BACKGROUND Idiopathic non-histaminergic acquired angioedema (InH-AAE) is a rare disease for which there are no available laboratory parameters to clearly define the disorder. Therapy is often difficult and various treatment options have been proposed. In this paper, we have evaluated the most effective therapies for InH-AAE on the basis of current literature and report the therapeutic effect of...

CONTEXT Metabolic syndrome (MetS) increases the risk of most non-communicable diseases; gathering information about its prevalence can be very effective in formulating preventive strategies for metabolic diseases. There are many different studies about the prevalence of MetS in Iran, but the results and the study populations of these studies are very different; therefore, it is very important t...

introduction: determining the overlap rates is a quantitative method to compare database contents. in this survey, traditional overlap, relative overlap and synthetic degrees of freedom between pubmed as a free database and scopus as a subscription-based one in the cardiovascular disease field have been determined. methods: this descriptive applied research was done during january to june 2009....

BACKGROUND Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus, and more than 75% of patients who have had diabetes for more than 20 years will have some degree of DR. This disease is highly destructive to self-esteem and puts a high burden on public health and pension systems due to the effects that it has on people of working age. The current mainstay of trea...

BACKGROUND Training schoolchildren to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation is one possible method of increasing bystander CPR rates. We reviewed available literature to identify what methods of training children have been successful. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS This review sought to evaluate evidence addressing the following PICO question: (P) In schoolchildren, (I) what types of CPR, AED and fir...

(1) Introduction and Objective: Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is an uncommon disease, only accounting for 5–10% of all carcinomas. Current clinical practice guidelines encourage a risk-adapted approach to UTUC management, including lymph node dissection (LND) in patients with muscle-invasive or high-risk tumors. If pathological characteristics could be more accurately predicted from p...

Twitter has been identified as one of the most popular and promising altmetrics data sources, as it possibly reflects a broader use of research articles by the general public. Several factors, such as document age, scientific discipline, number of authors and document type, have been shown to affect the number of tweets received by scientific documents. The particular meaning of tweets mentioni...

conclusions there is a high prevalence of mets in the iranian adult population, with large variations based on different measurement criteria. therefore, prevention and control of mets should be considered a priority. objectives this study systematically reviewed the findings of all available studies on mets in the adult iranian population and estimated the overall prevalence of mets in this po...

BACKGROUND Randomized trials are essential in assessing the effects of healthcare interventions and are a key component in systematic reviews of effectiveness. Searching for reports of randomized trials in databases is problematic due to the absence of appropriate indexing terms until the 1990s and inconsistent application of these indexing terms thereafter. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the evidence derived from randomized controlled clinical trials on the efficacy and safety of omalizumab compared to placebo in controlling symptoms of chronic idiopathic urticaria/chronic spontaneous urticaria (CIU/CSU). DATA SOURCE The electronic databases PubMed, Medline, EMBASE, Biomed Central, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Wiley, OVID...