Background Few results have shown that renal parenchymal echogenicity increases in pediatric patients with no concurrent renal diseases. This study aimed to investigate the relation between non-renal diseases and renal cortical echogenicity in children with acute abdominal pain. Materials and Methods  This cross- sectional study was conducted among 100 children referred to Amirkola Children’s ...

More patients with opioid addiction are receiving opioid agonist therapy (OAT) with methadone and buprenorphine. As a result, physicians will more frequently encounter patients receiving OAT who develop acutely painful conditions, requiring effective treatment strategies. Undertreatment of acute pain is suboptimal medical treatment, and patients receiving long-term OAT are at particular risk. T...

The American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Society for Regional Anesthesia have recently focused on the evolving practice of acute pain medicine. There is increasing recognition that the scope and practice of acute pain therapies must extend beyond the subacute pain phase to include pre-pain and pre-intervention risk stratification, resident and fellow education in regional anesthes...

PURPOSE With previous methods based on only age and location, there are many difficulties in identifying the etiology of acute abdominal pain in children. We sought to develop a new systematic classification of acute abdominal pain and to give some helps to physicians encountering difficulties in diagnoses. METHODS From March 2005 to May 2010, clinical data were collected retrospectively from...

background: low back pain (lbp) is the second most common medical complaint. it’s estimated that about 70-85% of the population will suffer at least one episode of lbp during their life. the aim of present study was to compare the effects of massage and modality in patient with sub-acute and chronic non-specific lbp methods: in this clinical trial study 30 women (meanage: 33.96±10.93) with sub-...

Lallemantia royleana (Balangu) is a well known Iranian medicinal plant that its seed mucilage has many applications in modern pharmacology. Plant mucilage traditionally was used as a gel supplement, and natural matrix for sustained release of drugs. But it seems that these compounds are not a simple additive and also have many undiscovered pharmacological properties. In this research, the anest...

background and objective: recent studies have shown that anticholinergic alkaloids compounds have strong analgesic effects. due to presence of anticholinergic alkaloids in hyoscyamus niger and its mentioned effects in iranian traditional medicine, its analgesic effects were assessed. at first, acute and chronic pain thresholds in male nmri rats with formalin test was evaluated, then oral and in...

aortic dissection occurs when a tear develops in the wall of the aorta, which is rare in the young population. this fatal disorder is hard to diagnose, especially in young patients. we present the case of aortic dissection in a 15-year-old boy referred to the emergency department of yazd university of medical sciences in november 2015. the patient presented to our department with sudden acute c...

background: myocardial infarction is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. platelet count and the mean platelet volume (mpv), a simple and reliable indicator of platelet size which correlates with platelet activation, might associate with troponin in acute chest pain. methods: we analyzed mpv of 851 patients who were admitted to rasoul-e-akram hospital with acu...

The effectiveness of acute pain treatment in hospitals is examined. An efficient therapy of acute pain is efficient and cost-effective. Although every patient is entitled for the relief of pain, many hospitals do not treat acute pain in an optimal manner.