aim. this study was conducted to examine the effect of acupressure on severity of pain and fatigue in patients with chronic heart failure. background. patients with chronic heart failure experience high levels of pain and fatigue. acupressure is a simple, inexpensive and non-invasive method which may reduce the pain and fatigue in patients with chronic heart failure. method. in this single blin...

introduction: more than 50 scoring systems have been published for classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings, so far. the present study aimed to compare the ability of trauma injury severity score (triss) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache) iii in predicting mortality of intensive care unit (icu) admitted trauma patients....

objective: obsessive-compulsive disorder at clinical levels has elevated symptoms that result in deteriorated psycho-social functions. this study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy on symptoms severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder. methods: this exploratory empirical study was a clinical trial that used quasi-experimental design to systemically investigate ...

    Background: Scorpionism is a public health problem in some provinces in Iran. The present study aimed to assess the clinical manifestations of scorpion envenomation in Shiraz and determine a clinical severity grading for Iranian scorpion envenomation in order to suggest a treatment guideline for emergency physicians.    Methods: In this analytic retrospective stu...

conclusions compared to supine position, semi-fowler’s position is more effective in relieving chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. results the severity, duration, and frequency of nausea and the severity and frequency of vomiting episodes in the control group differed significantly across the nine measurement time-points (p < 0.001). in the experimental group, the severity (p = 0.254) and...

Objectives: Myotonic Dystrophy type I (DM1) is a dominantly inherited disorder with a multisystemic pattern affecting skeletal muscle, heart, eye, endocrine and central nervous system. DM1 is associated with the expansion and instability of CTG repeat in the 3chr('39') untranslated region of the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) gene located on chromosome 19q13.3. The aim of this study w...

Background: The aggravating role of Staphylococcus aureus is well known in atopic dermatitis but has not yet been proven in psoriasis. The role of Staphylococcus aureus superantigens is emphasized in the initiation, maintenance and complications of psoriasis. We investigated the frequency of nasal, axillary, and perineal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) in patients with psoriasis and its ...

to investigate the correlation between il-8 (-251 a/t) gene polymorphism and susceptibility to chronic periodontitis as well as different clinical parameters and severity of the condition in patients referred to dental school, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran.in this randomized cross sectional study, 227 non-smoking patients with chronic periodontitis (test) and 40 healthy in...