Background: Hydatidosis is a widespread chronic zoonotic disease caused by helminthic larval stage of tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. It has a serious medical and public health problem. Recently many substances are used to activate and modulate the immune system of the host in order to control the cyst growth and development.
Materials and Methods: Protoscolices were isolated from human hydatid cysts and treated with four purified concentrations (25, 50, 75, 100μm/ml) of 1-HP plus hydatid cyst fluid as a positive control group for 4, 24, 48 and 72 hrs period of exposure. Then After 72 hours, the protoscolices which were treated with different concentration of 1-HP were inoculated intraperitonially of m

Background:The most principal mechanisms of cardiomyopathies are;high preload and afterload and low myocardial contractility, imbalance of trace elements may cause myocardial metabolic dysfunction and may have a role in aetiology of cardiomyopathy, particulary in IDC. Trace elements are being increasingly recognized as essential mediators of the development and progression of heart diseases.
Methods: Study design Multi case-control study and single center estimation of trace elements concentrations in a number of volunteer settings this study was conducted in the Department of Cardiology, Ibn Albitar Hospital, and in the Physiological Chemistry Department of the College of Medicine, Baghdad University, fr

Background:Aluminum (Al) intoxication was initially reported in patients undergoing hemodialysis and then was linked to Alzheimer's disease. Man usually is exposed to Al containing antacids, vaccines or foods cooked in Al utensils. The assumption of ingesting sour juices as acetic acid or ethanol may affect favorably the degree of Al absorption is justified when taken in conjunction with the above mentioned appetizers.
Materials and methods: Four groups of 10 mature male rats each were used. The drinking water (DW) containing 5mM of Al2(SO4)3 with 1% glacial acetic acid and/or 10% ethanol made available ad-libidum. Weekly body weight and each other day drinking water volume were measured. Brain and p

Background: Hormones have very important role in spermatogenesis and production capacity of testis. Disturbances in their vlevels can be very crucial in dysfunction of testis which results in men infertility. This study carried out to evaluate the hormonal disturbances in men infertility and its correlation with semen parameters and types of infertility.
Patients and Methods: Blood and semen samples were collected from 91 infertile men and 20 healthy and fertile control who attended Al-Kadymiah hospital and some private clinics in Baghdad from January to December 2009.Semen and serum samples were analysed for semen parameter and FSH, LH, Testosterone and prolactin levels.
Results: Fifty one (56%) of in

Background: The preterm premature rupture of the membrane is linked to various perinatal problems, including chorioamnionitis.

Objectives: To evaluate the use of serum ferritin, C-reactive protein, and procalcitonin as early indicators for predictions of subclinical intra-amniotic fluid infection.  

Methods: A case-control study was conducted at Baghdad Teaching Hospital from January to October 2021.  A convenient sample of 90 singleton pregnant women with a live fetus between 24 - 36 weeks of gestation were divided into three groups: Group 1 (controls) included 30 women with intact membranes and no signs of labour seen in the outpatient obstetrics clinic in Baghdad Teac

Background:

الخلفيه النظريه: ان النقص في الدراسات المتعلقه بخصائص  الاورام العصبيه الغديه منسوب الى كون هذه الاورام نادره الوقوع. ان عقار الاوكتيريوتايد اثبت فعاليته كعلاج لهذه الاورام  لكن الدراسات المتعلقه بنسب حدوث الاورام العصبيه الغديه ومدى استجابتها لعقار الاوكتيريوتايد لا زالت غير كافيه.

الغرض من الدراسه: خصائص مرضى  هذا النوع من الاورام ومدى استجابتهم ل

خلفية عن الدراسة: هناك عدة عوامل تجعل إبيضاض الدم اللمفي المزمن موضوعا هاما يستحق الدراسة من قبل الباحثين. وتشمل هذه الدراسات تقدما ملحوظا في فهم علم الأحياء الجزيئي للخلايا اللمفاوية الطبيعية والورمية والتطورات الحديثة في تقنيات الوراثة الجزيئية. بين المعلمات الجزيئية، القامع السرطان الجيني p53 قد درس على نطاق واسع.

الهدف من الدراسة: ربط التعبير البروتيني 53p

خلفية: السمنةآخذت في الازدياد في جميع أنحاء العالم بحيث ما يقدر بنحو ١.٧ مليار شخص يعانون حاليا من السمنة، حصاة المرارة تمثل المرض الثالث الأكثر شيوعا لدى المرضى الذين يعانون من السمنة المفرطة. وعلاوة على ذلك حوالي ٣٠٪ من المرضى المرشحين لجراحة البدانة إما خضعوا لجراحة استئصال المرارة بالسابق أو شخصوا بوجود حصاة المرارة اثناء التقييم قبل عملية جراحة البدانة.

