INTRODUCTION It is known that phacoemulsification of cataracts after penetrating keratoplasty there are always some difficulties and of course a higher rate of different intraoperative complications. Phacoemulsification after PK may cause significant endothelial injury and affect long term graft survival. AIM The aim of this report is to describe one of these cases and the possible ways to ma...

LAY SUMMARY Current conceptualizations of potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) emphasize war atrocities (e.g., killing children or civilians, witnessing abuse prisoners war). Additional research on PMIEs could inform provision patient-centred care in pursuit healing for those experiencing moral injury. The field would benefit from an operationalization that is not only grounded empirica...

AIM To provide a retrospective analysis of our results and experience in primary surgical treatment of subjects with war liver injuries. METHODS From July 1991 to December 1999, 204 subjects with war liver injuries were treated. A total of 82.8% of the injured were with the liver injuries combined with the injuries of other organs. In 93.7%, the injuries were caused by fragments of explosive ...

we reviewed 55 cases with trauma to the urinary bladder. blunt trauma was the cause of injury in 78 percent of cases and associated pelvic fracture was present in 75 percent. eighty percent of extraperitoneal ruptures were associated with fracture of the pelvis. the most common cause of trauma was car accident (63%), followed by war injury (20%). nearly two-thirds of patients (63 %) had extrape...

BACKGROUND Reintegration after war brings with it enormous challenges. One such challenge is to find appropriate methods of rehabilitation during the reintegration process. This article describes the rehabilitation, using traditional therapy, of formerly abducted adolescents exposed to war events who have experienced psychological distress. METHODOLOGY In a cross-sectional design, 294 adolesc...

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BACKGROUND In recent decades, the incidence of spinal cord injuries has increased. In a systemic review on epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in developing countries reported 25.5/million cases per year. OBJECTIVES To assess the quality of life (QOL) of the veterans among Iran-Iraq war with chronic spinal cord injuries (SCI) and to evaluate long-term impressions of SCI on their qual...

That the practice of medicine in general may be a trying experience under central military control is well known to all who have experienced it. Lieutenant Colonel John L. Yates summarized this aspect of the situation succinctly in the following words: "Civil surgeons can and should prepare themselves not merely to give professional services but to give them under the restrictions of military m...

The proportion of veterans cared for by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is rapidly shifting to those deriving from the Gulf War, which began in 1990 and the Global War on Terror, which began in 2001. The conflicts in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF), have produced 1,016,213 veterans; and 454,121 of them have received care through the...