Neuropsychiatric manifestations due to anticholinergic agents and anabolic steroids ingestion: A case series and literature review.

Anticholinergic toxicity is a common occurrence in the emergency room, making it crucial for emergency clinicians to have a good understanding of this toxidrome. The neuropsychiatric effects of anticholinergic agents and anabolic steroids (ASs) can manifest as symptoms like anxiety, agitation, dysarthria, confusion, seizures, visual hallucinations, bizarre behavior, delirium, psychosis, and coma. When dealing with a conscious patient who has ingested an anticholinergic substance, a detailed history of ingestion can aid clinicians in making an accurate diagnosis.

Adult nondysraphic cervicomedullary intramedullary lipoma: A case report and literature review.

Intra-dural perimedullary lipomas involving craniovertebral region are rare. There is no clear tumor-cord border and patients are at high risk of neurological deficits after surgery. Partial resection of the mass and neural decompression are the main surgical strategies in symptomatic patients.

The Relationship Between Hemodialysis and the Echocardiographic Findings in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Background: The incidence of cardiac morbidity and mortality is high in patients treated with hemodialysis (HD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between HD and the echocardiographic findings in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Methods: Between 2012 and 2014, 150 patients with CKD.

Application of hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction and dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction techniques in analytical toxicology.

The recent developments in hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction and dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction are reviewed. Applications of these newly emerging developments in extraction and preconcentration of a vast category of compounds including heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and abused drugs in complex matrices (environmental and biological matrices) are reviewed and discussed. The new developments in these techniques including the use of solvents lighter than water, ionic liquids and supramolecular solvents are also considered.

Professionalism in residents of physical medicine and rehabilitation in Iran.

Professionalism is the foundation of trust on which the doctor-patient relationship is built. This study was performed to measure professionalism in Iranian physical medicine and rehabilitation residents as a baseline assessment tool for future studies. This was a descriptive study.

Hollow fibre-based liquid phase microextraction combined with high-performance liquid chromatography for the analysis of flavonoids in Echinophora platyloba DC. and Mentha piperita.

A simple, inexpensive and efficient three phase hollow fibre liquid phase microextraction (HF-LPME) technique combined with HPLC was used for the simultaneous determination of flavonoids in Echinophora platyloba DC. and Mentha piperita. Different factors affecting the HF-LPME procedure were investigated and optimised.

Use of hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction and HPLC for extraction and determination of apigenin in human urine after consumption of Satureja sahendica Bornm.

The applicability of hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction (HF-LPME) was evaluated for extraction and preconcentration of apigenin prior to its determination by HPLC. Different parameters affecting the HF-LPME recovery such as nature of organic solvent, pH of donor and acceptor phases, extraction time, stirring speed, salt addition were optimized. Under optimum conditions (1-octanol as organic solvent, pH of the donor phase=3 and pH of acceptor phase=11.

Simultaneous optimization of the resolution and analysis time of flavonoids in reverse phase liquid chromatography using Derringer's desirability function.

The chemometrics approach was applied for simultaneous optimization of resolution and analysis time of seven flavonoids in reverse phase liquid chromatography. Derringer's desirability function, a multi-criteria decision making method, was used for the evaluation of two different chromatographic performance goals including resolution and analysis time. The selected flavonoids belong to different classes of flavonoids including: flavonols (myricetin, morin, quercetin and kaempferol) flavones (apigenin and luteolin) and flavanones (naringenin).