The reports of longitudinal study of blood pressure in childhood suggest an important role for early detection and enhancing a better understanding of the natural history of elevated blood pressure. This is important in Africa where reports of childhood blood pressure studies are scarce. In this study, anthropometric parameters (weight and height) were measure to check their correlation with bl...

Background: Weaning from mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit is an important step in the treatment process. More patients in less than 6 hours after cardiac surgery can be separated from mechanical ventilation and extubated. However, 20-40% of patients after cardiac surgery, due to dysfunctional ventilator weaning response (DVWR), still remain under mechanical ventilation. Therefo...

Objective: Standard compression stockings are used to create elastic pressure in correcting and maintaining the hemodynamics of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and prevent limb swelling in patients with DVT. This study aimed to compare the effect of aerobic exercise with lower extremity elastic pressure on some hematological features of obese patients with DVT. Materials and Methods: For this purpo...

This study aimed at compare influences of airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) and Synchronized Intermittent Mechanical Ventilation (SIMV) on intracranial pressure and oxygenation status in patients with traumatic brain injuries. A clinical trial was carried out in 40 patients with traumatic brain injuries in the intensive care unit in Kamyab neurosurgery Hospital, Mashhad, Iran. The pati...

abstract  introduction: smoking is an important risk factor of coronary artery disease. nicotine replacement therapy (nrt) for smoking cessation should be considered, especially in coronary patients. methods: twenty-four healthy smokers, smoking an average of 20 cigarettes a day for 15 years and with moderate cigarette dependence (according to the fagershtrum questionnaire score) were randomly ...

objective(s) we investigated the effects of low-dose morphine on nitric oxide (no) and angiogenesis in two-kidney one clip hypertensive (2k1c) rats. materials and methods male rats were divided into two groups: sham-clip operated and 2k1c. each group subdivided into saline and morphine (3 mg/kg i.p. 8 weeks) groups. blood pressure, heart rate, plasma renin activity (pra), no concentration and m...