Preschool children are a particularly sensitive group in need of special care concerning health, safety, food, and nutrition. Furthermore, habits formed at an early age tend to be retained even in adulthood. Therefore, parents as the first educators of their children are responsible for the development of healthy eating habits and the quality of nu...

By Marija Marković, Zorica Stanisavljević-Petrović, Anastasija Mamutović

Alexithymia is manifested by limited abilities to identify and express emotions and is a possible risk factor for the onset and treatment of the disease. To determine the dependence of the presence of alexithymia in patients with chronic lung and heart diseases. One hundred respondents aged 35 to 75 participated in the research, 50% of whom were be...

By Marija Lazarević

Roughly six percent of all malignancies diagnosed in children are malignant bone tumors. They have a dramatic effect on psychological status of children and their families. The aim of the study was to analyze the clinico-pathological features of bone tumors in Iraqi children and to assess response to treatment, outcome, and survival. Over an eleven...

By Abbas Olewi, Hayder Al-Zubaidi, Manaf Ahmed, Zaid Al-Attar

Hepatitis A virus is a major cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide, with approximately 1.5 million cases annually. Clinical manifestations of the hepatitis A virus infection range from asymptomatic to acute liver failure. Cholestatic viral hepatitis A is a rare clinical manifestation characterized by a prolonged course, refractory pruritus, immi...

By Nemanja Đorđević, Predrag Čanović, Dejan Petrović, Nataša Minić, Željko Mijailović

Necrotizing soft tissue infections are actually the diseases with a severe outcome characterized by the progression of soft tissue inflammation with a catastrophic prognosis and the risk of major functional consequences. Only prompt diagnosis and prompt care, including prompt administration of appropriate antibiotic therapy and surgical treatment, ...

By Mladen Kasalović, Gojko Igrutinović, Zlatan Elek, Aleksandar Jakovljević, Nikola Miljković, Milica Milentijević

Cardiac metastasis of uterine cervical cancer diagnosed prior to mortality (antemortem) is extremely rare. 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 sustained ventricul...

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

The incidence of liver cancer is increasing globally. Fatty acids in lipid metabolism are associated with cancer risk by maintaining cancer cell membrane structure and transducing cancer signaling, and their increased synthesis promotes tumor growth, angiogenesis, and tumor metastasis. After identification of the ELOVL3 gene involved in fatty acid ...

By Yiyang Chen, Wanbang Zhou, Yiju Gon, Xi Ou

Acrania is a very rare lethal congenital malformation characterized by an absence of the cranial vault with developed cerebral hemispheres. It is sometimes confused with anencephaly in which both the forebrain and neurocranium are not developed. Although these two conditions principally differ in their morphology and pathogenesis, acrania may be a ...

By Vladimír Bartoš, Oľga Káčeríková

This present study focuses on the findings of clinical trials that have revealed unsatisfactory results and mortality escalation rates of patients suffering from serious traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The main objective of this research was to investigate whether hyperglycaemia is a significant indicator of mortality in patients with the diagnosis...

By Awatara Danta, Thirza Quila

The loss of the jaw bone, especially in the area of the alveolar process, can significantly complicate the procedure of prosthetic rehabilitation of prosthetic patients. The reason for the loss of the jaw bones are physiological and pathological processes. Bone replacements are widely used in the reconstruction of bone defects. The optimal characte...

By Marko Igić, Milena Kostić, Ana Pejčić, Nikola Gligorijević, Marija Jovanović, Nenad Stošić