Introduction and objectives: Up to 4% of patients with acute chest pain, normal electrocardiogram, and negative troponins present major adverse cardiac events as a result of undiagnosed acute coronary syndrome. Our aim was to compare the diagnostic performance of multidetector computed tomography and exercise echocardiography in patients with a low-to-intermediate probability of coronary artery...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Up to 4% of patients with acute chest pain, normal electrocardiogram, and negative troponins present major adverse cardiac events as a result of undiagnosed acute coronary syndrome. Our aim was to compare the diagnostic performance of multidetector computed tomography and exercise echocardiography in patients with a low-to-intermediate probability of coronary artery ...

Introduction: Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is considered as an independent predictor of long-term prognosis in the individual patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). This study sought to assess the relationship between NLR and CAD severity in Iranian patients undergoing cardiac catheterization.Material and Methods: This prospective study was conducted on 500 patients with acute cor...

OBJECTIVE To describe trends in the clinical pattern of Reye's syndrome in the British Isles between 1982 and 1990; and to determine the relation between any changes and the June 1986 warnings against the use of aspirin in children. DESIGN Development, and application to reported cases, of a scoring system designed such that patients showing the typical clinical and pathological features of '...

background: hadjelia truncata is a nematode that causes lesions in the gizzard lining of pigeons, which may even lead to death. the aim of this study was to introduce alphitobius diaperinus as a new intermediate host for hadjelia truncata . methods: h. truncata infection was identified in a pigeon flock in ahvaz city, khuzestan province, iran by performing fecal examination and autopsy. adult a...