Effects of a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Versus Usual Care on Cardiopulmonary Function in Patients With Cardiac Syndrome X.

Purpose: Because of uncertainty in the pathophysiological process, the treatment of cardiac syndrome X (CSX) is still under study. Addressing the effects of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can help promote the prescription of this modality as an adjuvant therapy for these patients.

Methods: This study was performed on 30 patients with effort-induced angina pectoris using a positive exercise test and/or myocardial perfusion scan in the absence of obvious stenosis or a stenosis of <50% on coronary angiography.

The effect of plasmapheresis on treating disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) caused by a Hemiscorpius lepturus (Gadim) sting.

Introduction: The highest mortality from scorpion stings in Iran is due to the stings of a particular type of scorpion known as Hemiscorpius lepturus (H. lepturus, Gadim in local language). The present study aimed at investigating the use of plasmapheresis to treat severe cases of H.

Evaluation of blood lead level in methamphetamine users in Tehran.

Background: Given the increasing number of lead poisoning in opioids users and since no study has been conducted so far to review lead poisoning in methamphetamine (crystal) users, this study aimed to investigate blood lead level in methamphetamine addicts.

Methods: This study was conducted on 20 patients with methamphetamine poisoning and their blood lead level was measured. The subjects were selected from among patients with a history of continuous use of methamphetamine, without a history of using opiates in the past 6 months confirmed by a negative urine tests, and without a history of heavy metal poisoning.

Comparison of the Effects of Lidocaine Prilocaine Cream (EMLA) and Lidocaine Injection on Reduction of Perineal Pain During Perineum Repair in Normal Vaginal Delivery.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of EMLA cream and lidocaine injection to reduce pain during episiotomy repair.

Materials And Methods: A total of 46 primiparous women with normal pregnancy who referred for normal vaginal delivery and needed episiotomy repair were selected and randomly divided into two groups. For EMLA group, one hour before the estimated time of delivery, 5g of EMLA cream was applied to perinealmediolateral incision, and after the delivery of the fetus and placenta, again 5g of EMLA cream was applied to healthy skin around the episiotomy for repair.

A tentative component analysis of Norjizak: A new abused drug in Iran.

Norjizak is a new drug abused in the past few years in Iran with symptoms and complications distinct from other common forms of drug and characterized by higher rate of mortality. The present study aims to analyze the chemical components of this substance. Five samples were obtained from abusers referring from different areas of Tehran to a treatment clinic.

COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF ORAL VS. PERITONSILLAR INFILTRATION OF KETAMINE IN PAIN REDUCTION AFTER TONSILLECTOMY: A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL.

Background: Although oral ketamine has been used in some cases to reduce pain in children, the use of this drug to reduce pain after tonsillectomy has not been studied yet.

Methods: This double-blind clinical trial was conducted in 2009 in 92 children who were aged three to nine years old, met ASA I or II criteria, and were candidate for tonsillectomy. Patients were divided randomly into two groups.

Evaluation of anxiety and depression among female spouses of Iranian male drug dependents.

Background: Existing evidences suggest the more vulnerability of spouses of drug dependents, in exposure to mental disorders.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the associated parameters of anxiety and depression among female spouses of male drug dependents.

Patients And Methods: With a cross-sectional design in 2010, a total of 237 Iranian women were selected and divided into three groups: 1.

Characteristics of drug demand reduction structures in Britain and Iran.

Administrative structure of drug demand reduction and the way in which involved organizations interact with each other has been neglected by researchers, policy makers, and administrators at the national level and even in international institutions in this field. Studying such structures in different countries can reveal their attributes and features. In this study, key experts from the addictive behavior department of St George's University of London and a group of Iranian specialists in the field of drug demand reduction first wrote on a sheet the name of organizations that are in charge of drug demand reduction.

Component analysis of Iranian crack; a newly abused narcotic substance in iran.

Iranian crack is a new form of narcotic substance that has found widespread prevalence in Iran in the past years. Crack only nominally resembles crack cocaine as it is widely different in its clinical signs. Thus the present study aims to quantify the chemical combination of this drug.

The effect of opium dependency on testis volume: a case-control study.

Background: Given the paucity of data on possible testis changes in opioid dependents, we sought to compare the testis volumes between a group of opium dependents and a group of healthy controls.

