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 (...

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of Body Mass Index (BMI) and biochemical lipid values on reproductive outcomes of women undergoing Intra Cytoplasmatic Sperm Injection (ICSI) cycles. MaterialsAndMethods The study was conducted in the Center of Human Reproductive Physiopathology of University of Catania between April 2017 and March 2018. In this retrospective observatio...

Results Age, diabetes, preoperative renal insufficiency, and prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass time (CPB) were the independent predictive factors of postoperative renal insufficiency in patients undergoing on-pump coronary revascularization. Postoperative mortality rate was 12.5% (no = 1) and 47.4% (n = 27) in patients with postoperative renal insufficiency undergoing off-pump and onpump coronar...

background: postoperative shivering is an important and troublesome condition during recovery from general anesthesia.  corticosteroids have been recommended to facilitate recovery and diminish shivering after cardiac surgery.  previous studies recommended 0.6 mg/kg dexamethasone for reducing postoperative shivering in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.    objective: to test this assertion, w...

please cite this article as : bakhtiari m, falaknazi k, lotfi m, noori m, naseri saleh abad a. the relationship between personality traits, anxiety and depression, in life quality of patients under treatment by hemodialysis [hd]. novel biomed 2013;1:1-7. background: the purpose of this study is to examine personality traits in renal patients undergoing haemodialysis (hd) and its connection to d...

background there have been many concerns about alteration in hemodynamic parameters within and shortly after endotracheal intubation (eti) in patients scheduled for elective coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg). objectives we compared the attenuation effect of magnesium sulfate and lidocaine on hemodynamic responses after eti, in patients undergoing cabg. patients and methods in this randomiz...

conclusions music therapy is effective in decreasing anxiety among patients undergoing cabg. however, the intervention was not effective on cardiovascular indices. music can effectively be used as a non-pharmacological method to manage anxiety after cabg. results compared to the immediately before intervention, the mean anxiety scores immediately after and 30 minutes after the intervention were...