background: acute myocardial infarction (ami) is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality. considering immense socioeconomic damages of growing ami in developing countries we estimated prognostic value of major risk factors of ami to predict probable in-hospital ami mortality. methods: in a cohort survey from june 2004 to march 2006, 1798 patients hospitalized with proven ami en...

coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) surgery is being performed increasingly in iran. so far, no large-scale report has described characteristics and risk factor profile and in-hospital mortality of patients undergoing this procedure in iran. we conducted this study to address these topics in order to help clarify iran's current state of cabg and to provide assistance in planning combat again...

background: improving the neonatal health and reducing the neonatal mortality rate is valuable for not only health reasons, but social, psychological and economic reasons. it has advantages not just for the neonatal period of life but for the whole life. unfortunately in iran, in spite of efforts, there has been little success in decreasing the neonatal mortality rate. since investigating the c...

conclusions age, injury severity, injured body region, and hospital-acquired infections are important determinants of trauma outcome in our center. timely recognition of factors affecting trauma mortality is crucial for monitoring changes of trauma quality of care. our findings suggest the need to allocate resources for trauma prevention along with a potential focus on reducing in-hospital comp...

conclusions due to more sophisticated diagnostic tools and surgical approaches, mortality and morbidity of blunt aortic injuries were significantly reduced over the years compared to thoracic endovascular aortic repair and or over two different time periods. objectives the aim of the present study was to retrospectively evaluate the mortality and morbidity with either treatment option. therefor...

Intruduction: Esophageal atresia (EA) is a congenital anomaly treated by surgical reconstruction. Some early postoperative complications may be encountered we assessed complications following EA repair in a large number of neonates with EA / TEF. methods: 243 patients with EA / TEF that were treated operatively in Sarvar Children’s Hospital from 2002 to 2010 were studied. Early post-operat...

conclusions the stroke hospital admission rate might be increasing in birjand. therefore, health care administrators and public health authorities must work harder to promote the knowledge and practice of society about the stroke related risk factors and prevention methods. results totally, 1219 stroke (85.4% ischemic type) with the mean age of 69.6 ± 12.9 years and female: male ratio of 1.09 w...

introduction: mortality data are a cornerstone of epidemiological research and health plan. unfortunately they dose not completed coincident to international standards; so due to important of issue and had not any research for precision and accuracy of death certification data in this region, this study was done in death certification data in inpatient kashan shahid beheshti hospital. methods: ...