Background: myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury may occur in a variety of clinical set tings and this remains a significant problem. Oxygen free radi cals, produced on reperfusion have been shown to play a major role in myocardial I/R injury. Various therapeutic effects have been described for Crataegus. Additionally, it has been presented that Crataegus has protective effect against i...

Archives of Iranian Medicine, Volume 10, Number 3, July 2007 426 Household Ocular Injuries: A Case Series To determine the natures and types of household eye injuries, we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran in October 2003. Standardized international classification of ...

Introduction Explosions are physical, chemical or nuclear reactions that involve the rapid release of considerable amounts of energy. Their deleterious effects on living organisms are embodied by the term blast injury. The incidence of injuries resulting from explosions has increased throughout the twentieth century. This has been caused in part by industrial expansion. More significant has bee...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is the most common cause of nonfatal injury to women in the United States, with an estimated cost of $50 billion annually. Little is known about the spectrum of musculoskeletal injuries in victims of domestic violence. We examined the characteristics of abused women, the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries, and the variables associated with increasing frequency o...

Liver injuries due to ingestion or exposure to chemicals and industrial toxicants pose a serious health risk that may be hard to assess due to a lack of non-invasive diagnostic tests. Mapping chemical injuries to organ-specific damage and clinical outcomes via biomarkers or biomarker panels will provide the foundation for highly specific and robust diagnostic tests. Here, we have used DrugMatri...

INTRODUCrION Trauma is the commonest cause of eye disease. In the five years up to August 1969, 376 perforating eye injuries were treated in the Eye & Ear Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, the main causes being accidents and play in children, and road traffic accidents in adults. Only twenty-one were due to assault, usually with the list or broken glass, one was due to a butt with the head and o...

Respiratory tract injuries caused by inhalation of smoke or chemical products are related to significant morbidity and mortality. While many strategies have been built up to manage cutaneous burn injuries, few logical diagnostic strategies for patients with inhalation injuries exist and almost all treatment is supportive. The goals of initial management are to ensure that the airway allows adeq...

if all pregnant women worry about their fetus, worries of pregnant nurses are more serious and actual. which groups of women have more chance about hydatidform mole, amniotic fluid embolism or sheehan’s syndrome? fortunately, these complicated problems are very rare but what about daily injuries due to infectious diseases, radioactive substances, anticancer drugs and other chemical substances? ...

BACKGROUND The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) investigated the 17 April 2013 explosion at the West Fertilizer Company (WFC) that resulted in 15 fatalities, more than 260 injuries, and damage to more than 150 buildings. Among these structures were four nearby school buildings cumulatively housing children in grades kindergarten-12, a nursing care facility, and an apart...

INTRODUCTION This paper examines a number of US chemical industry incidents and their effect on equity prices of the incident company. Furthermore, this paper then examines the contagion effect of this incident on direct competitors. METHOD Event study methodology is used to assess the impact of chemical incidents on both incident and competitor companies. RESULTS This paper finds that the ...