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2. Outcome of Screening for Congenital Hypothyroidism in Mazandaran Province: From Diagnosis to Treatment.
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Beheshti, Zahra, Kosarian, Mehrnoosh, Rezaei, Sussan, Saatsaz, Sosan, and Nia, Hamid Sharif
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Background and purpose: Screening for congenital hypothyroidism in newborns is carried out with TSH measurement of blood samples from newborn heel in Mazandaran province since 2006. This paper reports the status of these children until the end of 2012. Materials and methods: The study was performed in 2013-2014 using current information. Babies with TSH levels greater than 5 mU / L were treated with levothyroxine for three years. If the drug was stopped abruptly or gradually in three years and normal TSH achieved the disease was regarded transient, otherwise the patients were considered for lifelong follow-up treatments. For data analysis SPSS V.16 was applied. Results: During this period, 269088 infants were screened. Among the cases 548 (54.4% male) were diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism. The results showed that infants who were treated at each time interval were 43% of permanent and 57% transient hypothyroidism. Age at onset therapy in 95% of cases was before 60 days. The mean time to start treatment was 20.8 ± 10 days. No significant relationship was found between the sex and permanent or transient hypothyroidism. Conclusion: The screening program for congenital hypothyroidism is being performed successfully in Mazandaran province. In some cases, the dosage of drugs and infants' follow-up intervals varied even between physicians. Also, levothyroxine is either not prescribed according to the infant's weight or is recorded incorrectly. Follow-up procedures and the decision to discontinue treatment were not similar at 3 years of age of the subjects. Physicians should be informed for the strict implementation of the guidelines of the Ministry of Health. To obtain more accurate information cases of death or immigration should not be removed from the statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
3. A supplementary description of Brevipalpus californicus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae)
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Mohammad Raissi Ardali, Alireza Hadizadeh, Mahmoud Mohammadi Sharif, and Hamidreza Hajiqanbar
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Supplementary description ,Tenuipalpidae ,Brevipalpus californicus ,Mazandaran ,Iran ,Science ,Technology (General) ,T1-995 - Abstract
The false spider mite Brevipalpus californicus from the family Tenuipalpidae was collected from Caucasian alnus, White willow, Persian raspberry and a wild Chrysanthemum bush in Mazandaran province. This species is reported as a new record to the false spider mites-fauna of Iran here. Reviewing literatures revealed that it was briefly described in the original paper without any measures. So, a completed description is presented based on the Iranian specimens and different body segments are drawn for B. californicus. In addition, the above plants are new host records for B. californicus.
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- 2015
4. Study on changes of biotic and abiotic parameters, and other biological indices in Shahid Rajaei Reservoir using mono and multivariate statistical analysis
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Nasrollahzadeh Saravi, H., Makhlough, A., Vahedi, F., and Rezaei, M.
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parameters ,Biotic indices ,biotic ,Shahid Rajaei Dam ,Goniaulax digitale ,Ecology ,fungi ,Mazandaran ,Goniaulax polyedra ,Iran ,Environment ,water quality ,Environmental ,Phytoplankton ,Sari ,Cyclotella meneghiniana ,abiotic ,Biology ,biological - Abstract
The Shahid Rajaei Reservoir constructed for various purposes such as drinking water supply. In this context, and also because of the importance of the bloom events and eutrophication process in dams, this paper is to survey the relations between some of physicochemical parameters and phytoplankton composition and density, chlorophyll-a and some water quality indices (Trophic, Saproby, Shannon) using mono and multivariate statistical analysis. Water samples collected from 4 stations during May, June, July, August, September, November and February in 2012-2013. According to the results, the maximum concentration of dissolved inorganic nitrogen, chlorophyll-a, phytoplankton abundance, trophic and saproby indices observed in a month of summer which it was accompanied to the minimum value of species diversity index (Shannon). Pearson analysis revealed direct correlation between abundance of Goniaulax polyedra, Goniaulax digitale and trophic index. In the other words, higher abundance of the two species decreased the water quality. Also based on the PCA analysis, the significant correlation observed between abundance of Cyclotella meneghiniana with Shannon and saproby indices which were negative and positive, respectively. This result indicates to the relation of degradation of water quality with increasing the abundance of Cyclotella meneghiniana. Meanwhile, the presence of the three parameters (abundance of Cyclotella meneghiniana, Shannon and saproby indices) in first component of PCA indicated the important role of Cyclotella meneghiniana and two biological indices in determining of water quality in Shahid Rajaei Reservoir.
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- 2016
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