BACKGROUND Women during the postpartum period experience many physiological, psychological, and social changes. Quality of life (QOL) is a sense of well-being and arises from satisfaction or dissatisfaction with various aspects of life including health, employment, socioeconomic state, psychological-emotional state, and family. Moreover, QOL is an important criteria for assessing healthcare sys...

our aim was to evaluate the short and long term efficacy of botulinum toxin therapy in iranian patients with achalasia. in a randomized, double blind trial, 20 patients with achalasia, referring to imam khomeini hospital, received either 80 units of botulinum toxin (bt) or placebo (pl) from 1995 to 1998. two weeks later, the response to treatment was assessed on the basis of changes in the symp...

The aim of the study was to estimate the level of dyspnea and quality of life in patients with pulmonary fibrosis after 6 weeks' respiratory rehabilitation. The study comprised of 31 patients (F/M-12/19) with interstitial lung diseases (21 with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, 4 with lung fibrosis due to allergic alveolitis, 4 with lung fibrosis due to collagenosis, 2 with lung fibrosis due t...