Showing 5 results for Mojde
Mahmudi Mohammad Jafar , Hedayat Mona , Sharifi Farshad , Edalat Banoo , Mirarefin Mojde , Ghaderpanahi Maryam , Fakhrzadeh Hossein ,
Volume 69, Issue 12 (5 2012)
Abstract
Background: Epidemiological studies have reported positive, negative, U-shaped or J-shaped association between high blood pressure and cognitive function as well as dementia whereas other studies have not reported any significant association. The aim of this study was to examine the association between hypertension and cognitive impairment in the elderly residents of Kahrizak Charity Foundation (KCF).
Methods: This cross sectional study was done in Kahrizak Charity Foundation in suburban areas of Tehran, Iran during 2008. The data were collected over one week. Among the 850 elderly residents of the Foundation who were ≥ 65 years old, 185 individuals were chosen randomly. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was completed for all. Mean of all blood pressure readings were recorded while anthropometric and biochemical measurements were performed.
Results: The findings indicated that in participants with cognitive impairment, systolic blood pressure, diastolic and mean blood pressures were higher than people with normal cognitive function but the differences were not significant statistically. The odds ratio of cognitive impairment in patients with and without hypertension was 1.52 and 1.58, respectively (P>0.05).
Conclusion: This study did not show any significant association between hypertension and cognitive impairment in the elderly residents of Kahrizak Charity Foundation.
Gholamreza Rezamand , Mojdeh Ghabaee , Naser Ebrahimi Daryani , Hoda Ghadami ,
Volume 72, Issue 1 (April 2014)
Abstract
Background: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is one of the most wide-spread human diseases that can impair liver function and sometimes progresses to cir-rhosis. Recently NAFLD has been identified as an independent risk factor for cardio-vascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation of fatty liver disease and its sonographic severity on the resistance of the intracranial arteries.
Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study of 55 patients referred from Gastroen-trology clinic with diagnosis of NAFLD to Sonodoppler department of Iranian Center of Neurological Research. Pulsaltile index as a Hemodynamic parameter of Middle Cerebral (MCA) and basilar Arteries of NAFLD Patients was measured by Trans Cra-nial Doppler (TCD) sonography and the measurements were compared with normal values. Also the association of these indices with serum liver enzymes and sonographic grading of liver involvement was assessed. The analysis was done by SPSS 16. Fre-quency distribution, mean and standard deviation were used in descriptive analysis and statistical test 2 to compare qualitative variables.
Results: Pulsatile Index (PI) were normal (MCA, P= 0.166, Basilar, P= 0.053) and there was no significant difference with relation to severity of fatty liver based on so-nography findings (P= 0.789), but serum liver enzyme levels were inversely correlated with basilar artery PI (P= 0.014).
Conclusion: Considering the increase of cerebral arteries PI in advanced liver disease, absence of increase in vascular PI of patients in the present study could be attributed to the short duration of disease from diagnosis to perform TCD, lack of advanced liver involvement (absence of liver dysfunction) and the response effect to treatment before the TCD. Therefore, to assess vascular changes over time, repeating the TCD with assess other parameters such as Fibroscan and K18 factor that has more compatibility of liver function, could help to understand the pathophysiology of liver diseases and its effect on vascular resistance.
Shahram Shahraki Zahedani , Mojdeh Jahantigh , Yousef Amini ,
Volume 76, Issue 8 (November 2018)
Abstract
Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen and one of the important factors of hospital infection. It causes many issues such as urinary tract infections, respiratory infection in cystic fibrosis patients, and wound infection in burn patients, septicemia and meningitis. Antibiotic resistance through various mechanisms is one of the challenges for the treatment of pseudomonad-caused infections. According to the inherent and acquired capacity of this bacterium in creating resistance against the antimicrobial factors, it is very important to identify a pattern for its antibiotic resistance. The aim of this study was to deliberate the frequency of pattern antibiotic resistance of pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 200 pseudomonas aeruginosa isolations (from 86 males and 114 females) were collected from different samples such as urine, blood, wound, catheter and other samples from teaching hospitals in Zahedan City during nine-month period in 2017. After conducting biochemical tests and confirming bacterium type, based on Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), the antibiotic resistance of strains for 10 antibiotics was determined using disk diffusion method. In addition, the minimum inhibitory concentration of three antibiotics such as imipenem, piperacillin/tazobactam and ceftazidime were determined through E-test. The Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis through the SPSS software, version 16 (IBM SPSS, Armonk, NY, USA).
