background gigantomastia is a rare condition characterized by excessive breast growth and can be physically and psychosocially disabling for the patient. regarding management of gigantomastia, this study evaluates the outcomes of superomedial pedicle with vertical scar or wise pattern skin excision. methods a total of 425 patients who underwent reduction mammoplasty in our institution were revi...

radiotherapy plays an essential role in the management of breast cancer. three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3d-crt) is applied based on 3d image information of anatomy of patients. in three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3d-crt) for breast cancer one of the common techniques is tangential technique. in this project, various parameters of tangential and supraclavicular fiel...

background and aims. considering the importance and prevalence of cardiovascular disease and periodontal disease, the aim of this study was to compare the amount of periodontal destruction in patients with coronary heart disease (chd) and healthy controls, using panoramic radiography. materials and methods. fifty-four individuals (27 patients with chd and 27 patients without chd) participated i...

Background: Recent researches have known long term infections such as periodontal disease to be related with the process of atherosclerosis. Periodontitis causes peripheral inflammation and immune cell stimulation which leads to an increase in C - reactive protein (CRP) and IgA Ab and there is a definite relation between cardiovascular disease, CRP increase and Periodontitis. The aim of this st...

results increase from 6.46 to 8.92 minutes in the average time from patient arrival to being visited by a physician (p < 0.001) and increase in average time from physician visit to receive the first nursing care from 7.68 to 15.89 minutes were significant (p < 0.001). the average waiting time for laboratory services was significantly decreased from 112.3 to 84.1 (p = 0.033). increase in the ave...

Introduction. TB is one of the oldest known diseases in history that has been reappeared as a severe problem for public health and suggest whether the students of medicine in their clinical training period face the patients with TB to the extent that helps them to diagnose and cure these patients in future. Methods. This study was descriptive, retrospective, and cross-sectional that carried ou...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare alexithymia, anxiety, depression and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and psychiatric patients. materials and methods: this was a comparative study. study subjects consisted of 210 individuals; 129 patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) who referred to the psychos...

abstract introduction: low self–esteem has a continuous relation with chronic psychiatric disorder. occupational therapy increases self- esteem by performing purposive activities and profoundly believes in the relation of occupation and health .this research, examines the effect of day center of occupation therapy services on patients´ self–esteem and the length of duration of hospitalization i...

statement of problem: patients affected with “early onset periodontitis” (eop), are not similar regarding their neutrophil deficiency and researches have yielded contradictory results in this field. purpose: the purpose of this study was to evaluate different aspects of neutrophils’ activities in peripheral blood of such patients, especially those affected with prepubertal periodontitis and juv...