conclusions compared with monotherapy, adding ribavirin to treatment is more effective in removing hepatitis c virus from the bloodstream in patients with thalassemia, it is also more effective in reducing the relapse rate after treatment. except the increase in blood transfusion, there was no significant increase in side effects followed by adding ribavirin. results three randomized clinical t...

this study was aimed at investigating the effectiveness of training of pivotal response treatment (prt) to mothers with 6 to 12 year old autistic children on reducing the autism symptoms. also, the impact of prt on reduction of parenting stress was addressed in this study. in a clinical trial work, 14 mothers of autistic children in a rehabilitation clinic for autistic children in tehran city, ...

introduction: to identify changes in oaes parameters in treatment course of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (issnhl). materials and methods: in aprospective studyfromaugust 2005 to january 2009, 26 patients with issnhl underwent conventional audiometry/tympanometry and two types of oaes (teoaes and dpoaes) before and after the completion of standard drug therapy.the changes in pre-...

background and aims: hepatitis c virus is one of the viral infections transmitted by blood transfusion. patients with thalassaemia frequently need blood transfusion and are in danger of hcv infection. in most cases of infection (85%) the virus evades the immune system and establishes a chronic infection that may lead to cirrhosis and liver carcinoma. liver is the main site of hcv replication hc...

the adaptive response (ar) is a phenomenon by which cells exposure to sublethal doses of dna-damaging agents (non-mutagenic dose of chemical or radiation), known as conditioning treatment (ct), leads to increased resistance to a subsequent exposure to a higher dose of the same or other agents, known as challenge treatment (cr). the adaptive response (ar) induced by radiation in human lymphocyte...