background: permanent pacemakers provide effective relief of symptoms and are life-saving in patients with symptomatic heart block. implantable cardioverter defibrillators (icd) are also increasingly recognized as life-saving tools in various groups of patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias. methods: as part of the “world survey on pacemaker and icd implantations”, a survey of all...

as it has proven the increase of mechanical strain could resulted to increase of bnp (protein brain natriuretic peptide) in blood stream of implanted patient pacemakers. we measured the bnp concentration in blood due to different mode and lead implantation location of pacemaker in the time period of three month. the aim of study was the investigation of change trend of bnp level after pacemaker...

Background: Eczema is one of the most widely spread inflammatory skin disorders contact dermatitis is an eczematous dermatitis that is produced as a result of contact with a substance in the environment. The substance can act as an irritant or allergen. Every country has allergen particular to itself. Objective: Determining the frequency of skin allergens in patients with contact dermatitis in ...

Background: Atopic dermatitis is a chronic, recurrent inflammation of the skin, accompanied by severe pruritus. Immune system dysregulation and skin barrier defects are associated with the abnormalities in atopic dermatitis. Myriad pieces of evidence have pointed to the major roles of LL-37 and interleukin-31 (IL31)in atopic dermatitis. The studies on atopic dermatitis are still limited i...

background: neonatal lupus erythematosus is an uncommon disease. congenital complete heart block (cchb) usually happens in neonates with maternal systemic lupus erythematosus. the most prevalent presentation of cchbis bradycardiathatcanbediagnosed through an electrocardiogram. case report: here in, we present the case of a full-term male neonate with gestational age of 37 weeks and birth weight...

Background: Topical corticosteroids are currently used for treatment of diaper dermatitis. Previous studies have shown the efficacy of sucralfate in the treatment of diaper dermatitis and contact dermatitis in peri-stomy areas. Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of topical sucralfate in comparison with hydrocortisone cream in the treatment of diaper dermatitis. Patients and Methods: In a doub...

Introduction: Beat-to-beat variation in heart rate shows a complex dynamics, and this complexity is changed during systemic inflammatory response syndrome (e.g. sepsis). It is not known whether or not cardiac pacemaker dynamical rhythm is affected by sepsis. The aim of this study was to investigate heart rate dynamics of isolated heart as well as expression of pacemaker channels (HCN) in a r...