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Background: Documenting of indigenous knowledge related to traditional medicine often leads to discovery of new drugs and prevent from destruction and forgotten it
Objective: Documentation of medicinal use of Amygdalus lycioides Spach var. horrida in traditional medicine of local people Naein, Khoor and Biabanak county in northeast of Esfahan in Iran
Methods: Ethnopharmacological information was collected using snowball sampling, Participant Observation and semi-structured interviews from 120 informants. The question of the interviews includes demography of informants, plant local name, medicinal properties, symptoms of the disease, used part, mode of application, route of administration and effectiveness of medicine, Adverse Drug Reaction, Medications or alternatives for treatment, In addition, it was also investigated about whether the informants used it for therapeutic purposes
Results: In Traditional medicine of Case study the A.lycioides are used in the treatment of disease such as diabetes, blood fat, hypotensive, Inflammation of the prostate, durectic, kidney stone, pain, Constipation, Colds and asthma. 98% of informants have reached the desired medicinal properties using aerial parts of the species
Conclusion: This study report Medicinal properties of A. lycioides treating blood fat, Inflammation of the prostate, durectic, and kidney stone for the first time. Also the result shows that for medicinal uses it is not necessary to use the root of plant
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The treatment of open tibial fractures is still an orthopaedic challenge and full of complications. In many cases the use of external fixator that has been known as a nonunion machine is obligatory with a high incidence of pin track infection and other complications. The aim of this study was to compare the use of external fixation as a definite method for treatment of open tibial fractures with its subsequent conversion to internal fixation or casting. Sixty-seven young patients with type III open tibial fractures [Gustilo-Anderson classification] were treated with half pin external fixation. Twenty of them were converted into internal fixation after a period of 6-8 weeks. For another twenty-five, external fixator was removed and treatment continued with casting for a period lasting from 16 to 20 weeks. And for twenty two patients the fixator continued until complete union. The patients followed up for 10-16 months and were evaluated in terms of union time, union rate, infection, range of motion, malunion, non-union, nerve injury, and reduction. There was a meaningful difference only in the union time and superficial infection between the first group and the other two groups. The conversion of external to internal fixation can be considered as a safe, effective, less complicated, and more acceptable method for the treatment of open tibial fractures
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Humans , Adult , Adolescent , Young Adult , Aged , Tibial Fractures/surgery , Fracture Fixation/methods , External Fixators , Fracture Fixation, Internal , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Nowadays health care centers specially hospitals, consume a major part of resources allocated to Health sector. So controlling the way it is spent would be one of main responsibility of managers to either prevent its squander or leading it to proper programms. The main purpose of this research is that to consider quota amid cause of shortfalls which occurred on the inpatient records costs by Health Care Service Insurance [HCSI] and Social Security Insurance [SSI] in the first six month of year 2005 at Shahid Rajaee hospital. This research is analytic-descriptive and provides a cross-sectional image of hospital accounting situatmon. All patients admitted in this hospital during the study and their costs supported by SSCI and SSi companies were considered as research population. Preprepared checklists were used for gathering patient's datas from their tiles. Discrepancies between reported costs by hospital and the amount accepted by insurance companies were the main item studied in detail