OBJECTIVE To evaluate the late-stage results from surgical treatment of patellar tendinopathy (PT), using the Visa score (Victorian Institute of Sport Tendon Study Group) and the Verheyden method. METHODS This was a retrospective study in which the postoperative results from 12 patients (14 knees) who were operated between July 2002 and February 2011 were evaluated. The patients included in t...

The risk of atrial fibrillation (AF)-related stroke is usually assessed by calculating the CHA2DS2-VASc score, the components of which are various risk factors, including prior stroke. Although prior stroke is considered the strongest risk factor, the associated risk is actually inferred. Nevertheless, it implies a "freedom-from-event effect" (FEE)-the longer a patient is stroke-free, the lower...

Retrospective studies have always taken for granted that matching should be done on factors which affect the incidence of the disease. Worcester stated that when that "when a disease group is being compared with another group, matching is usually done on variables known to be related to the disease rather than on variables related to the outcome." Miettinen et al. however disagrees. They bel...

A modified critical-incident analysis technique was used in a retrospective examination of the characteristics of human error and equipment failure in anesthetic practice. The objective was to uncover patterns of frequently occurring incidents that are in need of careful prospective investigation. Forty-seven interviews were conducted with staff and resident anesthesiologists at one urban teach...

Providing adults with relevant information (knowledge that they will be tested at some future time) increases motivation to remember. Research has shown that it is more effective to have this information prior to, rather than after, an encoding phase. We investigated this effect in apes and children in the context of tool-use tasks. In Experiment 1 we presented chimpanzees, orangutans, and bono...

Murder followed by suicide (M-S) is a rare phenomenon that has been studied in several countries. Previous studies show that offenders of M-S are predominately men who live in an intimate relationship. Amorous jealousy is often the trigger to commit M-S. Shooting is the most common way to kill a partner and/or children. In general, women are likely to become victims. The aim of this study was t...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is a health problem in Iran. Given the importance of this subject, we reviewed the factors affecting the blood pressure in this survey. METHODS This retrospective cohort study was performed on 3961 male workers employed at Isfahan Polyacryl Corporation (Iran) in health and safety executive between 1996 until 2008. In this study, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (S...

conclusions the rvr is the strongest factor of svr and infection with hcv genotype 2 is significantly associated with rvr. neither biochemical and/or metabolic factors seem to exert influence on rvr. objectives the main aim of this study was to assess the strength of rvr, as a predictive factor of antiviral treatment response. patients and methods using univariate and multivariate analysis, we ...

background: invasive fungal infections (ifis) are chief infectious complications in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct). however, the diagnosis of fungal infections is difficult, and often empiric treatment initiates. since there is no data available on the prevalence of antifungal drugs administration in allogeneic hsct recipients in iran, we decided to conduct t...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper is to describe clinical aspects of the torsion of the omentum. METHODS In this observational, retrospective study, the study group consisted of patients surgically managed for torsion of the omentum, between 1998 and 2008, in a second level medical facility in Mexico. Variables in the study included age, sex, signs and symptoms, body mass index (BMI), treatmen...