fever. Given the low prevalence of the disease, especially in a situation where there is excessive use of antibiotics in Iran, this study intends to report a patient with Acute rheumatic fever with mi...

Background and Objective: Coronary artery disease is the main cause of death in most societies, which is fatal symbol of acute myocardial infarction. Early diagnosis and treatment of this disease is the greatest impact on survival. But the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction has always been a challenge, particularly in elderly patients due to atypical manifestation. Since a large proportio...

 Background: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is one of the most common infections between women during reproductive age which is associated with major long-term complication, including tubal factor infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain. In addition, treatment of acute PID and its sequelae impose health care costs. Prevention of these long-term complications is dependen...

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of emergency surgery especially in children. Proper and on-time diagnosis may decrease the unwanted complications. In despite of diagnostic methods, a significant number of patients yet and up with negative laparotomies. The aim of this study was to assess the role of artificial neural networks in diagnosis of acute appendicitis ...

Kawasaki disease is an acute multiorgan vasculitis occurs mostly in children between six months and five years of age. The etiology of the disease is unknown, but superantigens may have an important role in the pathogenesis. In this case report, a 10- year old boy is presented with signs of kawasaki disease and despite receiving two high doses intravenous immunoglobulin, cervical lymph nodes ...

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common emergency abdominal operation. One of its different pathogenesis is infection with microbial agents such as Yersinia. Yersinia is the most common cause of mesenteric adenitis and may represent with right lower quadrant abdominal pain and tenderness and sometimes with systemic manifestation. Frequently in patient with Yersinia infection appendi...

Acute aortic dissection is a common disease caused by primary tear in the aortic intima or rupture of vasa vasorum. Every year 5-30 per million are affected by that. Untreated aortic dissection (dissecting aortic aneurysm) carries a high mortality rate. More than 90% of acute dissections present with acute pain in chest or back or both. Aortic dissection may mimic other more common conditions...