Clinical and laboratory findings of rhabdomyolysis in opioid overdose patients in the intensive care unit of a poisoning center in 2014 in Iran.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical and demographic characteristics and some laboratory findings of hospitalized patients with acute opioid toxicity and rhabdomyolysis.

Methods: This cross-sectional study investigated 354 patients hospitalized at Baharloo Hospital in Tehran in 2014 with acute illicit drug toxicity. Data were collected using an investigator-made checklist.

Feigned symptoms among defendants claiming psychiatric problems: Survey of 45 Malingerers.

Objective: In many jurisdictions, psychiatric problems are intended for commutation. Therefore, a forensic psychiatrist has an important role in detection of malingering. While several studies evaluate diagnostic tests, it is less known what symptoms are more likely to be imitated by malingerers.

Incidence of hepatitis B and HIV virus at cadaver of IV drug abusers in Tehran.

Injection drug use has been the most growing rout of drug abuse in Iran in the past decade and it has been responsible for the transmission of HIV virus in more than two third of cases. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis B in a group of IDU cadavers and to compare the results to a group of cadavers of the normal population. In a case-control study the blood samples of the cadavers of 400 randomly chosen IDUS and 400 other cadavers as control group were checked for HBS antigen and Anti HIV antibody in the forensic medicine center of Tehran.

Study of the normal internal organ weights in Tehran's population.

Objective: Examine the normal adult internal organ weight and its relationship with body height, body weight, body mass index and age.

Materials And Methods: Prospective analysis of data from 1222 autopsies in Legal Medicine Organization of Iran from 1st January, 2007 to 1st September, 2008. All the subjects were adult residents of Tehran died from external causes and showed no pathological changes.