metabolic acidosis and severe hypotension are the main causes of irreversibility during hemorrhagic shock. the influence of these two factors on durations of shock period and survival time were studied in four groups of anesthetized cats. in group i the animals were made hypotensive by reducing mean arterial blood pressure (pa) to 45 mmhg with concurrent metabolic acidosis. [n group ii the same...

background:the present study compared the differences between survivals of patients with colorectal cancer according to their ethnicity adjusted for other predictors of survival. methods: in this prospective cohort study patients were followed up from definite diagnosis of colorectal cancer to death. totally, 2431 person-year follow-ups were undertaken for 1127 colorectal cancer patients once e...

background: stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (shed) have the capability to differentiate into neural cells. neurotrophins including nerve growth factor (ngf), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf), neurotrophin-3 (nt-3), and neurotrophin-4 (nt-4) have neurogenesis, neurotrophic, or neuroprotective effects and are expressed in developing teeth. the aim of this study was to mea...

introduction: in restorative dentistry, selecting the proper material is an important factor for clinical success. the objective of this study was clinical evaluation of survival time of three tooth color materials in primary anterior teeth. methods: in this interventional clinical trial study, 94 deciduous anterior teeth (36 teeth in boys, 58 teeth in girls) belonging to 3-5 year old children ...

cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women in malaysia. the objective of this study was to estimate the effect of explanatory variables on survival time of cervical cancer patients receiving treatment at a hospital in malaysia.in this retrospective record review study, cervical cancer data obtained from hospital universitisains malaysia (husm) was analysed. the data comprises o...

background: in survival studies when the event times are dependent, performing of the analysis by using of methods based on independent assumption, leads to biased. in this paper, using copula function and considering the dependence structure between the event times, a parametric joint distribution has made fitting to the events, and the effective factors on each of these events would be determ...

Since determination of factors influencieng childbearing delay can provide convenient approaches to prevent fertility decline, nowadays studying this issue is an important issue for demographers and it is also emphasized by planners and politicians. The aim of this study is to evaluate factors influencing first birth interval among 458, young Iranian married women in Tehran province. In this cr...

background: small cell lung cancer (sclc) is a highly aggressive tumor.   objective: to evaluate the survival and time to progression of patients with sclc admitted to a chest disease center in istanbul, turkey.   methods: based on the reports of a pulmonary oncology clinic, data regarding performance status (ps), clinical stage of disease, treatment, time to progression and survival of 67 pati...