ulcerative colitis is a mucosal-inflammatory disease that usually involves the rectum and extends proximally to involve all or part of the colon. medications for treatment include anti-inflammatory agents such as 5-asa compounds, systemic and topical corticosteroids and immunomodulators. a 33 year-old female and 52 year-old male both diagnosed with severe active ulcerative colitis who were resi...

background and aims: students experience some degrees of mental disorders during their life. therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors of mental disorders among the secondary school students in ilam, iran. methods: this is a cross sectional study, carried out among the secondary school students in ilam, iran. we assessed 841 students including 446 m...

nicotine is one the chemical substance with high level of toxically. it crosses the placenta and accumulates in the developing organs of fetus. our previous investigations indicated that collagen type iv plays a key role in basement membrane of various embryonic organs. in this study we evaluated the effect of maternal nicotine exposure pre and postnatal period on collagen iv expression during ...

iv therapy is an important option in incapable patients’ treatment. in this paper, we discuss about: a) for best control of them, we must know about what materials are in these drugs? b) for what reason they are use? c) what errors may be happen in use of them? amount of iv fluids must be accommodating with loss of fluids. firstly, we review amount of main body fluids. main part of our body wei...

regarding the increasing numbers of iv drug addicts, the incidence of infected pseudoaneurysm is increasing. so far, different therapeutic strategies have been tried, but each method has its own drawbacks. therefore, discovering an appropriate therapeutic method is necessary. 65 patients with infected pseudoaneurysm due to drug injection referred to shohada medical center from feb 1994 till oct...

In this research, optimization of the pulsed gas tungsten arc welding including pulse current, background current, pulse frequency and on time were investigated in welding of non-similar materials of austenitic stainless steel AISI 316L and nickel-base super alloy of Monel 400 by using ERNiCr3 filler metal. In order to obtain optimum conditions of welding the Taguchi method with the L9 array wa...

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) do not always predict functional limitations during exercise in sarcoidosis. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) may facilitate the recognition of exercise intolerance in these patients. AIM As relevant data in sarcoid patients are limited, the aim of the study reported here was to assess exercise capacity impairment during a maximal CPET and t...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine whether long-term IV prostacyclin (PGI(2)) use improves exercise capacity in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). DESIGN Cycle ergometry and the 6-min walk was used to evaluate the exercise performance of patients with PPH. The patients underwent serial exercise testing after starting continuous IV PGI(2) and were followed up for 19.5 +/- 7.5 month...

Pulse-chase studies of [35S]cysteine-labeled fibrillin were performed on fibroblast strains from 55 patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS), including 13 with identified mutations in the fibrillin-1 gene and 10 controls. Quantitation of the soluble intracellular and insoluble extracellular fibrillin allowed discrimination of five groups. Groups I (n = 8) and II (n = 19) synthesize reduced amounts o...