introduction: heart failure is a major hazard for public health. despite recent advance in medical therapy, there is not enough information on the outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass (opcab) and medical therapy on the patients with severe ventricular dysfunction and triple-vessel (cad). this study aimed to compare treatment outcomes and mortality rate in patients undergoing off-pump coro...

nowadays nanotechnology as a new direction of science allows us to develop therapeutic methods of the endogenous intoxication syndrome and to create a new class of biocompatible sorbents. in ukraine first preparations of medical nanotechnology were produced and patented in 1998. these are ikbb (intracorporeal biocorrector), magnet-controlled sorbent (mcs-b), and micromage-b. the preparations ar...

medical tourism plays an important role in national revenue of many countries; this industry earns about 100 billion dollars for the governments each year. however, tourism is not developed in iran and it is in its initial paces. as a matter of fact, the ministry of health recognized tourism-therapy in 2003. in addition, by doing this, rather than supporting tourism-therapy, the ministry mainly...

introduction : there is a direct relationship between the quality of root canal obturation and success of endodontic therapy. the aim of the present study was to assess the quality of canal obturation performed by undergraduate dental students at the faculty of dentistry, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran. materials and methods: records of 200 endodontically treated teeth fr...

background and purpose: this study was designed to investigate of simulation based education in achieves skills proficiency in medical radiation technologist students. methods: the students randomly were divided in two groups, a (n=25) and b (n=22) that received a routine course and simulation based education respectively. the chain of experiments was concerned to evaluate of skills proficiency...