this article wants to clarify a new narration of iran-iraq war political nature. other narrations generally have had a strategic-political view on iran-iraq war. although this present narration has a strategic and realistic view too, it doesn't consider this kind of view enough for a comprehensive explanation of different aspects of the war. it refers to the confrontation of faith and forc...

AIM To assess the workload of the Split University Hospital during the war and its role in providing help to the neighboring countries. METHODS We reviewed all available records of patients admitted to the four (out of 15) departments: General Surgery, Traumatology, Dermatovenerology, and Pulmonology. The files of 37,821 patients (78% of total number) treated during 1990-1995 were analyzed. ...

We compared MMPI-2 profiles of Gulf War veterans with fibromyalgia (FM) to epileptic seizure (ES) patients, psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) patients, and Gulf War veteran healthy controls. Both PNES and FM are medically unexplained conditions. In previous MMPI-2 research PNES patients were shown to have significantly higher Hs and Hy clinical scales than ES patients. In the present res...

Few studies have analysed the bacterial pathogenesis of infections associated with war-wound in the Eastern Mediterranean region. We analysed surgical wound infections of 1200 patients injured during the Libyan conflict in 2011 and admitted to the emergency services at Tripoli medical centre. Culture swabs or surgical wound debridement samples were collected and cultures were identified and tes...

AIM To explore possible causative factors in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in disabled Croatian war veterans. METHOD The sample comprised 42 disabled Croatian war veterans, aged 19 to 44 years, accommodated in the VaraZdinske Toplice Rehabilitation Hospital for the purpose of long-term physical rehabilitation. Manifestation of PTSD symptoms (Mississippi Scale for Co...

II. OVERVIEW The risk of intracranial infection among patients with PBI is high because of the presence of contaminated foreign objects, skin, hair, and bone fragments driven into the brain along the missile track. The presence of air sinus wounds or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistulae may further increase the risk of infection. Since sulfa drugs were introduced just prior to World War II, all p...

Over 100,000 Iranian war veterans suffer from chronic effects of mustard gas exposure. Sulfur mustard was used by Iraq during the Iraqi-imposed war on Iran (between 1980 and 1988). The major complaints of these patients are mild interstitial fibrosis and bronchiolitis. We aimed to determine the state of fibrosis progression and assessed transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 levels in pulmonary...

The objective of this article is to examine the role of coping strategies in multiple sclerosis outcomes among civilians under a military attack during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Participants were 156 patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. We analysed the relationships between coping and emotional distress and between coping and multiple sclerosis exacerbation. We...

a total of360 iranian combatants who were exposed to mustard gas by the iraqi forces in the war fronts were studied. acute effects and gastrointestinal (gi) complications of sulfur mustard (s m) intoxication were studied separately in iranian combatants admitted to imam reza hospital from january 1984, to may 198x, in order to record the clinical and paraclinical findings, a special examination...

OBJECTIVE Toward the end of 2010, the Arab spring, the waves of revolutionary demonstrations and protests influenced also Syria, where violent clashes turned into a civil war. Hundreds of thousands of people became refugees. The use of excessive force unfortunately culminated in numerous deaths and injuries in many cities. Being the closest city to Aleppo, Damascus and Homs, the biggest cities ...