alzheimer's disease is the most common degenerative disease of brain. nowadays, the most common treatment being used to slow down disease progression, include donepezil , rivastigmine and galantamine, which all of them act as inhibitors of acetyl cholinesterase. general purpose of our study was to show effects of treatment with donepezil and rivastigmine, as two drugs that commonly used for tre...

abstract kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis that mainly affects younger children. although the definite cause still remains unknown but the clinical and epidemiologic findings discuss an infectious cause. the prevalence of incomplete kawasaki disease reported 15 to 36.2%, and it is more frequent in the extremes of the age spectrum. non delayed treatment of disease should be initiated bec...

treatment strategies for ad will have to include a variety of interventions directed at multiple targets. so far, the outcomes with available approved medications for ad are often unsatisfactory, and there is a place for alternative medicine, in particular herbal medicine. herbal medicines are being used by about 80% of the world population primarily in the developing countries for primary heal...

mesenchymal stem cells can be obtained from deferent tissues like adipose tissue, umbilical cord, placenta, skin, bone marrow, etc. these cells have regulatory effects on all types of immune cells such as dendritic cell, natural killers and lymphocytes. mesenchymal stem cells induce inhibitory phenotypes of antigen presenting cells (apcs) following their activity. they also change t cells pheno...

objectives this study tried to codify the recommendations of iranian traditional medicine (itm) by studying the main medical manuscripts. the second purpose was to compare these findings with new medical information. materials and methods cardinal traditional medical and pharmacological texts from 10th to 18th century were searched for traditional terms of dementia (nesyan, fisad-uz-zekr, faram...

high cortisol level in endogenous cushing’s syndrome suppresses the immune system and after treatment there may be an over activity of immune reaction leading to autoimmune diseases mostly thyroid and rheumatologic disorders. this is the second reported case of multiple sclerosis developing after treatment of cushing’s syndrome. a 42-year old man is reported who presented with bone fracture and...

the major complication of kawasaki disease is coronary artery dilatation and aneurysm. it occurs in approximately 15-25% of untreated children with kawasaki disease. early diagnosis and treatment with intravenous immune globulin (ivig) and aspirin (asa) can reduce the incidence of coronary artery abnormality to 2%-5%. we report one case of atypical kawasaki disease with multiple giant coronary ...

in this report, the clinical course and treatment response of 210 patients with grawes’ disease referred to the research institute for nuclear medicine were studied. the disease was more common in 3rd and 4th decades and more frequent in women (f/m=4). treatment response with antithyroid drugs was about 50%, whereas 80% of the patients treated by i-131 showed positive response. there was no mea...