J Res Med Sci
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Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement anomaly with narrowing of the palpebral fissure and globe retraction on attempted adduction. There are several surgical approaches to treat the narrowing of the palpebral fissure. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of unilateral medial rectus recession (MRR) muscle combined lateral rectus (LR) muscle marginal myotomy (MM) with unilateral MRR alone in the management of narrowing of the palpebral fissure of patients with Type 1 Duane's retraction syndrome (DRS). ⋯ The results of our study demonstrate PFW significantly increased after unilateral MRR muscle combined LR muscle MM.
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Breast cancer (BC) was the fifth cause of mortality worldwide in 2015 and second cause of mortality in Iran in 2012. This study aimed to explore factors associated with survival of patients with BC using parametric survival models. ⋯ Log-normal model showed to be an optimal tool to model the survival of patients with BC in the current study. Age, grade, and morphology showed significant association with time to death in patients with BC using AFT model. This finding could be recommended for planning and health policymaking in patients with BC. However, the impact of the models used for analysis on the significance and magnitude of estimated effects should be acknowledged.
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Considering the role of Vitamin D in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the relationship between coronary artery calcification (CAC) and CVD, we aimed to investigate the association between the serum level of Vitamin D and CAC. ⋯ We did not find the association between the serum level of Vitamin D and coronary artery calcification.
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Abnormal female immune response is one of the potential causes of unexplained infertility (UI). Seminal plasma (SP) is an important regulator of female immune responses during pregnancy. This study investigated a SP effect on the expression of CD4+ T-cell-related cytokines in a group of UI woman candidates for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and healthy fertile women. ⋯ SP can make a positive effect on IVF outcome through alteration in CD4 + T-cell-related cytokines expression, especially IL-10 and IL-23.