introduction: up to 12% of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft have pulmonary complications. smoking can cause a six-time increase in pulmonary complication after major surgery. the most common pulmonary changes after cabg are decrease in frc, vc and atelectasis. in this study, the effect of oral n-acetyl-cystein in reduction of severity of hypoxemia and atelectasis in current smok...

background tuberculosis (tb) is a globally significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children. few data on tuberculosis in children and adolescents are available in iran. objectives the current study aimed to describe the case characteristics and clinical-epidemiological aspects of children and adolescents with tb. methods a retrospective review was undertaken on 203 patients aged less th...

a 40-year-old male patient presented to us with complaints of pain in abdomen for the past 2 weeks and fever for 3 days. the patient gave history of being previously operated for hydatid cyst of liver 15 years back. his chest radiograph and com-puted tomography scan revealed a cystic lesion in the right lobe of liver and a cyst in left lung. the patient was managed surgically. aspirate from the...

background lung cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. although smoking and environmental pollutants are the most important risk factors of lung cancer, the role of infectious causes should also be considered in the pathogenesis and progress of lung cancer. objectives this study examined the relationship between helicobacter pylori and lung cancer through serology, real-tim...

introduction: renal failure affects the mechanical and the ventilatory function of the lungs. a few studies have evaluated the ventilatory and pulmonary function in dialysis patients. the present study aimed to compare pulmonary function test (pft) results in patients undergoing hemodialysis (hd) and peritoneal dialysis (pd). materials and methods: we conducted a cross-sectional study on 50  pa...

background and purpose: tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is commonly caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. as kurdistan province is close to iraq (risky due to political instability in recent years), the bane city had high interaction with iraq, so the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of tuberculosis in bane (kurdistan) between 2003 and 2010. materials and methods: thi...

objective: pulmonary air-leakage especially pneumothorax (ptx), is a severe complication in neonates. the aim of this study was to assess the predisposing factors and frequency of ptx among the low birth weight (lbw) premature infants, under mechanical ventilation. methods: this cross sectional study was performed in 121 lbw intubated premature infants at neonatal intensive care unit of a child...

background asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease in respiratory system and obesity is another inflammatory disease which incidence rate is increasing. although, many studies have been conducted on severity of asthma and its relationship with obesity, but different results have been obtained. this study aimed to determine a relationship between asthma severity, body mass index (bmi) and pulmo...

we report an unusual case of co?infection of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (ipa) and fusarial skin infection in a patient with classic pyoderma gangrenosum with unknown causes, which were previously controlled with oral prednisolone, cyclosporine. the diagnosis was made on direct microscopy and culture of endobronchial washing, bronchoalveolar lavage and skin lesion biopsy. the treatment fai...

conclusions ipah is associated with subclinical hypothyroidism and low patient functional capacity, and is more common in rv failure. results in this research, 84.8% of the participants were women. the mean pap was 51.6 mmhg (31-87) and mean thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) level was 4.2 miu/ml (0.7 - 10). subclinical hypothyroidism was detected in 26 patients (49.1%). there were significant c...