BACKGROUND Although nurses acknowledge that spiritual care is part of their role, in reality, it is performed to a lesser extent. The purpose of the present study was to explore nurses' and patients' experiences about the conditions of spiritual care and spiritual interventions in the oncology units of Tabriz. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted with a qualitative conventional cont...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal nasal airway obstruction induces various degrees of respiratory distress. The management of this disease, including surgical repair, will depend on the severity and location of the obstruction. We describe here a case of congenital nasal nostril stenosis that required surgical repair for stenting of both nares after coanal atresia repair. CASE REPORT A 2 days old female ...

BACKGROUND Premarital counseling equips couples with information about all aspects of sexuality and the related health issues. This study was aimed to assess the quality of premarital counseling services in health care centers in Tabriz. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 236 randomly selected women from premarital counseling centers in Tabriz was carried out and a self-structur...

The response of growth and yield of rainfed-chickpea to population density should be evaluated based on long-term experiments to include the climate variability. This is achievable just by simulation. In this simulation study, this evaluation was done by running the CYRUS model for long-term daily weather data of five locations in Iran. The tested population densities were 7 to 59 (with interva...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate electrophysiologic pattern of subclinical diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) based on nerve conduction study. METHODS In this cross sectional study, 40 children and adolescents (62.5% female with mean age of 12.73 ± 0.43 years) with T1DM for at least 5 years attending the Pediatrics Clinics. Tabriz Unive...

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SERUM LEVELS OF FOLIC ACID WITH RESULTS FIRST TRIMESTER DOWN SYNDROME SCREENING METHODS AND FETAL KARYOTYPE IN HIGH RISK PREGNANT WOMEN REFERRING TO ALZAHRA EDUCATIONAL HOSPITAL TABRIZ

nasuh, known as matrakci was a miniature painter who accompanied king suleiman kanuni during hiscampaign to iran in 940-42 ah/1533-36 ad and he has drawn many miniature from lots of iranian cities including khoy, tabriz, zanjan, soltaniyeh, hamedan, and ghasre shirin to baghdad and shahre zur, baneh, bukan, maraghe. being capital during one part of the safavid dynasty and in the other part as t...

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease in various species of animals caused by a sporozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. The disease occurs throughout the world including Iran. This disease is a common infection of sheep, goats and it is recognized as one of major infection cause of reproductive failure. This survey was carried out to show the prevalence of this disease in cattle in Tabriz (Iran). ...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal pain is known to be a common problem in diabetic patients. In spite of this fact, there is little information about epidemiology aspect of Low Back Pain (LBP) and necessity of taking preventive approach in diabetic patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of LBP in diabetic patients and its comparison with non-diabetic subjects. METHODS Low ba...

Granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) are tumors that arise from granulosa cells, occurring in women 50 to 55 years of age but may occur at any age whereas Juvenile granulosa cell tumors usually occur in children and adolescents. A three years old girl with breast development but without any significant past medical history was referred to the Pediatric Clinic in Children hospital(University of Medical ...