background: minimal bright red bleeding per rectum (mbrbpr) is a common complaint in adult patients. most studies have not been performed in patients with strictly minimal brbpr, and there are no evidence-based recommendations for this group of patients. materials and methods: patients with complaints as small amounts of red blood after wiping or a few drops of blood in the toilet bowl after de...

background lower gastrointestinal bleeding (lgib) in children has many different etiologies and is a serious problem that warrants careful diagnostic work-up. materials and methods 164 colonoscopies were done during one year for determining the etiologies of lgib in children who was referred to children's medical center hospital. analyses of results were based on age, sex, etiology and clinical...

background: the aim of this study was to validate the farsi version of rome iii modular questionnaire which contains all functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgids). materials and methods: we used rome foundation guidelines for translation of english version into farsi, and all the steps were performed. in the first step, 2 forward translations into farsi were completed by two authors separat...

objectives: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a common gastrointestinal disorder. due to its high prevalence and absence of curative therapy, ibs has the potential to create tremendous burden on the health care system. herein, we systematically reviewed the published literature to investigate the epidemiology of ibs in iran. methods: studies that were reviewed in this article were primarily ide...

o bjectives: gastric infection with helicobacter pylori may be one of the main causes of halitosis. this study was performed to evaluate the relationship of heli- cobacter pylori infection with halitosis. materials and methods : this case control study was performed on 44 dyspeptic patients with a mean age of 34.29±13.71 years (range 17 to 76 years). the case group included 22 patients with hal...

we aimed to investigate the effects of dietary combination of honey and ardeh on chemotherapy-induced complications in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml).a total of 107 aml patients who underwent chemotherapy for at least 30 consecutive days were recruited to this double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical-trial which was conducted in the imam reza and ghaem teaching hospitals ...

we describe a 61-year-old man who developed a mild gastrointestinal discomforts including diarrhea associated with feces containing many larvae similar to rhabditiform larvae of strongyloides stercoralis diagnosed finally as diploscapter coro­nata, a free-living nematode. this case is unusual infection in human and there are a few reports of this worm as a real pa­rasite. microscopically, diplo...

background: functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgids) entail several distinct conditions that collectively account for a sizeable proportion of patients complaining of abdominal pain. physicians' awareness is fundamental to avoid unnecessary evaluations and to alleviate stress-related problems. this study aimed to assess the relative frequencies of fgids and related categories in a selected...

introduction: artemisia dracunculus l. belongs to asteraceae family, and is a medicinal plant widely used in traditional medicine as a remedy for gastrointestinal disturbances. this study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of essential oil of a. dracunculus (eoad) on the rat alimentary tract. methods: the eoad was extracted by clevenger apparatus using hydrodistillation. ld50 was calculated...

objective: the protective effect of silymarin (smn) on mycophenolate mofetil (mmf)–induced duodenal disorders was investigated. materials and methods: forty-two wistar rats were assigned to seven groups including control and test groups. the control animals received saline and the test animals were treated with mmf (30 mg/kg, orally) and saline, mmf and smn (25, 50, and 100 mg/kg, orally), mmf ...