hypothermia is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality especially in low-income settings. to control this problem in countries such as iran a full knowledge of the situation is of great importance. a review was performed both in persian and english, including international databases. totally 934 articles were reviewed and finally five articles were selected. the incidence of neon...

conclusions given the prevalence of most gastrointestinal parasites, the hiv-positive patients show a weak immune system and higher sensitivity for infection particularly for opportunistic parasites. so, routine stool tests for detection of intestinal parasites are very useful for people with weakened immune systems. results the prevalence of intestinal parasites was 48.8%, which shows a high p...

background reduction mammaplasty (rm) is among the commonly performed procedures by plastic surgeons. occult breast cancers are rarely detected in these specimens. the purpose of the study was to describe histopathological evaluation of reduction mammaplasty specimens to detect occult breast cancer in southern iran. methods the histological diagnosis of 350 rm specimens from 175 patients to det...

marek's disease (md) is a common lymphoproliferative disease of chickens, usually characterized by mononuclear cellular infiltration in different organs. the disease is caused by a herpes virus and is transmissible. md has been a common, important problem for poultry industry worldwide, as well as, in our country, iran. the aim of present study was to have an estimation of the incidence of m...

conclusions overall, cancer incidence rates had increased in both sexes. many factors were responsible, such as changes in lifestyle, environmental factors, increased life expectancy, improvements in the registration systems, and declining mortality rates due to early detection and treatment. the results of this study provided useful information for the prediction of changes in the incidence an...

background and objective: to assess the incidence and risk factors of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in children admitted to pediatric intensive care unit for more than 6 hrs. methods: we prospectively collected medical records of children between 1 month and 18 years old admit-ted to our 10 bed picu of a tertiary care university hospital between december 1, 2014 and may 30, 2015. de-mographic...

developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh) is one of the most widely discussed abnormalities in neonates. the advantages of sonographic examination are well known, but its main disadvantage is that it might lead to over diagnosis, which might cause over treatment. variations in the incidence of developmental dysplasia of the hip are well known. during six months study since september 2006 all 130...

statistics have shown that the incidence of miscarriage among nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists who were pregnant before being em­ployed was 10% while those who were pregnant during their employment were 20%. this was attributed to the teratogenic effect of anesthetics agents used in the operating room on the fetus. today with the use of special askrog valve, 90% of the anesthetic gases ...

conclusions the mmt program is an effective intervention to prevent hcv infection transmission, although it is essential to compare its effectiveness with other interventions before implementing it in nationwide. results of the 259 participants, 98.4% (255) were men, the mean age ± sd was 33.1 ± 7.58 years and hcv prevalence was 50%. the studied idus reported lower rate of risky injecting and s...

background the prevalence of newly-diagnosed cases of chronic hepatitis is decisive for the overall incidence rate of hepatitis b observed in poland. objectives we aimed to determine the chronic hepatitis b incidence trends in poland, taking into consideration the ages, genders, and environments of the patients. methods the study is based on aggregated data from polish descriptive epidemiologic...