Introduction: Total knee arthroplasty is associated with moderate to severe pain, and effective analgesia is essential to facilitate postoperative recovery. This retrospective cohort study examined the analgesic and rehabilitation outcomes associated with 48-hour continuous femoral nerve block, local infiltration analgesia, or local infiltration analgesia plus adductor canal nerve block. Method...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: since, accurate, appropriate, precise, timely, valid information, and valid interpretation of information is required and the basis for policy and decision making and planning in various levels of the organization management, this study was conducted to evaluate the district health information system evolutio...

introduction: diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis are two frequent medical conditions with an increasing prevalence in elderly. this study is conducted to evaluate osteoporosis in postmenopausal females with type 2 diabetes mellitus in sanandaj, the provincial center of kurdistan province in the west of iran. methods: from an initial population of 2500 women with type 2 diabetes, 242 postmenopau...

BACKGROUND Deep vein thrombosis is a known serious complication of surgical procedures and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Plastic surgeons' management of the risk of deep vein thrombosis and current information regarding deep vein thrombosis incidence rates are limited. A survey was designed and mailed to plastic surgeons to collect data on the patterns of practice with regard ...

Apikal subplevral bleb primer spontan pnömotoraksın en sık sebebi iken, kronik obstrüktif akciğer hastalığı sekonder spontan pnömotoraksın en sık sebebidir. Tanı fizik muayene, akciğer grafisi ve torakoskopik muayene ile doğrulanır. Tipik olarak astenik ve uzun yapılı kişilerde görülür. Spontan pnömotoraks katameniyal pnömotoraks ve gebelik süreci gibi hayatın özel dönemlerinde görülebilir. Pri...

330 NATURE | VOL 398 | 25 MARCH 1999 | www.nature.com characters, which allow a greater range of excursion of the shoulder joint in the locomotion of multituberculates and living therians, have evolved at least twice among the Mesozoic mammals. Alternatively, the mobile joints between the clavicle, interclavicle and scapula could be ancestral conditions shared by J. jenkinsi and the more derive...

Almost half of prescription medications are metabolized by cytochrome P450 3A4 and 3A5. CYP3A4 and 3A5 have significant substrate overlap, and there is currently no way to selectively monitor the activity of these two enzymes, which has led to the erroneous habit of attributing the cumulative activity to CYP3A4. While CYP3A4 expression is ubiquitous, CYP3A5 expression is polymorphic, with large...

  Introduction: Diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis are two frequent medical conditions with an increasing prevalence in elderly. This study is conducted to evaluate osteoporosis in postmenopausal females with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Sanandaj, the provincial center of Kurdistan province in the west of Iran. Methods: From an initial population of 2500 women with ty...