Background: Embolus is one of the causes of ischemic stroke that can be due to cardiac sources such as valvular heart diseases and atrial fibrillation and atheroma of the aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior in identifying potential cardiac sources of emboli. Due to insufficient data on TEE findings in ischemic stroke in Iran, the present study was done to evaluate TEE in...

This aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) or HIV Dementia Scale (HDS) for the diagnosis of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). A comprehensive and systematic search was carried out in PubMed and EMBASE databases. Sensitivity, specificity, Q(*)-values, summary receiver operating characteristic curves and other measures...

This study attempts to assess the variations in households’ confidence levels various sociopolitical institutions with varying socioeconomic and cultural characteristics across major Indian states based on two rounds of India Human Development Survey ( IHDS-I, 2004–2005 ; IHDS-II, 2011–2012 ). It traces presence a lower level households governance compared other institutions, implying deficit t...

Association of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease well known main pathophysiologic basis for Ischemic Heart Diseases and Myocardial Infarction and due to major risk factors such as high plasma level of low density lipoprotein, low plasma level of high density lipoprotein, cigarette smoking, hypertension and diabetes mellitus, infection with few infectious agents such as Mycoplasma pneu...

there are confirmed beneficiary effects of exercise on atherosclerotic inflammation of ischemia-associated heart diseases. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of aerobic exercise on t-regulatory cell markers of il-35 as well as foxp3 and t-helper2 marker of il-33 in patients with ischemic heart disease (ihd). this research was performed on 44 asymptomatic male patients with isc...

a study of the relationship between the disorder of glucose metabolism and ischemic heart disease was performed on 122 patients and 100 controls in loghman-dowleh adham’s medical center in tehran. the gtt abnormality was found in only 8% of the control group while for the patients with the heart ischemia the prevalence was 62.3%. prevalence of glucose metabolic disorder among men with acute myo...

background: our aim was to forward an effective therapeutic approach by comparing efficacy and psychological states between patients with senile ischemic heart failure undergone icu and conventional therapies. methods: we selected 64 patients from hospital of traditional chinese medicine of rizhao (shandong, china) between june 2013 and june 2014. the patients had ischemic heart disease, and we...

phobia can lead to heart attack according to studies in the uk, risk of anemia in patients with phobia is increasing. the results of research on the 1457 men 40 to 67 years old are shown that the anxiety caused by phobia is highly dependent to ischemic heart disease.   before this study , patients that had suffered from a heart attack did not show higher levels of anxiety more than others. this...