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Background: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a disorder in which vascular thrombosis and / or recurrent pregnancy losses occur in a patient who has laboratory evidence of antibodies against phospholipids or phospholipids binding protein cofactor. Usually the patient presents at an age between 35- 45 years, with equal male to female ratio. Mostly they present with thrombosis or pregnancy complication. A quarter of the patients have thrombocytopenia and about one fifth have hemolytic anemia. The diagnosis rests on the criteria set as the Revised classification criteria for the Antiphospholipid syndrome
Patients and Methods; During the period from 1st Jan. 2002 until the 1st Jan. 2006,24 patients who met&n

Background: Total serum sialic acid (TSA) and lipid associated sialic acid (LSA) have not been measured yet in depressive disorders.
Aim :The present study was undertaken to show if there is any change in the concentration of different forms of sialic acids in patients with depressive disorder.
Methods: TSA and LSA levels have been estimated in serum of 72 patients with depression, in addition to 50 healthy controls .
Results reflect a significant increase (p<0.05) in the TSA and BSA in the depressed patients as compared with healthy controls.
Conclusions: It could be concluded that TSA and BSA could reflect an immune like response to depression associated with increase in the sialylation of differ

Background: Diarrheal diseases are still a major public health problem especially in developing countries, due to their high morbidity & mortality rates, moreover the lagest
number of deaths with diarrheal diseases are due to persistent diarrheal states.We attemted to evaluate the size of the problem in our infants, and assess risk factors & outcome.
Methods: A retrospective study was performed in Al-Kadhemya teaching hospital, to evaluate diarrheal cases in under 2 years of age children , admitted to hospital during the period (Dec. 1991- Dec. 2001), from a total of 863, chronic diarrheal cases formed 286 (33.14%) that were evaluated for certain variables; epidemiology & risk factors etiology ,

Background: Autoimmune hepatitis (AH) is a rare chronic liver disease of unknown etiology,

Background: Nephrotic Syndrome (NS) is a clinical entity having multiple causes, characterized by increased glomeular permeability manifested by massive protein urea with variable Tendency towards edema, hypaalbumineima and hyperlipidemia.

Background: infection monomcleosis is caused by the ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus.

Background:
Bronchiolitis is the first episode of wheezing associated with low-grade fever, rhinitis, tachypnea, and increase respiratory effort in a previously healthy infant during the winter
months. It is the most common disease of the lower respiratory tract.
Methods:
This is a case control study carried out on one hundred infants with a mean age of 3.9 months ± 2.2 months admitted to Children Welfare Teaching Hospital in Medical City –
Baghdad with acute bronchiolitis during the period from 1st January 2006 to 1st April 2006. epidemiological risk factors, clinical presentations, chest X-ray findings, treatment,
complications and outcome were analyzed. Another one hundred infants (age and sex 

Background: Quantitation of serum immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA and IgM) provides useful information for the evaluation of certain cancers.
Objectives:to estimate serum immunoglobulins level before and after surgery, and to shed light on the correlation of immunoglobulins with progression of CRC.
Patients and Methodes. By single radial immune diffusion method IgG, IgA, IgM were estimated in 100 CRC patients preoperatively, and in 20 patients postoperatively compared with 35
patients control with ulcerative colitis (UC) and 50 healthy control.
Results: The study showed significantly increased the serum IgM level in patients group preoperatively (p<0.001) compared with control group. On the other hand, no sig

Background: Frostbite is a cold weather injury characterized by tissue freezing. It can adversely impact military operations. This study was carried out to demonstrate the
frostbite among Iraqi -Iranian war.
Materials: The over surveillance period was 1st Dec. 1987 to 1st March 1988. A form was tilled for each affected soldier. All cases were followed till Dec. 1988.
Results: The reported frostbite cases were 10 000 cases. The rate was of 100 cases per 100 000 person - year. The foot was the most affected site. High frostbite cases were reported
during the active military operations.
Conclusion: Education, acclimatization and strict enforcement of cold weather injury preventive measures arc necessary in

Background: prolonged usage of an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) is often associated with exfoliation of a typical cells.

Background:Incisional hernia is frequently occurring post operative complication after general surgery with occurance rate 2%-----11%,, it is either appear soon after operation or
late occurring incisional hernia..
Patient &methods: This is a prospective study that was conducted on 84 patients who were admitted at Baghdad Teaching Hospital during the period from Oct. 1999 to Aug. 2001 for
repair of incisional hernias. Their ages were ranging from 24-74 years with mean age of (48 ±12). Sixty-nine patients were elective and 15 patients were urgent. Assessment of the patients
for the predisposing factors influencing the development of incisional hernia was done and in our study these factors were: -
R

Background: To find an operation that can be effectively carried out in both adults and children, equally applicable in the elective as well as in the emergency situation and for the good – risk as well as the poor – risk patients. Done by expert and junior surgeons in a short time. 
Patients and Methods: Twenty patients with portal hypertension and bleeding varices aged 9-45 years were treated with shunting procedures (group 1, n=10), or a modified Sugiura operation (group 2, n=10) in accordance with the following therapeutic protocol: after resuscitation and diagnostic endoscopy, an emergency modified Sugiura operation was carried out if bleeding could not be controlled over 24 hours. When blee

