the term “stunned myocardium” refers to abnormalities in the myocardial function following reperfusion and is common in on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) and is exceedingly rare in off- pump cabg. a 53-year-old man presented with unstable angina due to the severe stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery (lad) and the obtuse marginal. laboratory findings and chest x-...

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of sub-tenon block (preemptive analgesia) following general anesthesia and before the beginning of scleral buckling and cryopexy in retinal detachment (rd) surgery on decreasing intra- and post-operative complications. methods: sixty eight patients scheduled for rd surgical repair with asa (american society of anesthesiologists) class і or ii were enrolled in t...

the most common cardiovascular surgery in the world and iran as well, is cabg. one of the most important post-operative complication of this operation, that increase morbidity and mortality, is peri-operative mi. incidence of peri-operative mi in cabg operations is between 2.5 to 5.5%. in this study we determined the prevalence and incremental risk factors of peri-operative mi in 300 consequati...

The aim of the present study was to assess the clinical relevance of the pre-operative granulocyte/lymphocyte (G/L) ratio as a predictive marker of post-operative complications in patients with colorectal cancer. In total, 85 patients (59 males and 26 females; mean age, 68.9 years) underwent surgery for colorectal cancer at the Department of Surgery, Ibraki Medical Center, Tokyo Medical Univers...