background hemangiomas, usually, present at the first few hemangiomas, usually, present at the first few months of life and are the most common benign tumor in children. there are various therapeutic methods for hemangioma. capillary hemangioma is a type of hemangiomas. the steps of treatment of a child with capillary hemangioma in taleghani hospital of gorgan, iran, are reported. case report i...

results overall, 3 (15%) subjects achieved svr, 10 cases (50%) relapsed after treatment cessation and 7 (35%) patients did not clear hdv during the treatment. conclusions hdv coinfection with hbv had very low response rate to high doses and long durations of ifn α-2b therapy. objectives we aimed to determine the efficacy of ifn α-2b therapy in patients with hbv/hdv coinfection. patients and met...

there are few reports concerning interferon induced myocardial dysfunction. a known case of multiple myeloma who was receiving interferon alpha (ifa) for 14 months was brought to the emergency room in frank: pulmonary edema. after treatment of heart failure and discontinuation of interferon alpha, he remained asymptomatic thereafter. another case of chronic active hepatitis on ifa complained of...

pterygium is characterized by an elastic degeneration of the conjunctiva that extends across the limbos and invades the cornea. the recurrence rate is varied from 25-80% after primary closure to 6% with free conjunctival and iimbal grafts. several adjunctive therapies have been investigated for recurrent pte¬rygium. this article presents a 52-year-old athletic man who was seen for evaluation of...

There are few reports concerning interferon induced myocardial dysfunction. A known case of multiple myeloma who was receiving interferon alpha (IFA) for 14 months was brought to the emergency room in frank: pulmonary edema. After treatment of heart failure and discontinuation of interferon alpha, he remained asymptomatic thereafter. Another case of chronic active hepatitis on IFA complain...

background: patients with bleeding disorders are frequently infected with hepatitis c virus (hcv). there are few reports on the effect of standard interferon in these patients and no published report on pegylated interferon. the aim of this study was to compare pegylated interferon alpha-2a and standard interferon alpha with ribavirin in patients with bleeding disorders and chronic hcv infectio...

background three single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) near interleukin-28b (il-28b) gene were shown to be highly associated with treatment response (svr) in patients with chronic hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection. there is limited data about the role of single and combined il-28b polymorphisms in hcv-infected polish population. objectives this study's aim was to determine predictability of th...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of monotherapy with interferon alpha-2b and combination therapy with interferon alpha-2b plus ribavirin on chronic hepatitis c infection in thalassaemic patients. methods: in parallel group randomized, double blind, controlled trial, 32 thalassaemic patients with chronic hepatitis c infection completed the study. in a random fa...

conclusions further studies on the role of hepcidin in pathogenesis of chc are needed to assess the potency of its use in antiviral treatment. results patients with chc had lower hepcidin mrna expression and more frequently iron deposits in hepatocytes than subjects with chb did. in chc group, hepcidin mrna expression was positively correlated with alanine aminotransferase activity and serum ir...