from march 1990 to may 1993,309 patients underwent redo cardiac surgery operation at the shahid rajai heart hospital in tehran. early mortality rates in these patients showed a significant increase in comparison to patients undergoing open heart surgery for the first time. late mortality (at least one month after surgery) in the patients was slightly increased also but less than early mortality...

this study was conducted to monitor the rate of inpatient mortality and its associated factors following open reconstruction of abdominal aortic aneurysm (aaa) in a tertiary hospital in tehran, iran. this retrospective study was a chart review of 112 patients undergoing open in­frarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery in one of the main tertiary hospitals in tehran, iran. baseline data (demog...

aim : the aim of this study was to analyze clinical findings and treatment outcomes of patients with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography complications. background : endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has become a very common procedure for the evaluation and treatment of biliary and pancreatic diseases. patients and methods : a retrospective review of 2447 endoscopic retro...

conclusions radical nephrectomy and tumor thrombectomy by intrapericardial control without cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermic circulatory arrest is a safe and effective procedure that can avoid serious intra- and postoperative complications while providing acceptable cancer-control and mortality results. case presentation the records of six patients with supradiaphragmatic tumor thrombi, wh...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: preoperative anxiety has become more frequent in preoperative patients and can bring negative impact on operation outcomes. many studies have reported the effect of body acupuncture in reducing anxiety syndromes. the aim of this study is to compare the treatment effect of body acupuncture and auricular acupunct...

results all estimates of internal consistency were high (cronbach's alpha = 0.89 for global estimates, subscales between 0.89 and 0.93). all test-retest scores and subscales were between 0.71 and 0.88.the correlation with a recovery visual analogue scale was 0.51, and all subscales correlated significantly with comparable subscales of the sf-36. an exploratory factor analysis found five-compone...

conclusions reciting the word “allah” as a non-pharmacological, low-cost and non-invasive method with no side effects can be effective on pain relief after cabg surgery. results there was a significant difference regarding pain severity after the intervention between the two groups during three days after the operation (respectively p ≤ 0.001, p ≤ 0.001 and p ≤ 0.003), but no significant differ...