results after training, the mean scores of awareness, attitude and practice among patients in the case group were respectively 8.93 ± 2.32, 47.69 ± 2.21, and 66.04 ± 3.44 (p < 0.0001). the mean score difference of attitude in the intervention group was 17.78 ± 7.0, and 3.30 ± 6.85 in the control. the mean score difference of practice in the intervention group was 26.57 ± 6.37, and 2.08 ± 7.16in...

results two weeks after transplantation, the mean tpe decreased to 0.052 ± 0.002, which was significant compared to pre-hd (p < 0.001) and post-hd (p = 0.019). the mean tpec was 0.059 ± 0.002, which, just in comparison to pre-hd, was significant (p = 0.005). in addition, the mean tpe/qt decreased to 0.143 ± 0.005, which was significant compared to pre-hd (p = 0.018). the mean qtd was 0.066 ± 0....

μalakoplakia is a rare inflammatory condition of the urogenital tract. the most frequently affected organ is urinary bladder. this condition has features of a granulomatous inflammation, the pathogenesis of which is not well understood. in this study, we presented a case of urinary bladder malakoplakia associated with advanced obstructive uropathy and renal failure.

background the complications of vascular access are the most imperative etiology for hospitalization, morbidity and mortality in chronic hemodialysis. the most prevalent complication of central catheter is dysfunction due to thrombosis. aspirin is an anti-aggregative platelet drug that may increase the patency of permanent catheters (perm-cath). objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate ...

background nephrotoxicity is characterized and scored by many parameters such as vacuolization, dilatation, hyaline cast, debris or degeneration in injured renal tissue. in this short report, we attempt to find, the most correlated parameters with kidney tissue pathology damage score (pds) in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. method a total of 207 normal and toxic rats’ kidney tissue (induced b...

background: the number of failed courses and semesters in students are indicatorsof their performance. these amounts have zero inflated (zi) distributions. using zi poisson and negative binomial distributions we can model these count data to find the associated factors and estimate the parameters. this study aims at to investigate the important factors related to the educational performance of ...

conclusions this preliminary study showed that patients with kd and a high kobayashi score are at greater risk of being unresponsive to ivig treatment. further studies, preferably multicenter evaluations, are required in order to understand the exact application of various scoring systems in the management of people with kd in iran. objectives to evaluate the kobayashi scoring system with regar...

serum erythropoietin (epo) concentration was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) in 31 cases of chronic renal failure (crf), including 20 hemodialysis (hd) patients, and compared with that of 31 healthy normal controls. each patient served as a self-control comparing his or her pretreatment level with post-treatment values. there was a significant negative correlation betwe...

in this study a new minimum lumped electrical model of total circulatory system through numerical solutions to approximate the response of the human circulatory system was presented. among five existent ventricular elastances as activity function of heart pumps, a more accurate model was chosen as well as the operation of baroreflex system to accommodate variations in heart rate and systemic va...