In patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD), a functional risk assessment based on non-invasive tests may conflict with a health care policy oriented toward cost containment and direct reperfusion delivery. In this respect, a survey of the European Society of Cardiology has shown that noninvasive tests are underutilized, with wide variability between different countries, so that several patie...

BACKGROUND To assess long-term survival in unselected patients with coronary artery disease in who an invasive approach is considered. METHODS All patients with significant coronary artery disease who were presented for coronary revascularisation to two tertiary centres in 1992 were included. Follow-up data were collected in September 2002. Multivariate Cox' proportional-hazards regression an...

This study aimed to evaluate correlations between lymphovascular invasion (LVI) and the expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2), Ki-67, CK5/6, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), E-cadherin, BCL11A and P53 in invasive breast cancer and to identify predictors of LVI based on...

there are many factors contributing to success of regional anesthesia. patients’ attitude toward spinal anesthesia is one of the most important of these factors. this is a descriptive study performed on 100 healthy parturient selected for elective cesarean section in alzahra obstetric hospital,tabriz, iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate patients’ attitude and their knowledge about spina...

background: addiction to narcotics ‎can cause serious problems and ‎monetary losses. therapeutic ‎success can be predicted ‎through identifying lapse risk ‎factors.‎ objective: determining job risk ‎factor of lapse.‎ methods: this was a cross ‎sectional study on 351 addicts ‎visiting five methadone clinics. a ‎data collection sheet consisting ‎of questions on demographic ‎and job information wa...

Background: Esophageal varices develop as a consequence of portal hypertension in patients with chronic liver disease. Predicting the by non-invasive methods at time registration is likely to predict need for prophylactic β blockers or endoscopic variceal ligation cirrhosis and hypertension. Objective: To evaluate accuracy combined parameters predicting presence esophageal hepatic due hepatitis...

Invasive species cause serious environmental and economic harm and threaten global biodiversity. We set out to investigate how quickly invasive plant species are currently spreading in China and how their resulting distribution patterns are linked to socio-economic and environmental conditions. A comparison of the invasive plant species density (log species/log area) reported in 2008 with curre...

Breast cancer screening has led to a dramatic increase in the detection of pre-invasive breast lesions. While mastectomy is almost guaranteed to treat the disease, more conservative approaches could be as effective if patients can be stratified based on risk of co-existing or recurrent invasive disease.Here we use a range of biomarkers to interrogate and classify purely non-invasive lesions (PN...

introduction: invasive aspergillosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hematologic malignant patients which have received intensive cytotoxic therapy or undergone blood and marrow transplantation (bmt). early clinical and radiological diagnosis of ia is almost impossible and so mortality is very high. the main purpose of our study was to assay the diagnostic value of serum galactom...