Sleep disturbance is a frequent complaint of patients suffering from arterial hypertension (AH) for a long time. A hidden and uncontrolled increase in blood pressure (BP) makes the course of physiological processes more difficult, disrupts the regulation of biological rhythms, and increases the risk of cardiovascular complications even with a short...

By Mikhail Osadchuk, Inna Vasilieva, Ekaterina Mironova, Nikolay Korzhenkov, Maxim Trushin

Lemon balm has been used for centuries due to its strong sedative, antimicrobial and spasmolytic effects. Besides different types of extracts and essential oils, hydrolates (by-products obtained during essential oil extraction) are preparations of aromatic medicinal plants with potential pharmacological activity. To estimate Melissa officinalis lea...

By Nikola Stojanović, Sara Mladenović, Bogdan Stojiljković, Aleksandar Marković, Dragana Pavlović, Pavle Ranđelović, Jelena Zvezdanović, Ljiljana Stanojević

Medicinal plants are the main ingredient of numerous medicines and pharmaceutical products, and antimicrobial activity has been demonstrated in a large number of medicinal plant extracts and essential oils. Considering that Verbascum L. species (mullein), officially approved by the European Medicines Agency, show antimicrobial properties, but also ...

By Maja Grigorov, Dragana Pavlović, Snežana Mladenović-Antić, Marija Tasić-Kostov, Dušan Ilić

Chronic granulomatous invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (CGIFRS) is an extremely rare form of invasive fungal sinusitis. The disease has a long-lasting and indolent course, so the invasion and destruction in the sinonasal and adjacent regions is progressing slowly. This disease has been reported primarily in Middle East, North Africa, India and Pakist...

By Milica Labus, Jelena Sotirović, Biserka Vukomanović-Đurđević, Aleksandar Perić

Healthcare workers are increasingly exposed to long-term traumatic events in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a study that included 100 healthcare workers and 50 healthy individuals. We used the Perceived Stress Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and Global Patient Impression for Improvement in the assessment of the psy...

By Dmytro Boiko, Oksana Mats, Liliia Zhyvotovska, Larysa Herasymenko, Andrii Skrypnikov

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases. It is an uncontrollable neuronal activity of different parts of the brain leading to convulsion and/or fainting. Although epileptic seizure control and therapeutics have significant advances, 20% -30% of individuals still have uncontrolled seizures. Patients under the medication's control ar...

By Moghadam Zahedi, Rabi Atabaki, Hossein Khaleghzadeh-Ahangar

Vernix caseosa peritonitis (VCP) is a rare postpartum complication rarely recognized by clinicians despite an increased incidence of cesarean sections. A 23-year-old patient, who had not had any prior medical examination during pregnancy and with preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM), gave birth by cesarean section. On the 4th day afte...

By Dejan Mihajlović, Novica Đoković, Leonida Vitković, Nenad Šulović, Milica Mijović

The lateral medullary syndrome is a neurological disease caused by ischemia in the lateral part of the medulla oblongata and is the most common form of brainstem infarction. Dysphagia is a common and clinically significant symptom of this disease because it is closely associated with the risk of recurrent pneumonia, malnutrition, dehydration, and a...

By Mile Vuković, Mirna Zelić

The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is higher than in those without this infection. Sexual dysfunction in HIV-infected people is associated with adverse outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the predictors of sexual function in people infected with HIV. This cross-sectional study was d...

By Fatemeh Dadgar, Zeinab Moshfeghy, Roksana Janghorban, Marziyeh Doostfatemeh

For the first time, we evaluated and presented the socio-demographic characteristics, clinical manifestations and laboratory findings of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients from Canton Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This retrospective, single-centre study included 159 RT-PCR verified COVID-19 patients (92 mild/moderate; 67 ...

By Anela Šubo, Amela Dervišević, Zulejha Omerbašić, Muhamed Zeid, Selma Spahić, Almir Fajkić, Damir Suljević