Volume 29, Issue 133 (March & April 2021)
Original Article - Clinical medicine
Detection and Frequency of Enterotoxin (cpa,cpe) Genes of Clostridium perfringens Isolated from Dehydrated Vegetables by PCR
✅ Our finding showed that contamination of packed dehydrated vegetables was higher than unpacked; this might be due to drying as well as packaging process. We found that these isolates were negative for enterotoxin.
Original Article - Clinical medicine
, Seyed Amir Hossein Emami , Mandana Shirazi , Samira Mokhtari , Minoosh Moghimi , Sepehr Gohari , Zahra Abbaspour Rad , Reza Mansouri *
✅ Guidelines which are introducing the most harmless methods for delivering bad news with minimal negative effects on the patients’ mental health can be helpful for the medical staff, so that they can perform this important task with less stress and minimum complications for the patients.
Original Article - Bionanotechnology
Assessing the Effects of Fullerene C60 on Markers of Oxidative Stress in the Testes of Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats
, Shima Shahyad , Fariba Namdar , Ali Noroozzadeh , Zahra Bahari , Mohammad Taghi Mohammadi *
✅ According to our findings, fullerene C60 nanoparticle could reduce oxidative stress damage in diabetic condition in the rat testicular tissue probably through potentiating the antioxidant defense system.
Original Article - Clinical medicine
Therapeutic Effect of Thyme (Thymus Vulgaris) Essential Oil on Patients with COVID19: A Randomized Clinical Trial
✅Thyme plant which has high antioxidant properties, strengthens the immune system, and induces the antiviral effect could reduce the symptoms of coronavirus; therefore, it is recommended for reducing the symptoms of COVID-19.
Original Article - Health improvement strategies
✅ An education-based program plays an important role in promotion of the respect to patient’s rights. This suggests health care systems to have a practical and ethical (not merely legal and official) perspective to patient’s rights which in turn would optimize service quality delivered by health care providers.
Original Article - Life science
✅ According to the results, we concluded that the J-48 could provide better insights than other proposed prediction models for clinical applications.
Original Article - Clinical medicine
The Prognostic Impact of WT1 Expression Levels, Mutations, and SNP rs16754 in AML Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
, Ahmad Kazemi , Bahram Chahardouli , Saeed Mohammadi , Mohsen Nikbakht , Nasrin Alizadeh , Asadollah Mousavi , Kamran Alimoghaddam , Majid Teremmahi Ardestani *
✅ The results of the current study do not support WT1 mutation, SNP rs16754, or WT1 overexpression at diagnosis, as they were found to be poor prognostic markers in AML patients.
Original Article - Clinical medicine
Successful Treatment of Refractory Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) in a Child, Based on Iranian Traditional Medicine: A Case Report
✅ As a result, this treatment had a rapid response time with no side effects. At the time of performing this study, the patient was in his 5th-year disease-free period. For future research, we recommend the researchers to study the use of this novel treatment in case of resistance to the current established therapies of warm AIHA disease.
Letter to the Editor - Clinical medicine
✅ Recently, some evidence has shown that the failure of iron homeostasis may occur in critically ill patients and can lead to iron overload. Elevated ferritin levels as a body iron burden index in critically ill patients may be associated with depressed level of consciousness and greater mortality. However, the necessity of using iron-chelating agents in clinical situation is still unknown for these cases.
