background in some hospitals, urinalysis is done routinely for all patients scheduled for cardiac surgery. occasionally pyuria or bacteria is reported in the microscopic urinalysis of these patients that are clinically asymptomatic for urinary tract infections. objectives we were seeking answer to this question: is the presence of a different number of bacteria in preoperative microscopic urina...

background: familial dysautonomia (fd) is a rare hereditary syndrome which is an autosomal recessive trait that typically affects jewish children. important signs and symptoms of the disorder include; diminished pain perception, absence of overflow tears, hypotonia, fainting cardiac arrhythmias and autonomic crisis. cases report : in this article we reported 3 cases of fd syndrome which had pre...

AbstructFor operation planning before the cardiac plastic surgery, a cardiac surgeon needs to touch the cardiac muscle to know where thin and soft regions of the muscular wall due to myocardial infraction and dilate cardiomyopathy are located. Since the opportunity to palpate the cardiac muscle of the diseased heart is limited to the operative scene, young, inexperienced cardiac surgeons strong...

acute renal failure (arf) following cardiac surgery occurs in 1 to 10% of patients. patients who develop arf have higher rates of mortality. this study was undertaken to estimate the role of perioperative variables in predicting of post cardiac surgery arf. we studied a cohort of 398 adult patients who underwent cardiac surgery at our institution from february 2004 to february 2006. adult patie...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic Nissen operation with mesh reinforcement remains being the most popular operation for large hiatal hernia repair. Complications related to mesh placement have been widely described. Cardiac complications are rare, but have a fatal outcome if they are misdiagnosed. PRESENTATION OF CASES We sought to outline our institutional experience of three patients who developed ...