conclusions most traumas in qom province occurred among younger age-groups and strikes and fallsn are the main causes of such traumas. therefore, safeties to prevent falls and trafficn regulations to reduce strikes can be effective strategies. patients and methods a cross–sectional study was conducted on 29426 injured people referred to qomn province hospitals in 2010. information about place, ...

objectives this study is designed to investigate the epidemiology of home-related injuries in kashan, iran. background injury is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, and the home is one of the most common places for these types of injuries. patients and methods this investigation is a retrospective cross-sectional study on existing data from the data bank of the tr...

objectives: rapid and fast growth of methamphetamine in iran has posed a new challenge for iranian health sector. the objective of this study was to report a case of methamphetamine psychosis (not otherwise specified-nos). methods: the patient was an 48-year-old married male who complained of suspiciousness and delusion of control, he started using methamphetamine 5 years ago, two days after ho...

acute injuries of the spine and spinal cord are among the most causes of severe disability and death after trauma. data about spine fracture with or without cord damage are different. the aim of this study was to determine epidemiology and demographics of spinal injury in main trauma center, guilan, an iranian province. the present study was a descriptive study of all cases of traumatic spine i...

In the 1970s, during the peak of eicosanoid research, platelets were generally considered to play a major role in mediating the cell and tissue injury known to occur in cerebral ischemia/stroke, myocardial ischemia/infarction, and traumatic injury to other organs or regions. Foremost among the platelet-derived humoral mediators of this type of tissue injury were the prostaglandins (eg, PGF2a), ...

In previous studies, the neuroprotective effect of progestrone in diffuse traumatic brain injury has been shown. This study used mifepristone (RU-486), a potent progesterone receptor antagonist, to evaluatethe hypothesis that the neuroprotective effect of progesterone in traumatic brain injury is mediated by the progesterone receptors. The ovariectomized rats were divided into 6 groups. Brain i...

Introduction: Postoperative neurological deficit is the most devastating complication after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Despite demonstrated neuroprotective effects of estradiol, its protective efficacy against spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion and underlying mechanisms are not yet elucidated. Methods: Two groups, each of 10 New Zealand white male rabbits, were studied. Control g...