OBJECTIVES Neurologic problems have a major effect on the survival and quality of life in renal transplant recipients. This study sought to review the incidence and character of neurologic complications after renal transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medical records of 319 renal transplant recipients admitted to the Transplant Outpatient Clinic were reviewed retrospectively for neurologic compl...

BACKGROUND Antibiotics are often administered to terminally ill patients until death, and antibiotic use contributes to the emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). We investigated antibiotic use and the isolation of MDROs among patients who died in general medical wards. METHODS All adult patients who died in the general internal medicine wards at four acute care hospitals between...

cognitive rehabilitation therapy is an effective therapeutic program to restore functioning and compensate cognitive deficits of numbers of involved traumatic brain injury individuals as well as many psychiatric patients, of them ptsd in particular. specific skills and metacognitive strategies help patients to create self-awareness and learn how to monitor these skills. metacognitive training i...

genetic studies were carried out on a total of 196 psychiatric patients, hospitalized in sorkhe hesar, roozbeh, cherazi and chaharom aban hospitals. out of all the patients studied, 74 were schizophrenic, 30 manic-depressive, 47 depressive (neurotic), 12, hysteric, 9 epileptic and the remainder had different psychiatric diseases and conditions such as: anxiety and phobia, scrupulousness mental ...

background: cancer diagnosis is an important event in an individual’s life which has considerable outcomes and implications for patient and his/her family. meanwhile, receiving assistance and support from family and friends has a significant impact on patients to help them to cope with disease-related stress and its treatment. this study aimed to assess the received social support and its corre...

background and objectives: methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) and coagulase negative staphylococci (mrcons) have recognized as the major cause of nosocomial infections that threat the burn patient’s life. the aims of this study were to determine the frequency of mrsa and mrcons and their antibiotic resistance patterns among burn patients in a burn center in ahvaz, iran. materia...

amelogenesis imperfecta (ai) is a disorder of tooth development where there is an abnormal formation of enamel or the external layer of teeth. the aim of this study was to screen mutations in the four most important candidate genes, enam, klk4, mmp20 and fam83h responsible for amelogenesis imperfect.geneomic dna was isolated from five iranian families with 22 members affected with enamel malfor...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system associated to myelin loss and neurodegeneration. clinically patients suffer from diverse symptoms and face the risk to become wheelchair-bound. at the moment ms is incurable, thus there is an unmet need for therapeutic options.

Choosing messages to encourage charitable bequest giving may be particularly challenging given sensitivity to personal mortality reminders. Previous research suggests that people often react to mortality reminders with avoidance, including distancing themselves from those associated with death. We compare the effects of otherwise similar living and deceased bequest donor stories on subsequent i...