Is anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody a good value biomarker for Alzheimer disease?

Alzheimer's disease [AD] is one of the most important neurodegenerative disorder. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide [anti-CCP] may all be involved in the development of vascular disease such as AD. The aim of this study is detection of seropositivity for anti-CCP antibody in AD patients. In our study, 30 patients with AD and 29 healthy controls [age and-sex matched] were recruited. Homocysteine and anti-CCP was measured by spectrophotometrically and immunoassay. Mean +/- SE anti-CCP was higher significantly between AD [13.6 +/- 3] and healthy subjects [4.8 +/- 0.2] [P = 0.006]. In the patients, anti CCP serum level was in high range [32.1%] of abnormal levels, but there was no significant difference in serum homocysteine in AD patients compared with controls. There is no correlation between anti-CCP and homocysteine levels in AD patients [P = 0.75], but between age and anti-CCP level observed a significantly correlation [P = 0.04]. It needs more studies to clarify confirmation the role of anti-CCP antibody production in AD patients

Investigating the anxiety level in Iranian medical residents in 2010-2011

University entrance is accompanied by major changes in social relationship, rules, and expectations that lead to psychological disorders in susceptible students. The goal of this research is to study the anxiety rate in Iranian medical residents in 2010-2011. This study is a cross-sectional, descriptive study. It contains 370 medical residents from the 1[st] year to the 4[th] year of medical universities in Isfahan, Gilan, Zahedan, Sanandaj, and Kashan. The stratified sampling method proportionate to volume of participants is used in this study. The information is collected based on researchers' questioners and Zung self-rating anxiety scale and analyzed with the use of SPSS software version 16, addition to descriptive and analytic tests [Pearson, one way analysis of variance, t-test]. Meaningful level is regarded as P

Application and preventive maintenance of neurology medical equipment in Isfahan Alzahra hospital

Nowadays Medical equipment plays an important role in the treatment and in the medical education. Using outdated preventive maintenance [PM] system may cause problems in the cutting edge medical equipment, Nervous system disease's equipment [In diagnosis and treatment] which are crucial for every medical center. Based on above facts we focused on nervous system treat units' equipment and informed the supervisors and their colleagues about the latest equipment maintenance status and promoted methodical and correct method to be used for medical equipment maintenance. This research is an analytical descriptive and has been done on the base information from a particular time to past. We gathered our required information of 2009 from Alzahra Medical Center. We divided this research info 2 main phases. In the first phase, we picked out Neurosurgery and Neourology diseases medical equipment [diagnosis and therapy equipment] and in the second phase, we need to implement a methodical PM for every equipment. Research has shown that there are 19 nervous system equipment in Alzahra Medical center, categorized in diagnostic [13 pcs], therapeutic [4 pcs] and diagnostic therapeutic [2 pcs]. As we declare in methods part of this research, we categorized medical equipment in Food and Drug Administration [FDA] segmentation. Capital-scarce equipment: Magnetic resonance imaging, Eco Doppler, Kamalaarak ultrasonic surgical aspirator, Stereotactic, computed tomography-scan, euroendoscope/vital-scarce equipment: Coblation, Sonoco, vaterjet/ scarce equipment: Transcranial color Doppler, electroencephalogram, electromyography, surgical microscope. Survey of application and preventive maintenance of neurology medical equipment in Isfahan Alzahra hospital show there is no P.M system. Implementing a complete P.M system for this medical center is crucial to preventing cause problems for these medical equipment and decreasing maintenance costs and gaining uptime. Researchers of this article have tried to provide PM, use of texts, web and experts

[Relationship of specialty select and education place with internship students anxiety in 2010]

Background and Objectives: Selection of specialty field to continue education is such a great challenge for general physicians that can create stress in their personal life. The purpose of this study is survey of relationship of specialty select and education place with internship students anxiety in 2010

Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was performed on a total of 370 medical residents selected through stratified sampling from Isfahan, Guilan, Zahedan, Sanandaj and Kashan Universities of Medical Sciences, Iran. Data were collected through demographic features questionnaire and Zung anxiety self-evaluation questionnaire

Results : More than 92% of residents did not have anxiety and were in normal condition. From all, 168 [45.4%] had selected their specialty field based on just their personal interests, 55 [14.9%] based on external factors, and 147 [39.74%] based on both internal and external factors. In regard to the place of study, 220 residents [59.5%] were studying in their first three preferred cities and there was a significant relationship between anxiety and place of education [P < 0.05]

Conclusion: Since academic satisfaction and success of medical residents is highly dependent on studying in their favorite specialty field and place, administrative programming by officials and planners is highly required for omitting barriers in selecting field and place of education