COVID-19 vaccines breakthrough infection and adverse reactions in medical students: a nationwide survey in Iran.

Introduction: There are different types of COVID-19 vaccines approved worldwide. Since no national studies focus on vaccine-related adverse reactions and breakthrough cases, this study aimed to investigate the rate of adverse events and COVID-19 infection in medical students in Iran.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included Iranian medical students who received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

Ultrasound shear-wave elastography applicability in estimation of post-mortem time.

Introduction: Post-mortem rigidity of the tissues is one of the basic principles in forensic medicine to estimate the time of death. Qualitative methods to determine the stiffness of the corpse may have some limitations. Methods that provide quantitative values may be useful.

An Investigation of Post-radiation Gene Expression Profiles: A System Biology Study.

Genomics and bioinformatics are useful methods for exploring unclear aspects of radiation effects on biological systems. Many radiation-induced alterations in irradiated samples are post-radiation time-dependent. This study aims to evaluate the post-irradiation effects of the gamma ray on human Jurkat cells.

Introducing GATA3 as a prominent player in Crohn's disease.

Aim: This study was aimed at gene assessment of Crohn's disease (CD) through protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis to find crucial genes.

Background: CD is a major subtype of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which affects gastrointestinal tract. PPI network analysis is a suitable tool to clarify a critical gene as a drug target or diagnostic biomarker for these types of diseases.

Perceived social support and self-esteem in sexual violence victims.

Sexual violence can lead to serious consequences. Few studies have simultaneously evaluated Perceived Social Support and Self-Esteem of sexual violence victims. This study aims to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and perceived social support among sexual violence victims.

The comparison of spiritual health and self-esteem in women with and without sexual violence.

Background And Aim: Sexual violence is a serious public health problem which is common around the world. The aim of this study was to evaluate spiritual health and self-esteem in sexual violence victims.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 66 subjects in the group of sexual violence women and 147 subjects in the group of women with no experience of sexual violence who referred to Tehran Forensic Medical Center and the health centers of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences respectively, in 2015, in Tehran, Iran.

Virginity Testing Beyond a Medical Examination.

Apart from religious values, virginity is important in different communities because of its prominent role in reducing sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies. Even though virginity testing has been proclaimed an example of violence against women by the World Health Organization, it is still conducted in many countries, including Iran. 16 in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants aged 32 to 60 years to elucidate the perceptions and experiences of Iranian examiners of virginity testing.

Electrocardiographic manifestations in acute methanol poisoning cannot predict mortality.

The aim of this retrospective observational case series was to determine electrocardiographic (ECG) manifestations in patients poisoned with methanol and see whether they could predict mortality. We also wanted to see whether there was an association between ECG changes and time elapsed between ingestion and treatment, age, sex, seizure, coma (Glasgow Coma Scale ≤8), arterial blood gas (ABG) parameters, and serum potassium levels on hospital admission. The study included 42 patients aged 31.

Brain computed tomographic scan findings in acute opium overdose patients.

Aim: Early radiologic evaluations including noncontrast computed tomographic (CT) scan of the brain have been reported to be useful in the diagnosis and management of the intoxicated patients. Changes in the brain CT scan of the acute opium overdose patients have little been studied to date. This study aimed to evaluate changes of the brain CT scans in the acute opium overdose patients.

Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning treated by magnesium sulfate: a randomized, clinical trial.

Tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) poisoning is a major problem in medicine, with a high morbidity and mortality rate. The main cause of fatality is cardiac arrhythmias resulting from intoxication. Sodium bicarbonate is the drug of choice, but severe poisoning necessitates further interventions.

Electrocardiographic manifestations of tramadol toxicity with special reference to their ability for prediction of seizures.

Aim: The aims of this study are to determine the electrocardiographic (ECG) manifestations of the symptomatic patients with isolated tramadol toxicity and to predict seizures based on ECG parameters.

Methods: Medical charts of a total of 479 patients with isolated tramadol toxicity were retrospectively evaluated. Their clinical manifestations were recorded, and their ECG parameters including rate, PR interval, QRS duration, corrected QT interval, terminal 40-millisecond frontal plane QRS axis, and the height of R wave and R/S ratio in the lead aVR were measured.

Depilatory Agents intoxication and factors contributing to its mortality: a 9-year review.

Poisoning with depilatory agents is a rather uncommon entity in western countries. In this study, we describe poisoning with a corrosive arsenic-based depilatory agent (CABD) and factors related to its mortality in a poisoning center in Tehran. In a retrospective study, the medical records of all patients with CABD intoxication who attended the emergency ward of Loghman-Hakim hospital, the only poisoning center in Tehran, over a 9-year period between 2000 and 2009 were reviewed.