background: type 2 diabetic mellitus patients are amongst the most susceptible groups to vascular abnormalities, which predominantly lead to myocardial disease. the hypercoagulable state has been widely studied by researchers as being the major suspicious mechanism facilitating the consecutive chain of molecular events leading to these complications. however, there is no consensus on the defini...

conclusions the data indicated that co-administration of grape seed extract and exercise training had more significant effects than exercise training or grape seed extract alone; this may constitute a convenient and inexpensive therapeutic approach to diabetic vascular complications. results the endothelium dependent vasorelaxation to acetylcholine was reduced significantly in diabetic animals;...

a 33-year-old female-a known case of behcet's disease- was admitted to the hospital due to fever, dyspnea and hemoptysis. one week before admission, she had developed right leg swelling. the history suggested either deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and pulmonary emboli or pulmonary artery vasculitis. diagnostic tests were requested and the necessary treatment was started accordingly

a bstra ct   background: vascular access complications are a major cause of excessive morbidity and mortality in the dialysis population. moreover, there is not sufficient research regarding the factors correlated with vascular access complications among hemodialysis patients. this study aimed to evaluate the vascular access complications and their related factors such as nursing techniques and...

dec 2009 were studied. patients with vascular injuries caused by causes other than tear gas shells were excluded from the study. results: all patients were treated with reverse saphenous vein graft as segmental loss was less than 2.5 cm. wound infection was the most common complication, followed by graft occlu-sion. amputation rate was 16.66%. associated nerve injury occurred in 44.44% of the p...

Major vascular injury during laparoscopic surgery is an uncommon but serious complication.

the aim of this study is to evaluate the complication rate of diagnostic and interventional angioplasty performed by vascular surgeon in imam reza hospital in kermanshah, in 2010-2011. in this descriptive –analytic study, 259 patients who underwent diagnostic interventional angiography in imam reza hospital of kermanshah were selected using convenience sampling. the data gathering tool was a pr...