purpose: to evaluate the incidence of the oculo-cardiac reflex (ocr) and its associated risk factors during strabismus surgeries performed at a tertiary referral center between 1390 and 1392. methods: over a 2-year period, all strabismus surgery candidates were enrolled in the study after obtaining consent from the patients or their parents. vital signs were recorded before the initiation of th...

background: dietary diversity score (dds) measurement was used to assessment of diet quality in different disease like cardiovascular disease. one way to improve the cardiovascular patient's ability is cardiac rehabilitation program that include exercise training, nutrition consultation and psychological treatment. no study was designed to compare the dds before and after dietary consultation a...

to explore the abnormalities in iranian athletes' electrocardiogram and find any relation with body fat. 239 international athletes were involved in this cross sectional study. body-fat percentage and resting 12-lead ecgs were recorded from all participants. of 239 participant athletes, 212 were male and 27 female. 60% of participants had sinus bradycardia. a total of 84% of the athletes demons...

chylothorax in adult occurs most commonly in the wake of cardiac and thoracic procedures. injuries to the  common thoracic duct in the thorax or its branches in the mediastinum, injuries to the thymus tissues, dissection of the superior vena cava or ascending aorta, dissection of the aortic arch, disruption of the accessory lymphatics in the left or right thorax, and increased pressure in the s...

primary cardiac sarcomas are rare clinical entities with an incidence rate of 0.0001% in collected autopsy series and are regarded as very aggressive tumors. we herein describe a 21-year-old woman presenting with syncope, dyspnea, and abdominal distention. she suffered from massive ascites, plural effusion, and liver congestion demonstrated by abdominal sonography and chest x-ray. transthoracic...

background: catheter ablation is widely used for treatment of atrial fibrillation. the use of fluoroscopic and non-fluoroscopic mapping systems in catheter ablation is common. this study conducted to investigate the safety and effectiveness of navx non-fluoroscopic mapping system.   methods : in this study, the appropriate electronic databases including cochrane library and ovid medline searche...

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background: cardiac failure is the major lethal consequence of aluminum phosphide (alp) poisoning. this study was designed to determine the frequency of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with alp poisoning. methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study, patients with definitive history of alp poisoning treated at emergency department of allied hospital faisalabad, faisalabad, pakistan, from ...

patients and methods previously recorded data of 231 patients who underwent surgical closure of vsd between january 2009 and january 2012 at the rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center were retrospectively reviewed. vsd surgical repair was performed using continues suturing technique in group a patients (n = 163, 70.6%) and interrupted suturing technique in group b patients (n = 68, 2...

conclusions both pca techniques provided effective pain scores (< 3) after cardiac surgery; but generally, pca-paracetamol infusion has a better analgesic effect. results the trend of pain scores did not have any significantly difference between group r and group p except for hour 8 and hour 18 after surgery that vas was significantly lower in group p than group r (p = 0.031, p = 0.023, respect...