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

Congenital hypoplasia of the left atrial appendage (LAA) with stenotic ostium in an abnormal position is an extremely rare entity. We report an exceptional case of hypoplastic LAA with ostial stenosis in an abnormal location in the patient with mitral valve stenosis that was mistaken in the transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for an intraluminal...

By Feridoun Sabzi, Aghigh Heydari, Mohammad Rouzbahani, Atefeh Asadmobini

There are several definitions given by various anesthesiology professional organizations that explain the term procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA). The International Committee for the Advancement of PSA has defined procedural sedation as the use of anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics, analgesics and/or dissociative drugs to alleviate anxiety, pai...

By Šćepan Sinanović, Tanja Prodović, Olivera Milovanović, Saša Bubanj, Miljan Krstović, Srećko Potić, Jelena Sekulić, Danilo Jeremić

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with periods of remission and exacerbation. Numerous studies have been conducted in order to identify the ideal marker when it comes to the inflammatory bowel diseases. In the literature, fecal calprotectin is mentioned as a marker of inflammation. Elevated levels of calprotectin ca...

By Mladen Maksić, Tijana Veljković, Mirjana Cvetković, Marija Marković, Saša Perić, Olivera Marinković, Nataša Zdravković

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

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) represents a multisystemic disease characterized by antibody production, complement activation, and immune complexes deposition. Certain types of malignancies occur more often, and conversely, some of them occur less often in SLE patients. Mucosal melanoma of the anorectal region represents a rare form of melanoma...

By Aleksandar Popović, Ivan Petković, Andrija Rančić, Aleksandra Dimitrijević, Vesna Brzački, Stefan Stankov, Andrija Jović, Sonja Stojanović

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to significant public health problems, severe complications, and functional impairment in persons who have recovered from this disease. A 60-years-old male deconditioned patient was transferred from Corona 4 Center to the Center for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the University C...

By Vesna Grbović, Aleksandra Jurišić-Škevin, Nataša Marković, Kristina Mladenović, Marina Petrović-Stanković, Kristina Mitrović, Dejan Aleksić, Stefan Simović, Željko Todorović, Nataša Zdravković-Petrović

Diabetes is one of the most common diseases among hospitalized patients due to COVID-19. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the clinical characteristics of diabetic and non-diabetic patients with COVID-19 that may lead to death. A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted among patients admitted to hospitals due to COVID-19. The data, in...

By Mehrnaz Ahmadi, Javad Zarei, Ali Hadianfard, Touba Moghadam

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