introduction: traumatic eye injuries (tei) involved about 3% of cases referred to the emergency departments of developing countries. lens dislocation is one of the critical cases of ophthalmic emergencies. the present study was aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in detection of traumatic lens dislocation. methods: in this cross-sectional study the findings of ultrasono...

A system for analyzing left ventricular (LV) electromechanical asynchrony based on transesophageal 3-dimensional echocardiography (3-DE) and semi-automatic endocardial contour detection is described. Eighteen consecutive patients underwent 3-DE. Using TomTec 4DLV software, a 3-dimensional endocardial surface was reconstructed throughout the cardiac cycle. Matlab software generated color-coded p...

OBJECTIVE To study the correlation between 2D and 3D uterine flow indexes and the presence or the absence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in women with unexplained recurrent miscarriage (uRM). METHODS Fifty-two subjects (26 uRM and 26 control women) underwent 2D Doppler measurement of pulsatility index and resistance index of the uterine arteries in both the follicular and midluteal phase of ...

OBJECTIVES This study clarified the characteristics of intrarenal Doppler ultrasonography (IRD) profiles and their prognostic implications in heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND IRD can assess intrarenal hemodynamics. METHODS Initially, 224 patients with HF were prospectively enrolled; 151 inpatients were enrolled during hospitalization for HF, and 73 were outpatients in our institution. In IRD ...

Epulis, or congenital granular cell tumor, is a rare benign tumor of the soft tissue in the oral cavity. Antenatal diagnosis has been reported rarely in the literature and incomplete evaluation is not uncommon1–3. Recently, a report on three clinical cases suggested that an ex-utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure may be useful when congenital epulis is diagnosed antenatally4. This proce...

We read the article by Dr. Futrakul et al. with interest [1]. They searched for a parameter that was more sensitive than microalbuminuria for early detection of diabetic nephropathy and compared creatinine clearence, fractional excretion of magnesium and intrarenal hemodynamics by renal scintigraphic evaluation. For this purpose, they calculated peritubular capillary flow, efferent arteriolar r...