Cardiac disorders in burn injury

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

Psychiatric disorders and their association with burn-related factors in children with burn injury.

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess psychiatric disorders and their association with burn-related factors in a population of Turkish children with burns. METHODS Thirty-one children admitted to the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Burn Unit between January 2013 and August 2013 were first assessed by the plastic surgeon, and then those with psychological symptoms were referred to a child ...

Vagal nerve stimulation protects cardiac injury by attenuating mitochondrial dysfunction in a murine burn injury model

Mitochondria play a central role in the integration and execution of a wide variety of apoptotic signals. In the present study, we examined the deleterious effects of burn injury on heart tissue. We explored the effects of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) on cardiac injury in a murine burn injury model, with a focus on the protective effect of VNS on mitochondrial dysfunction in heart tissue. Mice...

Liver Disease in Burn Injury

OBJECTIVE To assess mortality risk and extent of increased length of hospital stay in patients with burn injury with preexisting liver disease. METHODS Records of 31,338 adults who were admitted with burns to 70 burn centers were reviewed from the American Burn Association National Burn Repository. Demographics, percentage burn, and medical characteristics of 180 patients with liver disease w...

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

DEAR EDITOR Burn is one of the devastating conditions in emergency medicine resulting into physical and psychological disabilities.1 During pregnancy, it has an increasing trend for mortality and morbidity of both mother and infant.2 So practical activities to decrease its physical and emotional complications seem mandatory.2 For survivors, the most persisting problem is scarring while healing ...