Placenta accrete is defined as an abnormally adherent placenta that is directly attached to the myometrium because of inadequate development of the fibrinoid layer (Nitabuch layer) and absence of decidua basilis either partially or totally. (1) Three degrees of placenta accrete exist depending on the depth of villous invasion: placenta accreta is when villi
become attached to myometrium, placenta increta: the villi invade the myometrium, placenta percreta represents the greatest degree of severity where placental villi penetrate
throughout myometrium and peritoneum extending sometimes to adjacent structure such as the bladder. (1, 2, 3)Placenta accreta accounts for 78% of

Background: This study comprises0two parts, the first one dealt with epidemiology, etiology and clinical picture of"brain abscess. This part describes diagnostic investigations,
management and final outcome of brain abscess during a 10 years period. 
Methods: The case records of patients with brain abscess admitted to the neurosurgical specialties hospital in Baghdad over a 10 years period extending from 1 " Jan. 1993 to 3 1 " Dec.
2002, inclusive were reviewed. Data obtained included demographic and clinical data.
Results: Results of peripheral leukocytes count, ESR and CSF were supportive in 16.7%, 67.9% 78` o ol'cases in which tests were applied, respectively. CT scan was suggestive in 100%
of cases.

Background: Chronic atrophic gastritis is a precancerous lesion. A commonly used test for the diagnosis of chronic atrophic gastritis, gastric endoscopy with biopsy collection, and a good
serological test would be best include low levels of pepsinogen I (PGI) or a low PGI/PGII ratio. 
Aim of the study: T o confirm the use of serum pepsinogens as a screening marker in atrophic gastritis.
Patients and Methods: A study was conducted in the period between December 2005 and March 2006 on 25 patients with atrophic gastritis attending Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, and 25 healthy control subjects. Sera were tested for PGI and PGII by ELISA test.
Results and Conclusions: th

Background: Ovulation induction by human menopausal gonadotrophin (HMG) results in temporal luteal phase defect. Luteal support therapies are required to support embryo implantation in stimulated cycle especially in luteal phase defect infertile women. 
Objective: The objective of the present study was to investigate the clinical significance of progesterone, aspirin and HCG on human embryo implantation in women with luteal phase defect following ICSI and embryo transfer (ET).
Patients and Methods: The female patients were divided into six groups depending on the type of the luteal support protocols (LSP). Group 1 (No= 54), received 10 mg oral progesterone (P), group 2 (No= 35) received P plus HCG

Background To evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of ultrasonographic and doppler US findings in the
diagnosis of acute appendicitis.
Method : A total of 115 cases of clinically suspected appendicitis were prospectively examined by grey scale US and doppler US. Five patients were excluded from the study because of
difficulty to perform the graded compression technique. In the other 115 patients who were included in the study population , US appendiceal and periappendiceal signs, as well as doppler US findings were evaluated. Definitive diagnosis was established at surgery and histopathological examination in 62 patients (59

Background and Objectives:
Poisoning is an important cause of childhood and adolescence hospital emergency presentations and admissions and a major health problem in this population sector. The
present study was designed to describe the epidemiology and pattern of poisoning in addition to its case fatality rate.
Methods:
A total of 1450 pediatric cases with poisoning admitted to the Central Teaching Hospital of Pediatrics, Baghdad, during the 10 years study period extending from the 1st of
January 1993 to 31st of December 2002, were analyzed.
Results:
The peak age for poisoning cases in the present study was 1-4 years, constituting about three quarters of total pediatric admissions with poisoning.

 المقدمة: سرطان الثدي هو الورم الخبيث الأكثر شيوعا بين النساء في جميع أنحاء العالم , بل هو أيضا السبب الرئيسي للوفيات المرتبطة بالسرطان في  الإناث.  عقار التاموكسفين هو  العلاج الهرموني  الشائع للمرضى الذين يعانون من سرطان الثدي. حيث يعمل  بانتقائية عالية  عن طريق منع تأثير هرمون الأستروجين بواسطة منع ايصال الأستروجين للمستقبلات الضرورية لفعاليته في اجزاء

المقدمة :متلازمة تكيس المبايض  الشائعة عند الكثير من النساء الناضجات جنسيا" لا تؤثر فقط على انتظام الدوره الشهرية ولكنها تكون مترافقة مع حصول اضطرابات في عملية الأباضة وبالتالي تقلل من أمكانية حدوث الإخصاب .الانترلوكين -33 يعتقدان له دور في مرض متلازمة تكيس المبايض    الهدف :صممت هذه  الدراسة لتقدير مستويات الانترلوكين -33  وعلاقتها  مع مقاومة الأنسولين والجهود

الخلفية:  ان تضيق القناة الشوكية القطنية هو اعتلال جسدي يسبب عجز عصبي والم وعجز(شلل) وهو شائع في كبارالسن ويواجه باستمرارمع التقدم في العمر.لان بقية اسباب الام الظهر شائعة وصعبة الاثبات لذلك فانه من المحتمل ان الم الظهرالميكانيكي بالاشتراك مع متزامنة التهاب الاعصاب المحيطية اوشكوى ساق لا صلة لها قد تؤدي الى علاجات غيرملائمة ومن ضمنها الجراحة. لذلك٬ فان التشخيص الصحيح لمتلازمة تضيق