Objective: Pregnancy is an important psychological and biological phenomenon in women’s life. Pregnancy has many complications jeopardizing the well-being of the mother and the child. Methods: In this retrospective study, the data including demographic information, chief complaint, the initial diagnosis, referral decision, final diagnosis, hospitalization...

objective: to determine the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory characteristics as well as outcome of 411 patients with bowel obstruction in southern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in shahid faghihi hospital of shiraz between 2006 and 2012. we reviewed the medical charts of the 411 patients with initial diagnosis of bowel obstruction who were admitted to our c...

objective: the ortho keratinized odontogenic cyst (ooc) is a rare lesion originates from dental lamina and clinically, it may be mistaken for many other odontogenic cysts and tumors. microscopically, it should be distinguished from kcot because of differences in biologic behavior and histologic features.   case: an interesting case of ooc arising in the edentulous mandibular right first premola...

disseminated nocardiosis (dn), is an infrequent and severe infection due to nocardia species and defined as infection in two or more discontinuous organs.  most infections occur in the immunocompromised host or in persons with underlying disease.  dn occurs rarely in children.  in this report, we describe an 11-year-old immune-compromised child with nocardiosis involving the lung, skin, brain a...

BACKGROUND Early detection of dengue could help to prevent its complications. The usefulness of clinical criteria for diagnosis of the disease must be ascertained. AIMS To assess the correlation between laboratory and clinical diagnosis of dengue, done during the first consultation in the emergency room. To estimate the impact of clinical diagnosis on the initial medical treatment. PATIENTS...

When physician carries out the clinical survey of a patient with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) symptom to reach the initial evaluation/diagnosis of BPH symptom, the existing initial evaluation method of BPH based on the international prostate symptom score (I-PSS) usually use the objective evaluation/diagnosis method with crisp values without considering fuzzy information. However, this no...

vesicoureteral reflux (vur) is one of the most important causes of urinary tract infection and renal failure in children. it is a potentially self-limited disease. the aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical course and significant factors in children with primary vur. the medical charts of 125 infants and children (27.2 % males, 72.8% females) with all grades of primary vur were retrospe...

gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is a kind of diabetes that requires persistent medical care in patient self management education to prevent acute complications. one of the common and main problems in diagnosis of the diabetes is the weakness in its initial stages of the illness. this paper intends to propose an expert system in order to diagnose the risk of gdm by using fis model. the knowl...