Aspirin and Stroke Severity To the Editor: Ricci et al are to be congratulated on an important study that provides further insight into the association (or lack thereof) between previous aspirin therapy and baseline stroke severity.1 Their very large multicenter prospective study certainly has several strengths. However, we are not convinced that based on this study, one can “conclude reliably ...

background: treating inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) with antidepressants might be of utility to improve patient’s condition. the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of duloxetine on depression, anxiety, severity of symptoms, and quality of life (qol) in ibd patients. materials and methods: in a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial on  2013-2014, in alzahra hospital (is...

background: electrophysiologic (edx) study is the most valuable method in grading the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome (cts), but it is invasive and painful. we evaluated the efficacy of ultrasound for this purpose. materials and methods: eighty-one wrists of 52 consecutive patients with clinical evidences of cts, confirmed and graded by edx as mild, moderate, and severe, were examined by ult...

background: in order to describe the patients and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for widow spider envenomation, investigators require a reliable assessment tool. in this paper, the development of a clinical index for measuring the widow spider bite severity, latrodectus envenomation severity score (less), is described. methods: according to the valid methods for index development, a d...

background and objectives: mthe emergency severity index (esi) triage is commonly used in clinical settings to determine the patients’ emergency severity. however, the reliability of this index is not sufficiently explored. the present study examines the inter-rater reliability of esi by comparing triage ratings as performed by nurses and physicians. methods: this prospective cross-sectional st...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a neurological disease with fatigue as most prevalent symptom. psychopathological symptoms, physical and mental dysfunctions and body mass abnormalities potentially could deteriorate fatigue. thus, in this study, we aimed at evaluating the effect of these factors on fatigue severity of ms patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 162 patients with ...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare alexithymia, anxiety, depression and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and psychiatric patients. materials and methods: this was a comparative study. study subjects consisted of 210 individuals; 129 patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) who referred to the psychos...