Publications by authors named "Alireza Abkhoo"
Unlabelled: Background: increased pressure on healthcare systems and possible risk of nosocomial COVID-19 infection during pandemic urged many guidelines to severely restrict the number of operations. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of COVID-19 infection and its complications in patients undergoing urgent or elective operations.Methods: a prospective observational cohort study was conducted in a tertiary surgical center and all patients with no preoperative history of COVID-19 undergoing elective or emergent surgeries were included in this investigation.
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- * A study involving 62 Iranian patients with MG found that the prevalence of depression was high, with 64.5% reporting symptoms according to one screening tool (HDRS) and 53.2% according to another (BDI-II), primarily presenting as mild depression.
- * The study concluded that factors like age, sex, disease duration, and medication dosages did not correlate with depression severity; however, the number of academic years was associated with lower depression scores, indicating a need for further research on depression in MG to
Chloroquine has long been used for the treatment of malaria and rheumatological disorders. Accumulating evidence suggests potential use of chloroquine as a neuroprotective agent. Several studies have reported that endogenous opioids and nitric oxide (NO) system mediate the chloroquine effects.
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