background and objective: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease of worldwide distribution and has great economic importance. despite its control in many countries, it remains endemic in iran. brucellosis was investigated in many high risk occupational groups; however, few studies on the prevalence of brucellosis among blood donors are available. to determine the seroprevalence of brucellosis antibo...

conclusions the lower levels of sugar in crushed fingers compared to healthy fingers can help to diagnose gangrene in crushed fingers. objectives the current study aimed to compare the blood sugar (bs) levels measured by the glucometer in healthy and crushed fingers to predict gangrene in patients referred to 15 khordad hospital in tehran, iran. methods this cohort study was conducted on 265 pa...

conclusions comparing the serum lactate level before operation and 24 hours after the operation showed that the number of received blood units had a significant effect on serum lactate. we found no significant effect for blood storage duration; however, the number of given blood units was more significant. patients and methods in a cross-sectional study, 228 patients referred to three hospitals...

conclusions both remifentanil and magnesium had favorable outcomes in preventing hr and map elevation after tracheal extubation. however, remifentanil was associated with more rapid regaining of consciousness and reversal of muscular relaxation. results the hr was significantly lower, immediately after extubation and 3, 5, and 10 minutes after extubation, in both magnesium and remifentanil grou...

conclusions results suggest that these methods cannot be interchanged, and vvi showed significantly lower lv peak twist, peak twisting rate and peak untwisting rate. however, when lv twist and lv twisting rates were normalized to lv length, values were comparable for both imaging techniques. results twist degree was significantly lower in the vvi group than in the tdi group (p = 0.008, r = 0.56...

introduction: the main purpose of donor selection is not only the donor protection from blood donation complications but also the blood recipient not be expose to blood- transmitted diseases. this study aimed to determine the reason for exemption from donors among blood donor's who refer to ilam blood transfusion organization. materials and methods: this is a retrospective and descriptive ...

ammonia is the chief excretory product in fishes. however, non-availability of enough of water in the habitat, may lead to the formation of urea, in fishes. in the present study, the possible role of urea formation to avoid the toxicity of ammonia under water-restricted condition was tested in channa gachua. circulatory urea and ammonia were estimated in the blood of the fishes and glutamate de...

selective deficiency of immunoglobulin a (iga) is the most frequent primary hypogammaglobulinemia. as some iga-deficient patients have iga antibodies in their plasma which may cause anaphylactic reactions, blood centers usually maintain a list of iga-deficient blood donors to prepare compatible blood components. in this study we determined the incidence of selective iga deficiency (sigad) in no...

background: to explore a possible rela!onship among blood groups and the prognosis of breast cancer, this case- control study was carried out in arak city, arak province, iran. materials and methods: one hundred and thirty four pa!ents with breast cancer were inves!gated. abo blood groups were obtained from medical records. mul!variate analyses were performed, including size of tumor, axillary ...

background: blood transfusion is one of the most crucial needs of the society in multiple diseases and injuries. the only source of blood is donation. students consist a large and healthy group who are able of providing a large number of blood donation, however, blood donation is rare amongst them. this study was conducted to evaluate students awareness and attitude towards blood donation in ke...