Studies have found that risk of delirium after open heart surgeries to be higher as compared to other surgeries and twice as much incidence after valve surgeries as compared to CABG. The cause of delirium after cardiac surgery is not very well known. The triggering of this situation points towards inflammation, acute stress responses and disruption of transmission of neurological pathways due t...

Background And Aims: The transversusabdominis plane block is a new rapidly expanding regional anesthesia technique that provide analgesia of Anterior abdominal wall surgeries. TransversusAbdomimis Plane block significantly reduces pain associated with lower abdominal surgeries. It may be used as primary anesthesia or Post operative analgesia.The present study aims to “Comparative study of 0.2% ...

background: calcium (ca+2) plays an important role in many biophysiological mechanisms .the present study was carried out to assess alterations in total serum calcium level before and after operations in consider to the type of anesthesia. materials and methods: this descriptive study was conducted on 74 women who candidate for gynecological abdominal operations during one year at al-zahra mate...

Exceptional Dehn surgeries have been classified for 2-bridge knots and Montesinos knots of length at least 4. In this paper we classify all toroidal Dehn surgeries on Montesinos knots of length 3.

Bariatric surgeries are hypothesized to produce weight loss and improve diabetes control by multiple mechanisms including gastric restriction and lower gut stimulation; the relative importance of these mechanisms remains poorly understood. We compared the effects of a typical foregut procedure, sleeve gastrectomy, (SG) with a primarily hindgut surgery, ileal transposition (IT), alone and togeth...

Various questionnaires are used in patients who undergo rhinologic surgeries but a unique comprehensive questionnaire is needed to evaluate quality of life (QOL) in rhinologic surgeries. The purpose of this study was to prepare a comprehensive questionnaire and compare QOL among four common rhinologic surgeries including functional endoscopic sinus surgery, septoplasty, septorhinoplasty, and se...

Materials and Methods: From 1996 to 2012, a cohort study was conducted on patients with otosclerosis after stapes surgery at a tertiary referral center in Taiwan. Only patients with bilateral otosclerosis were included. Hearing outcomes after the first and second ear surgeries were analysed. Logistic regression analysis was used to control confounding factors of hearing outcomes. We correlated ...

Objective Over the past few years, virtual surgical planning (VSP) has evolved into a useful tool for the craniofacial surgeon. Virtual planning and computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) may assist in orthognathic, cranio-orbital, traumatic, and microsurgery of the craniofacial skeleton. Despite its increasing popularity, little emphasis has been placed on the learning curve. Meth...