post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a disorder of emotional and mental stress occurring as an outcome of injury or severe emotional shock. yoga may be useful in decrease of ptsd symptomology. new studies demonstrate that people suffering from ptsd can find actual relief with yoga. yoga decreases stress-induced allosteric load in three reactive systems of stress: the autonomic nervous syste...

vaginal leiomyomas are uncommon benign tumour with variable clinical presentation. these tumours arise most commonly from anterior vaginal wall. we report a case of 50-year old postmenopausal woman who presented with urinary retention, profuse vaginal bleeding and mass protruding into vagina. local examination revealed a pedunculated mass attached to the posterior vaginal wall with vascular sta...

background: spinal anesthesia is usually applied for urologic surgeries. postdural puncture headache (pdph) is among common complications which has not been reduced during last years despite all advances in the field of medicine. therapeutic effects of conventional therapy (paracetamol and novaphen) are being compared to intravenous meperidine in patients suffering from pdph. methods: one hundr...

background post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) comprises a collection of symptoms following exposure to injury-causing accidents of life. it is estimated that the prevalence of ptsd in children with malignancy and their parents is between 10-30% and even several years after treatment of malignancy this disorderremain in 20-20% of these patients. objectives this study investigated the prevalen...

post stroke dementia is one of the most common complications of stroke that is preventable and relatively treatable too. the purpose of the study is comparison between the positive findings in brain ct scan and brain perfusion spect. 15 patients who were complicated by dementia after cerebrovascular accident and also 5 patients as a control group enrolled in this study. brain ct scan and brain ...

this paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the tesol. postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the tesol theoretically in some ways. the elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...

hypertension is a common complication of kidney transplantation with the prevalence of 80%. studies in adults have shown a high prevalence of hypertension (htn) in the first three months of transplantation while this rate is reduced to 50- 60% at the end of the first year. htn remains as a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, lower graft survival rates and poor function of transplante...

background: observational studies, rather than randomized trials, revealed that statins might be associated with other benefits. objectives: the present study aimed at evaluating the preventive effects of lovastatin when used as a prophylactic agent for early and late infective complications after surgery. patients and methods: a total of 149 patients undergoing elective intracranial and spinal...

background :although the incidence of animal bite is increasing in iran, there is no sufficient knowledge about delayed post-exposure prophylaxis (pep). hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate delayed pep and its associated factors in bitten people.   methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in tuyserkan district of hamadan province (west of iran) from february 2011 to february 2...

cardiotoxicity is one of the most important adverse event related to anthracycline therapy and can lead in about 1-5% of cases to the occurrence of heart failure. in a higher percentage of patients treated with these drugs asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction can occur, so that guidelines recommend a strict clinical and echocardiographic monitoring. however, the occurrence of left ventricu...