a 29-year-old housewife presented with abdominal pain and abnormal results on liver function tests (table 1). the patient was from a rural area (garmsar, iran) and there was no family history of a similar disease. her family owned various animals most notably jackals, dogs, and cats. the animals were not receiving regular veterinary check-ups, preventive care, or even vaccinations.

objective to determine the changes in thyroid function tests in children who underwent antiepileptic therapy in shahid beheshti hospital, kashan, in 2008. materials & methods this analytical-observational study was carried out in a cohort fashion without an external control group (self controlled) on 45 children with new onset epilepsy who had not been previously treated with antiepileptic medi...

Background: It has been reported that liver function alterations occur in 8–38% of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) treated with interferon-beta in controlled clinical trials or in prospective but non-controlled studies. We report herein a case of symptomatic liver dysfunction associated with two-year-period of regular interferon-beta-1a (Avonex®) intramuscular inje...

background chronic hepatitis b consists of different clinical phases. laboratory and histological assessments can help differentiate the clinical phases of this disease and thus lead to better management. objectives this study was conducted to determine laboratory and histological characteristics of hbeag-negative and hbeag-positive chronic hepatitis b patients. patients and methods in this stu...

cause, following the subsidence of clinical symptoms and signs of liver disease, there remains a period of smouldering activity which can be detected only be finding disturbed tests of liver function. In the majority of patients, ill with acute hepatitis, liver function tests return to normal slowly, and usually all tests do not become normal simultaneously. Moreover, it has been shown: (Hoagla...

BACKGROUND G6PD deficiency is the most common enzymopathy of red blood cells. The clinical symptoms of favism are jaundice, hematuria and haemolytic anaemia that seem to affect liver and kidney in long term. Thus we evaluate kidney and liver function of favism patients in an endemic area of the disease with a high rate of fava beans cultivation. METHODS This study was performed on favism pati...