this is a mortality study in internal medicine wards of amir-alam hospital, since the beginning of 1374 to end of 1376. here, we reviewed, prevalence of disease lead to death, the ward and invasive interventions and duration of admission of patients before death. in this study, records of 85 patients were reviewed. 68.2% of patients were men and 31.8% women. mean of age was 61.6% with minimum o...

conclusions although we found a trend towards decreasing spah and improving 6mwd, no statistically significant shift were detected in our outcomes due to inadequate sample size. patients and methods a registered (irct201108257411n1), triple-blind, randomized controlled trial was performed in rasoule akram hospital, tehran, from 2009 to 2011. forty five patients with secondary pulmonary hyperten...

objective: trichomonas species usually reside in the mouth and occasionally in the respiratory tract. these species can be found in the lungs of humans. although the pathogenicity of the parasite in the respiratory system has not been proven, it is more prevalent in people who lack good oral health or suffer from asthma or chronic pulmonary diseases. in the present descriptive study, we have id...

case presentation we reported a 2-year-old boy with pph, who presented unusual and intractable seizure which suggested the diagnosis of md. we also reviewed a few previous reports about the association of pph with moyamoya disease. discussion moyamoya disease is a kind of cerebral vasculopathy and should be considered as a differential diagnosis for patients with unusual seizure attacks who are...

back ground and purpose: air pollution in cities thorough the world, is a complex mixture of poisonous compounds which are always combustion products particulate matters (pm) are instant member of this mixture. despite wide spectrum health effects of pm, effects on death seem to be the most important one. the main purpose of this study was to estimate number of cardio pulmonary death in adults ...

chronic  obstructive  pulmonary  disease (copd)  and  asthma  are  major  public  health problems, which seems to have close association with psychiatric disorders. the present study was conducted to compare the psychological status between asthmatic and copd patients and clarify the relationship with severity of pulmonary obstruction. this cross-sectional study was planned to compare the psych...

coronary artery disease is one of the main causes of mortality in most developed countries. there is also an increasing rate of mortality in developing countries where in addition to coronary artery disease, infection diseases still not have been controlled. although, now a day coronary artery disease is responsible for half of deaths in developed countries, this regrettable event is increasing...

context worldwide prevalence of respiratory diseases, suffering from such diseases, and heavy cost of treatment, which all may result from lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, were the main factors to conduct the current study. in the present study, the causes and symptoms of asthma were evaluated and compared with those of some other respiratory diseases. ira...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) as a chronic disease could lead to micro- and macrovascular disorder. Also, some evidence demonstrated that pulmonary involvement is more frequent in DM patients than the healthy population. Hence, we tried to perform a systematic search to considering pulmonary disease among the DM patients. Articles were identified through searching databases including PubMed, Google Sc...