background: heterogeneous mutations in the human coagulation factor ix gene lead to an x-linked recessive bleeding disorder known as hemophilia b. the disease is distributed worldwide with no ethnic or geographical priority. materials and methods: the aim of this study was to characterize the factor ix gene mutations in 28 unrelated iranian hemophilia b patients. polymerase chain reaction (pcr)...

background: improving the knowledge of healthcare providers towards different aspects of breast cancer leads to appropriate management and screening of disease. this study aimed to investigate the knowledge of breast cancer risk factors among a cohort of nurses in iran. materials and methods: the target group of the present study was 243 consecutive nurses (27 males and 216 females) at two refe...

prematurity is the most common cause of neonatal death. risk factors of premature birth can be related with ethnicity and genetic. there is no comprehensive high sample size study in kurdish ethnicity to determine risk factors related to prematurity. this study evaluated risk factors of preterm labor in kurdish ethnicity.this case-control study was conducted in 200 preterm infants (case group) ...

multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system which its main characteristic is an inflammation and demyelination and subsequent, neural degeneration. many studies have shown that inflammation causing neuronal demyelination. ms is the most common cause of chronic neurological disability in during youth which the prognosis is that can be death. platelet activating fact...

factor xiii deficiency (fxiiid) is an extremely rare hemorrhagic disorder with a prevalence of 1/3-5 million. management of disease is performed by fresh frozen plasma (ffp), cryoprecipitate (cp) or fxiii concentrate (fibrogammin p®). our objective was to assess safety and effectiveness of fibrogammin p® in patients with fxiiid. for this purpose we designed this long-term follow up study on a l...

background crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a tick-borne disease caused by arbovirus which can be transmitted to human by several routes. tick bite and living in a rural area have been the most common factors for inception of cchf in adults and children in studies reported from iran. objectives this study was conducted to detect the disease acquisition routes among children with confir...

superficial mycosis of the skin is one of the most prevalent human infections. within these infections, tinea pedis and tinea cruris have been studied. different aetiologic causes play role in these infections which the most important of them are trichophyton rubrum, trichophyton mentagrophyte and epidermophyton floccosum. prevalence arrangement of these causes are defferent in societies. this ...

some 190 specimens of sefidrud loach, oxynoemacheilus bergianus , were collected from aras river (northwestern iran) and age, size, and some biological characteristics of the samples were investigated from march to july 2013. the maximum age was 3 + years. the specimens ranged in size from 42 to 64mm for males and 45 to 61mm for females in total length, weighing from 0.62 to 2.03g for males and...

background: the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of cystic echinococcosis (ce) in qom province, central iran using elisa test. methods: overall, 1564 serum samples (800 males and 764 females) were collected from selected subjects by randomized cluster sampling in 2011-2012. sera were analyzed by elisa test using agb. before sampling, a questionnaire was filled out for eac...

introduction: the majority of leukemia patients are acute leukemia patients, so that about 70.8% lymphoblastic leukemia were acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) patients and 66.4 % of myeloid leukemia patients were acute myeloid leukemia (aml) in tehran metropolitan. during the last two decades, intensification of therapy by the use of high-dose cytarabine allogeneic stem cell transplantation in...