Lower airways are sterile, but many researchers have reported the existence of bronchial colonization with pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms in smokers and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the existence and type of bronchial colonization in patients with no...

By Ana Stojanović

Stress is defined as a state in which homeostasis, as a dynamic balance of internal conditions necessary for the proper functioning of cells or the living organism as a whole, is affected by the action of various stressors. Stress reaction occurs as a result of stress system activities, which is located in the central and peripheral nervous system....

By Nedeljka Ivković, Đorđe Božović, Maja Račić, Dijana Popović-Grubač, Brankica Davidović

Salicylic acid is a phytochemical with beneficial effects on human well-being. Salicylic acid is a phenolic compound and is present in various plants where it has a vital role in protection against pathogenic agents. Natural sources include fruits, vegetables and spices. The most famous and defined effect of salicylic acid is prostaglandin synthesi...

By Pavle Randjelović, Slavimir Veljković, Nenad Stojiljković, Dušan Sokolović, Ivan Ilić, Darko Laketić, Dušica Randjelović, Nebojša Randjelović

Smoking has many harmful effects on human body. It is well known that smoking is one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Though the ingredients from cigarette smoke stimulate the release of vasoconstrictor and reduce the release of vasodilator substances, the goal of this study was to investigate the acute effects of smo...

By Ana Mrkaić, Suzana Branković, Pavle Randjelović, Milica Veljković, Ivan Pavlović, Mirjana Radenković

Herein we present a 25-year-old female patient with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). This congenital heart defect is not very common, but it is the most common one among cyanotic heart defects. Treatment of the patients with TF is surgical, with palliative or curative (corrective) intent. Our patient underwent palliative surgery, definitive correction, a...

By Jovana Cvetković, Dragan Đ Đorđević, Milan Šljivić, Marina Deljanin Ilić

The present study aimed to examine the factors affecting the possible changes in serum fetuin-A in patients with preeclampsia (PE). The examined factors included the parameters of insulin resistance (IR) [(insulin sensitivity (HOMA%S), insulin resistance (HOMA2IR), and beta-cell functions (HOMA%B)], which were calculated using the HOMA2 calculator,...

By Hussein Kadhem Al-Hakeim, Roaa Ali Muhammed Ali

Universities play a vital role in social progress. Knowledge management (KM) is a kind of process which transforms data into knowledge and knowledge into capital. The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of KM in the field of education of medical sciences in order to help educators and students benefit from the knowledge present in the field...

By Zahra Marzieh Hassanian, Mohammad Reza Ahanchian, Hossein Karimi-Moonaghi

The English language is undoubtedly lingua franca of contemporary globalised world. Besides its widespread use in official communication among different countries, it has also huge impact within the borders of one country as well. Taking into account the fact that nowadays it represents the basic communicative tool in the field of medical science i...

By Nataša Milosavljević, Zorica Antić

Many of the children referred to the emergency complain of head trauma. Children usually require sedition to reduce their failure and fear because of high activity and fear of performing computed tomography (CT). Dexmedetomidine and Midazolam belong to short-acting drugs for this purpose. This study aimed to compare the effect of the above mentione...

By Adel Hosseini, Shamila Noori, Abolfazl Mostafavi, Ali Sharami, Seyyed Abbas Hashemi, Hojjat Derakhshanfar, Farzad Bozorgi

Economic evaluations in health economics are analytical methods used for the analysis of costs and consequences of two or more alternative health programs or interventions. These analyses involve identification, measurement, evaluation and comparison of costs and consequences. Whenever there are two alternative health programs or treatments that le...

By Vladica Veličković, Aleksandar Višnjić, Jovan Mihajlović