Kidney donation and transplantation in Iran has passed a long history from the first kidney transplant in 1967, starting living related transplant in 1988 to 1989, adopting state-regulated livingunrelated donor kidney transplant program in 1988, religious approval from the Supreme Religious Leader for brain death in 1989, legislation law for cadaveric transplant in 2000, and increased number of...

background: hepatitis b is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis in the world. a small number of epidemiological studies, show the role of sucking insects in the transmission of hepatitis b as mechanical vector .in order to determine the prevalence of hbsag in patients with malaria and to compare with healthy blood donors, this study was conducted. methods: in this case-control study, ...

abstract mutations have been described in all of the four open reading frames of the hepatitis b virus (hbv), however, from a clinical perspective the surface escape mutant is the most troublesome. hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) variants may impair diagnosis, or allow the virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity or passive immunoglobulin therapy. hbv mutants with amino acid substitutions, ...

background: human leukocyte antigens (hla) are polymorphic cell surface proteins. distribution of hla alleles vary among different racial and ethnic populations in unrelated stem cell registries. determination of hla allele frequencies in different ethnic groups is useful for population genetic analyses. materials and methods: based on data available from the iranian stem cell donor registry, h...

conclusions the results demonstrated that the mortality rate was higher in cf patients with a positive family history, a consanguineous marriage, and residence in a rural area. therefore, demographic factors play an important role in the outcome of cystic fibrosis. unfortunately, these parameters, which can be managed easily and with low cost, have been overlooked. patients and methods this was...

Sir, I read the review article published in the previous issue of the Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases with great interest.1 Ghahramani pointed rightly to one of the most disputed ethical issues in the field of nephrology and kidney transplantation. Several studies from almost all over the world have clarified existence of deep disparities in terms of caring of patients who develop end-stage ...