• Evaluating the impact of fractional flow reserve-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in intermediate coronary artery lesions on the mode of treatment and their outcomes: An Iranian experience 

  Alireza Khosravi؛ Mohammad Reza Pourbehi؛ Masoud Pourmoghaddas؛ Afshin Ostovar؛ Mohammad Reza Akhbari؛ Fereshteh Ziaee-Bideh؛ Jafar Golshahi؛ Shahin Shirani (Isfahan, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-15)

  BACKGROUND: Today, the fractional flow reserve (FFR) guides the physician to select suitable patients with intermediate severity coronary lesions in angiography that should be treated or not with stent. The aim of this ...

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• Rare post-operative complications of large mediastinal tumor resection 

  Mohsen Mirmohammadsadeghi؛ Amir Mirmohammadsadeghi (Isfahan, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-15)

  Background: There are some reports in the literature, which suggest that cardiac tamponade drainage may transiently affect systolic function and also cause acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We did not find any ...

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• Validation of a simplified food frequency questionnaire for the assessment of dietary habits in Iranian adults: Isfahan Healthy Heart Program, Iran 

  Noushin Mohammadifard؛ Firouzeh Sajjadi؛ Maryam Maghroun؛ Hassan Alikhasi؛ Farzaneh Nilforoushzadeh؛ Nizal Sarrafzadegan (Isfahan, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-15)

  BACKGROUND: Dietary assessment is the first step of dietary modification in community-based interventional programs. This study was performed to validate a simple food frequency questionnaire (SFFQ) for assessment of ...

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• Echocardiographic changes after aortic valve replacement: Does the failure rate of mitral valve change? 

  Arezoo Khosravi؛ Hadi Sheykhloo؛ Reza Karbasi-Afshar؛ Amin Saburi (Isfahan, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-15)

  BACKGROUND: Since some degrees of functional mitral regurgitation (MR) may be seen in patients who are candidate for undergoing isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR), determining the effectiveness of AVR surgery on MR ...

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• Inhibitory potential of pure isoflavonoids, red clover, and alfalfa extracts on hemoglobin glycosylation 

  Mohsen Hosseini؛ Sedigheh Asgary؛ Somayeh Najafi (Isfahan, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-15)

  BACKGROUND: Non-enzymatic glycosylation of hemoglobin is complications of diabetes. Antioxidant system imbalance can result in the emergence of free radicals’ destructive effects in the long-term. Red clover (Trifolium ...

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