background: this research aimed to examine the methods of measuring the womb height and mother's abdomen circumference to estimate infant's weight at birth time. methods: in this cross-sectional descriptive-correlative research, 1070 mothers with term pregnancy (and their infants) who referred to isfahan maternities were assessed. questionnaire, demographic data form, patient's medical files an...

background: fighting against cancers includes management in prevention, early treatment, and rehabilitation. this research is a descriptive study that was done to determine the women's knowledge attitude and practice about prevention of breast cancer. methods: the sample of this research included 630 women in kerman city, more than 15 years old, that selected in several stages (cluster, randomi...

background and objectives: bordetella species colonize the respiratory tract of mammals and thereby cause the whooping cough. most of the species produce adenylate cyclase - a toxin ( hemolysin ) responsible for increasing intracellular cyclic amp (camp) levels in mammalian neutrophils and macrophages and as a consequence their phagocytic function get impaired . this study was carried out to is...

background: people’s quality of life plays an important role in their life satisfaction and life satisfaction is an important factor in the mental health of the society. therefore, knowing efficient and effective methods and techniques that can be effective in increasing the quality of life, is considered as an important step in improving individuals ‘satisfaction and increasing their mental he...

numerous causes are reported for ulnar nerve compression at the wrist, known as guyon's tunnel syndrome. in the present article, a patient with guyon's tunnel syndrome during pregnancy concomitant with an anomaly of ulnar nerve is described. a 29-year-old iranian woman presented with clinical features of guyon's tunnel syndrome (pain and paresthesia in the fifth finger of the left hand and atro...

we present a woman referred with underlying non-hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl) masquerading clinically with guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) like syndrome. at first evaluation, chest ct-scan along with brain and whole spine mri were normal. electrodiagnostic studies were in favor of acute generalized polyradiculoneuropathy. laboratory evaluation revealed hypoglycorrhachia. she treated with plasmapheresi...

we present a 21-years old woman with alopecia universalis, generalized vitiligo, and graves' disease. she had had thyroidectomy in early childhood and was receiving replacement therapy with levothyroxine. the patient was treated with systemic puva and glucocorticoid in combination with topical treatment for alopecia. after 6 months of treatment, alopecia was reversed but vitiligo was unchanged.

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background: electroencephalography (eeg) has vital and significant applications in different medical fields and is used for the primary evaluation of neurological disorders. hence, having easy access to suitable and useful signal is very important. artifacts are undesirable confusions which are generally originated from inevitable human activities such...