memory impairment is one of the main features of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd),there are multiple studies in memory impairment and cognitive function such as memory in a variety of explicit memory, implicit, procedural, active, declarative, revermid ,working, visual, false and autobiographical. the methodology of systematic review were, meta-analyzes and controlled studies of sites med ...

introduction: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is suggested to play a role in dyspepsia. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of h. pylori, in dyspeptic patients. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 850 patients with dyspepsia in iran (2006-2007). the patients were selected using convenience sampling method. data was collected using rome iii criteria questionnaire....

background : lack of insight in patients with bipolar i disorder has been associated with poor course and clinical outcome and compromised therapeutic compliance. therefore, it is important to evaluate insight and use more specialized scales such as mood disorder insight scale (mdis) in these patients. our objective in this study was to assess validity and reliability of persian version of mdis...

background & purpose: in the health sector, in addition to the important consequence of treatment, health system should meet the expectations regarding the desirability of services. expectations and perceptions of patients about the desirability of services play an important role in selecting hospitals, their loyalty to the organization & replanning to purchase. thus the present study has been ...

il-32 and tnf? are important cytokines in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. il-32 has not been previously studied with respect to ms. here, we report il-32 and tnf? transcript levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of ms patients and control individuals by real time pcr. a significant difference in il-32 and tnf? mrna levels of patients as compared to controls was not observed. howeve...

Introduction: The aim of this study is to assess the therapeutic efficacy and safety of a particular brand of IFN alpha (PDferon B®) in combination with ribavirin (RlBA) on Iranian patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The addition of RIBA to the standard treatment with interferon (IFN) alpha led to an improvement in sustained virologic response (SVR) from less than 20% with IFN monother...

background : this study compared the efficacy of two commonly used fractionation schedules for palliative whole brain irradiation in patients with brain metastases, and assessed the association of the radiotherapy therapy oncology group (rtog) recursive partitioning analysis for brain metastases (rpa) to survival with each schedule. methods : patients with multiple (more than three) brain metas...

conclusions this study supports the idea that the ifnl3 gene is an important predictor of the response of chb patients to ifn therapy. results nine studies of 1602 chb patients receiving ifn treatment were included. under the random-effects model, patients expressing the variant rs12980275 showed a significantly increased response to ifn therapy (or = 2.85; 95% ci = 1.14 - 4.60). in the subgrou...