background: bleeding events in hemophilic patients with inhibitors are managed by bypassing agents. currently available agents in iran are recombinant activated factor vii (rfviia; aryogen, aryoseven) and feiba (factor eight inhibitor bypassing agent). no standardized and accurate assay is currently available for monitoring the effectiveness of bypassing agents. we suggested that history of the...

OBJECTIVE To examine the psychological impact of surgical accidents and assess the adequacy of explanations given to the patients involved. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING Subjects were selected from files held Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. PATIENTS 154 surgical patients who had been injured by their treatment, who considered that their treatment had fallen below ac...

BACKGROUND Antral irrigation earlier had an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of rhinosinusitis. Nowadays, it is often considered too unpleasant. However, the experience of patients of this procedure has been very seldom evaluated. Nor has the effect on pain in rhinosinusitis been evaluated. The aim of this study was to evaluate patients' experience of discomfort and pain during ant...

background: pain, as a crucial subsequence of joint hemorrhages in hemophilia patients, is chronic, debilitating, and distracting. this study aimed to describe and interpret pain experiences of hemophilia patients in their lives. methods: this qualitative study with hermeneutic phenomenological approach was conducted on fourteen hemophilia patients who had been referred to a hemophilia center a...

nurses' experience of dealing with dying patients     karimi moneghy h [1] , zubin f [2] , yavari m [3] *, noghredani m [4] , abdollahi h [5]     received: 9 jul, 2013 accepted: 20 sep, 2013  abstract  background & aims : u nderstanding nurses' experience of patient death, the appropriate approach to understand this phenomenon is the aim of this study. also as a supporting role of the...

in this report of 20 patients with 24 carotid body tumors which is the largest series reported so far from iran, we have evaluated the various characteristics of this relatively rare tumor in our population and compared our results with that of the literature. although the prevalence of the tumor is cited to be equal among both sexes, we found a female to male ratio of 2.3 to i, as 14 of our pa...

  This investigation was undertaken to evaluate the " effect of the student nurses" personal pain experience on assessment of pain intensity and selection of appropriate number of pain interventions. Participants in this research were 150 female student nurses who were studying in Razie Nursing and Midwifery college of Kerman university of medical sciences and health services. Data collection ...

mitral regurgitation (mr) is a common valvular lesion in the general population with considerable impact on mortality and morbidity. the mitraclip system (abbot laboratories, abbot park, il, usa) is a novel percutaneous approach for treating mr which involves mechanical edge-to-edge coaptation of the mitral leaflets. we present our initial experience with the mitraclip system in 5 patients. in ...

background: carotid artery stenting is now used as an alternative to surgical endarterectomy. this study was done to assess the feasibility, safety, and immediate and late clinical outcomes in patients undergoing carotid stenting . methods: between july 2008 and december 2009, a total of 40 patients (20 male, mean age: 65 ± 11 years, 19 symptomatic, and 90% high risk for endarterectomy) underwe...