Recent studies indicate that patients experience pain after day surgery for a longer period than previously known. This requires verification. This was a prospective, descriptive correlational study. A convenience sample of 298 day surgery patients undergoing various surgical procedures was asked to report pain intensity and its interference with daily function 48 hours, seven days and three mo...

Introducción: La aparición y diseminación de Enterobacterales resistentes a carbapenémicos ha generado un gran impacto en las infecciones asociadas la atención salud el mundo. Recientemente, Chile se detectó brote por Klebsiella pneumoniae productora carbapenemasas tipo oxacilinasas (OXA) subfamilia OXA-48, reportándose los primeros casos pacientes hospitalizados mayoritariamente zona no...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the morphological changes in various tissues of rabbits receiving sciatic nerve block with 0.2% ropivacaine for 48 h. METHODS Twenty healthy were randomly assigned to normal saline group (N group) and ropivacaine group (R group). The right sciatic nerve was exposed, and a nerve-blocking trocar cannula embedded. Animals received an injection of 0.5% ropivacaine hydroch...

Apolipoprotein B is the main structural surface protein found on all beta-lipoproteins (Chylomicrons, VLDLs, IDLs and LDLs). There is a single molecule of apoB on each of those lipoproteins. It is the only apolipoprotein that is not transferablei.e. it is with the particle from its birth till its death. Beta-lipoproteins are the lipoproteins capable of trafficking cholesterol into the artery wa...

Most ovarian masses are benign conditions such as non neaplastic cystic, but on the other hand , ovarian cancer, is the third most common gynecological malignancy which has the highest mortality rate , as a result of late diagnosis. As there are few clinical symptoms, most patients at the Abstracts of the 12th Royan International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine 2 3 International Journal of...

Background: The response rates and duration of peginterferon alpha (PEG-IFN-a) and ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, the prevalent genotype in the Middle East and Africa, are poorly documented. Aims: To compare the efficacy and safety of 24, 36, or 48 weeks of PEG-IFN-a-2b and ribavirin therapy in chronic hepatitis C genotype 4. Methods: In this prospective, rando...

Every year, 536,000 women die from pregnancyrelated causes. More than 80 percent of maternal deaths worldwide are due to five direct causes: hemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortion, obstructed labor and hypertensive disease of pregnancy. The latest report from the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths (UK) lists eclampsia and pre-eclampsia as the second most common cause and showed an increas...

BACKGROUND The response rates and duration of peginterferon alpha (PEG-IFN-alpha) and ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, the prevalent genotype in the Middle East and Africa, are poorly documented. AIMS To compare the efficacy and safety of 24, 36, or 48 weeks of PEG-IFN-alpha-2b and ribavirin therapy in chronic hepatitis C genotype 4. METHODS In this prospecti...