Background: The use of biomarkers for diagnosis of Preeclampsia (PE), a life-threatening pregnancy disorder, could reduce serious complications of this disease. In this study, we investigated dysregulation of endoglin (Eng) expression and diagnostic accuracy of soluble endoglin (sEng) in PE patients. Methods: For this case-control study, 26 mild and 15 severe preeclamptic women along with 20 no...

purpose: to evaluate the prevalence of concomitant systemic and ocular diseases in patients scheduled for phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation (pe+pc iol) and post surgical visual outcomes and complications in 1253 cases. methods: medical records of all patients of a private clinic who underwent pe+pc iol from 1999 to 2003 were reviewed. all operations were performed by a singl...

Background and Objectives: Accelerated demand for health services together with the increasing lack of skillful health human resources have highlighted the importance of organizational commitment (OC) to health system performance. Recent studies have identified psychological empowerment (PE) as a potential driver of OC. However, the relation between the two con...

In this study, the anesthetic effects of 2-phenoxyethanol (2-PE) on possible primary (cortisol level) and secondary (haematological indices and glucose level) stress responses were studied in silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix). Fish were first exposed to 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 mL/L 2-PE, also the time to induction (deep anesthesia) and recovery were measured. At concentrations of 0.5, ...