Objective: Comparison of testis volume between opium dependents and healthy controls.

Materials And Methods: This case-control study recruited 100 men with opium dependency (cases) and 100 healthy men (controls) in Iran, in 2008.

Initiation to the first drug use among substance-dependent persons in Iran.

In the present study, we report the initiation to the first drug in a representative sample of drug dependents in Iran. This is a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 7,743. The participants were characterized as drug dependents according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-Fourth Edition and were sampled from the medical centers, prisons, and streets of the capitals of 29 provinces in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Diagnostic value of fingerprint patterns: an explorative study on beta-thalassemia diagnosis.

Rapid diagnosis of major beta thalassemia along with certain preventive measures is of utmost significance. The present study aims to compare the fingerprints in Major beta thalassemic patients (67) and in their parents (76 with minor thalassemia) with the normal fingerprints of control group (144). A forensic medical examiner determined fingerprint types of arch, loop, whorl and other types.

Benefit effect of naloxone in benzodiazepines intoxication: findings of a preliminary study.

Background: Naloxone, as a low-priced and available drug, may be useful in improvement of signs and symptoms of benzodiazepines intoxication. The aim of this study was assessment of its effect on benzodiazepines poisoning.

Methods: In this clinical-trial study, patients with typical signs and symptoms of benzodiazepines poisoning, who were referred to a poisoning center in Tehran in 2008, were selected.

Prophylactic ophthalmic bethametazone for sulfur mustard-induced ocular injury.

Background: The present study sought to evaluate the prophylactic effect of bethametazone on sulfur mustard (SM)-induced ocular morphometric damage in the rabbit eye.

Methods: Twenty five healthy New Zealand white rabbits were divided into 4 groups of normal (not exposed to SM or solution), solution (exposed to solution), SM (exposed to SM), and prophylactic bethametazone (received eye solution of bethametazone then exposed to SM solution; then treated for 2 weeks). On the day 14 after exposure, five-micron sections were stained with haematoxylin and eosin for light microscopy evaluation.

Marital adjustment in patients on long-term hemodialysis: a case-control study.

Introduction: This study was conducted to compare marital adjustment between patients on long-term hemodialysis and healthy controls and to determine whether the psychological symptoms correlate with marital adjustment in these patients.

Materials And Methods: In a case-control study, 40 patients on long-term hemodialysis and 40 healthy participants were compared for the quality of marital relationship. The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale was used for interviews of marital relationship, which includes total marital adjustment and its subscales of marital consensus, affection expression, marital satisfaction, and marital cohesion.

Urogenital history in veterans exposed to high-dose sulfur mustard: a preliminary study of self-reported data.

Introduction: To date, little information exists regarding urogenital diseases in those who have been exposed to sulfur mustard (SM). We report the self-reported history of urologic conditions and findings on physical examination in a group of male veterans 19 to 26 years after exposed to high-dose sulfur mustard.

Materials And Methods: Data on urologic health conditions of a nationwide health survey were used in this study.

Marital relationship and its correlates in kidney recipients.

Marital discordance is known to be associated with morbidity and mortality in chronically ill patients, but its correlates have yet to be fully addressed in renal recipients. The aim of this study was to assess marital relationship and its correlation with patients' morbidity after kidney transplantation. Ninety-three married Iranian kidney recipients who had undergone kidney transplantation in Baqiyatallah Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were assessed for marital adjustment with the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS).

Sexual function: a comparison between male renal transplant recipients and hemodialysis patients.

Introduction: For all the studies into the sexual health of kidney transplant recipients, there is a paucity of controlled studies regarding the difference in the sexual relationship of kidney transplant recipients and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients under hemodialysis.

Aim: We compared the sexual function of kidney transplant recipients and ESRD patients under hemodialysis in male patients.

Main Outcome Measures: The patients' sexual function was assessed using the Relationship and Sexuality Scale.

Mucormycosis after kidney transplantations: report of seven cases.

This is a report of 7 cases of mucormycosis infections in patients who had undergone transplantation and been admitted in the kidney transplant centre of Baqiyatallah Hospital in Tehran, Iran, from 2002 to 2005. We retrospectively reviewed the hospital records for demographic data, symptoms, diagnostic techniques and outcomes. Five patients were male and 2 female.