Maryam Deldar Pasikhani; Fahimeh Ghotbizadeh; Razieh Akbari; Mahshid Shooshtari; Atieh Pajouhi
Volume 4, Issue 4 , September and October 2019, , Pages 151-154
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Background & Objective: Anticoagulant therapy has been used for the prevention and treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Heparin-induced necrotizing skin lesion is a serious complication that can be potentially life-threatening.
Case Report: We report a 55-year-old female presenting ...
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Background & Objective: Anticoagulant therapy has been used for the prevention and treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Heparin-induced necrotizing skin lesion is a serious complication that can be potentially life-threatening.
Case Report: We report a 55-year-old female presenting with skin necrosis without thrombocytopenia after prescribing heparin prophylaxis. She had died as it was not possible to discontinue her heparin therapy.
Conclusion: Heparin-induced skin necrosis should be suspected in all patients who undergo UFH or LMWH. Observation of platelet count is recommended at the onset of skin lesions. Early diagnosis of this condition can be helpful for the management of this potentially mortal disease.
Fahimeh Ghotbizadeh Vahdani; Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh; Maryam Deldar Pasikhani; Azin Ghamari; Maryam Hajatpour; Zahra Panahi
Volume 4, Issue 2 , May and June 2019, , Pages 51-56
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Background & Objective: Due to increased rate of risk factors, the incidence of placenta accreta (PA) is increasing worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the important factors regarding the occurrence of PA, as well as outcomes and complications of Trans Abdominal Hysterectomy (TAH) in the patients ...
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Background & Objective: Due to increased rate of risk factors, the incidence of placenta accreta (PA) is increasing worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the important factors regarding the occurrence of PA, as well as outcomes and complications of Trans Abdominal Hysterectomy (TAH) in the patients with PA.
Materials & Methods: The study was performed as an observational cross-sectional study. Between March 2011 and March 2017, 177 patients, known cases of PA that undergone TAH, were enrolled in our study. Extracted data include demographic characteristics, patient’s medical history, surgical approach and complications, such as blood loss and urologic problems.
Results: The average of maternal age and gestational age were 33.6±4.70 (range= 22-43) years and 34.6±3.16 weeks, respectively. Neither maternal age (P < /em>=0.652) nor BMI (P < /em>=0.659) had significant association with abnormal placentation. Previous history of dilation & curettage (D&C) was found in 34 patients that was not related to the occurrence of the PA (P < /em>=0.508).Twenty-one (11.9%) of the patients needed urological intervention that did not associated with placental position, skin and uterine incision (P < /em>=0.258, 0.410 and 0.219). There is no relation between amount of blood loss with gestational age (P < /em>=0.7) and number of C/S (P < /em>=0.4), gestational age (P < /em>=0.7), anesthesia (P < /em>=0.2), and curettage history (P < /em>=0.3).
Conclusion: Our mortality and morbidity rate is much lower than reported ones, indicating the high-level ability, skill and knowledge of the surgeons.
Maryam Deldar Pasikhani; Zinat Ghanbari; Fateme Talei Khatibi; Ali Ganjalikhan Hakemi; Elaheh Miri Ashtiani
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November and December 2016
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Background: Urgency is a characteristic for overactive bladder and is defined by a sudden obligatory need for urination, a feeling that can be hardly stopped. Many methods such as drug therapy and feedback have been used to treat urinary incontinency.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess ...
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Background: Urgency is a characteristic for overactive bladder and is defined by a sudden obligatory need for urination, a feeling that can be hardly stopped. Many methods such as drug therapy and feedback have been used to treat urinary incontinency.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess and compare the effect of medication, biofeedback or biofeedback plus medication on urge- urinary incontinency and quality of life of patients.
Methods: This was a case-control randomized clinical trial performed on patients referred to Imam Khomeini hospital in 2014. Patients were divided into three groups of drug (Tolterodine), biofeedback, and biofeedback plus drug. Biofeedback group underwent two sessions of treatment weekly for four weeks, and the drug group received tolterodine (4 mg slow release) for four weeks. The third group received both of them. Quality of life and urinary incontinency symptoms were compared between the three groups and analyzed, using SPSS Version 16 software (IBM, Armonk, USA).
Results: Meaningful differences were observed between the three groups with respect to change in the total score of the questionnaire (P < 0.001). Between the groups, drug therapy had the most effect on improving the total score of the questionnaire, with a mean change of 25.44 ± 1.80. No meaningful difference was observed between drug plus biofeedback and biofeedback group (P =0.114). By comparing the mean incontinency score, we found a meaningful difference between the drug and biofeedback groups and the biofeedback and biofeedback plus drug groups (P < 0.001 and P < 0.002, respectively); however, no meaningful difference was found between the biofeedback plus drug group and the drug group in mean incontinency score (P = 0.187).
Conclusions: Our study results revealed that tolterodine and biofeedback both increased quality of life indices and decreased the severity of urinary incontinency significantly in our participants. However, drug plus biofeedback treatment improved the severity and quality of urinary incontinency, but did not improve quality of life of the patients. Therefore, physicians should consider improving the quality of life of patients as well.
