bronchial asthma represents an increased airways responsiveness to vari¬ous stimulants, leading to reversible obstruction of expiratory flow and chronic inflammatory changes in airways wall. ketamine has been demonstrated to lower airway resistance and to increase lung compliance in the asthmatic patients. in several studies and case reports it has been used successfully in the management of st...

objective absence status epilepticus (ase) is a common form of nonconvulsive status epilepcticus. it is  characterized by loss of consciousness with spike and wave discharges in eeg simultaneously. the most effective treatment of ase is diazepam, either infusion or in divided doses; the former is more expensive since patients must be admitted in an intensive care unit. the aim of this study was...

background and aims: measles remains one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries and is still a major public health concern in developed countries. although live attenuated vaccine is used throughout the world, out breaks of disease still occur in many countries including iran. methods: the present study was performed to evaluate the immune status agai...

aspergillus terreus is emerging as an etiologic agent of invasive aspergillosis among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy, haematopoetic stem-cell transplantation, or solid organ transplantation worldwide. infections caused by aspergillus terreus has become important due to less susceptibility to antifungal drags, resistant to amphotericin b and therefore, poor clinical outcome and higher m...

the role of education in improving quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure has been emphasized by many studies. this survey was performed to assess the effect of a confined program of home-care on the health status of patients who were receiving hemodialysis. in this research, 37 patients afflicted by chronic renal insufficiency were chosen and put into two categories randomly, 1...

this survey has been conducted to indicate the positive effects of implementing neonates continuous care patterns on their physical health as well as early diagnosis and decrease of complications in 6 weeks after delivery. this quasi-experimental study has been conducted on 118 mothers and their neonates in one maternity hospital in iran. neonates were assigned in control and experimental group...

it is estimated that one third of the world's population is latently infected with tuberculosis (tb). the hiv epidemic fuels the tb epidemic by increasing the risk of reactivation of latent tb infection and by facilitating a more rapid progression of tb disease. although the incidence of tb is constant or decreasing in many regions of the world, rates remain high in developing countries as a co...

introduction : this study was carried out to estimate toothache prevalence among adult residents in kerman. materials and methods: this cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted among individuals aged over 18 years ( n =1800). the relevant data on the prevalence of toothache and associated factors were collected by interviewing the individuals in their homes and filling out a questi...