background: studies on the prognosis of st elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) versus non-st elevation myocardial infarction (non-stemi) have shown different results. the present study was designed to compare the early outcome and left ventricular systolic function of patients with st and non-st elevation myocardial infarction. methods: the patients' information was derived from 10,065 cons...

background the evidence saying that the rate of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) is high in patients with advanced cirrhosis and portal hypertension, this could have negative outcome on patients prognosis. methods this prospective study included 109 cirrhotic patients who were admitted to imam khomeini hospital, affiliated with orumieh university of medical sciences, during 2011-2...

purpose: to compare long-term results of excimer laser sub-epithelial keratectomy (lasek) and laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) for low to moderate myopia. methods: in a comparative case series, visual outcomes in 415 lasik-treated eyes (212 patients) and 359 lasek-treated eyes (194 patients) with myopia ranging from -1.5 to -5 diopters (d) and astigmatism up to -2.75 d using a flying spot e...

a casual comparative study was made to determine the effect of pregnant women's working conditions on   pregnancy outcome (fetal death, gestational age and birth weight).   600 women, delivered or treated for spontaneous abortion in eleven hospitals of tehran, were interviewed, 200   were working women (the study group) and 400 housewives (the control group).   for collecting information a...

BACKGROUND Despite the presence of high impact interventions to improve infant and young child feeding, only about 52% of mothers in Ethiopia exclusively breastfeed their child for the first six months after delivery. Although the decision to breastfeed a child is ultimately that of the mother, this decision could be influenced by a variety of factors including social-cognitive ones. OBJECTIV...

Although there is clear face validity that structural damage is related to outcome, it is difficult to prove this. Recently, more evidence became available that structural damage, as assessed on plain films, is indeed related to disease activity in clinical trials and therefore can be used to assess the effect of treatment. Also, a relationship between structural damage and outcome, mainly defi...

Cognitive deficits following traumatic brain injury (TBI) commonly include difficulties with memory, attention, and executive dysfunction. These deficits are amenable to cognitive rehabilitation, but optimally selecting rehabilitation programs for individual patients remains a challenge. Recent methods for quantifying regional brain morphometry allow for automated quantification of tissue volum...

OBJECTIVES To perform a systematic literature review of effective strategies for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS As part of a European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Task Force investigation, a literature search was carried out from January 1962 until February 2009 in PubMed/Ovid Embase/Cochrane and EULAR/American College of Rheumatism (ACR)) abstracts (2007/2008) for s...