conclusions ngal and il-18 obviated the disadvantages of creatinine. they were efficient in early detection of aki, in differentiating pre-renal from intrinsic aki and in predicting the severity of aki reliably in post-cardiac surgery patients. background acute kidney injury (aki) is common after cardiac surgery, the incidence varying between 7.7% and 28.1%. it significantly increases morbidity...

Aprotinin, a nonspecific serine protease inhibitor, has been primarily used as a haemostatic drug in cardiac surgery with cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB). This study investigated the effect of aprotinin on the post-operative levels of procalcitonin (PCT) and a set of cytokines in patients undergoing pulmonary artery endarterectomy (PEA). We analyzed 60 patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmona...

OBJECTIVES It is known that exercise induces cardio-respiratory autonomic modulation. The aim of this study was to assess the cardio-pulmonary fitness by ultra-short heart rate variability. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study population was divided into 3 groups: Group-1 (n = 40) consisted of military sports man. Group-2 (n = 40) were healthy age-matched sedentary male subjects with normal body mass ...

ct 1314 is a new steroid anesthetic which is used for the rapid induction of anesthesia. its duration of action as well as the time course for the recovery is rapid. it has a high therapeutic index and proved compatible with other drugs used in anesthesiology. no appreciable side effects has been encount e red during anesthesia with thisdrug . to avoid any disturbance in cardio-pulmonary system...

A tgchnique was developed for closedchest bypass of the right ventricle. Blood is removed from the right alrium and returned into the pulmonary artery. The blood return cannula can be inserted without x-ray equipment. The maximum flow through the system is ten liters per minute. Acute right ventricular failure produced by embolization of pulmonary arteries with starch could be treated promptly ...

A mass CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) teaching programme, believed to be the first in Malaysia, was held at the Dewan Tunku Canselor, University of Malaya (UM) on Saturday, 13th July 1996. Organised by the Resuscitation Committee of University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, this programme was conducted for 200 first year UM students. We describe the organisation of this non-traditional and non-t...

The physiological mechanisms related to cardio-vascular (CV), cardio-pulmonary (CP), and vasculo-pulmonary (VP) regulation may be probed through multivariate time series analysis tools. This study applied an information domain approach for the evaluation of non-linear causality to the beat-to-beat variability series of heart period (t), systolic arterial pressure (s), and respiration (r) measur...

Dear Colleagues,   As Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine (JCTM), it is my pleasure to introduce this official quarterly publication of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which is an international, peer-reviewed, and English language journal. Our aim is to publish high quality integrating clinical and experimental research in the following fields: Respiratory medici...