OBJECTIVE To compare the outcomes of ultrasound-guided vs direct approach corticosteroid injection in patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome. METHODS A double-blind randomized controlled study. Wrists affected by carpal tunnel syndrome were randomized to the ultrasound-guided (n = 22 wrists) or direct approach injection group (n = 17 wrists) before receiving 1 ml Betamethasone. Outco...

The problem of steady Marangoni boundary layer flow and heat transfer in a nanofluid when the wall is permeable, namely there is a suction or injection effect, is studied using different types of nanoparticles. The mathematical problem reduces to a pair of coupled ordinary differential equations by similarity transformation, which is then solved numerically using the shooting method. Three diff...

This work consists of a numerical study thermally stressed rotary kiln shell part in cement plant. The simulations are performed by using the finite volume method for discretization and simple algorithm resolution. velocity air injection, its temperature, rotational main parameters under investigation. distribution velocity, pressure, as well evolution Nusselt number determined. In second step ...

Sexual impotent is very common entity and define as inability to induce or maintaining penile erection during sexual intercourse. Studies reveals about 10% of men aged 40-70 years have complete, 17% have mild and 25% have moderate amount of erectile dysfunction. The sexual impotence has different etiology including psychogenic, neurogenic, arteriogenic and venogenic causes. Current studies reve...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the work is to evaluate the effect of repeated intracavernosal self-injection of vasoactive drugs in patients with elevated End Diastolic Velocity (>5 cm/sec) during pharmacopenile duplex ultrasonography (PPDU). METHODS Duplex evaluation was performed to the patients on self-injection therapy for comparison of end diastolic velocity and resistive index before and after...

The effect of heat source/sink on steady two-dimensional laminar MHD mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical permeable surface embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid is performed in this study. Numerical solutions of the similarity equations are obtained using the shooting method. Three types of metallic or nonmetallic nanoparticles, namely Copper (Cu), Alumina (Al2O3...

AIM To investigate the effectiveness of local steroid injection and surgical decompression in the treatment of patients with severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and also to compare short-term outcomes using clinical and electrophysiological criteria. MATERIAL AND METHODS The patients diagnosed as severe CTS were divided into two groups. Group 1 received local steroid injection and Group 2 und...

Diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic disease with a high prevalence rate in human society that eventually leads to the peripheral nervous system complications in a great number of patients. In the present study, the effects of Angipars on nerve conduction velocity, histological alterations, and behavioral indices were investigated. Diabetes was induced in male rats by intraperitoneal ...

Plasma measurements from the University of California at San Diego auroral particles experiment on the geosynchronous Applied Technology Satellite 6 in the midnight region show that the low-energy ion fluxes (1-100 eV) are field aligned and are well characterized as thermal populations (1-10 eV) with a streaming velocity of 30-100 km/s along the magnetic field line. The lowest energies are foun...

An analysis of the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical permeable surface embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid is performed in this study. Numerical solutions of the similarity equations are obtained using the shooting method. Three types of metallic or nonmetallic nanoparticles, namely Copper (Cu), Alumina (Al2O3) and Titania (TiO2) are considered by usin...