Background & Objectives: Colon cancer is currently of high incidence and mortality rate. Identifying the factors influencing its prognosis can be very beneficial to its clinical treatment. Recent studies have shown that lymph nodes ratio can be considered as an important prognostic factor. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of this factor on the prognosis of the ...

Background & Aims: Renal transplantation is the best therapeutic option for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The aim of this study was to determine the graft survival rate of renal transplantation in patients who have been transplanted from live donor in Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz, Iran. Methods: In a survival analysis study, organ survival rate after kidney transplantation from...

background: breast cancer (bc) is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer after lung cancer. survival of bc patients is affected by intermediate events. this study was aimed to investigate the disease course of primary non-metastatic bc patients with first recurrence of the tumor (frt) as the intermediate event using the illness- death model. methods: this retrospective cohort study was condu...

background: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) is a curative treatment option for many patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml); however, it can lead to complications of graft-versus-host-disease (gvhd) which can affect the quality of life and overall survival. the aim of this study was to assess the effects of both acute and chronic gvhd on survival rate in patients wi...

background: esophageal cancer is often diagnosed in the last stages where the chance of patient’s survival is very low. the aim of this systematic review was presentation of valid estimation of survival in patients with esophageal cancer in different regions of iran. methods: a systematic review was carried out based on the reliable domestic medical databases including: sid, magiran, irandoc an...

background: calcineurin inhibitors (cni) have significantly reduced the incidence of acute rejection. nephrotoxicity however may contribute to long-term allograft dysfunction. mycophenolate mofetil (mmf) may allow cyclosporine (csa) dose reduction without increasing the risk of rejection. methods: in seventy-eight living unrelated kidney transplant patients with renal dysfunction, we studied th...

purpose: to report the clinical findings and compare the outcomes of different surgical techniques evolved over time in a large series of patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk). methods: this interventional retrospective case series includes patients with complications of delayed mgk. medical and surgical interventions to address dry eye, limbal ischemia and limbal stem cell de...

results one-, three-, five-, and ten-year graft survival was 93.8%, 86.8%, 76.6%, and 37.4%, respectively. the results of the joint model showed that risk indicators, such as serum creatinine level (p < 0.0001, hr = 1.82), patient’s age (p = 0.006, hr = 1.03), and anti-thymocytes globulin (p = 0.019, hr = 2.57) had a significant relationship to graft survival. conclusions in general, our study ...

abstractbackground: the survival rate of preterm and low-birth-weight (lbw) infants depends on various factors such as birth weight, gestational age, and quality of care. the present study aimed at evaluating the survival rate of preterm and lbw infants, predictive factors, and the risk of mortality in three training hospitals of mashhad and tabriz cities.methods: this prospective, cohort study...