Background: Peripheral vascular injury associated with lower limb trauma is a well-known emergency. The experience for the management of popliteal artery trauma have mainly come from managing the traumas of military personnels during Iran-Iraq war. The present study compared the effects of two currently-used surgical techniques in the management of popliteal trauma, namley femoropopliteal bypas...

introduction: heart failure is a major hazard for public health. despite recent advance in medical therapy, there is not enough information on the outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass (opcab) and medical therapy on the patients with severe ventricular dysfunction and triple-vessel (cad). this study aimed to compare treatment outcomes and mortality rate in patients undergoing off-pump coro...

abstract bowel obstruction is a known complication after bariatric surgery especially roux-en-y gastric bypass. the known etiologies include internal hernia, jejunojejunostomy stricture, ileus, intussusceptions, superior mesenteric artery syndrome, incarcerated port site hernia, and adhesions. blood clot is a rare cause of small intestinal obstruction after laparoscopic roux-en-y gastric bypass...

background: we presumed that the surgeon himself has an impact on the results after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) as there is no unique protocol for the discharge of post-operative cardiac patients at our institution. therefore, we examined whether the surgeon himself has an impact on the intensive care unit (icu) stay of isolated cabg patients. methods: we prospectively studied a tota...

background: left ventricular dysfunction is one of the most powerful predictors of early and late outcomes in patients who undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg). the aim of this study was to assess the early results of cabg that predict 30-day mortality and prolonged length of hospital stay (los) after cabg in patients with an ejection fraction (ef) of 30% or less. methods: seven hundr...

background: cardiac rehabilitation is known as a powerful non-pharmacological approach for improving functional capacity, and left ventricular systolic function; however, some limited data have suggested an attenuation of the decline in diastolic function with this program. this study investigated the effect of high intensity aerobic exercise following coronary artery bypass surgery (cabg) on d...

introduction: doppler ultrasonography (dus) is the most preferable method for screening of carotid artery disease in patients undergoing cabg. the purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of carotid artery disease and determine the relation between known risk factors of atherosclerosis and rate of carotid artery narrowing in order to identify high-risk groups among patients schedu...