Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is a catastrophic disorder of the gastrointestinal tract with high mortality. Few data on the characteristics of this disease in Iran are available. Patient records of public and private hospitals in Shiraz, southern Iran, with impression of acute abdomen, bowel gangrene or abdominal pain, and patients with risk factors for this disease, who were admitted between...

1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Besat Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Trauma Research Center, Shiraz University of ...

Shiraz Faculty of Medicine was officially inaugurated in 1952. In 1958, an eminent Austrian anatomist Professor Joseph Tomasch joined Shiraz Medical School. Professor Tomasch was a great teacher and an active researcher. He published about 40 original papers mainly on neuroanatomy in some reputable international journals. Presented here is a brief account of his fruitful academic efforts in Iran.