Engineered Water Injection (EWI) has been increasingly tested and applied to enhance fluid displacement in reservoirs. The modification of ionic concentration provides interactions with the pore wall, which facilitates oil mobility. This mechanism carbonates alters natural rock wettability being quite an attractive recovery method. Currently, numerical simulation this injection method remains l...

Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of infectious disease of the eye and hypersensitivity lesions of the cornea including phlyctenules and catarrhal infiltrates. Because little is known about ocular immunity to S. aureus, we measured antibody levels to ribitol teichoic acid, the major antigenic determinant of S. aureus, in rabbit serum and tears using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa...

BACKGROUND Chronic abdominal wall pain (CAWP) is a frequent and confusing pain. It often leads to many diagnostic tests and sometimes some surgeries before an accurate diagnosis is achieved. Numerus had reported that patients with pain in abdominal wall are frequently treated like some one who is suffering from visceral pain. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study that is done in Isfahan in...

Objective: To investigate the relation between the wall motion abnormalities and sodium channel abnormalities in cases of the Brugada syndrome. Design: Consecutive prospective case–control study in a single hospital. Setting: Tertiary referral centre. Patients: 13 consecutive patients with Brugada syndrome and 13 age and sex matched control subjects. Interventions: Each subject underwent electr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of injectable calcium hydroxylapatite for treatment of velopalatal (VP) insufficiency (VPI). DESIGN Observational case series of 7 patients treated with injectable calcium hydroxylapatite for VPI and followed for 10 to 24 months. SETTING Academic pediatric otolaryngology practice. PATIENTS Seven children aged 6 to 16 years with clinically significant VPI...

Introduction: As a valuable imaging modality, Nuclear Medicine (NM) indications is raising in clinical practice. The remained portion administrated radioactive material in patients’ tissues is a critical issue, especially when the procedure is performed in hospitalized patients, where the non-radiation workers present. The aim of this study was evaluation the dose of non-radia...

A 15-year-old adolescent presented to us with mild headache, progressive dizziness and recent vomiting since 2 weeks without seizures. There was a history of head injury (neglected) following a stone-throwing incident 2 months earlier. On examination, he was conscious with a left cerebellar syndrome but without other neurologic deficit. Routine biologic data were normal. CT-scan revealed left p...