Imaging is fundamental to the lifelong care of adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients. Echocardiography remains the first line imaging for inpatient, outpatient, or perioperative care. Cross-sectional imaging with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) or computed tomography (CT) provides complementary and invaluable information on cardiac and vascular anatomy and other intra-thoracic ...

istorically, a “we versus them” relationship among many hospital administrators and physicians has bred mistrust and poor communication. Relationships became even more strained in the 1990s, after hospitals bought physicians’ practices and then sold hundreds of them. In many cases, physicians responded by opening delivery centers of their own — competing outpatient surgery and imaging centers a...

An explosion of technological advances has influnced the present and future treatment of virtually all rthognathic surgery and orthodontic patients. The fficiency, duration, affordability, and convenience of uch treatment will be changed forever. This JOMS ssue describes how a paradigm shift will take place y a global revolution of surgical education by virtual maging technology and robotic sur...

BACKGROUND Direct out-of-pocket (OOP) payment is the most inequitable way to pay for healthcare services, and this trend exposes patients and their families to backbreaking financial risks. The aim of this study was to estimate the out-of-pocket expenditures for outpatient imaging services in Imam-Khomeini Hospital in Tehran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 on 100 use...

introduction: autologous stem cells have greatly influenced the treatment of a variety of malignancies including hodgkin/non-hodgkins lymphoma and acute leukemias. this is a preliminary study comparing the time of engraftment, mortality rate and cost of treatment in outpatient versus inpatient autologous stem cell transplantation (sct) in iran. patients and methods: 11 outpatients (6 hodgkin ly...