Introduction. When receiving anesthesia, patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to experience perioperative difficulties than those without this diagnosis. Aim. The aims of the paper were to highlight the correlation between OSA and increased risk of perioperative complications and present possible complications and pathophysio...

By Zoran Stamenković, Lidija Ristić

Summary The main issue in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) represents the impossibility of the host immune response to express bactericidal function and the sterilization of lesions depends exclusively on the specific antimicrobial chemotherapy. In order to investigate the value of acute-phase inflammatory response markers in pa...

By Milan Radović, Tatjana Pejčić, Ivana Stanković, Lidija Ristić, Milan Rančić, Zorica Ćirić