The Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI), is a quarterly and an editorially independent publication owned by Tehran University of Medical Sciences and aims to be a publication of international repute for reporting current regional and international adventures in all aspects of the medicine. MJIRI welcomes contributions in this field in the form of original research articles, case reports, letter to the editor, review articles, brief communications, debate articles, and study protocols.

Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus,  Index Copernicus ، Ebsco, DOAJ, SID and Magiran.

   ISSN: 1016-1430

 E- ISSN: 2251-6840

 Chairman: Mohammad Farhadi, MD

 Editor-in-Chief: Maziar Moradi Lakeh, MD
Scientific Editors:

 Seyed A. Moosavi, PhD, MTP, CLS

Babak Behnam, MD, Mphil, PhD

Mohammad Reza Keramati, MD

Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad MD, MPH

Section Editors:

Davod Jafari, MD

Seyed Vahid Shariat, MD

Abdoreza Esteghamati, MD

Maryam Kashanian, MD

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  Hassan Arefi, MD; Fereidoun Azizi, MD; Mohammad Farhadi, MD; Mahdi Fathi, MD; Hossein Forotan, MD; John Hamilton, MD; Mohammad Ali Javadi, MD; Mohammad Hassan Kalantar Motamedi, MD; Mohammad Reza Kalantar Motamedi, MD, FACS; Abolfazl Khosravi, MD; Mitra Modarres Gilani, MD; Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, MD; Mostafa Moin, MD; Mohammad Reza Noori Daloii, PhD; Ali Akbar Pourfatollah, PhD; Abbas Shafiee, PhD; Nasser Simforoosh, MD; Hamid Sohrab-Pour, MD; Seyyed Ziaeddin Tabei, MD; Ali AkbarVelayati, MD

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