AIM To evaluate the effect of metoclopramide on gastric emptying in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients with early enteral nutrition and to evaluate the effect of metoclopramide on motility of the gallbladder in these patients. METHODS A prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of 40 patients treated at cardiosurgical intensive care unit after CABG surg...

background : androgens have been shown to have diverse effects on the cardiovascular system. the aim of this study was to compare androgenic hormone levels in patients with different left ventricular ejection fractions (ef). methods : the study population consisted of 515 consecutive men who were referred for angiographic studies and whose results of echocardiography and coronary angiography we...

Functional gallbladder disorder is a motility disorder of the gallbladder that results in decreased gallbladder contractility and colicky pain. The term is used to cover a constellation of symptoms that have led to their codification in the Rome III criteria (Table 1).1 Previously, functional gallbladder disorder was called chronic acalculous cholecystitis, acalculous cholecystitis, biliary dys...

Aims: Evidence-based guidelines for heart failure management depend mainly on current left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). However, fewer studies have examined the impact of prior LVEF. Patients may enter with midrange (HFmrEF) category when preserved (HFpEF) deteriorates or reduced (HFrEF) improves. In this study, we association between change in LVEF and adverse outcomes. Methods: HFmrE...

IS GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE INFLUENCED BY DUODENOGASTRIC REFLUX ? (Abstract): BACKGROUND: It is well known that the gastroesophageal reflux is a frequent disease in medical practice. A lot of factors are involved in its pathogenesis. The aim of our study was to find out if the duodenogastric reflux is one of these factors. We also looked for the pathological conditions associated with du...

Methods Twenty-four critically ill patients (16M:8F, age 54 ± 16y, BMI 29 ± 6kg/m, APACHE II 17 ± 5, SOFA score 7.5 ± 4, day of admission 5 ± 4) with no history of biliary pathology were compared to 12 healthy volunteers (8M:4F, age 55 ± 19, BMI 24 ± 4). All participants were fasted for 8 hours and had a feeding catheter inserted into the duodenum. At T = -30min 3D images of the gallbladder wer...

Ninety-three patients with aortic valve disease were evaluated to determine the effect of the preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) on the results of aortic valve replacement (AVR). Forty-six patients had aortic stenosis (AS), 16 had aortic insufficiency (Al), and 31 had mixed aortic stenosis and insufficiency (MX). Immediate and long-term survival curves in AS and MX, and in AS ...

introduction: although left ventricular(lv) function parameters measured by gated myocardial perfusion spect (gspect) have been validated, experimental data have revealed that the calculated the lv function parameters using gspect are affected by patient populations as well as particular acquisition and processing conditions. we tried to determine the normal values of gspect in an iranian popul...