background: full blood count has been shown to predict disease severity and mortality risk in cancer patients. this study aimed to highlight the degree of derangements of full blood count parameters and provide mean values in pre-chemotherapy breast cancer patients compared with apparently normal control subjects.methods: this was an unmatched case-control study among breast cancer patients att...

background: patients undergone mechanical ventilation need rapid and reliable evaluation of their respiratory status. monitoring of end-tidal carbon dioxide (etco2) as a surrogate, noninvasive measurement of arterial carbon dioxide (paco2) is one of the methods used for this purpose in intubated patients. objectives: the aim of the present trial was to study the relationship between end-tidal c...

background: brain hypoxia-ischemia is a human neonatal injury that is considered a candidate for stem cell therapy. methods: the possible therapeutic potential of human umbilical cord blood (hucb) stem cells was evaluated in 14-day-old rats subjected to the right common carotid occlusion, a model of neonatal brain hypoxia-ischemia. seven days after hypoxia-ischemia, rats received either saline ...

objectives to develop a guide to estimate blood absorbed by surgical gauze. materials and methods a clinical experiment was conducted using aspirated blood and common surgical gauze to create a realistic amount of absorbed blood in the gauze. different percentages of staining were photographed to create an analogue for the amount of blood absorbed by the gauze. results a visual analogue scale w...

cytomegalovirus is the most important pathogen affecting transplant recipients and causing significant morbidity and morbidity. the prevalence of cmv  infections in transplant recipient varies from country to country.  the aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of pcr assay for cmv  detection in patients before keratoplasty.  a total of 23 patient samples enrolled in this study...

iron oxide is an important biological agent that has a key role in medical processes; however, the mechanism whereby it provides iron for human and animal cells and its biological uses remains unclear. we aimed to evaluate the effects of oral iron oxide on serum iron status and compare the results with those of iron sulfate as a reference salt. fifteen adult rabbits were divided into 3 groups o...

background: health benefits of vitamin d has been proved by a large number of studies, however, to the best of our knowledge there has been no study investigating the effect of mega dose of vitamin d on gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm). this study was the first to assess the effect of postpartum injection of mega dose of vitamin d on blood pressure (bp) in gdm. methods: this is a randomized ...

results color doppler usg had a sensitivity of 95% and specificity of 98% in diagnosis of arterial injury. positive and negative predictive values of doppler usg were 92.5% and 94.2%, respectively. conclusions color doppler usg can be used as a reliable modality with acceptable sensitivity and specificity values to screen hemodynamically stable patients with limb trauma suspicious for arterial ...

to assess the effects of pre-analytical handling (storage time and temperature) on selected hematological parameters, whole blood samples were collected in edta coated tubes from each of 30 clinically normal male adult beagle dogs. each sample was separated in 2 aliquots, of which one was stored in ambient temperature (25 ˚c) and the other one was refrigerated (2 to 4 ˚c). complete blood counts...

objectives this study aimed to assess the prevalence and outcome of undiagnosed hypertensive patients admitted to the emergency department. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted from march 2009 to march 2010 at imam hossein medical and educational center, teheran, iran. a total of 2070 patients aged 18 years and older were admitted to the emergency department without pr...