background: the purpose of this research was to determine the relation between negative or positive qualitative troponin i test and the short term prognosis of patients presenting to emergency department with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms. methods: we assessed the qualitative rapid troponin i in patients with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms after at least 4 hours and then we...

conclusions primary scec is a rare and highly aggressive tumor. however, prognosis is poor and long-term survival is exceptional. crt could be an appropriate alternative to operation. patients and methods this brief report was carried out by reviewing the medical records of 22 patients with newly histologically proven scec that were treated between 2000 and 2010 at 2 tertiary academic hospitals...

in order to identify the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of childhood guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) in east azarbaijan province, clinical and electrophysiological data on 40 consecutive children with gbs, admitted to tabriz children's medical center from march 21st 1999 to march 20th 2002, were analyzed. all patients received intravenous immunoglobulin, 400 mg /kg/ day fo...

to determine the prognostic value of response to treatment in patients with focal segmental glomerulo-sclerosis. fsgs includes 10-15% of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in children. bulk of evidence supports disease relationship with immune system. unfortunately, responses to immunosuppressive drugs are not desirable and progression to end-stage renal disease is common. we analyzed 62 out of 99 c...

early recognition of developmental disorders is an important goal, and equally important is avoiding misdiagnosing a disorder in a healthy child without pathology. the aim of the present study was to develop an artificial neural network using perinatal information to predict developmental disorder at infancy. a total of 1,232 mother-child dyads were recruited from 6,150 in the original data of ...

a number of epidemiologic studies have reported a positive relationship between heart rate, cardiovascular disease and mortality. to examine the correlation between heart rate and mortality after acute myocardial infarction (ami), 2147 patients hospitalized in coronary care units in isfahan were investigated in a cross-sectional study. their heart rate was measured according to an electrocardio...

abstract: chronic lymphocyte leukemia (cll) is the most common leukemia in elderly individuals that is accompanied by the presence of cd5/cd19/cd20/cd23 positive, fmc7 negative and reduced levels of surface membrane immunoglobuline (igm & igd), cd79b on b lymphocytes in the blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes. remarkably, based on the mutational igvh status, b-cll cases can be subdivided into tw...

introduction: awareness about the outcome of trauma patients in the emergency department (ed) has become a topic of interest. accordingly, the present study aimed to compare the rapid trauma score (rts) and worthing physiological scoring system (wpss) in predicting in-hospital mortality and poor outcome of trauma patients. methods: in this comparative study trauma patients brought to five eds i...

background: in this study we evaluated the prognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio (mlr) in patients with gastric cancer undergoing curative surgical resection. methods: a total of 121 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma undergoing curative r0 surgical resection in our institutions between 2003 and 2010 were included in this study.  mlr was classified into 3 groups as follows: mlr0; 0...

neuroblastoma, one of the common malignant childhood tumors, arises from neuroblast cells derived from theneural crest and destined for the adrenal medulla and the sympathetic nervous system and shows remarkable biologicalheterogeneity, resulting in favorable or unfavorable outcomes. some tumors make rapid progress with a fataloutcome. in other instances, the tumors regress spontaneously in inf...