introduction: up to 12% of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft have pulmonary complications. smoking can cause a six-time increase in pulmonary complication after major surgery. the most common pulmonary changes after cabg are decrease in frc, vc and atelectasis. in this study, the effect of oral n-acetyl-cystein in reduction of severity of hypoxemia and atelectasis in current smok...

purpose: to detect the prevalence of dry eye after vitrectomy and its influencing factors. methods: schirmer i, tear basic secretion test and tear breakup time was done preoperatively and 3 months postoperatively on consecutive patients undergoing vitrectomy in khatam hospital from 2005 to 2006. eyes with previous peritomies of more than 120◦ and symptoms of dry eye or tear tests compatible wit...

abstractbackgroundline of treatment for management of hydrocephalus despite available new techniques andsystems of shunting. associated complications should be recognized and managed properly,but the most recognized complications are shunt obstruction which its prevalencethrough surgical approach is discussed here. two approaches (frontal and parietal) are usedto insert ventriculoperitoneal shu...

thrombocytopenia has been reported as a complication of phototherapy. in this study the effect of conventional phototherapy on platelet count was studied in 101 newborns with indirect hyperbilirubinemia, out of whom 50 patients (49.5%) had decreased levels of platelets; 20 (19.8%) of the latter had a platelet count of below 100000/mm3. decreased platelet count was maximum during the first 24 ho...

conclusions post immunization lv is a rare complication of the bcg vaccine and should be considered by any physician. lupus vulgaris is a paucibacillary form of tb. therefore, acid fast bacilli are not detected in most cases. the pcr is a useful method for confirmation of the diagnosis of lv. introduction lupus vulgaris (lv) is one type of cutaneous tuberculosis (tb) but a rare complication of ...

Introduction 1. Globalization of Industries, Strategies, Firms and Marketing Activities 2. MNCs’ Marketing Activities: towards an integrated global Approach? 3. The Study 3.1 Research Questions and Methodology 3.2 Principal Findings 3.2.1 Italian MNCs and their Marketing Orientation 3.2.2 Means and Reasons for Implementing and Integrating Global Marketing Activities 3.2.3 The Correlation betwee...

Relationship Marketing is emerging as a new phenomenon. However, relationship oriented marketing practices date back to the pre-Industrial era. In this article, we trace the history of marketing practices and illustrate how the advent of mass production, the emergence of middlemen, and the separation of the producer from the consumer in the Industrial era led to a transactional focus of marketi...

Consumers’ understandings of marketing are related to their product attitudes or brand image formation. However, little empirical evidence exists of what marketing means to consumers. This study documents a new term called conceptions of marketing, which refers to the beliefs and understandings held by consumers about marketing. The purpose of this research is to investigate the variation in ho...

E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4 P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) that forms the classic marketing mix; e-marketing’s uniqueness is created using a series of specific and relational functions that are combined with the 4P’s to form the emarketing mix elements, each of which contain associated e-marketing mix tools that are provided on business web...