Introduction/Aim. Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CVR) is of utmost importance in primary and (especially) in secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of our paper was to examine whether elderly patients with CAD benefit equally from CVR program as CAD patients of younger age. Methods. The study involved 1,697 patients referred...

By Milovan Stojanović, Marija Stanković, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Aleksa Vuković, Jelena Igrutinović-Novković, Igor Igić, Stevan Ilić, Dejan Petrović

Introduction. Cardiac metastasis of uterine cervical cancer diagnosed prior to mortality (antemortem) is extremely rare. Case report. A female patient 49 years old was brought to the Emergency Department of the Institute for Treatment and Rehabilitation Niška Banja in cardiac arrest, without a pulse and blood pressure. An electrocardiogram revealed...

By Milovan Stojanović, Bojan Ilić, Dragan Marinković, Sandra Šarić, Dejan Hristov, Marina Deljanin-Ilić

Introduction. Since 1999 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been used to measure the amount of glucose in the interstitial fluid. CGM is crucial when it comes to developing the ambulatory glucose profile and giving information on time spent in range (TIR), percentage of time spent above and below range, as well as variability. Discussion. It w...

By Milovan Stojanović, Milica Pešić, Stevan Ilić, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Vojislav Ćirić

Aim. To evaluate the influence of exercise training on inflammatory markers and exercise tolerance in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. Patients and methods. A total of 54 subjects were enrolled in the present study, including 34 CAD patients (CAD group: 59.2 ± 8.2 years) and 20 healthy controls (C group: 54.2 ± 8.0 years). C reactive protein...

By Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Gordana Kocić, Gordana Lazarević, Dejan Simonović, Milovan Stojanović, Stevan Ilić, Branka Đorđević, Dejan Petrović, Sanja Stojanović

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which occurs in about 15% of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), is a progressive vasculopathy and despite modern therapeutic options is still one of the leading causes of death in these patients. We presented a patient diagnosed with the overlap syndrome (systemic sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis) with ...

By Ivana Aleksić, Sandra Šarić, Bojan Ilić, Sonja Stojanović, Marina Deljanin-Ilić

The aim of the paper was to examine the echocardiographic parameters of the right ventricle (RV), its diameter and pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP); to determine their relationship to B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), troponin and (TnI) and high-sensititity C-raective protein (hsCRP), and to evaluate their prognostic significance to one-year morta...

By Dejan Petrović, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Sanja Stojanović, Dejan Simonović, Dijana Stojanović, Valentina Mitić, Milovan Stojanović

Oxidative stress, as one of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in the reduction of myocardial contractility, stimulates the proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts and the activation of matrix metalloproteinases, which leads to extracellular matrix remodeling. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a well-known independent risk factor for cardi...

By Sandra Šarić, Tatjana Cvetković, Dejan Petrović, Valentina Mitić, Sanja Stojanović, Vladana Stoiljković, Marina Deljanin-Ilić

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By Dejan Simonović, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Gordana Kocić, Gordana Lazarević, Branka Đorđević, Sandra Šarić, Sanja Stojanović, Stevan Ilić

Summary Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanogenic congenital heart defect. The diagnosis is based on clinical signs, ECG examination, ultrasound examination of the heart, additional imaging methods and invasive testing. The therapeutic approach to the patient with tetralogy is complex and based on conservative and radical methods. Patients ...

By Milovan Stojanović, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Aleksa Vuković, Dejan Petrović