G iven the high prevalence of coronary artery disease in Western countries, selection of the optimal therapeutic strategy for individual cardiac patients has become an issue of utmost costbenefit importance. During the past two decades, large clinical trials have established the respective roles of medical treatment versus coronary artery bypass surgery in the management of patients with corona...

a bstra ct   materials and methods: this was a quasi - experimental study conducted in a single group and in two steps. twenty - five hemodialysis patients, admitted to hospitals in isfahan, iran, were selected, and their qol was compared before and after intervention in two domains of satisfaction and importance. convenience sampling was used. the sampling was convenience. the subjects were tr...

PURPOSE Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is rarely seen in patients younger than 50 years, but rapidly increases with advancing age. Data on MDS biology in young patients are yet scarce but more than necessary. The purpose of this study was to estimate the proportion of MDS patients <50 years of age and to compare the clinicopathological data between younger and older patients. METHODS Of our t...

One hundred and sixty consecutive patients less than 50 years of age (mean 38 years) referred for long term electrocardiographic recording were evaluated retrospectively. Significant cardiac arrhythmias were detected in 51 of 107 (48%) patients examined because of syncope or dizzy spells or both. Of 39 patients examined for cardiac complaints or presumed complex arrhythmias, 15 (38%) had signif...