conclusions endocarditis is an important disease with a high mortality rate if not treated appropriately. therefore, these patients need more attention. in echocardiography, vegetation and complications of ie such as abscess and paravalvular leakage can be detected. results we studied 35 patients, 45% male and 55% female with a mean age of 56.36 ± 12.44 years. fever (80%) and chills (65.7%) wer...

conclusions liver metastasis of neuroendocrine tumors in iran presents in a very similar manner as that seen in western countries. in about 89% of cases with liver-net, complete imaging, clinical, and pathological studies can help to identify the primary origin of the liver-net, which is very important in the patient’s management. results the most common primary site of metastatic gi-net to the...

conclusions the high prevalence of fungaemia and mortality could be attributed to many patients on chronic immunosuppressive therapy. nonetheless, cpfa albeit expensive, does add to our armamentarium of extracorporeal treatment for severe sepsis. regional citrate anticoagulation with cpfa may overcome problems with filter clotting. objectives the main objective was to review our centers' e...

from 1986 to 1996, 1020 renal transplants were performed at our center. the purposes of this study were. 1) to evaluate the patient and graft survival rates and 2) to see if some donors and recipient characteristics such as age, sex and relationship had any effects on graft survivals. 571 transplants were from living related donors (lrd) and 446 from living unrelated donors (lud). 65.9% of reci...

conclusions the cardiac grafts at 5 months' post-htx follow-up were characterized by normal lv dimensions and ef. also, rv dysfunction and tricuspid regurgitation were frequent findings, but they were not associated with the clinical signs of congestive heart failure, morbidity, and mortality in the majority of our patients. background in patients with advanced heart failure, significant improv...

background budd-chiari syndrome (bcs) is defined as hepatic venous outflow obstruction (hvoo). bcs is an uncommon, life-threatening liver disorder. this study describes the clinical and etiological characteristics in addition to the long-term outcome of bcs in a single referral center in tehran, iran. methods we reviewed long-term outcome of patients who were diagnosed with bcs between 1989 and...