background: sleep disturbance is a common complaint of patients undergoing methadone maintenance therapy (mmt). there are limited studies about the effect of different treatments on insomnia due to mmt. in this study, we evaluated the effect of cognitive-behavioral treatment for insomnia (cbti) on sleep disorders in patients undergoing mmt. methods : twenty-two patients with insomnia due to mmt...

background: luteal phase support is mandatory in art (assisted reproductive technologies) for optimizing outcome, so the luteal phase is supported with either progesterone, addition of estradiol to progesterone, hcg or gonadotropin releasing hormone (gnrh) agonists. supplementation of luteal phase with progesterone is prescribed for women undergoing routine ivf treatment. objective: to compare ...

background : patients undergoing pacemaker implantation often experience anxiety and fear. as such, studies have focused on the mechanisms that relieve the negative emotions caused by the intervention. continuous nursing is a safe and effective nursing mode. in this study, continuous nursing intervention was provided for elderly patients undergo-ing pacemaker implantation and an empirical inves...

background: elderly patients (>75 years) have constituted the fastest growing portion of the coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) patient population over the last two decades. of the goals that surgical care for the elderly pursues, cure may be an unfeasible one; nevertheless, palliation and comfort warrant sufficient importance. the present study sought to examine the postoperative course an...

background to alleviate stinging pain in the skin entry area and visceral discomfort in patients who are undergoing eswl. objectives this study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of the emla cream in combination with remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (pca) in patients undergoing eswl treatment. patients and methods sixty patients were divided into two double-blind randomized ...

BACKGROUND Despite the established superiority of mitral repair over replacement, its adoption in the treatment of elderly patients has not been uniform, partly because of a lack of robust long-term survival data. We present the long-term survival of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries undergoing mitral valve repair and replacement over a 10-year period. METHODS AND RESULTS We used the Med...

Background and Objectives: The association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and hyperuricemia has been formerly studied mostly in healthy people in western countries. We tried to examine the relationship betweenhyperuricemia and MetS in an Iranian population undergoing coronary angiography. Materials and Methods: From March 2008 to September 2008, we studied 465 patients (260 men, 55.9%) unde...