introduction: ischemic stroke is a serious neurological disease and a leading cause of death and severe disability in the world. a key component of the mediterranean diet is olive oil, which contains compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. in this regard, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of olive oil on the ischemic damages and the inflammatory pathwa...

in this paper effects of fractured sleepers on rail track vibration under moving wheelset have been investigated. two parallel rails of the track have been modeled as euler-bernoulli beams on elastic points as rail pads. also sleepers have been modeled as visco-elastic euler-bernoulli beams. it is assumed that, some sleepers under the rail track have been fractured and modeled by two beams. the...

background: despite several reports regarding the use of the occlutech figulla® flex septal occluder (offso) in adults, there are few reports on its use in children. we sought to study the result of the transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (asd) using the offso in children ≤ 12 years. methods: w e enrolled 45 consecutive patients, ranging from 2.5 to 12 years of age, in two large pedia...

background: the transcatheter closure of the atrial septal defect (asd) has become an alternative technique to surgical procedures . the aim of this study was to assess the immediate, short, and intermediate-term results of the transcatheter closure of the secundum asd with the amplatzer septal occluder (aso) in adult iranian patients. methods: between december 2004 and july 2008, the transcath...

acute left atrial thrombosis at the site of the resection of the primary cribriform septum is an exceedingly rare and important complication after atrial septal defect (asd) closure with a pericardial or synthetic patch. this case report presents a mobile thrombus noted on the left atrium at the raw surface site of a resected cribriform primary septum that was not caught in the suture line with...

how to cite this article: talebian a, soltani b, sehat m, zahedi a, noorian a, talebian m. incidence and risk factors of neural tube defects in kashan, central iran. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):50-56. abstract objective neural tube defects (ntds) are the most common congenital defects of central nervous system due to neural tube closure deficit during the third and fourth weeks of ges...

background: decalcified freeze-dried bone allograft (dfdba) may have the potential to enhance bone formation around dental implants. our aim in this study was the evaluation and comparison of two types of dfdba in treatment of dehiscence defects around euroteknika ® implants in dogs.     methods: in this prospective clinical trial animal study, all mandibular premolars of three iranian dogs wer...

neural tube defects (ntd) are one of the most important malformations of newborns. the aim of this research is to determine the rates of ntd, anencephaly and spina bifida cystica and the relations of these abnormalities to the factors including sex, race, ethnicity, maternal age and familial marriage in the south-east of the caspian sea border. a three-year descriptive-analytic and cross-sectio...

BACKGROUND Vermilion irregularities are common secondary deformities after cleft lip repair, regressed or resected hemangiomas, trauma and tumor surgeries. Vermilion deficiency attracts considerable attention and detracts from an otherwise excellent lip repair. Minor and moderate vermilion defects can be corrected with upper lip advancement, rotation flaps, tongue flaps or grafts. Major defect...