background: the incidence of stroke is 2.1-5.2% in bypass surgery patients with a mortality of 0-38%. this study was designed to evaluate the incidence of significant carotid artery stenosis and its related risk factors in candidates for coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. methods: 1045 consecutive candidates for cabg underwent carotid artery doppler examination in a prospective study....

conclusions it seems that severe pah aggravates the rv function more severely. results significant tricuspid regurgitation was more prevalent in the pah group than in the ps group (61% vs. 18.5%; p < 0.001). the abnormalities in the rv myocardial performance index, rv areas, and rv fractional area change were significantly more robust in the pah group (all ps < 0.05) despite the higher net rv s...

a 12 year old child with liodgkin's disease and having received 12 courses of chemotherapy, was referred to thin center with esophageal obstruction. after having performed the necessary investigations, a decision was made to undertake surgery. after surgery, the patient recovered completely and presently enjoys a heallhv life.

a case of an acute intestinal obstruction in a 64 -year - old man, due to cicatriceal stricture of tlie left colon with secondary enteroliths in colon, is presented. enteroliths in colon arc rare and it is suggested that stasis is the most important factor in their production as ihey arc. most commonly associated with an intestinal sricturc.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of non-Newtonian blood rheology models on the wall shear stress (WSS) distribution in a cohort of patients-specific coronary arteries. Twenty patients with diseased left anterior descending (LAD) coronary arteries (with varying degrees of stenosis severity from mild to severe) who underwent angiography and in-vivo pressure measurements were se...