Introduction: Extreme weather or climate, including heat waves and cold waves, is considered a health issue causing adverse effects on health, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), mortality and morbidity. Thus, this systematic review aimed to study the impacts of extreme ambient temperature on cardiovascular outcomes. Material and Methods: This study was carried out based on the Preferred R...

objective: to determine the predictive and diagnostic value of thorax trauma severity score (ttss) in a population of thoracic trauma patients admitted to a secondary level trauma center. methods : a retrospective analysis of patients admitted over a period of two years with idc-9 codes related to thoracic trauma was undertaken. the association of ttss with complications and mortality was evalu...

background: statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarylcoenzyme-a (hmg-coa) reductase inhibitors) decrease cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. this article reviews the role of perioperative statins in non cardiac surgery. methods: a literature review was done on all english published articles till february 2015 about this subject using pubmed. then the reference list of relevant articles was review...

Background: Defects in B cell class switch recombination (CSR) are a heterogeneous and yet very uncommon group of disorders which all have a genetic basis uniformly leading to hyper IgM (HIgM) syndrome. Due to the rare frequency of these conditions, a very small number of case series have been conducted on the affected patients. Objective: To shed some light on the morbidity and mortality regar...

In this retrospective study, 510 infants and children with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) who underwent surgery at the Shahid Rajai Heart Hospital in Tehran were evaluated to determine the rate of surgical complications, morbidity and mortality. 30 patients (6%) developed minor to major complications postoperatively. Four patients who had undergone PDA ligation without division required reo...