i read with interest dr. yazdani's reply about the article entitled “administration of magnesium sulfate to women with premature labor: the effect on bleeding time”. 1 in my review of hematology references, i could not find any reference for determining hemoglobin (hb) sooner than 24 hrs and dr. yazdani had not cited any reference either. however, about the influence of hb on homeostasis, there...

background nonalcoholic fatty liver disease has become a worldwide challenge. liver biopsy remains the single most reliable approach to determine the severity of this disease. as patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease require close follow-up, performing this invasive method repeatedly seems impractical; therefore, designing a noninvasive system to follow up patients has become a common ...

background facial wrinkles develop over the natural aging process. the demand to treat these wrinkles is increasing. several treatment options are available. objectives we aimed to investigate the effect of fat injection and its combination with platelet-rich plasma (prp) on facial wrinkles. patients and methods we recruited 28 patients who were candidates for the treatment of facial wrinkles i...

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intraplatelet phospho-vasp analysis is a commonly used approach for monitoring of anti-platelet therapy; however, testing of intraplatelet phospho-vasp expression needs a high level of experience and proficiency. the ability to recognize how the pre-analytical variations can change the results would be helpful for the interpretation of data from intraplatelet p-vasp analysis. the aim of this st...

background: recently the role of platelets in the tissue regeneration, wound healing and prevention and control of infections has been reported. we aimed to assess the antimicrobial effect of human platelet concentrate against six bacteria, commonly found in wound and hospital-acquired infections. methods: in vitro susceptibility to samples of 10 random human platelet concentrates was determine...

Introduction: The diagnostic value of the D-dimer test varies with variable platelet numbers and functions in patients suffering from cancer and concomitant pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). This requires easy and reliable evaluation tests. In this study, we aimed to investigate the hypothesis that platelet functions may be more guiding in the prediction and diagnosis of PTE rather than the numb...

The clinical significance of bacteremia due to vancomycin-heteroresistant staphylococci and a rapid laboratory screening method were examined; 203 strains of staphylococci isolated from patients with clinically significant bacteremia were screened by the disk-agar method with use of vancomycin-salt agar to demonstrate satellitism around an aztreonam disk as well as by conventional population sc...