Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass associated with aging and advanced disease. This study retrospectively examined patients older than 55 years (N=46) who underwent thoracolumbar spine surgery between 2003 and 2015. Each patient's comorbidity burden was determined using the Charlson Comorbidity Index, and the Mirza Surgical Invasiveness Index was used to measure procedural complexity. Sarcop...

to serum TNF-α level? Amir Jalali: Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy and Molecular and Cellular Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email: [email protected] Mohammad H. Pipelzadeh (corresponding author): Dept. of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email: mhpipelz...

Title: Small volume plasma exchange for Guillain-Barré syndrome in resource poor settings: a safety and feasibility study Authors: Md Badrul Islam ([email protected]) Zhahirul Islam ([email protected]) Shafiqur Rahman ([email protected]) Hubert Endtz ([email protected]) Margreet Vos ([email protected]) Mathieu der Jagt ([email protected]) Pieter van Doorn (p.a.v...

iii This work is dedicated to my family and also to my teachers. It is fully adequate, in scope and in quality, as a thesis for the degree of MS in Electronic Engineering. ACKNOWLEDGMENT First of all, I thank God Almighty (Allah) for the divine help in completion of this thesis. I think, having the opportunity to learn the modern technologies is the blessing of God almighty upon me. I always se...

Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic effects of methanolic extracts leaves stems Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.)Md. Amran Howlader, Farhana Rizwan, Shapna Sultana, Mohammad Rakibur Rahman, K. M. Shams-Ud-Doha, Rumana Mowla, Apurba Sarker Apu

Mehdi Jafari, Arash Rashidian, Farid Abolhasani, Kazem Mohammad, Shahram Yazdani, Patricia Parkerton, Masud Yunesian, Feizollah Akbari and Mohammad Arab* Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Services Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Te...

Submitted for the DFD11 Meeting of The American Physical Society Computation of Lagrangian Coherent Structures from their Variational Theory MOHAMMAD FARAZMAND, Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Canada, MANIKANDAN MATHUR, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France, GEORGE HALLER, Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada — We describ...