background & aim: considering the inevitable side effects of chemical drugs, nowadays, herbal medicine has gained a special importance. cinnamon of lauraceae family, is commonly used as a food spice and medicine. it is famous to be, antimicrobial, anti-oxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-viral, and antispastic. it also prevents abdominal bloating, increases sweating and uterus muscle constrictions...

New and generic forms of widely used medications introduced in the antiplatelet, anticoagulant and fibrinolytic therapeutic classes will have a world-wide impact on prescribing, practice guidelines, and routine patient care. However, several uncertainties regarding these agents will remain even after the publication of their respective pivotal trials or regulatory approval. These questions incl...

In end-stage renal disease, in particularly when treated with haemodialysis, the function of platelets, coagulation and fibrinolytic systems can be disturbed, thus contributing to either thrombotic or bleeding complications. It is important to know whether the currently used haemodialysis procedure itself (by biocompatible membranes and better anticoagulation with nandroparin) affects platelets...

A simple method for the quantitative assay of vascular plasminogen activator is described. From 24 chronic renal failure patients who were undergoing surgery for A/V fistular or shunt construction, small pieces of artery (mean 7.8 mg, range 3.0-18.5 mg) and vein (mean 4.5 mg, range 3.0-8.8 mg) were used. The fibrinolytic activity was assayed on a well-controlled fibrin plate by only distilled w...

Fibrinolytic therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction has made a major contribution to the care of thousands of patients worldwide.1 Over the past decade, there have been tremendous advances in the care of such patients, including an enhanced assessment of both the risks of the infarction and the potential for complicating intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), more effective reperf...

BACKGROUND Catecholamine infusion elicits an increase in clotting factors and this increase has been attributed to stimulation of β2-adrenorecptors (β2AR). Accordingly, we tested the hypothesis that inhalation of a short-acting selective β2AR agonist can induce a procoagulant state in healthy individuals. METHODS We recruited 23 healthy volunteers (nine females; mean age: 26±0.8 years; body m...