OBJECTIVE To determine the lunar effect on mortality among patients admitted to the intensive care unit. METHODS The retrospective study conducted at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, and comprised data of 4387 patients in intensive care unit from December 2002 to November 2004. The subjects were divided into two groups: patients who died on full moon days (...

Background and Objectives: Diabetes is one of the major health challenges in world. Herbal medicines are widely used for the treatment of diabetes. The current study assessed the effects of oral administration of essential oils from Myrtus communis, Trachyspermum copticum and Ferula gummosa on blood glucose and lipid profiles in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats and inhibitory effects of the...

The aims of this study were to compare outcomes of appendectomy between acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and nonAIDS patients and laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) versus open appendectomy (OA) in AIDS patients. Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, from 2006 to 2008, clinical data of patients with AIDS who underwent LA and OA were evaluated. A total of 800 patients with AIDS u...

This study was designed to investigate whether administration of zinc sulphate could improve theresponse of mouse testis to degenerative effects of short term exposure heating. Fifty-four adult male Balb/Cmice were anaesthetized and the scrotums of 36 of them were immersed for 15 min in a waterbath at 43°C.Immediately after the heating, half of the heated animals (n = 18) were injected with sal...

Background: A number of drugs are used to control opioid withdrawal symptoms during detoxification. Tramadol, as a partial opioid agonist, has been widely used to manage acute and chronic pains. The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of tramadol in methadone-assisted detoxification. Methods: In a double-blind randomized clinical trial 72 opioid-dependent patients as defined ...

objective: the objective of this study is to compare rates of pregnancy and ivf parameters in subjects who were stimulated with follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) plus either recombinant human luteinizing hormone (r-lh) or human menopausal gonadotropins (hmg), in long gonadotropin releasing hormone (gnrh) agonist ivf protocols. materials and methods: this is a cohort study of patients undergoin...

background: doxorubicin (dox), an anthracycline antibiotic, is a widely used anticancer agent. in spite of its high antitumor efficacy, the use of dox in clinical chemotherapy is limited due to diverse toxicities, including gonadotoxicity. objective:  we investigated the protective effect of nano-zinc oxide (nzno) as an established antioxidant on dox-induced testicular disorders. materials and ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse blebs of phacotrabeculectomies performed with Ologen collagen implants (ProTop & MediKing, Taipei, Taiwan) and to compare these with blebs of mitomycin C (MMC)–augmented phacotrabeculectomies. METHODS 33 participants underwent phacotrabeculectomy with Ologen implants, and 33 controls underwent phacotrabeculectomy with MMC. Blebs were analysed for height and area using ant...

UNLABELLED Patients with acute and chronic liver disease often require admission to intensive care unit (ICU) and mechanical ventilation support before liver transplantation (LT). Rapid disease progression and high mortality on LT waiting lists makes live donor LT (LDLT) an attractive option for this patient population. METHODS During 2000 to 2011, all ICU-bound and mechanically ventilated pa...