background and aims: there are different causes for brain death including head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial space-occupying lesions. the present study was aimed to determine the causes of brain death in chahar mahal and bakhtiari province due to high turnover of trauma in this area during 2003 to 2013. methods: this study was based on routine data and was conducted on all ...

Male and female, arteriosclerotic (breeder) and nonarteriosclerotic (virgin), Sprague-Dawley rats were made severely diabetic with alloxan. Two weeks later experimental animals had both carotid arteries ligated to induce a state of acute cerebral ischemia. After six weeks of cerebral ischemia either with or without severe diabetes the animals were killed. Animals which survived either the acute...

Background: Moyamoya disease is a progressive occlusive cerebrovascular disorder most prevalent in Asia. It results in neovascularization that can lead to hemorrhagic stroke. Pregnancy physiologic changes can further exacerbate the risk of fatal hemorrhagic stroke. Case: We present the case of a 31 year-old woman gravida 2 para 1 presenting to the emergency department with neurologic symptoms. ...

Universally accepted diagnostic criteria for transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome are not yet available and the cardiac dysfunction complicating subarachnoid hemorrhage drops several hints of discussion about the clinical and pathophysiological similarities with the “typical” transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome. We suggest that, in the light of clinical and pa...

BACKGROUND Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A. Central nervous system (CNS) manifestations consist mainly of cerebrovascular events. Brain MRI results are often abnormal. PURPOSE The aim of the study was to describe CNS involvement in a group of Italian patients with AFD. METHODS Clinical and brain MRI data of...

In studies on carotid artery intima-media thickness and stroke, researchers implicitly assume that cerebrovascular abnormalities show a symmetrical distribution. To evaluate whether there is a difference in intima-media thickness between the 2 carotids, we compared left and right common carotid artery intima-media thickness as measured by B-mode ultrasonography in a group of 102 untreated hyper...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the relationship of occupational class and educational background with proportional mortality ratios in Korea. METHODS Mortality was investigated using the entire registered death data from 1993 to 2004, obtained from the Korean National Statistics Office. Proportional mortality ratios (PMRs) for specific diseases were calculated according to the occupationa...

background chlamydia pneumoniae has been linked with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases; however, data on stroke and cerebrovascular accidents are sparse. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the association between c. pneumoniae infection and ischemic stroke. patients and methods in a case-control study, 141 patients, admitted with ischemic stroke, were compared with gender...

Injury characteristics of child passengers in accidents are summarized in this paper. Based on the accident data about child passengers from 2011 to 2017 collected in the National Automobile Accident In-Depth Investigation System (NAIS), the analysis of the patterns of the traffic accident where child passengers are involved and injury characteristics of child passengers in the aspects of crash...

Road traffic accidents are a major health problem in developing countries. Saudi Arabia is no exception to this worldwide dilemma. The increase in per capita income in the last two decades has made automobile available for alJ households. This increase along with other reasons has put the traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities at an alarming figures. This paper presents the various traffic...