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. The study involved 1,697 patients referred to the CVR program after s...

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

Heart failure is the leading public health concern as its prevalence increases and the cost of care increases dramatically due to poor prognosis. Ineffective disease management can increase morbidity and lead to repeated hospitalizations. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the care needs of patients treated for heart failure. The da...

By Tahere Zahedifard, Khadijeh Mirzaei-Najmabadi, Talat Khadivzadeh, Ali Vafaee-Najar, Marzieh Lotfalizadeh

Patients with a fluent type of aphasia have semantically poor discourse, which is often uninformative for the interlocutor, having consequences for their daily life. One of the treatment methods used in clinical practice is the semantic feature analysis (SFA). The aim of this study was to determine the impact of this treatment method on the content...

By Tanja Milovanović, Mile Vuković, Sindi Mitrović

Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare metabolic disorder of the hem biosynthetic pathway that can cause severe neurological symptoms involving the central, autonomic and peripheral nervous system. Diagnosis may be delayed due to variable symptoms that can mimic other diseases. A 23-year-old woman with abdominal pain, constipation, progressive deve...

By Stefan Todorović, Gordana Đorđević, Andrija Rančić, Dejan Aleksić

Hemophilia A is an antihemophilic factor deficiency which requires life-long treatment. The aim of this analysis was to present the effects of prophylactic non-factor replacement therapy in ten patients with hemophilia A. This retrospective analysis was conducted on ten male patients (4 children, 1 adolescent, and 5 adults) with severe hemophilia A...

By Miodrag Vučić, Božidar Lilić, Danijela Jovančić-Petković, Jelena Vučić

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had significant acute and long-term impact on people's health. As the available literature sources have shown that the premorbid conditions affect the course of COVID-19, we aimed to investigate the role of admission vitamin D concentration to predict the outcome of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. An...

By Dunja Božić, Đorđe Stevanović, Mina Poskurica, Marina Petrović

Collision tumors occur when two tumors of different histological origin develop simultaneously at the same site, such as sarcoma and carcinoma combinations, carcinoma and lymphoma combinations, or others. Notably, collision tumors are less common in the lungs compared to other organs. A 65-year-old woman with a history of surgically and chemotherap...

By Džemila Alić, Marina Marković, Slobodanka Mitrović, Milena Ilić, Ajtana Bajrović, Jelena Savić, Marija Spasojević, Dalibor Jovanović

There is a cause-and-effect relationship between stress, sleep disorders and emotional brain function. Insufficient quality and duration of sleep can trigger or exacerbate anxiety in an individual. The study aims to assess the scores for sleep disorders and the level of stress depending on typological features of state and trait anxiety in patients...

By Anastasiia Zhyvotovska, Dmytro Boiko, Lesya Bodnar, Yurii Kozar, Yanina Martynenko, Rustam Isakov

The metabolism and effects of the abuse of psychoactive substances are not yet fully understood, but it is evident that they represent a tremendous risk to the health of individuals. This paper aims to present a review of published results on the impact of psychoactive substance abuse on kidney function. PubMed and MEDLINE databases were used to se...

By Radojica Stolić, Marija Milić, Vekoslav Mitrović, Andrijana Karanović, Kristina Bulatović, Dragiša Rašić, Milica Mirović, Branka Mitić

Introduction/Aim. Keloid is a benign proliferative lesion of the dermal connective tissue. It is a challenging clinical problem, despite multiple therapies reported until now. The aim of the study was to determine the efficacy of intralesional methotrexate in the treatment of keloid in comparison to intralesional triamcinolone. Methods. This is an ...

By Mohammed Abbas, Athraa Ali, Zaid Al-Attar