osteoporosis is a silent epidemy of today's world, and is also a prevalent problem of health in iran. the role of nutrients such as ascorbic acid, a key antioxidant vitamin, in this disease has recently attracted researchers' attention. in this study, we studied the relation between plasma ascorbic acid concentration and bone mineral density (bmd) in women referring to jami clinic, te...

case presentation here, we report the case of a 35-year-old man complaining of bilateral incomplete eye closure, two weeks after a closed head injury caused by a motor vehicle accident. introduction although bilateral facial nerve palsy is a rare condition, its etiology is more detectable than the unilateral type. a temporal bone fracture is one cause of bilateral facial nerve palsy, contributi...

acute myeloid leukemia (aml-m7) is a type of pediatric aml accounting for 3–10% of primary childhood aml and children may present with a broad variety of symptoms including low-grade fever, diarrhea, easy bruising, failure to gain weight and life-threatening conditions. we report a rare case of aml .a 26-month-old boy who presented with weakness and fatigue. he was diagnosed as a case of amlm-7...

background: anti-hla-antibodies are known to affect the allograft survival in transplant recipient patients. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between anti-hla antibodies and kidney allograft outcomes, particularly in recipients with concur-rent donor bone marrow cell infusion (dbmi). methods: between june 2006 and may 2007, forty living unrelated donor kidney tra...

background: perioglasâ (pg) is an alloplastic material used for grafting periodontal osseous defects since 1995. in animal models, it has been proven that pg achieves histologically good repair of surgically created defects. in clinical trials, pg was effective as an adjunct to conventional surgery in the treatment of intrabony defects. because the molecular events due to pg that are able to al...

background: tea consumption is common in our country and consumes more than coffee and other drinks. many studies investigated the association between coffee and bone mass density (bmd) but there is few study about association between tea and bmd. according to high prevalence of osteoporosis in country and change in demographic patterns that is associated with increasing middle-aged and older a...

the gamma irradiation has been used for end sterilization of allograft bones and its effects with a 25 kgy dosage on the osteoinductive properties of demineralized bone allograft powder was studied. this work carried out using an experimental method in an animal model. in this study the demineralized bone allograft powder which had been sterilized and prepared with gamma irradiation in a 25 kgy...

non:union: is common complication of fracture management. various factors are involved in its occurring. metabolic and endocrine factors are often overlooked. so that aim of study was to evaluate the level of vitamin d and pth in patients with unexplained non:union: and fractures due to low energy trauma. in the case control study, 30 patients with tibial non:union: compared with 32 patients wi...

objective(s): this study aimed to investigate the role and the possible mechanisms involved in the immunoregulation of experimental periodontitis by th17/treg. materials and methods: experimental periodontitis was established by silk thread ligation with porphyromonasgingivalis daubing in the bilateral maxillary second molar of male sprague-dawley (sd) rats. alveolar bones were scanned by micro...

how to cite this article: shiari r, vadood javadi p. rheumatologic manifestations of lysosomal storage diseases. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6:4 (suppl. 1): 20. pls see pdf.