how to cite this article: alaei f. cardiac involvement in lysosomal diseases. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6:4 (suppl. 1): 19. pls see pdf.

background: the pistachio is a nut produced by about 20 species of shrub. present-day studies show the health benefits of pistachio in preventing or treating diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (cvds), cancer, multiple sclerosis (ms), and erectile dysfunction. materials and methods: medline / pubmed, and google scholar databases were searched using the keywords of pistacia vera, ...

celiac disease is a chronic, systemic and autoimmune disorder of gastrointestinal track that involves approximately 1% of individuals of all ages throughout the world. the collaboration of environmental factor such as gluten proteins and genetic factors, notably hla-dq2 and/or hla-dq8 trigger the disease. gluten-free diet is the simply and merely safe and proficient existing treatment. this art...

alzheimer disease (ad) is a neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive and behavioral impairment. amyloid beta (aβ) peptides are involved in ad as the main component of amyloid plaques found in the brain. recent in vivo and in vitro studies have shown that there is a lot of substances that alter aβ pathogenesis of ad. aβ induces toxicity lead to increasing ros. in the other hand, 5-ht6 and ...

background and aim: the purpose of present study was to evaluate endoscopic features, prevalence of complications, response to treatment and necessity of the endoscopy in the patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) symptoms. materials and methods: we selected the patients with gerd symptoms in amiralmomenin hospital from 1381 to 1382. 277 cases were tested in this study. group 1, (...

pulmonary arterial hypertension (pha) is a frequent complication of congenital heart disease (chd), most commonly in systemic-to-pulmonary shunt lesions. in patients with an uncorrected left-to right shunt, pah will end up to eisenmenger’s syndrome, which is contraindication of surgery. what about patients with moderate to severe pah, who do not have criteria of eisenmenger’s syndrome; immediat...

alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive and other cns impairments which is increasing worldwide and poses a major public health problem, yet no effective treatments are found and available drugs only alleviate the symptoms temporarily. postmortem analyses on the brains of ad patients and observed lower risk of ad in nsaids users among other studies hav...

summary: adult-onset still’s disease (aosd) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. it is characterized by high grade fever, skin rash, arthritis, leukocytosis, increased esr, crp and liver enzyme levels and high levels of ferritin. the treatment of aosd includes nsaids, steroids, and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards). recently biologic agents have been used f...

background this study is the first study to evaluate the nonadherence rate and reasons of same patient with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in iran. methods during 9 months, 500 patients with ibd were enrolled in the study. patients were interviewed about their nonadherence behaviors. factor analysis was used to analyze the collected answers. results the overall rate of nonadherence was 33.3% ...