background: in medicine, especially in pediatrics, it is necessary to perform regular epidemiologic studies in different geographic regions. this study was performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, southern iran to determine the gastrointestinal (gi) disease spectrum, the mortality and also the rate of matching final diagnosis with the initial impression in pediatric gi ward. â  methods: of all th...

aim : the study aims to document the oral lesions in patients with uc. background : inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is comprised of two chronic, tissue-destructive and clinical entities including crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc), both of which are immunologically based. patients and methods : the population of the study includes fifty patients with uc, as the experimental group...

A banda gástrica é considerada um tratamento menos eficiente que a derivação gástrica em Y de Roux, mas ainda é utilizada pela facilidade de realização e pelo baixo índice de mortalidade peroperatória. A longo prazo, as complicações têm sido muito altas, tornando a cirurgia quase proibitiva.1 Apresentamos um caso de megaesôfago grau IV póscirurgia de banda gástrica para tratamento de obesidade ...

background: endoscopic therapies can decrease the morbidity of patients with high risk peptic ulcer. the aim of this study was to evaluate the beneficial effects of oral omeprazole therapy in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer who received combined endoscopic treatment (epinephrine injection and argon plasma coagulation). materials and methods: eighty six patients with bleeding from gastric, d...

dyspepsia is a common gastrointestinal symptom reported in 2.9-29% of the adult iranian population. this symptom usually results from functional disease, but in one-third of cases an organic cause such as peptic ulcers, esophagitis, and in less than one percent gastric cancer can be found. the timing of an endoscopic evaluation, the value of acid reducing agents, herbal medicine and the role of...

The volumes of the left and right cardiac ventricles are important indexes for several cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, a semiautomatic algorithm based on 4D fuzzy connectedness is proposed for segmenting the cardiac ventricles in arbitrarily oriented cardiac cine MR images. The segmentation of the left ventricle was evaluated using 45 short axis images and a visual assessment of right v...