Obesity is one of the major issues in health population worldwide. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) considered a safe and effective treatment obese patients. In addition RYGB has shown therapeutic potential type 2 diabetic This study represents 6 months follow-up on 63 patients with BMI≥40 Kg/m3, suffering from both DM2 CKD, who underwent LRYGB. From 900 referred to Imam Reza, Sina, Bentolhod...

CONSIDERABLE uncertainty still exists concerning the nature of the mechanism which maintains the normal locomotory rhythm of terrestrial animals. Two types of theory have been advanced: (i) That the rhythm is determined by the existence of a closed chain of peripheral reflexes, each phase of a complete locomotory cycle setting up automatically the particular pattern of peripheral stimulation re...

Received February 5, 2013; Revised April 4, 2013; Accept From the Departments of Surgery (Utter) and In (Romano), and the Center for Healthcare Policy and Cox, Romano), University of California, Davis Medic mento, CA and US Department of Health and Human for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD (Ow Correspondence address: Garth H Utter, MD MSc, Surgery, University of California, Davis...

Recent European guidelines have emphasized the association of vegetation size with embolic risk in endocarditis (1). On these grounds, left-sided vegetations >1 cm, and right-sided vegetations >2 cm are considered to be an indication for surgery. In this issue of iJACC, investigators from the MEDIC (Multicenter Electrophysiologic Device Cohort) registry report the importance of vegetation size ...