Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are among the most frequent complaints in patients with HIV disease. Before combination antiretroviral therapy, it was suggested that 50-93% of all patients with HIV disease had marked GI symptoms during the course of their illness [1,2]. Inflammatory changes, direct mucosal invasion of the GI tract by HIV, opportunistic infections and neoplasms are well recogniz...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To collect baseline measurements before the implementation of interventions associated with the AIM (Assessment Information Management) Higher Initiative--a quality improvement program intended to improve symptom assessment, management, and information distribution for five chemotherapy-related symptom groups: anemia, neutropenia, diarrhea and constipation, nausea and vomitin...

Fatigue is a commonly reported symptom of patients who have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Fatigue in the HSCT recipient has multiple possible causes, including deconditioning, anemia, and medications. Regardless of the cause, fatigue impacts patients' well-being, ability to reintegrate into their normal lifestyle, physical recovery from transplantation, and overall s...

The human brain is a vital, complex organ, and a brain cancer diagnosis significantly affects patients and caregivers. Health care workers should learn to recognize complications of primary brain cancer and understand problems related to symptom management and quality of life. The complexity of the brain’s anatomy and function make it difficult to manage symptoms and determine the best treatmen...

objective headache is a frequent symptom in children and adolescents. migraine is one of the most common types of primary headache disorders in children that at times can be extremely disabling. many clinical features of migraine in children differ from that starting in adulthood. this review discusses the epidemiology,clinical features, management, and prognosis of migraine headache in childre...

objective: medically unexplained symptoms are physical symptoms, which cannot be explained by organic ‎causes. this study aimed to investigate mental health in patients with medically unexplained ‎physical symptoms. ‎ method: one hundred outpatients who were admitted to the electro diagnosis clinic of imam khomeini ‎hospital, ahvaz/iran, participated in this study. data were collected using phy...

context worldwide prevalence of respiratory diseases, suffering from such diseases, and heavy cost of treatment, which all may result from lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, were the main factors to conduct the current study. in the present study, the causes and symptoms of asthma were evaluated and compared with those of some other respiratory diseases. ira...

introduction : although oral cancer is amenable for early detection, it often presents as advanced disease in many of patients. long-lasting ulcer or mucosal discoloration has been described as the key to an early diagnosis; however other symptoms may also exist. the present study aims to describe the frequency of the early symptoms in oral cancer patients, with a special focus on pain. materia...

In palliative medicine, healthcare providers aim to provide end-of-life cancer patients with a plan of care to minimize pain and manage symptoms, while providing psychosocial and educational support to patients and their families. Unfortunately, it has been reported that patients often experience unnecessary suffering due to ineffective symptom management as they near end-of-life. Recent advanc...

Depression has been shown to moderate the effects of physical illness self-management (ISM) programs. We attempted to replicate these findings for a mental ISM intervention. Outpatients with serious mental illness (N = 428) from eight Tennessee communities were randomly assigned to receive a peer-led self-management intervention called Building Recovery of Individual Dreams and Goals Through Ed...