Milad Gholami, Hossein Pashaiefar, Mohammad Reza Ebrahimpour, Sahar Bayat, Marzieh Hosseini, Ahmad Monabati, Mir Davood Omrani, Vahid Reza Yassaee, Parvin Yavari, Farkhondeh Behjati & Reza Mirfakhraie·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2017
Aims: Acute myeloid leukemia is a clonal hematopoietic malignant disease, resulting from genetic alterations in normal hematopoietic stem cells. Advances in the genomics of acute myeloid leukemia have identified several recurrent gene mutations such as FLT3 that its mutations con...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36370
Aims: Pressure injury is a common health problem associated with rise in treatment cost and lengthy hospital stay. Despite advancements, trainings and researches on pressure injury prevention and treatment, its knowledge and practice among nurses has been low. The study evaluated...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37262
Leonor de Castro Monteiro Loffredo, Rodolpho Telarolli Júnior, Gabriela Caponero de Brito, Gabriela Perandre Ruzzi, Gilberto Bento Magioni Júnior, Lucas Casimiro Barreto & Tatiana Fioruci D'Antonio·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2017
Aim: This study was done to characterize the evolution of infant mortality rate in the period 2007-2015 in Araraquara- SP, Brazil and to identify the main causes of death. Design: It was an exploratory cross-sectional epidemiological study. Subjects: Data sources for live births...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36973
Background: Obesity may affect musculoskeletal, locomotor system and quality of life in adolescent females. Aim: The study was conducted to detect the effect of obesity on balance control in adolescent females. Methods: Cross section study, sixty adolescent females were selected...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37238
The remarkable progress of transplant medicine in the latter half of the twentieth century has led to an unprecedented demand for donated organs that have historically remained in short supply. Although a clinically effective procedure, organ transplant’s health benefit to the so...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37376
The remarkable progress of transplant medicine in the latter half of the twentieth century has led to an unprecedented demand for donated organs that have historically remained in short supply. Although a clinically effective procedure, organ transplant’s health benefit to the so...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37375
Aim: Treatment for neurological disorders have been sought through both herbal and orthodox medicine, therefore this present study compared the antiepileptic effects of Dichrostachys glomerata (D. glomerata) and Carbamazepine (CBZ) on Pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) induced seizures in...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36654
Aim: We aimed at determine the prevalence of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV) and West Nile virus (WNV) in Bondo and Magugu wards in Handeni and Babati districts in Northern Tanzania, in a cross sectional analytical study. Study Design: This was cross sectional, com...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37234
Introduction: Day case surgery is described as admitting a patient to the hospital for a selected elective surgical or diagnostic procedure followed by recovery under observation, then discharging the patient, when stable, to home care. The procedures usually do not require exten...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36438
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects more than 10% of the world population. Treatment methods such as dialysis or transplantation are expensive. Among different factors responsible for the cause and progression of CKD are diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Hypertension is also a...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36967
Motor evoked potential monitoring is becoming one of the gold standard monitoring performed to detect nerve injuries caused by surgical manipulation, especially motor deficits during spine surgeries, but there exist clinical situations that make its interpretation very challengin...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37012
Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BP/CR) are very important tenets of Focused Ante-Natal Care (FANC) aimed at reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. This study assessed birth preparedness and complication readiness among pregnant women in three health facilities...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37240
This study was conducted to assess socio-demographic factors that influence self esteem among medical in Imo state University, Orlu Campus, Nigeria. A total number of 472 students, 232 males and 240 females, were randomly selected from among the 700 medical students in the Univer...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37041
Purpose: Dementia is a major problem in modern society of 21st century. The incidence and prevalence of dementia progressively increases with age. The impairment of cognitive functions in patients with dementia results in an increased burden for family caregivers. The objectives...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36308
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a neuromodulating technique for the treatment of speech disorders after stroke in patients with aphasia. In the current study we examined the effect of tDCS over inferior frontal gyrus area in twelve aphasic male patients. We eval...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36905