BACKGROUND Ventilator practices in patients at risk for acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS are unclear. We examined factors associated with choice of set tidal volumes (VT), and whether VT < 8 mL/kg predicted body weight (PBW) relates to the development of ALI/ARDS. METHODS We performed a secondary analysis of a multicenter cohort of adult subjects at risk of lung injury with and without ALI/AR...

BACKGROUND The prognostic value of inflammation indexes in esophageal cancer has not been established. Recent studies have shown that the advanced lung cancer inflammation index (ALI) is a useful predictive factor. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether the ALI is useful for predicting long-term survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). PATIENTS A...

The univariate conditioning of copulas is studied, yielding a construction method for copulas based on an a priori given copula. Based on the gluing method, g-ordinal sum of copulas is introduced and a representation of copulas by means of g-ordinal sums is given. Though different right conditionings commute, this is not the case of right and left conditioning, with a special exception of Archi...

In the article published in volume 32, issue 215, 2022,http://jmums.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-17695-fa.html the affilifations of Naghi Shahabi Majd, Hosein Ranjbaran, and Shabanali Khodashenas were published incorrectly, which are now corrected.  

INTRODUCTION Sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI) has been reported to have a higher case fatality rate than other causes of ALI. However, differences in the severity of illness in septic vs. non-septic ALI patients might explain this finding. METHODS 520 patients enrolled in the Improving Care of ALI Patients Study (ICAP) were prospectively characterized as having sepsis or non sepsis-indu...

Receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) is a marker of alveolar type I cells and is elevated in the pulmonary edema fluid of patients with acute lung injury (ALI). We tested the hypothesis that RAGE in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) would be elevated in experimental models of direct ALI characterized by alveolar epithelial cell injury. We developed ELISA measurements for RAGE and ...

INTRODUCTION Acute lung injury (ALI) can result from various insults to the pulmonary tissue. Experimental and clinical data suggest that spontaneous breathing (SB) during pressure-controlled ventilation (PCV) in ALI results in better lung aeration and improved oxygenation. Our objective was to evaluate whether the addition of SB has different effects in two different models of ALI. METHODS F...

Broad research interests and related applications: My research is in the area of stochastic systems, computational methods for sensing, estimation, and control problems, with a focus on robotic systems. In real-world systems, uncertainty (both in the system model and sensory readings) is omnipresent. A few of the vast set of applications for this research include (i) Motion planning for mobile ...