objective: to evaluate the predictive value of some biochemical markers in the outcome of extremity vascular trauma. methods: this study comprised 30 patients with traumatic arterial injury and acute limb ischemia referred to namazi hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical ssciences, over a period of 8 months, from sep 2009 to jul 2010. venous blood samples were drawn from distal i...

s:865:"We read with interest the manuscript entitled "Serum and peritoneal fluid levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in women with endometriosis" recently published in the International Journal of Fertility and Sterility (1). The authors measured the levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in serum and peritoneal fluid of 179 women, 90 of whom were diagnosed with endometriosis, an...

Vascular plants produce new organs at the tip of the stem in a very organized fashion. This patterning process occurs in small groups of stem cells, the so-called shoot apical meristems (SAM), and generates regular patterns called phyllotaxis. The phyllotaxis of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana follows a Fibonacci spiral, the most frequent phyllotactic pattern found in nature. In this phyll...

Background: The clinical data of patients with trigeminal neuralgia who received treatment were retrospectively analyzed, and the surgical strategy for cases without vascular compression was investigated. Methods: Clinical data from 98 patients with trigeminal neuralgia who underwent MVD surgery were retrospectively analyzed. All patients underwent preoperative examinations of 3D-TOF-MRA and 3D...

BACKGROUND The study describes the relationship of retinal vascular geometry (RVG) to severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR), and its predictive role for subsequent development of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). METHODS The research project comprises of two stages. Firstly, a comparative study of diabetic patients with different grades of DR. (No DR: Minimal non-proliferative DR: Sev...

A high-fidelity physics-based simulator for use in vascular interventional radiology (IR), interventional cardiology, and vascular surgery offers the ability to: Insert actual guidewires and catheters with realistic haptic feedback View simulated fluoroscopic images that show two-dimensional (2D) displays of three-dimensional (3D) anatomy Change the angle of "fluoroscopic" views using controls ...

the possibility of abnormal avf was considered and it was confirmed on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (ct), inferring that this modality is not only fast and non-invasive, but also accurate in detecting vascular abnormalities. herein, we report a 42-year-old woman with congenital avf between the external carotid artery and external jugular vein, presenting with palpitation and dyspnea. t...