purpose : to compare the outcomes of microcoaxial phacoemulsification and conventional phacoemulsification techniques methods : in this prospective comparative clinical study in the negah eye center, 69 eyes of 69 patients with senile cataract of grade 3 to 4 on the lens opacities classification system iii (locsiii) were placed in two groups. thirty nine eyes were assigned to undergo surgery by...

drug utilization evaluation (due) is an effective program to identify variability in drug use and to support interventions that will improve patient outcomes. the appropriate use of enoxaparin, a low molecular weight heparin (lmwh), which is widely used as curative or preventive treatment of thromboembolic disorders was assessed in the study. a prospective due was carried out at masih daneshvar...

introduction: this study aims to compare the cognitive performance of patients with multiple sclerosis (ms) in the field of autobiographical, prospective and working memory compared to normal people. method: in a causal-comparative study using convenience sampling 200 patients with ms (100 were affected less and 100 were affected more than 2 years (and 100 healthy individuals were matched regar...

Plasma obtained and frozen in 1972-1974 from 1,009 white men (40-79 years old) who have been followed for 12 years was examined for endogenous sex hormone levels according to prevalent or subsequent cardiovascular disease. In these older men, no sex hormone measured (testosterone, androstenedione, estrone, or estradiol) was significantly associated with known cardiovascular disease at baseline ...

Objective: The present study aimed to compare prospective and retrospective memory impairment and attention deficit in people suffering from chronic low back pain with those cognitive functions in healthy subjects. Furthermore, this study examines the relation between severity and duration of pain and prospective and retrospective memory impairment and attention deficit. Me...

©2003 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.85B7.13398 $2.00 e conducted a prospective, randomised study of 42 cervical interbody fusions undertaken with either an autologous tricortical graft or a cage. The factors assessed in the two groups were: (1) time taken to achieve fusion; (2) neck disability index; (3) pain score; (4) interbody height ratio; (5) int...

AIM: Surgical site infection (SSI) is a major problem associated with open abdominal surgery and related to increased morbidity and mortality rates, healthcare costs and also incisional hernia. A negative pressure subcutaneous drain reduces dead space in subcutaneous tissue by preventing accumulation of fluid. The aim of current study was to establish the efficacy of a subcutaneous drainage sys...

Irvine (I953) emphasized that macular degeneration was a major complication in cataract extraction. Gass and Norton (I966) described the appearance of aphakic cystoid macular oedema as shown by fluorescein angiography in patients who experienced a fall in visual acuity 4 to I2 weeks after cataract extraction. Gass and Norton (i 969) showed that, while the oedema settled in 6 months in 50 per ce...