Caring for dying and meeting death: experiences of Iranian and Swedish nurses.

Objective: Our world is rapidly becoming a global community, which creates a need to further understand the universal phenomena of death and professional caring for dying persons. This study thus was conducted to describe the meaning of nurses' experiences of caring for dying people in the cultural contexts of Iran and Sweden.

Materials And Methods: Using a phenomenological approach, phenomenon of caring for dying people was studied.

The efficacy of pimecrolimus 1% cream combined with microdermabrasion in the treatment of nonsegmental childhood vitiligo: a randomized placebo-controlled study.

Recently, topical immunomodulators have been successfully used in monotherapy or in combination with other therapeutic modalities in vitiligo. To determine whether combination pimecrolimus 1% cream and microdermabrasion enhances response time and repigmentation rate in children with vitiligo. Sixty-five children diagnosed with vitiligo enrolled in this randomized placebo-controlled study.

A caring relationship with people who have cancer.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to elucidate the meaning of a caring relationship with people with cancer.

Background: A caring relationship becomes the most important focus of caregiving when treatment of the body has reached the limits where cure is no longer expected. Caring as perceived by people with cancer involves nurses having professional attitudes and skills in order to provide good care, including emotional and practical support.

The efficacy of pimecrolimus 1% cream plus narrow-band ultraviolet B in the treatment of vitiligo: a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Background: Recently, narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) and topical immunomodulators have been successfully used in the treatment of vitiligo.

Objective: To determine whether the combination of pimecrolimus with NB-UVB accelerates the response time and/or improves the degree of response in patients with vitiligo.

Methods: Sixty-eight patients with vitiligo enrolled in this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Dissociative disorders and dissociative symptoms among veterans of the Iraq-Iran war suffering from chronic post-traumatic disorder.

Objective: To evaluate any dissociative disorders in patients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and find any relationship between dissociation and related variables in these patients.

Methods: A case controlled study carried out among 130 male patients with PTSD, and 130 matched individuals from the normal population. The study was carried out between January and September 2005, at Beheshti Psychiatric Hospital, Kerman, Iran, Demographic data and history of childhood physical abuse and self-harm in both groups were recorded.

Behçet disease: clinical spectrum and association with hepatitis B and C viruses.

We studied 48 patients with Behçet disease to determine the clinical spectrum of the disease. We also compared the seropositivity of patients for hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infection with a healthy control group to determine whether there is an association. The major physical findings were oral aphthosis 93.

A new gastrointestinal finding in Proteus syndrome: report of a case of multiple colonic hemangiomas.

A patient with Proteus syndrome presented with lower gastrointestinal bleeding due to multiple colonic hemangiomas, a finding which has not been described previously in this syndrome. The patient was a 20-year-old man with features fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for Proteus syndrome. He fulfilled both general criteria (mosaic distribution of the lesions, progressive course and sporadic occurrence) and specific criteria (including epidermal nevus, disproportionate overgrowth of limbs and vascular malformations).

Nifedipine or hydralazine as a first-line agent to control hypertension in severe preeclampsia.

Background: Pre-eclampsia is one of the most serious and common complications of pregnancy. Nifedipine, a calcium channel blocker, and the vasodilator hydralazine have both been used as antihypertensive agents in this condition. The aim of this study was to determine which of these two agents is the most appropriate antihypertensive in the management of severe pre-eclampsia.