background and aims: in diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease, one of diagnostic way is upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, which helps in differential diagnosis of unspecified colitis as well. the aim of this study was to investigate the necessity of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.   materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 3...

inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the gastrointestinal tract and includes ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease. during last decades, the incidence of ibd   has increased, both in children as well as in adults (1–3). while the precise etiology of ibd is unknown, inflammatory bowel disease occure due to an abnormal immune response to luminal antigens i...

  Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. The main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. Myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. Although both myasthenia grav...

conclusions the results of the study were indicative of improvement and symptom relief in the majority of patients and it seems that treatment prolongation up to six months could be a key factor to achieve better clinical responses. it is recommended that further randomized clinical trials evaluate this therapeutic regimen. background the current study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of mesalazi...

background and aims: epstein-barr (ebv) virus infection is very common in the population. virus belongs to the family herpesviridae, whose representatives are characterized by the ability to cause the human body latent persistent infections. the goal of study is to assess ebv infection frequency and pcr method in the choice of ebv in inflammatory eye disease, comparing with ebv presence in eye ...

abstract background: inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine that may have critical consequences on patient’s quality of life (qol). many disease-specific qol tools have been developed recently. the mcmaster inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire (ibdq) is one of them. the aim of this study was to translate into persian and evalu...