purpose: to evaluate the success rate and complications of single-plate molteno tube implantation in patients with intractable glaucoma. methods: this study was conducted on records of patients who underwent molteno tube implantation from 1995 to 2000 and had at least 18 months of follow-up. results: thirty six eyes of 35 patients including 20 male and 15 female subjects with mean age of 29.7±2...

background sivelestat is a neutrophil elastase inhibitor (nei) with positive impact on the respiratory complications in thoracic surgery. based on the findings of a recent study, nei may have a good response for avoiding ischemia reperfusion injury in liver resection. conclusions intravenous nei administration had positive impact on the postoperative inflammatory response and oxygenation while ...

how to cite this article: bani hashem a, heydarian f, gharavi m, khoshnod m. postdural puncture headache: incidence and risk factors in children followingintrathecal chemotherapy. iranian journal of child neurology 2012;6(1):19-22. objective to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of development of postdural puncture headache in children who had intrathecal chemotherapy injection. materials ...

While most patients undergo orthognathic surgery for aesthetic purposes, aesthetic improvements are most often followed by postoperative functional complications. Therefore, patients must carefully decide whether their purpose of undergoing orthognathic surgery lies on the aesthetic side or the functional side. There is a wide variety of complications associated with orthognathic surgery. There...

Contact lens-related problems are common and can result in severe sight-threatening complications or contact lens drop out if not addressed properly. We systematically reviewed the most important and the most common contact lens-related complications and their diagnosis, epidemiology, and management according to the literature published in the last 20 years.

laparoscopy has made a revolution in surgical procedures and treatment of various diseases but its complications are still under investigation. intra-abdominal visceral and vessel injuries, trocar site hernia, and leaving foreign bodies into the peritoneal cavity are among some laparoscopic surgery complications. this is a rare report of penrose drain migration following incomplete laparoscopic...

in order to recognize of dka and its complications among children with dm type i, we conducted a descriptive study and all of the children with the final diagnosis of dka. data regarding their demographics, disease characteristics, treatment features and outcome derived from patients' medical files and registered in a data sheet. data were analyzed using spss 11.0 and exhibited in the form of f...

results; out of 634 patients, 61 subjects (9.62%) had significant complications including: acute renal failure, alveolar hemorrhage, ards, clotting disorders, pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding and intracranial bleeding; age, jaundice, renal and pulmonary involvement (oliguria and anuria), hypotension, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, hyponatremia, elevated bilirubin, alanine aminotransfera...

Film trailers have specific features defining a distinct visual media genre. Trailer structural features and viewers’ parsing strategies were analyzed in 21 trailers – a set of comedy, drama, and action film per decade from 1940 2010. Trailers’ structural features show a shot duration pattern that replicates the gradual decrease in Hollywood film over the same period (Cutting et al., 2011; Salt...

the only available vaccine against tuberculosis is bcg which has been found to protect children against disseminated tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis. bcg is one of the safest vaccines being used, and osteitis is a rare complication of it. during a period of eight years, we had eleven cases of osteitis occuring in infants following bcg vaccination. eight cases were female. defect in immu...