normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa gossypibomas or retained surgical foreign bodies, although uncommon causes of abdominal lumps, still remain a major cause of concern for surgeons worldwide. their early identification and treatment are mandatory to prevent morbidity as well as mortality. the major diagnostic dilemma still remains in the vagueness of presentation of this callous enti...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: one of the major steps for planning and making polices in iranian health and health service sector is to gain information on the condition of such services in each province. thus, the present study intended to determine the degree of development and ranking of provinces at this sector. it can identify the undev...

background and purpose: different methods such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy and immunotherapy are used for treatment of melanoma cancer. unfortunately they don't always have desirable results and they may have unfavorable side effects. researchers try to find new, more effective drugs with low side effects. in this study we evaluated the cytotoxic effect of aca-1...

background: pulmonary embolism (pe) is the most life-threatening form of venous thrombosis which causes the majority of mortalities in this category. obstructive sleep apnea (osa) has been indicated as one of the risk factors for thromboembolism because of hemostatic alterations. the present study was designed to seek for the relationship between osa and 30-day mortality of patients with pe. ma...

a cross-sectional study with a random cluster sampling design was carried out to estimate the seroprevalence of bovine herpesvirus type 1 (bhv-1) in non-vaccinated dairy herds in hamedan province, west of iran. simple random sampling was used for selection of cattle in each herd. informative data about each herd and selected animals were recorded by the farm manager in a provided questionnaire....

background: apical membrane antigen 1 (ama-1) is positioned on the surface of merozoite and it may play a role in attack to red blood cells. the mainaim of present study was to determine the genetic variation, as well as, to detect of selection at domain i of ama-1 gene plasmodium vivax isolates in iran. methods: blood samples were collected from 58 patients positive for p. vivax ,mono infectio...

conclusions the current study highlights that the high level of resistance to many antibacterial agents and a gradual increase in the degree of per, oxa-10, shv and tem esbls among the majority of imipenem resistant p. aeruginosa isolated from patients with burn infection is an enormous threat in burn centers in iran. results the results showed that the majority of isolates (88%) were multi-dru...