background: the aim of this study was to estimate the frequency and rate of the first 50 common types of invasive procedures in iran. methods: data about the number of all invasive procedures and each type of procedure that were conducted in iran in 2010 were collected using the main insurance organizations database. these numbers were sorted in an excel database, and the first 50 invasive proc...

background and aims: pelvic organ prolapse (pop) is a common condition which affects on a large proportion of women. the objective of this study was to determine the risk factors of pop in iranian women. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out to examine the role of demographic, anthropometric and clinical characteristics in pop disease in a sample of 365 females in ilam, iran. exam...

OBJECTIVE King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar is a tertiary care center without the facility for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer, but ovulation induction (OI) is done routinely. The objective of this analysis was to study the obstetric outcome of patients who conceived after IVF and OI. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and twenty patients...

The aim of the present study was to observe the changes in hand flexibility of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and the effect of dual-task interference. Patients with PD were distributed into two subgroups: the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) mutation PD (LRRK2+) and the LRRK2 mutation-free (LRRK2-) PD groups. The healthy controls were distributed into two subgroups: the LRRK2+ cont...

BACKGROUND Routine episiotomy is a controversial issue among gynecologists. The aim of this study was to compare early maternal and neonatal complications of restrictive episiotomy and routine episiotomy in primiparus vaginal delivery. METHODS In this descriptive cross-sectional study, two groups of primiparus normal vaginal delivery (NVD) cases with routine and restrictive episiotomy were st...

OBJECTIVE Placental hormones such as resistin, adiponectin, ghrelin and leptin are known to have considerable role in fetal growth and there are some articles published in this area recently. Nevertheless there is a shortage of data showing association between resistin level and fetal growth; that was why we decided to conduct a study to evaluate this association. METHODS This study was appro...

Efficient use of feed resources is a challenge in the pork industry because the largest variability in expenditure is attributed to the cost of fodder. Efficiency of feeding is directly related to feeding behavior. In order to identify genomic regions controlling feeding behavior and eating efficiency traits, 338 Duroc boars were used in this study. The Illumina Porcine SNP60K BeadChip was used...

Optimization of the sectional wing in ground effect (WIG) has been studied using ahigh order numerical procedure and response surface method (RSM). Initially, the effects of the ground clearance, angle of attack, thickness, and camber of wing have been investigated by a high-resolutionscheme, which is highlystrong and accurate. In the numerical simulation, Normalized Variable Diagram (NVD) sche...

objective: the present study aimed to compare the value of ibuprofen and fennel for postpartum pain relief in women with normal vaginal delivery. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial we studied 90 women referring to obstetrics ward for normal vaginal delivery (nvd) in assali hospital in khoramabad. women were randomly allocated to receive either oral ibuprofen or oral fennel...