The aim of this study was to investigate problems with the administration of antipsychotic long-acting injections (LAIs) in patients with schizophrenia. Besides many benefits, long-acting injections have been associated with a number of complications at the site of the injection. The qualitative study included four medical workers and five patients...

By Anica Ranković, Slobodan Janković

Organ transplantation is specific medical procedure which is used as a way of treatment. Transplantation is often the only way of curing a patient. Today, hundreds of people in the world live successfully with donor organs, and transplantations as medical interventions are performed routinely. In Europe, about 10,000 patients are saved annually by ...

By Svetlana Milijić, Aleksandar Nikolić

Nursing students are more susceptible to sleep disturbances. The dormitory life also decreases the quality of their sleep. Due to the restriction of the use of drugs for the management of sleep disorders, the study was conducted to investigate the effect of aromatherapy with Citrus aurantium essence on the sleep quality among nursing students. In t...

By Sareh Shamsipour, Mohammad Hassan Sahebihagh, Hossein Ebrahimi, Asghar Mohammadpoorasl, Hossein Namdar Areshtanab

Oral anticoagulants, vitamin K antagonists (varfarin and acenocoumarol), are widely used for primary and secondary prevention of thromboembolic events. Previous studies have shown that patients had a low level of knowledge on warfarin, especially its interactions with food. The study was aimed at the development, reliability testing and validation ...

By Katarina V. Tomašević, Slobodan Janković

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of an adapted basketball training program on the cardiorespiratory fitness and sport skills performance of adolescents with mental retardation (MR). Fifty adolescents with mild MR who participated in this study were divided in two groups. Experimental group (n = 25; mean ± SD age: 15.7 &plu...

By Miodrag Kocić, Ivana Bojić, Marko Aleksandrović, Aleksandar Ignjatović, Dragan Radovanović

Papillary carcinoma of the breast is an extremely rare form of breast carcinoma in males. We report a case of an 83-year-old man who presented with a retroareolar palpable mass, associated with bloody nipple discharge. Cytological characteristics were rare clusters and papillary formations with enlarged hyperchromatic nuclei, surrounded by erythroc...

By Vuka Katić, Danijela Radojković, Zoran Radovanović, Ivan Nagorni, Andrija Jović, Maja Nedić

In the pediatric age group, most cases of syncope represent benign, neutrally-mediated alterations in vasomotor tone. Due to the global cerebral hypoperfusion, syncope is defined as a transient loss of consciousness followed by spontaneous recovery and/or a state of presyncope, including dizziness, lightheadedness, pallor, diaphoresis and palpitati...

By Ljiljana Pejčić, Marija Ratković Janković, Radmila Mileusnić-Milenović, Karin Vasić, Ivana Nikolić

Fear of needles can significantly limit professional and social functioning of a person, and is highly prevalent in general population (4%). The aim of our study was to reveal risk factors that are associated with fear of needles among healthy university students of medicine and pharmacy. The study was of a cross-sectional type. In total, 301 stude...

By Boban Milovanović, Dušan Tomović, Slobodan M. Janković, Iva Grubor, Ljiljana Nikolić, Miloš Nikolić, Marina Mijajlović, Strahinja Mrvić, Ana Divjak, Andjela Milojević, Jelena Djoković, Andjelka Prokić, Andriana Bukonjić, Marija Sekulić, Vesna Matić, Djordje Vukmirović, Bojan Rakonjac, Tanja Dimitrijević, Nataša Nikolić, Dragutin Jovanović, Jelena Milovanović, Marija Ratković, Nevena Barudžić, Nenad Mladenović, Milan Milutinović, Ana Antanasković, Milena Nikolić

Cardiac rehabilitation is an integral part of the complex therapy of cardiac patients. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of dynamic exercise and dynamic resistance training on exertion tolerance, muscle strength of the upper and lower extremities, and respiratory index in patients after surgical coronary revascularization. The study...

By Slavica Kozomara, Ivana Krstić

The open field test is being used extensively for the determination of different aspects of animal behaviour for over seventy years. The correlation between different behavioural parameters obtained in this test, although previously studied, is still debatable. Thus, we aimed to analyze and correlate behaviour scores to estimate the importance of i...

By Nikola M. Stojanović, Pavle J. Randjelović, Niko S. Radulović