purpose: to investigate the efficacy of topical cyclosporine a 2% in treating and preventing recurrent graft rejection episodes after penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in patients with history of previous rejection episodes. methods: in this clinical trial, eligible pkp patients were randomly given topical cyclosporine a 2% or placebo in addition to a standard corticosteroid regimen for an episode...

background: this study aimed to assess the incidence and survival rates of neonates weighing less than 2500g for duration of the first 28 days in an iranian community. methods: in this prospective longitudinal study, all neonates with birth weight less than 2500g were selected from the list of all neonates born in the only public-sector referral hospital, for a six months period. the weight of ...

conclusions cmm in yazd is a low-incidence skin tumor that shows a relatively fixed incidence between 1988 and 2008, higher incidences of cmm were found in sun-exposed areas (especially head and neck areas), with more incidence in men. skin cancers and cmm incidence in iran is lower than western countries, most probably due to geographical zone, genetic factors, skin type, society-related custo...

the effects of four corn hybrids, keynes540, keynes410, ksc260 and ksc400, were investigated on life table parameters of the beet armyworm in a growth chamber that was set at 25 ± 1 ºc, 65 ± 5% rh and 16:8 (l: d) photoperiod. the highest survivorship (lx) of adults were 0.77, 0.70, 0.62 and 0.58 on ksc260, keynes410, keynes540 and ksc400, respectively. the highest age-specific fecundity (mx) of...

conclusions the survival rate after in-hospital cpr was very low. the duration of cpr and the time of initiating cpr effects patients’ outcomes. these findings highlight the crucial role of an organized, skilled, well-established and timely cpr team. background despite several studies, there is no agreement on factors that affect survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr). o...

background: esophageal cancer is one of the prevalent cancers in east azerbaijan province. the aims of this study are to estimate the survival rate of patients with esophageal cancer by treatment modalities and tumor location, as well as risk factors such as cigarette smoking, family history, age at diagnosis, and gender. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study we evaluated 142 patien...

the main vector of malaria in europe and palearctic region is anopheles maculipennis complex. in order to determine the survival rate of an. maculipennis s.l. this study was carried out in garaboteh (zanjan province, iran) in july 2003. in this study anophelines were sampled for 31 consecutive days from five fixed animal shelters and five light traps. out of 24481 collected an. maculipennis s.l...

predation rate is basic to any investigation of prey-predator interaction and a major component in the selection of predators for biological control. the predation rate of variegated lady beetle, hippodamia variegata (goze), fed on different densities (20, 40, 60, 80 and 100) of third instar nymphs of cotton aphid, aphis gossypii glover, was studied under laboratory conditions (25 ± 1 °c, 65 ± ...

objective: whilst many questions and doubts still remain, today the use of dental im-plants has gained an increasing popularity amongst patients as well as dentists. the aim of this study is to analyze the survival rate in using such implants over a 10 year period. materials and methods: in this study, 3050 iti implants placed in 1000 patients with the mean age of 49.5 years (54.4% males and 44...

introduction: periodontal diseases are considered as some of the most common reasons of teeth loss, which occur due to the aggregation of microbial plaque and other precipitations on the dental surfaces . in this study, the scaling effect using manual tools, ultrasonic machine and erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (er:yag)laser on the connection of the human gums connective tissue cells on t...