background and objective: haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) is divided into two distinct genotypes, type i and type ii, based on the structure of capsular polysaccharides. the capsulation locus of haemophilus influenzae type b consists of three functionally distinct regions, designated regions 1 to 3. region iii contains hcsa and hcsb genes; however, notable sequence variation in this region ...

background: the rapid pace of elderly population growth and higher hospitalization of them has raised the need for an efficient relation between the nurses and elderly patients to promote their health. as there are some obstacles in nurses' relation with elderly patients, this study was implemented to clear nurses’ viewpoints in order to familiar them how to remove these barriers. the present s...

background: mental disorders in patients with chronic medical disorders are associated with, performance degradation, poor quality of life, lack of cooperation with treatment and inappropriate use of medical services, and increased costs. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population referring to an educational medical hospital in rash...

conclusions ultimately, we can conclude that the hemoglobin level at the time of admission and before delivery, the type of disease, gestational age, and transfusion could be effective factors of patient mortality. results the mean maternal age was 27.60 ± 6.37 years. the hemoglobin level at hospital admission was 8.9 ± 1.61 g/dl for the survivors and 7.73 ± 1.19 g/dl for the deceased patients ...

UNLABELLED Pulmonary embolism (PE) in the elderly is an immediate threat of life. Especially in old age clinical signs of PE are non-specific and could be both underestimated and overestimated. AIM OF THE STUDY The retrospective long-term study was aimed at conducting an analysis and comparison of pertinent influence of age, gender and immobility on occurrence of PE and sudden death. PATIEN...

Alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC) is an established indication for liver transplantation (LT). Most LT procedures in Japan are living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) because of an extreme shortage of deceased donors. Social circumstances enabling LDLT could be favorable for preventing relapse. The aims of this retrospective study were to analyze the outcomes of LDLT for ALC and to evaluate ris...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Rapid discontinuation of prednisone after kidney transplantation potentially allows for minimization of steroid-related side effects. Although intermediate-term data with rapid discontinuation of prednisone have been promising, concern still exists regarding long-term outcomes. The 10-year experience is reported herein. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS B...

our study evaluated the differences between early and late hemodialysis (hd) initiation in the intensive care unit (icu) according to the rifle (risk, injury, failure, loss, and end-stage renal failure) and akin (acute kidney injury network) classifications. on the assumption that early initiation of hd in critical patients according to the rifle and akin criteria decreases mortality, we retros...

Kidney transplantation, particularly from a living donor, is considered the treatment of choice for selected patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). A successful transplantation not only provides a better quality of life but also a survival advantage to the transplanted patient [1]. The superior results which can be achieved with kidney transplantation from living donors and the limited s...