hemodialysis is being implicated in the development of metabolic disturbances, as complications have been observed and the role of trace metals in their development has been questioned. in 78 renal failure patients who underwent hemodialysis, serum levels of zinc and copper were determined before and after first hemodialysis. acute and chronic renal failure patients were found to have lower ser...

background & aim : family caregivers of patients with heart failure (hf) deal with a wide range of problems related to caregiving that influence their mental health. the aim of this study was to investigate the mental health status of the family caregivers of patients with hf. methods & materials : in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 90 family caregivers of patients with hf, who referred...

background: arteriovenous fistula (avf)is the ideal method of vascular access for patients on maintenance hemodialysis (hd).therefore it is an important part of treatment in hd.there are several observations that indicate the role of inflammation in failure of avf.the aim of this study was to evaluate the hematologic and inflammatory biomarkers in early avf failure.   methods : this case-contro...

cystic fibrosis (cf) is an autosomal recessive disease, which affects many organs as it impairs chloride channel. this study was performed to evaluate growth status and its relationship with some laboratory indices such as cholesterol (chol), triglyceride (tg), albumin and total protein in children with cf referred to pediatrics center. this study was designed as a cross-sectional study in one ...

background : the signal-averaged electrocardiography is a noninvasive method to evaluate the presence of the potentials generated by tissues activated later than their usual timing in the cardiac cycle. the purpose of this study was to demonstrate the correlation between the filtered qrs duration obtained via the signal-averaged electrocardiography and left ventricular dimensions and volumes an...

conclusions in patients with liver cirrhosis, when there is evidence of severe pulmonary disease without proper response to treatment, the possibility of invasive pulmonary fungal infection should be considered. introduction invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (ipa) is a fatal disease usually occurring in patients with neutropenia resulted from chemotherapy for malignancy. the other risk factors i...

introduction: osteodystrophy is one of the long term complications of chronic renal failure and is expressed in two formslow turn over and high turn over. it is an important cause of morbidity in patients with renal failure and if diagnosed and managed properly, many problems of these patients can be resolved. in this study we evaluated the prevalence of hyperparathyroidism in hemodialysis pati...

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background we aimed to investigate the frequency of celiac disease in children with β-thalassemia major (b-tm) in shiraz, southern iran. materials and methods in this study, the prevalence of celiac disease in children with b-tm was evaluated. children with btm were screened for celiac disease by ant-tissue transglutaminase (anti-ttg) iga antibody, iga level and anti-ttg igg. a total of 1500 sc...

abstract background: the intracytoplasmic sperm injection procedure ending with total fertilization failure is very distressfull event for both the clinician and the patient. objective: the aim of this study was to identify independent factors which could be used to identify total fertilization failure before the day of intracytoplasmic sperm injection. materials and methods: this was a retrosp...