W. Scott Beattie, MD, PhD, FRCPC* Keyvan Karkouti, MD, MSc, FRCPC*† It is our position that, to reduce perioperative blood loss in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), all patients should receive a drug with antifibrinolytic properties (heretofore referred to as “antifibrinolytic drugs”), and that the drug of choice for this indication in most (if not all) pati...

Shahram Rahmati, Mohammad Basir Basiriani, Mohammad Rafienia*, Jaber Yaghini, Keyvan Raeissi, Saeid Hosseini and Sattar Kabiri Department of Biomaterials, Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering, School of Advanced Medical Technologies, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, 81744176, Iran Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156-83111, Iran ...

cobitis keyvani is recently described from the sourhern caspian sea basin. limited information is available about morphological features of c. keyvani , therefore this study was conducted to provide osteological characteristics and cranial myology of this species. for this purpose, nine specimens of c. keyvani were collected from the talar river. the specimens were cleared and stained with aliz...

It was on May 17th 1986 in one of the lounges of RoissyCharles de Gaulle airport in Paris that a group of 12 cardiac and thoracic surgeons decided to found the EACTS after two prior meetings on March 1st 1986 at Amsterdam airport and on April 12th 1986 at Frankfurt airport, during which the advisability of creating such an association was debated (Fig. 1). Three or four of us already were convi...

Exploring Complexity of Large Update Interior-Point Methods for ) k ( P* Linear Complementarity Problems Based on Kernel Function KEYVAN AMINI* M.REZA PEYGHAMI +,2 ∗ Department of Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran + Department of Sciences, Khajeh Nasir Toosi (KNT) University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Abstract. Interior Point Methods not only are the most effective methods in practic...

Carolyn J. Anderson, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA C. Allen Chang, PhD, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Peter L. Choyke, MD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA Johannes Czernin, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Chaitanya R Divgi, MD, Columbia University, Ne...