purpose: to evaluate and compare the results of different surgical methods for post-trabeculectomy bleb revision at labbafinejad medical center, tehran-iran, from 1999 to 2003. methods: this study was conducted on all patients who underwent post-trabeculectomy bleb revision due to hypotony [intraocular pressure (iop) less than 6 mmhg] or bleb leakage. surgical methods were: conjunctival advance...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to evaluate different types of maxillary pre-prosthetic surgery using autogenous bone graft and suggest a guideline for maxillary reconstruction to place implant. METHODS 181 patients (125 females and 56 males), age range from 16 to 76 years old, were operated at the Maxillo-Facial Service of the Lille's 2 Universitary Hospital Center (Chairman ...

In the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the common approach is to focus outcome analyses on time to relapse and death, without assessing the impact of post-transplant interventions. We investigated whether a multi-state model would give insight into the events after transplantation in a cohort of patients who were transplanted using a strategy including scheduled donor lymphocy...

BACKGROUND The long-term success of coronary bypass surgery is dependent on graft patency after surgery. This trial was designed to determine if aspirin improved saphenous vein graft or internal mammary artery (IMA) graft patency between 1 and 3 years after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS AND RESULTS After receiving aspirin 325 mg/d for 1 year after CABG and undergoing a 1-yea...

ficus benjamina l. is indoor plant in temperate areas that is a tree species belongs to moraceae family. propagation of this plant is down by vegetative method. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of iba concentration and time of taking cutting on propagation of ficus benjamina via stenting technique in gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources, in 2012. treat...

BACKGROUND We sought to evaluate the role of balloon angioplasty as the primary modality in the management of vein graft stenoses. METHODS Patients who underwent infrainguinal vein graft bypass from January 2002 to December 2007 were enrolled into a surveillance program. Grafts which developed critical stenoses were identified and underwent urgent angiography with a view to angioplasty of the...

ere, we review the article entitled ‘‘Impact of cartilage raft size on success of tympanoplasty’’ by Abdelhameed t al.1 The authors evaluated the effects of different peroration sizes on the outcomes of Type 1 tympanoplasty in his study. The work described is interesting. However, the nclusion criteria and the results are not very clear. The uthors do not state whether patients with myringoscle...