Results: Out of 200 pseudomonas aeruginosa isolations (from 86 males and 114 females), the maximum resistance was related to ciprofloxacin (37%) and gentamicin (28.5%). The minimum resistance was related to piperacillin/tazobactam (6.5%) and ceftazidime (6%). The highest separated strain was from urine sample (54%), blood sample (23.5%) and wound sample (10.5%). Additionally all strains were sensitive to colistin. In this study, the percentage of multidrug-resistance (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains were investigated, which were 13% and 5.5%, respectively.
Conclusion: In this study, pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates had the lowest resistance to ceftazidime which this antibiotic could be the main treatment option. The high prevalence of MDR strains is a serious warning.
Alireza Sarmadi, Ahmad Kachoei, Mostafa Vahedian, Enayatollah Noori , Mojdeh Bahadorzadeh, Amrollah Salimi , Mohammad Hossein Assi,
Volume 79, Issue 9 (December 2021)
Abstract
Background: Cholecystectomy is one of the most common abdominal surgeries and its preferred method is laparoscopy. The difficulty of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in diabetic patients is not clear and the preferred method of cholecystectomy in these patients is still under controversy. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the difficulty of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in diabetic and non-diabetic patients.
Methods: This retrospective analytical study was performed in Shahid Beheshti Hospital and Forghani Educational and Medical Center from April 2019 to April 2020. Samples were easily selected and 86 people in two groups of diabetic and non-diabetic patients were included in the study. All patient records were reviewed based on inclusion and exclusion criteria for factors such as age, sex, diet, duration of surgery, bleeding, adhesions, and open surgery, and finally, diabetes as a risk factor. It was compared between the two groups. Data were analyzed in SPSS software version 22, an independent t-test was used to analyze quantitative data and the chi-square test was used to analyze qualitative data. In this study, a significance level of less than 0.05 was considered.
Results: Abdominal scar, palpable gallbladder and gallstone were not significantly different between the two groups (P=0.33). But the history of cholecystectomy attacks was significantly different between the two groups (P<0.05). Laboratory values were not significant (P>0.05) . Hard operations in diabetic patients were more than nondiabetic
patients and even two cases of open surgery were seen in the group of diabetic
patients, but there was no significant relationship (P=0.09). Intraoperative bleeding was
statistically significant between the two groups (P=0.02), But adhesion during the
operation was not related (P=0.38).
Conclusion: Finally, our study showed that diabetes can be a predictive risk factor for the difficulty of cholecystectomy.
Mojdeh Bahadorzadeh, Mostafa Vahedian, Mostafa Vahedian, Elaheh Khan Babaei , Pouya Derakhshan-Barjoei ,
Volume 81, Issue 6 (September 2023)
Abstract
Background: Gastrointestinal ulcers occur due to an imbalance between the defense mechanisms of the gastric mucosa and damaging forces, especially gastric acid and pepsin. Overall, complications occur in 10%-20% of these patients, and 2%-14% of wounds eventually perforate. The use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, steroids, smoking, Helicobacter pylori and high salt diet can be mentioned as important etiologies in this regard.
Methods: In this study, the information of patients with peptic ulcer who referred to Beheshti Hospital from 2019 to 2022 was analyzed. They were divided into two groups with perforation and without perforation. Then the variables of age, sex, smoking, NSAID and opium use, Helicobacter pylori infection and proton pump inhibitor use and previous history of peptic ulcer were investigated in two groups.
Results: The findings of the present study showed that the average age in the group with perforation was 48.7 and in the group without perforation was 42.04. In the non-perforated group, 58.5% of the patients were male, and in the group with perforation, 82.2% of the patients were male. In terms of smoking, 29.6% were smokers in the group without perforation and 50.4% were smokers in the group with perforation. Opium consumption was about 15.6% in people without perforation and about 33.3% in people with perforation. In terms of NSAID use, the prevalence was 35.6% in the group without perforation and 27.4% in the group with perforation. PPI consumption was 46.7% in the group without perforation and 21.5% in the group with perforation. In terms of the prevalence of H.pylori infection, the prevalence in the non-perforated group was 45.2% and in the perforated group it was 30.4%. The previous history of PUD was 56.3% in the non-perforated group and 37.8% in the group with perforation.
Conclusion: There was a significant difference between cigarette and opium consumption in the perforated and non-perforated groups, and PPI consumption in these two groups. In general, the prevalence of PUD was higher in males in both perforated and non-perforated types. Fuzzy results also confirmed the effect of risk factors concordance with perforation. |
