background and objective: the aim of this study was to analyze our indications, surgical procedures, and clinical outcomes of patients undergoing reoperation after surgical correction of tetralogy of fallot (tof). methods: thirty seven consecutive patients who underwent reoperation late after intra-cardiac repair of tof within a period of 10 years were assessed. results: the most common indicat...

Kidney Transplantation in children is the treatment of choice to treat end stage renal disease. Improvements in immunosuppressive management have dramatically reduced the risk of early acute rejection and graft loss, however the long term results in terms of graft survival and morbidity still require search for new immunosuppressive regimens. Reducing of side effects are the challenges for impr...

objective: to compare the effect of the physiologic and facilitated labor on the mother and neonate outcomes in the prim gravid women referring to arash hospital. materials and methods: this clinical trial study was performed on 200 low risk pregnant women referring to arash women's hospital in 2012-2013. mothers were divided into two groups of 100 patients using a simple random sampling method...

The fetal environment and circulatory patterns are very different from that of extrauterine life. fetus evolved to thrive grow in a relative hypoxemic adapted several mechanisms response changes oxygen concentration the blood ensure optimal delivery brain heart. However according estimates World Health Organization world 4 9 million newborns born annually state perinatal asphyxia. In economical...

Background . There is still no consensus on the feasibility of repeated surgeries for lung metastases. Aim To compare short-term and long-term outcomes primary Materials methods This retrospective study included patients with metastases from colorectal cancer, germ cell tumors, renal carcinoma, osteogenic sarcomas, soft tissue sarcomas operated in N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center Onc...

PURPOSE Heart failure (HF) is recognized as a major problem in industrialized countries. Short-term adjusted outcomes are indicators of quality for care process during/after hospitalization. Our aim is to evaluate, for patients with principal diagnosis of HF, in-hospital mortality and 30-day readmissions for all-causes using two different risk adjustment (RA) tools. METHODS AND RESULTS We use...