The influence of psychoactive substances on nephrotoxicity of the kidneys
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
Sexual dimorphism of the mental foramen position in the population of southeast Serbia: A cone beam computed tomography study
Knowing the precise position of the mental foramen is of great clinical importance in dentistry due to significant anatomical structures that pass through this foramen. The aim of this study was to examine the sexual dimorphism of the horizontal and vertical position of the mental foramen in relation to constant anatomical landmarks in the populati...
By Antonije Stanković, Jelena Popović, Marija Daković-Bjelaković, Aleksandar Mitić, Nenad Stošić, Marija Nikolić
The influence of body composition on graft function in patients with transplanted kidney
Patients who undergo kidney transplantation can encounter significant changes in body composition because of weight gain caused by fat mass accumulation and muscle mass loss, resulting in poor graft outcomes. The study aimed to investigate the impact of different obesity parameters on graft function in kidney transplant recipients. A cross-sectiona...
By Zorica Dimitrijević, Ina Konstantinović, Jelena Ranđelović, Tamara Vrećić, Mina Cvetković, Karolina Paunović, Goran Paunović, Branka Mitić
Comparison of voice acoustic parameters in persons with organic voice disorders
Voice is an acoustic phenomenon that must be viewed multidimensionally. In the quantitative assessment of voice characteristics, the use of acoustic parameters becomes a necessary method of analysis. The aim of the paper is to examine whether there are differences in the acoustic parameters of the voice (the average value of the fundamental frequen...
By Ivana Ilić-Savić, Mirjana Petrović-Lazić
Association of the disease duration and administered therapy with metabolic syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
The aim of the paper was to examine the impact of disease duration and administered therapy on the development of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This study involved 55 patients (50 females and 5 males) with the diagnosis and 49 healthy controls of similar age. MetS was defined according to modified NC...
By Jovana Cvetković, Sonja Stojanović, Ivan Tasić, Bojana Stamenković, Jovan Nedović, Sanja Stojanović
Aesthetic appearance assessment in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis
Aesthetic appearance is one of the major concerns in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients and its improvement is one of the main treatment's goals. Poor trunk appearance is associated with reduced quality of life in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. To review instruments that have been created to evaluate poor trunk appearance in the...
By Vesna Živković, Lidija Dimitrijević, Hristina Čolović, Dragan Zlatanović, Marija Spalević, Nataša Savić
A case of bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation (Nora's lesion): A brief description
Nora's lesion or bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation is a rare benign bone neoplasm that is usually localized on the small bones of the hands. The paper was aimed at clinical, morphological and structural analysis of Nora's lesion case, the second registered in Ukraine. A 42-year-old male patient presented with complaints of painless...
By Borys Fylenko, Nataliia Roiko, Andriy Roiko, Іvan Starchenko, Dmytro Kuvichka, Volodymyr Koka
A correlation between body mass index and refractive errors
Body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (or pounds) divided by the square of height in meters (or feet). Obesity affects a wide spectrum of age groups, from the young to the elderly, and there are several eye diseases related to obesity like diabetic retinopathy, floppy eyelid syndrome, retinal vein occlusion, stroke-related vision ...
By Suzan Rattan, Abdulhadi Alrubaie, Send Salih, Sajad Abdalla, Sajad Hussein, Fatima Tariq
The effect of self-care training program based on digital health on the quality of life of burn patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed at evaluating the impact of self-care training programs based on digital health on the quality of life of burn patients. Electronic databases such as Science Direct, Medline/PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest, Google Scholar, and Cochrane library were searched independently by two research...
By Kolsoum Deldar, Farnoosh Khodabandelool, Mahdieh Arian, Seyed Hosseini, Razieh Froutan
Antimicrobial activity of chlorhexidine and cerium oxide nanoparticles composition
Antiseptics are non-specific antimicrobial drugs that are widely used in dentistry. The "gold standard" in periodontology is chlorhexidine digluconate (CHG). A widespread use of CHG-containing products for daily care in medicine and dentistry and other fields leads to acquiring resistance to CHG in microorganisms. A macro method of serial dilution ...
By Maksym Skrypnyk, Maiia Ananieva, Tatiana Petrushanko, Karine Neporada, Mykola Spivak