introduction:  carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is the most common compressive neuropathy. several surgical and nonsurgical treatments have been proposed for this syndrome, but there is no consensus regarding the prioritization of the suggested nonsurgical treatments. the goal of this study was to compare the long term effects of laser therapy versus local corticosteroid injection in the treatment ...

Introduction: Gait disturbance due to compressive cervical myelopathy has been previously described. However, data on how gait varies with the degree of lower extremity motor impairment are limited. Therefore, we investigated characteristics analysis based severity and determined progresses in myelopathy.

Objective.To estimate the impact of preoperative biliary decompression inpatients, suffering tumorogenic obturation jaundice, complicated by ascending cholangitis, on development postoperative complications.
 Materials and methods. The one-centre retrospective investigation treatment results was conducted in 136 patients, jaundice. In 84 patients done (Group I). 52 not performed II).In all...

inhalation of fungal spores is shown to participate in the development of allergic rhinitis symptoms. in this study, relation between presence of alternaria in the human nasal cavity and allergic rhinitis is assessed. in a case-control study, 58 allergic rhinitis patients were compared with a well-matched control group of fifty healthy volunteers for sensitization to alternaria (by skin prick t...

background: several competing geometric and hemodynamic factors are suggested as contributing mechanisms for functional mitral regurgitation (mr) in heart failure patients. we aimed to study the relationships between the severity of mr and the qrs duration and dyssynchrony markers in patients with ischemic or dilated cardiomyopathy. methods: w e prospectively evaluated 251 heart failure patient...

conclusions it seems that considering the clinical examination of patients before sa focusing on lumbar spinous process status, presence of lumbar deformity, calculation of bmi and radiological signs of lumbar vertebrae can be helpful in predicting sa difficulty. results hundred and one patients were enrolled. of these patients, 50 (49.5%) underwent sa by the first attempt of the first space, i...

it seems that endometriosis plays an important role in female factor infertility but a clear causal relationship has yet to be established. this case-control study was conducted to determine and compare the frequency and severity of endometriosis in 100 infertile women and 120 fertile multi-para women as control group. descriptive statistics, student t test and chi square test were used in anal...

In immature rodent brain, unilateral intrastriatal injections of selected excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptor agonists, such as N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), produce prominent ipsilateral forebrain lesions. In Postnatal Day (PND) 7 rats that receive a right intrastriatal injection of NMDA (25 nmol) and are sacrificed 5 days later, there is a considerable and consistent reduction in the weight o...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggested the potential interactions between cerebrovascular diseases and impaired renal function. However, the relationship between renal function and white matter hyperintensity (WMH), marker of cerebral small vessel disease, in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) remains unknown. METHODS We consecutively enrolled 1632 sub...