objective: aggression is a disruptive behavior that limits children’s ability for a better adjustment. as commonly reported, sleep problems is associated with the presentation of aggression in adhd children. in this study, we aimed to investigate the association between sleep problems and aggressive behavior in children with adhd.  methods: the study method is correlational and cross-sectional....

OBJECTIVE To test the effects of technique and attitude in pulling Christmas crackers. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A binomial trial conducted at a Christmas-in-July dinner party involving five anonymous dinner guests, including two of the authors. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Number of wins achieved by different strategies, with a win defined as securing the larger portion of the cracker. RE...

objective: congestive heart failure (chf) has become one of the most important health care problems in western countries. this article focuses on the outpatient diagnosis and management of heart failure. we want to compare the outcome of patients who were treated with high dose diuretics in the emergency department (ed) without admission with patients who were admitted to hospital for standard ...

background: pancreatitis is a serious complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp) and may cause significant morbidity and even death. there is no effective prophylactic intervention for patients with average risk yet. this study aims to investigate preventive effect of aggressive hydration for post-ercp pancreatitis. materials and methods: in a double-blind controlled ...

argyrophilic staining of nucleolar organizer regions (agnor) has been considered to be useful in the diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of different cutaneous tumors. in order to evaluate the role of the agnor technique in discriminating aggressive from non-aggressive basal cell carcinoma (bcc), paraffin-embedded histologic sections from 30 cases of aggressive bcc (bcc2) and 30 cases of non-ag...

  Objective(s): Appendicitis remains the most common condition in the pediatric population requiring emergency abdominal operation. Management of acute simple appendicitis is well described but controversy remains as to the optimal treatment of complicated appendicitis. Common complications of acute appendicitis include: localized peritonitis and abscess formation, flegmon and general perito...