introduction: rheumatic heart disease still remains one of the leading causes of congestive heart failure and death owing to valvular pathologies, in developing countries. valve replacement still remains the treatment of choice in such patients.the aim of this study wasto analyze the postoperative outcome of  double valve replacement (mitral and aortic ) in patients of rheumatic heart disease. ...

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infective endocarditis is one of the most severe complications of parenteral drug abuse. the outstanding clinical feature of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers is the high incidence of right-sided valve infection, and the tricuspid valve is involved in 60% to 70% of the cases. we herein report a case of isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with a native pulmonary valve.

A highly accurate impression is one of success requirements in implant dentistry. passively fitting prothesis achieved when the 3-dimensional position implants precisely transferred to cast. Various techniques are described literature. Each presents indications, qualities and limits. Many studies compared main which closed open-tray impressions along with their specificities. In this second par...

Dear Editor: We read with great interest the article by Namratha and Shetty entitled “A Technique to Evaluate Custom Tray Border Extensions Before Peripheral Molding.” Articles related to evaluation of denture border extensions are numerous, but there is marked paucity of literature regarding evaluation of border extensions of custom trays before border molding. The authors have introduced a co...

the use of multiple implants in the same jaw requires a detailed knowledge of abutment angulation. the position and angulation of the abutments play an important role in treatment planning and fabrication of the custom tray. therefore diagnostic casts that contain cover screws may cause problems during implant therapy. the current article describes a technique for making a preliminary cast with...

the patient was a 19 year-old woman with the diagnosis of resistant hypertension, although she was under treatment of three classes of anti-hypertensive drugs (beta blocker, angiotensin receptor blocker, diuretic) for more than one year. in physical examination there was only a significant difference between the systolic blood pressure of upper and lower extremities (200 vs. 120 mmhg), without ...

BACKGROUND There are no clear guidelines for how long a sterile operating-room tray can be exposed to the open environment before the contamination risk becomes unacceptable. The purpose of this study was to determine the time until first contamination and the rate of time-dependent contamination of sterile trays that had been opened in a controlled operating-room environment. We also examined ...