background: statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarylcoenzyme-a (hmg-coa) reductase inhibitors) decrease cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. this article reviews the role of perioperative statins in non cardiac surgery. methods: a literature review was done on all english published articles till february 2015 about this subject using pubmed. then the reference list of relevant articles was review...

the prospect of surgery can be frightening and more extensive surgery is included more anxious . knowledge of how to surgery reduces anxiety. hence,our goals are as follows :   what conditions can cause heart surgery? the majority of adults who should be considered for cardiac surgery , suffer from the disease of the heart valves or coronary artery disease or both.also, a few of them have conge...

myxoid is a common type of liposarcoma. cardiac metastasis of sarcoma is a rare diagnosis. transthoracic echocardiography is a useful tool for beginning the diagnosis. curative resection of metastasis and then combination systemic chemotherapy for advanced disease is recommended. we report a 50 year old woman who presented with a cardiac metastasis of high grade round cell liposarcoma to right ...

materials and methods in a double blind randomized trial study, 100 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery were randomized to using heparinized (n = 50) or non-heparinized (normal) saline flush (n = 50) to maintain patency of arterial catheter after operation. indwelling arterial catheters were checked daily for acceptable arterial waveform for three days as primary outcome measures. resu...

abstract background: aprotinin has been used increasingly to reduce postoperative blood loss in open-heart operations due to the potentialities for complications and high cost, it would seem reasonable to use aprotinin more selectively in small doses in the prime solution of the pump. methods: we prospectively studied the effect of preoperative low dose aprotinin [2 million units (230mg)] on bl...

from march 1990 to may 1993,309 patients underwent redo cardiac surgery operation at the shahid rajai heart hospital in tehran. early mortality rates in these patients showed a significant increase in comparison to patients undergoing open heart surgery for the first time. late mortality (at least one month after surgery) in the patients was slightly increased also but less than early mortality...

conclusions both morphine and diclofenac suppositories reduced pain significantly and similarly after cabg surgery. results no significant statistical relationship was found between the two groups regarding gender, age, bmi, paracetamol consumption, length of operation time, cardiopulmonary bypass pump (cpb) time, and stay time at icu (p value ≥ 0.05). total dosage of used morphine was 22 ± 8.3...

purpose: to evaluate the incidence of the oculo-cardiac reflex (ocr) and its associated risk factors during strabismus surgeries performed at a tertiary referral center between 1390 and 1392. methods: over a 2-year period, all strabismus surgery candidates were enrolled in the study after obtaining consent from the patients or their parents. vital signs were recorded before the initiation of th...

conclusions both pca techniques provided effective pain scores (< 3) after cardiac surgery; but generally, pca-paracetamol infusion has a better analgesic effect. results the trend of pain scores did not have any significantly difference between group r and group p except for hour 8 and hour 18 after surgery that vas was significantly lower in group p than group r (p = 0.031, p = 0.023, respect...