Abstract: Introduction: Behcet's disease (BD) is a multisystem disorder with potential ability to influence pregnancy outcome. Changes in the BD may also occur during pregnancy. This study was designed to find the effect of pregnancy on BD and the outcome of pregnancy. Materials & Methods: We analyzed 59 pregnancies in 54 women with BD. The disease activity during pregnancy and in the 6 month period both before pregnancy and after delivery were ...
Abstract: Introduction: Behcet's disease (BD) is characterized by recurrent attacks followed by remissions, making difficult the assessment of a given treatment. The aim of this study was to compare the Iran Behcet's Disease Dynamic Activity Measure (IBDDAM) with the physician's global assessment (PGA) in evaluating the treatment result. Materials & Methods: Ninety-six patients with BD were followed prospectively, regardless of their treatment modality. The range of follow up was 3 to 62 ...
Abstract: Introduction: There is considerable controversy in the characteristics of Behect's disease (BD) in children. The aim of this study is to show Iran's view m juvenile BD. Materials & Methods: Different manifestations of the disease were determined in the BD patients under the age of 16. They were compared with the adult patients by chi square test. Results: We had 102 children with BD. The male/female ratio was 1.04. Oral aphthosis (64%) ...
Abstract: The pathergy phenomenon (PP) is one of the hallmarks of Behcet's Disease (BD). It has been reported to be positive from 17.5% to 83% of cases in different studies. PP is used as a diagnosis criterion in the Dilsen criteria, the Japan criteria, the International criteria, and the Iran criteria. It is therefore important to know wether PP is a fix manifestation of the disease or a cyclic manifestation ...
Abstract: Neuropsychiatric manifestations of SLE are frequent and usually serious, convulsion is one of the most important and hazardous symptoms of CNS-LUPUS. Because there are many differences in clinical manifestations frequency and severity of organ systems involvement, and cause of death in patients with SLE (in Iran and other countries) an analytic retrospective case-control study was carried out to evaluate the frequency of convulsion in relation with age and sex distribution, ...
Abstract: In order to study a possible relation between mechanical bone pains and the BMD, 1335 patients were analyzed as every consecutive patient. The BMD was measured in a cohort study on 5927 patients referred for various reasons to the Rheumatology Research Center, Osteoporosis Unit. The BMD was measured by Dual Energy X-rays Absorptiometry (DEXA) on the lumbar spine (L1-L4) and the femoral neck. Patients having an inflammatory disease such as ...
Abstract: In Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) osteoporosis is secondary. Its cause and its treatment are still controversial. All agents used in post menopausal osteoporosis have been tried for RA osteoporosis. Our work is a prospective open study to demonstrate the efficacy of low dose NF (20 mg daily) in these patients. Sixty two patients with RA and osteoporosis (t score less than 2.5 standard deviation, as defined by WHO) entered the study. BMD ...
Abstract: Natrium Fluoride (NF) is one of the best treatments of osteoporosis because it is cheap, it has no major side effects, and it is effective (Heany et al., Farley et al., Dure-Smith et al., Kanis et al., and Pak et al.). Our work is a prospective open study to demonstrate the efficacy of low dose NF (20 mg daily) in post menopausal osteoporosis. Fifty six patients with osteoporosis (t score less ...