background: chest tube removal is a painful procedure. the goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of cold application incombination with indomethacin suppository on chest tube removal pain in patients undergoing open heart surgery. materials and methods: this single-blind, double-group clinical trial was performed on 66 patients aged 18-68 years with thechest tube in pleural space. the i...

Background: The rationale was to develop an ablation approach to destroy regions of tumor resistant to radiation and thus reduce the time required for whole tumor ablation, while improving overall tumor control after radiotherapy. Materials and Methods: The system is composed of a micro positron emission tomography (mPET), 7T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and a customized MRI-compatible foc...

estrogen (e2) has neuroprotective effects on blood-brain-barrier (bbb) after traumatic brain injury (tbi). in order to investigate the roles of estrogen receptors (ers) in these kind of effects, er-α antagonist (mpp) and, er-β antagonist (phtpp), or non-selective estrogen receptors antagonist (ici 182780) were administered as regulators of cns cytokines levels and neuroinflammation after tbi. m...

Primary MgCl2.3.3EtOH adduct (PCT1) was prepared by melt quenching method and then submitted into a programmed thermal dealcoholation project using a fluidized bed reactor. During thermal dealcoholation program, different MgCl2.nEtOH support samples with n= 3.0, 2.7, 2.4, and 2.1 were selected and named as PCT2 to PCT5, respectively. Structural analysis of the support samples showed a significa...

We admitted a 76-year old male person with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was immediately brought to the emergency room (ER). The blood pressure was 80/40 mmHg, HTC less than 0.17. We decided to perform an emergent CT angiography wich verified referral diagnosis. The ruptured AAA was 12 cm in diameter. An emergent life saving operation had to be done so the patient was brought to the ...