Dry eye syndrome is a common tears and ocular surface multifactorial disease, described by changes in the ocular surface epithelia related to reduced tears quantity and ocular surface sensitivity, leading to inflammatory reaction. Managing the eye inflammation proved helpful to patients with dry eye disease and current treatment is based on the use of topically applied artificial tear products/...

purpose: risk factors of pelvic inflammatory disease can be different in different countries because of different sexual behaviors and religious restrictions. this study investigated the risk factors of this disease in iranian women in tehran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional, descriptive study 1104 women with pelvic inflammatory disease were assessed from may 2010 to march 2011. ...

ulcerative colitis (uc) and crohn's disease (cd) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases with uncertain etiology thought to be triggered by interactions between various environmental, genetic and immunologic factors. incidence rate of cd and uc is different in various geographic areas around the world, between 0.1-11 and 0.5-24.5 per 100,000 people for cd and uc, respectively. recent studies in...

crohn's disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) of unknown etiology that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus and shows extra-intestinal involvement. it characteristically shows skip lesions. this case report reported in 2014 describes a middle age pakistani male known to have documented evidence of significant crohn's disease since past 18 ...

thrombin is a multifunctional enzyme which has key roles in coagulation cascade and inflammatory events. the pro-inflammatory functions of thrombin occur by different mechanisms including increasing mast cell degranulation, up-regulating the expression of cell adhesion molecules (cams) and promoting the secretion of inflammatory chemokines and cytokines. dysregulated signaling functions of thro...

objective: to compare the efficacy of ceftriaxone plus ofloxacin or azithromycin for cases of pelvic inflammatory disease (pid). materials and methods:   this clinical terial was performed on 180 women with pid from march 2005 to march 2007 in parastarane-shahed hospital. patients with pid were randomly divided to receive injection of ceftriaxone 250 mg plus ofloxacin 200 mg per day or azithrom...

this is a descriptive survey to define the incidence of co-existing disease in patients undergoing eye surgery before   anesthesia in hospitals of the ministry of health and education in 1993.   in this survey 2000 patients ' records have been studied who were admitted 10 the hospitals. collecting of data   was done by checklist that contained questions about the condition of the heart and...

Dry eye from Sjögren's syndrome is a multifactorial disease that results in dysfunction of the lacrimal functional unit. Studies have shown changes in tear composition, including inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and metalloproteinase. T-lymphocytes have been shown to increase in the conjunctiva and lacrimal glands in patient and animal models. This inflammation is in part responsible for the...

inflammatory bowel diseases are a general term for a group of chronic inflammatory diseases with unknown etiology that involve gastrointestinal system. the diagnosis of these diseases is possible with rule out of other diseases because there are not special diagnostic tests for them. nevertheless, clinical feature of these diseases are very specific and in most cases definite diagnosis are poss...

background inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) are debilitating diseases that lead to a variety of problems in a patient's daily life and are a huge burden for the health care system. since this group of diseases are multifactorial and complex, long-term longitudinal studies are clearly needed to understand them better. a population-based registry (ibd-far) has been established in fars, a souther...