this case report describes a 34-year-old female patient who suffered from chronic vomiting. different diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were noncontributory. ëventually, psychiatric interviews specified that she has a dependent, self-hurting and attention-seeking personality. she wanted to assume the “sick role”. malingering and conversion disorder were ruled out and münchausen’s syndrome w...

allgrove syndrome also known as triple-a syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by alacremia, achalasia and acth-resistant adrenal insufficiency. although this syndrome is rare, herein we report four cases with different clinical manifestations. they were referred to the gastrointestinal ward during a one year period with complaints of vomiting and dysphagia. the diagnosis of...

Background: Chorionic villus sampling(CVS) has a major role in prenatal diagnosis . It is an invasive diagnostic method in completion of primary prenatal screenings. This article is a report of our 8 years experience of CVS in Mashhad. Materials and Methods: We have done 1511 cases of invasive diagnostic procedure including 723 CVS which were included in our study and also 788 cases of amniocen...

22q 11 deletion syndrome (22q11DS; Online Mendelian inheritance in man #192430) also known as velocardiofacial or DiGeorge syndrome, is a genetic disorder resulting from a hemizygous microdeletion of the long arm of chromosome 22. It has an estimated prevalence of 1 out of 4000 live births and results in a heterogeneous clinical presentation that is irrespective of deletion size and can be asso...

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh pembelajaran daring dalam hal kejadian Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) terhadap mahasiswa Angkatan 2018 Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Hang Tuah Surabaya. merupakan jenis penelitian analitik dengan pendekatan observasional dilaksanakan cara tidak bertemu langsung responden. Alat bantu yang digunakan adalah kuesioner menggunakan Google...

In today’s society, the use of computer as a tool at workplaces, academic institutions, recreation facilities and homes has become very common. It is estimated that globally, about 45 to 70 million people spend hours staring into a video display terminal, popularly known as computer screen. Several studies, mainly in developed countries, have shown an association between computer use and visual...

Epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation are supposed to play a key role in fetal development. Here we have investigated fetal DNA-methylation levels of 27,578 CpG loci in 47 chorionic villi (CVS) and 16 amniotic cell (AC) samples. Methylation levels differed significantly between karyotypically normal AC and CVS for 2,014 genes. AC showed more extreme DNA-methylation levels of these gen...

The aim of this case report was to evaluate the psychiatric co-morbidity and efficacy of mirtazapine treatment in young subjects with chronic or cyclic vomiting syndromes. This is a case series of 8 young subjects (age range of 6-16 years, 11.12 ± 3.52 years) who were referred or consulted to child psychiatry department. They were referred or consulted by pediatric gastroenterology or surgery d...