Background & Objective Bacterial, contamination of blood components are a significant risk for transfusion reactions. Inherently, platelet concentrates (PCs) are vulnerable to bacterial contamination, due to the storage condition of processed PCs at room temperature, which provide very suitable conditions for the proliferation of microorganisms.The current study aimed at investigating the trans...

A male infant with high-output heart failure who had been found to have a hepatic arteriovenous malformation by ultrasound imaging was referred to our center (Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran) for further evaluation. Computed tomography angiography revealed a large hepat...

the present research examines the academic listening comprehension strategies (lcs) among a total number of 59 intermediate and upper-intermediate persian learners who were taking pre-university courses in 2011 in persian language centre in imam khomeini international university, qazvin. the study examined nature of lcs, the variety of applying lcs, and finally predictability of strategies as a...

A 25-year-old man presented with abdominal pain. The patient was in his usual state of health until three months prior to admission, when diffuse abdominal pain developed, most severe in the epigastria. He reported a sharp, constant pain usually unrelated to eating. Upper endoscopy was performed several times and revealed no significant finding. Abdominal pain was progressive and fever, night s...

This paper presents a collection of 28 pristine symptoms which are used for the identification of Hyperthyroid disease which are heartwarming to humankind. Ghastly, Hyperthyroid affect people without being noticed until the end. In this Health Diagnose Expert Advisory System (HDEAS) we proposed a method for diagnosing the Hyperthyroid disease by enabling a list of symptoms that the person is li...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Out-patient department is the gateway to almost all of the hospital services. Providing method of service in this place has an important role in the general impression of the patient of hospital sanitary and treatment services. This research was done with the purpose of studying the perception and expectations of out-patient service receivers of Imam Khomeini Hospital in ...

BACKGROUND The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a common pathogen which usually remains asymptomatic in the healthy adults; however, it can cause a symptomatic disease in the immunocompromised patients. The risk of infection with HCMV increases in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients as a result of receiving immunosuppressive agents. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the ...

Objective: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a life threatening lesion but there has been only limited research about its frequency in Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in the records of the pathology department of Imam Khomeini hospital in Ahvaz between 2005 and 2015. Methods: The retrospective and cross-sectional study was...