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Postlung transplant rehospitalization: A study of causes, health care burden, and outcomes
(2009-09-01)
Objectives: Rehospitalization is a significant burden for transplant systems, which use data on hospitalization to monitor practice outcomes. In this study, all rehospitalizations after successful lung transplant performed ...
Emergence of new forms of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis bacilli: Super extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or totally drug-resistant strains in Iran
(2009-08-01)
Background: The study documented the emergence of new forms of resistant bacilli (totally drug-resistant [TDR] or super extensively drug-resistant [XDR] tuberculosis [TB] strains) among patients with multidrug-resistant ...
Evaluating the sensitivity of three primers using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis for rapid identification of Mycobacterium simiae isolated from pulmonary tuberculosis patients
(2010-12-01)
Background: Nowadays the molecular methods widely use for rapid identification of Mycobacterium other than tuberculosis (MOTT). The Mycobacterium simiae isolates are cause of majority of human pulmonary diseases compared ...
Depression while on the lung transplantation waiting list
(2009-10-15)
Background: Patients inflicted with severe illnesses are prone to depression, which tends to intensify the burden of the disease. Those awaiting organ transplantation cannot help but feel that they may not be fortunate ...
Health status of the patients before lung transplantation: A report from Iran
(2009-10-15)
Background: Breathing is essential for living. When someone is a lung transplantation candidate, it could be imagined that the breathing difficulties that he/she is experiencing has a great impact on his/her health status. ...
Pheochromocytoma crisis due to glucocorticoid administration: A case report and review of the literature
(2009-09-15)
We report a patient who presented with two episodes of severe hypertension after intramuscular injection of betamethasone. The first attack was associated with pulmonary edema, while the second attack was associated with ...
Circumferential calcified tracheal stenosis
(2009-10-01)
There are multiple etiologies for tracheal stenosis, postintubation stenosis being the most common. In this study, we briefly report a unique form of tracheal stenosis with circumferential calcification at the site of the ...
The NRAMPI, VDR and TNF-α Gene polymorphisms in Iranian tuberculosis patients: The study on host susceptibility
(2009-08-01)
The natural resistance-associated macrophage protein (NRAMP1), Vitamin-D receptor (VDR) and Tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) have been associated in susceptibility to tuberculosis, but the results have been inconsistent. This ...
Differences in cell wall thickness between resistant and nonresistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Using transmission electron microscopy
(2009-06-29)
The ultrastructure of the cell wall of extensively drug-resistant (XDR), multidrug-resistant (MDR) and susceptible tuberculosis (TB) bacilli was viewed under transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Under the TEM, marked ...
Growth and cell-division in extensive (XDR) and extremely drug resistant (XXDR) tuberculosis strains: Transmission and atomic force observation
(2010-12-09)
The ultra-structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) was examined by transmission electronic (TEM)) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The study was performed to describe the morphology of susceptible, multidrugresistant ...