Hormozgan Medical Journal
Year:2001 | Volume:5 | Issue:3|Papers Count:10

To evaluate the prognosis of BHS after iron treatment, 35 children, including 19 boys, and 16 girls, between 3 to 60 months (median age of onset 6 to 24 months) with these attacks were followed prospectively for a period of 3 months after iron treatment. 31 patients had cyanosis, 3 had pallor, and one had mixed attacks. Frequency and severity of their attacks were recorded, before and after our treatment, by their mothers. All patients were evaluated initially for hematological indices. Complete responses were noticed in 24 patients, favorable response in 9, poor response in 1, and one with no response at all, which were placed in different categories, according to their iron deficiency levels.Among these patients, 14 had iron deficiency anemia, 20 had Iron deficient erythropoieses, and only one with no anemia. Only 2 of them had received regular iron supplement diets, 3 non-regulars, and 30 of them had received no iron supplements. But no marked differences were seen in their responses to the treatment. The results indicate that iron therapy has an impressive effect in diminution of BHS attacks in infants.  

Dysmenorrhea as the painful menstruation is widespread among women. It causes economic, social, psychosomatic problems. Dysmenorrhea sometimes prevents women from attaining their best level of performance and is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism among students. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence and incidence of dysmenorrhea and some relative factors among the students who reside in dormitories. Data was collected using a questionnaire. A total of 400 students (ages, 18 to 27 years) filled out the questionnaire. Results showed a frequency of 77.25% of dysmenorrhea among the students. 22.25% of respondents reported no dysmenorrhea, .and 31% and 25.34%, reported mild and moderate pain respectively. 12.5% had severe pain. There was also no significant correlation between the severity of dysmenorrhea and factors such as menarcheal age, duration of menstrual bleeding length and regularity of menstrual cycle and exercise. Dysmenorrhea among students whose mothers or sisters were symptomatic and those who considered as an inconvenient situation or as a disease was severing. It can be concluded that the severity of dysmenorrheal is associated with negative attitude and family history.  

This investigation was carried out to assess the effect of phototherapy on platelets count. The study was conducted on 102 neonates, with age of 2 to 18 days (average of 6 days) who admitted to Bandar Abbass pediatric hospital, for phototherapy due to hyperbilirubinemia. Phototherapy was done by 4-8 lamps (white-blue) with distance of 35 cm for an average of 2 to 5 days. The change in the number of platelets was noted parallel to age, sex, weight, bilirubin level and number of days of hospitalization. Results showed statistically significant relation between the days of therapy and platelet count (p< 0.05), but, no significant relation was observed between platelet count and other factors (P > 0.05). In 52 neonates (50.98%) the highest platelet decrease was on the second day compared to first day. Since neonates during the phototherapy showed no symptoms and signs and minimum platelet count was 60,000 per cubic millimeter, it can be concluded that in neonates who go through phototherapy there is no need for daily platelet count.  

In view of the fact that nosocomial infection causes abundant economic harm and injury to bed-ridden patient. This descriptive study was performed on patients with nosocomial infection, confined to bed in various wards of Shahid Mohammadi Hospital during 1999. The objective of the study was determining the prevalent Microorganism that causes nosocomial infection and the pattern of antibiotic resistance. Standard culture method and antibiogram by Agar diffusion methods were used for diagnosis of bacteria. According to the results, the most prevalent bacterias were: Escherichia coli(54.7%), Pseudomonas(22.6%), Klebsiella (5.3%), Staphylococcus aureus (4%), Staphylococcus coagulase negative (2. 7), and Proteus (1.3 %). The most effective antibiotic was ciprofloxacin and Amikacin.  

Nearly two decades after the beginning of HIV prevalence, It has been converted to a sever crisis. The effect of AIDS on people's lives is so serious that human societies cannot ignore it. This study was undertaken to determine students' knowledge of and their attitude towards AIDS. In this descriptive study data was collected using a questionnaire. The total number of subjects was 142, who were selected via simple sampling, 68 of respondents were teaching students (group 1), and 74 medical students (group 2). 57.3% of group 1 and 55.4% of group 2 were men. The respondents mean age in the first group was 21.6 and in the second one was 20.1 years. 26.4% of respondents in group one and 79.7% in group two were aware of AIDS and its transmission ways and there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (p<0.05). Female and married respondents had better knowledge of the disease than unmarried and male ones, but no significant correlation was found between them. Majority of respondents were in favor of the promotion of people knowledge of disease. There was no significant difference between them. Since results showed lower knowledge level of AIDS among teaching students, training programs for the promotion of the youth knowledge of AIDS is recommended.  

Infectious Brain diseases are the most common diseases with high morbidity and mortality rate. This investigation was conducted to exam the brain abscess appearance through CT SCAN in patients admitted to Shohada hospital during 1998 -2000. Factors such as location number, edema, density, size, mass effect, post contrast enhancement and also age, sex, and past history were also taken into account. Results showed that predominant age group of patients was 12-50 years; the prevalence of disease among males was 2-3 times greater than women. The most common cause of brain abscess were infection (53.06%) and iatrogenic. The location of 85.7% of abscess was axial of which 80% supratentorial, temporal, parietal and frontal lobes were the most frequent location of abscess. The size of 51% of abscess size was 2-4 cm. 83% abscesses were hypodense with mild to moderate edema and their mass effect was mild at 93%. In general, it can be concluded that hypodense lesion with small to moderate size & mild to moderate edema & mild mass effect with post contrast ring enhancement with thin (1-3 mm) ring thickness suggested the brain abscess.  

Social phobia is one of the least studied phobias. Clinical characteristics of the disorder include: phobic avoidance of social situations, somatic and cognitive symptoms of anxiety and functioning impairment. No comprehensive research on this disorder is available in Iran. In this cross-sectional study 2944 students were evaluated by DSM IV criteria for social phobia via semi-structured interview. 6.14 % of subjects fulfilled criteria for social phobia. The ratio of females to males was 1.8. There was statistically significant relationship between history of shyness and physical abuse during childhood with social phobia. In comparison to the same investigations carried out in the western countries the prevalence of this disorder was higher in this study.  

This is a descriptive study to show knowledge, attitude and practice of couple about thalassemia before marriage in Bandar Abbas. 200 couples who precipitate for lab testing about thalassemia were checked by a questionnaire. Each case was asked to complete the questionnaire containing 24 questions about his or her knowledge, 23 questions related to attitude and 20 questions about some demographic characteristics. In addition, to investigate the practice thalassemic trait, their marriage situation was checked in official offices. At Last 393 questionnaires were selected for data analysis. The results showed that more than half of the cases, 60.1 % in knowledge and 50.80/2, in attitude had good knowledge and attitude respectively, but in practice, only 20% of cases had good practice. Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between age and education and their knowledge about thalassemia, while no correlation was seen between age and their attitude. In spite of an acceptable knowledge and attitude about thalassemia, it seems that their practice is poor.