hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors of vascular heart disease. control of hypertension in different age groups has a significant effect upon the control and prevention of vascular heart disease. a familial pattern is observed in the distribution of blood pressure in different societies. family history of hypertension has a profound effect on the future risk of deve...

Critically ill obstetric patients are significantly different from the average patient admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU). They present a challenge to the critical care physician due to their unique physiology and the specific medical disorders that occur during pregnancy and the peripartum period. The physiologic changes that occur in the pregnant state in several systems, inclu...

a 53-year-old male was referred to our department for refractory primary hypertension. despite high doses of 6 anti-hypertensive drugs, ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure (bp) revealed a mean bp of 160/90 mmhg. under local anaesthesia, renal denervation with radiofrequency was performed supported by high-resolution 3d angiography, which helped confirm the position of the applications in a ...

we report a case of a 40 year old man with portal hypertension caused by a splenic arteriovenous fistula that was diagnosed at laparotomy. he presented with bleeding esophageal varices and was initially treated by sclerotherapy. at laparotomy, portal pressure was 40 cmh20 but fell to 20 cm h20 after the fistula was treated with splenectomy. all symptoms disappeared shortly after operation and t...

conclusions the etiology of pah in thalassemia is multifactorial such as inflammatory mediators. also, the absence of the spleen plays an important role in developing a high trv and pah. results average age of the patients was 21.15 ± 6.68 years. no significant difference was observed in the pap between the 2 groups of thalassemia major and intermedia and also the 2 sex groups. indeed, 6.6% of ...

background: infertility is common among couples of child-bearing age and ap-proximately half of known causes of primary infertility are attributable to male factor. it is still unclear whether the injurious effects of cigarette smoking on sperm characteristics and infertility are due to nicotine. therefore, the present study investigated the effects of orally administered of nicotine on sperm c...

background: obesity is a significant risk factor for metabolic disorders including increase in blood pressure. body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc) and waist/hip ratio (whr) are simple and effective indicators of obe­sity. the objectives of this study were to examine the relationships between obesity anthropometric indicators and hy­pertension and to identify the best anthropometric ...

summary: pheochromocytoma is an adrenal tumor characterized by symptoms of hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and tachycardia .in one third of patients, the tumor is discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation of the abdomen. in this article a case of bilateral pheochromocytoma is reported. the patient, a twelve years old boy, referred with complaints of headache, flushing, ...

background: hypertension is one of the major chronic disorders. hypertensive patients have various disease-related experiences, based on personal and social characteristics, life style and other effective factors. nurses face different situations during their activities process and presentation of these experiences obtained during working with patients can help them to improve the clinical acti...