introduction: epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder in which patients experience spontaneous recurrent seizures and deficiency in learning and memory. although the most commonly recommended therapy is drug treatment, some patients do not achieve adequate control of their seizures on existing drugs. new medications with novel mechanisms of action are needed to help those patients whose sei...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection (scad) is a rare condition that can result in unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, and sudden death. this condition may occur particularly in women during late pregnancy and in the postpartum period. we present the case of a 33-year-old african american woman, who had spontaneous left anterior descending coronary artery (lad) dissection two weeks ...

abstract background & objective to assess the extent of l. monocytogenes in causation of human spontaneous abortions by isolation methods and pcr analysis for the presence of acta and inlb genes. methods : in this descriptive study, vaginal swabs were collected from 96 women with spontaneous abortions who referred to tehran`s hospitals. the samples were cultured in to listeria specific media (p...

preterm contraction of uterus is a main cause of miscarriages and preterm labour. euphorbia known as ferphion in iranian traditional medicine texts like al-hawi, is reported for prevention of preterm labour. therefore, the objective of this research was to investigate the effect of euphorbia spinidens bornm. ex prokh. on motility of rat uterus. uterine horns were isolated form non-pregnant fema...

introduction: considering the antiepileptogenic effects of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms), the effect of rtms applied during amygdala kindling on spontaneous activity of hippocampal ca1 pyramidal neurons was investigated. materials and methods: a tripolar electrode was inserted in basolateral amygdala of male wistar rats. after a recovery period, animals received daily kindli...

spontaneous perforation of the sigmoid colon or rectom is defined as a sudden perforation of the colon in the absence of diseases such as tumors, diverticulosis or external injury. it is a very rare finding, and if neglected, results in severe peritonitis and high mortality. the causes of this rare condition are numerous, and in this case it might be due to the chronic constipation induced by a...

Endometrial calcification along with ossification is an uncommon clinical entity. Most of the cases are asymptomatic or present with secondary infertility. Endometrial ossification associated with repeated abortions has been reported very infrequently. Here we report a case of endometrial calcification with ossification  due to retained fetal bony tissue in a 38 year old symptomatic female havi...

Spontaneous quadruplet is rarely seen. Quadruplet pregnancy is accompanied with severe complications such as abortion , premature labor , first trimester vaginal bleeding , anemia and …etc . Our patient was a 29- year old lady with history of first pregnancy twin that was aborted. In the second pregnancy at three months of gestation sonography showed quadruplet pregnancy so cerclage was perfo...