relationship of salivary rankl and opg with periodontal disease in type 1 diabetic patients      dr. ghasemi m .,1 dr. sattari m., 2 dr. khamseh me., 3 dr. kavoli s. 4    1 associate professor, department of periodontics , school of dentistry, islamic azad university. tehran, iran .   2 associate professor, department of immunology , school of medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sci...

background: this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the cost-effectiveness of three therapeutic methods of long-term hemodialysis, kidney transplant from a living person and kidney transplant from a cadaver utilizing disability adjusted life years (daly) using data from the records of patients referred to afzalipour hospital of kerman in 2012.   methods: this cross-sectional study u...

conclusions the results showed that the dexterity fingers of patients suffering from stroke at the final stages of bronestrum is much closer to the dexterity of healthy controls. background one of the main problems of chronic stroke patients is the inability to move the fingers separately despite the passing of an extended period of time since the onset of the disease. dexterity is a fine motor...

conclusions the current study revealed that a significant percentage of sandwich generation females have chronic diseases. results a statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of the presence of chronic diseases (p = 0.001). there was a significant correlation between chronic diseases and number of children (p = 0.03), person receiving care (p = 0.004), educa...

a case of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis due to candida albicans in a 13 yr-old boy is reported. evaluation of cell mediated immunity revealed cutaneous anergy to ppd and low level of t-lymphocytes b-cell count and immunoglobulin g (igg) were increased and there was a low level of serum iron. the patient was put under treatment with oral administration of ketoconazole and ferrus sulfate, whi...

background many types of cardiovascular complications such as; cardiac arrhythmias, impaired cardiac function, myocardial ischemia and decreased left ventricular function, have been attributed to interferon therapy. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of combination therapy pegylated interferon and ribavirin on left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions in patien...

results our results revealed that the serum levels of tgf-β were significantly increased in chb patients in compare to healthy controls. conclusions according to this result, it may be concluded that high serum levels of tgf-β may be a mechanism by which immune response against hbv is suppressed. background the transforming growth factor-β (tgf-β) is an important cytokine with anti-inflammatory...

background hbv infection is a serious public health problem worldwide, which can contribute to the incidence of chronic hepatitis b (chb), cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). objectives in the present report, we assessed the association between adiponectin, its receptors and hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and inflammation with hepatitis b virus. patients and methods liver biopsies from...

conclusions this study revealed that serum iron markers (especially ferritin and transferrin) might be used as surrogate markers for both liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity. patients and methods eighty five patients with untreated hepatitis c chronic infection were investigated. . results twenty one patients (24.7%) had elevated serum iron levels, and 29 subjects (34.1%) had severe l...