Background: Ingestion of caustic substances is the main reason for referral to Philippines National Poison Management and Control Center among other causes of acute poisoning. Rapid assessment of severity of injury is important for treatment and prognosis of these cases. This study was aimed to investigate the correlation of clinical factors with severity of gastrointestinal (GI) mucosal injury...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most prevalent autoimmune chronic disease globally. The current study was conducted to determine the relationship between fatigue severity and circadian rhythm sleep disorders among Iranian MS patients.  Methods: The statistical population of this cross-sectional study included MS patients who were members of the MS Association in Khorramabad City, so...

background: venoplasty and stenting is a minimally invasive therapy that can be used for patients with deep venous insufficiency in the lower extremities. this study aimed at investigating the effect of venoplasty and venous stenting in patients with chronic venous insufficiency in the lower limbs. methods : this prospective case-series study recruited patients with chronic deep venous insuffic...

introduction: carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is the most common type of entrapment neuropathy. conservative therapy is usually considered as the first step in the management of cts. low level laser therapy (lllt) is among the new physical modalities, which has shown therapeutic effects in cts. the aim of the present study was to compare the effects of applying laser and splinting together with sp...

Introduction: The results of clinical studies about the severity of post stoke dementia patients are limited in Korea. We investigate clinical factors related to severity of dementia and to inspect the clinical factors related to the progression of dementia severity. Methods: The patients who visited the hospital by first time between March 2010 and September 2012, among the patients with post ...

background: diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric lupus is still a major challenge in clinical practice. we investigated the association between depression and anti-ribosomal p (anti-p) antibodies in a sample of iranian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (sle). materials and methods: th is cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients with sle referring to a referral out-p...

abstract considering that vaginal delivery is a painful process, the present study investigated the effects of citrus aurantium on the severity of first-stage labor pain in primiparous women. this study was a randomized clinical trial conducted with 126 eligible primiparous patients. the pain severity of patients was measured at the time of enrolling in the study. in the intervention group, (ar...