Mitral valve is a complex cardiac structure composed of several components to work in synchrony to allow blood flow into left ventricle during diastole and not to allow blood flow into left atrium during systole. Accessory ...

Objective To evaluate the serum levels of the serine proteinase inhibitor kallistatin in women with preeclampsia (PE). Methods The clinical and laboratory parameters of 55 consecutive women with early-onset PE (EOPE) and ...

Transportation allocates a significant proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to each country, and it is one of the largest consumers of petroleum products. On the other hand, many efforts have been made recently to ...

Background: With advances in surgical techniques and immunosuppression, liver transplantation has become the most effective treatment of acute and chronic liver failures. Evaluation of vascular anatomy and detection of ...

The performance of waste management system has been recently interrupted and encountered a very serious situation due to the epidemic outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). To this end, the handling of infectious ...

Introduction: Open rhinoplasty involving columellar incision has gained popularity since the 1930s. Many surgical incision techniques have been employed to obtain better results in terms of postoperative scarring. This ...

Introduction: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is the commonest bariatric procedure worldwide. Yet there is significant variation in practice concerning its various aspects. This paper report results from the first modified Delphi ...

Background: The most common thoracic injury in children, resulting in trauma, is pulmonary contusion (PC). Bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) are used in wound healing and many other diseases. This study ...

Myeloid/lymphoid neoplasm is a rare malignancy with an aggressive course and rapid transformation to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), or less frequently to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Cases with t(8;22)(p11;q11) ...

SIRE1 is an active and relatively high copy-number retroelement belongs to the Tyl/Copia long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon superfamily. Distinctive SIRE1 elements (ENV and GAG) distributions in barley genome were ...