Quantitation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in serum has been used to predict and monitor the efficacy of interferon therapy in chronic HCV infection. We prospectively studied the fluctuation of viremia by a longitudinal follow-up of HCV RNA levels for 2 months in six untreated patients. Spontaneous fluctuations of HCV RNA ranged from 2.8- to 5.7-fold with branched DNA assay and from 2.9- to 5....

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B (HB) is a major global mortality. Accurately predicting the trend of the disease can provide an appropriate view to make health policy disease prevention. This paper aimed to apply three different to predict monthly incidence rates of HB. METHODS This historical cohort study was conducted on the HB incidence data of Hamadan Province, the west of Iran, from 2004 to 2012....

A 28-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) presented to the emergency department (ED) at University Hospital in Newark, NJ on March 10, 2011 with epigastric abdominal pain, a low-grade fever, chills, shortness of breath, pleuritic pain, and impaired balance of 2 days’ duration. She also reported right arm numbness and dizziness, consistent with her previous symptoms of MS. She had 3 episo...

Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mahmood Salesi, Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel/Fax: +98-91968...

BACKGROUND Citation analysis as one of the most widely used methods of bibliometrics can be used for computing the various impact measures for scholars based on data from citation databases. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Thomson Reuters provides annual report in the form of impact factor (IF) for each journal. OBJECTIVES We aimed to evaluate the citation parameters of Hepatitis Monthly ...

conclusions this results the same as many similar studies demonstrated that common hcv genotypes in iranian patients were 1a, 3a and 1b, respectively. patients with 1a and 1b genotypes have lower responses to interferon treatment, and it is reasonable to perform early screening to diagnose and determine hcv genotype for effective treatment and diagnose high-risk cases. results in overall, 509 p...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B and C among blood donors attending the National Blood Transfusion Center (NBTC) in Baghdad, Iraq from 2006-2009 and to compare the results with previous year's results and results from studies on a normal population, and to identify certain demographic characteristics such as age, gender, and residence of positive cases. METHODS This is a ...