Improving vascular access creation among hemodialysis patients: An agent-based modeling and simulation approach.

Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide public health problem, and vascular access is known as hemodialysis patients' lifeline. Hemodialysis is the most common treatment for kidney replacement. The choice of vascular access should be "patient-centered.

A comparison of bupivacaine lavage and diclofenac suppository effects on post-operative pain of laparascopic transabdominal pre-peritoneal herniorrhaphy: a randomized clinical trial study.

Objectives: Injection of a topical anaesthetic has been proved to be helpful with reducing pain after laparoscopic herniorrhaphy. We aimed to assess the effect of bupivacaine lavage on postoperative pain and compare it with diclofenac suppository. In this randomized clinical trial, 60 patients-scheduled for laparoscopic herniorrhaphy-were enrolled and randomized into three groups of 20 each, including diclofenac suppository, bupivacaine lavage, and normal saline as a placebo.

Role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and MMP inhibitors on intracranial aneurysms: a review article.

Cerebrovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world, and about one-fourth of cerebrovasculardeaths are due to ruptured cerebral aneurysms (CA). Hence it is important to find a way to reduce aneurysmformation and its subsequent morbidity and mortality. Proteolytic activity capable of lysing gelatin hasbeen shown to be increased in aneurysm tissue and expression of plasmin, membrane-type matrix metalloproteinase-1(MT1-MMP), and matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) in aneurysmal wall is more than what we observein normal cerebral arteries.