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

The application of anthracycline and trastuzumab in adjuvant breast cancer treatment approach has significantly improved the survival of patients, but also carries the risk of cardiotoxicity that is manifested by reducing the ejection fraction of the heart. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of cumulative anthracycline dose in combi...

By Ivana Krstić, Marina Deljanin Ilić, Svetislav Vrbić, Ivica Pejčić

Leech therapy is likely to cause symptomatic relief in migraine headache sufferers, but there is little clinical data in this field. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of leech therapy in the management of migraine headaches. This is a quasi-experimental pilot study with a three-month post-treatment follow-up. Twenty-six patients wit...

By Mahmoud Bakhshi, Babak Jalalian, Maryam Valian, Saeide Shariati, Tahere Saeidi, Hossein Ranjbar

The aim of the paper was to investigate the tissue response to the implantation of "Endomethasone" (Septodont) in artificially prepared defect in the rat mandible. Sixteen Wistar male rats were used for the experiment. After anesthesia, a defect between the midline and the mental foramen of the left mandible was made (diameter 1.4 mm, 1.6 mm depth)...

By Marija Nikolić, Jovanka Gašić, Aleksandar Mitić, Jelena Popović, Aleksandra Radovanović, Radomir Barac

Publication ethics has always been a major concern of chief editors and members of editorial boards of journals. Therefore, the current study intends to investigate ethical issues in sticking to publication ethics in major medical journals in Iran. This descriptive analytical study was conducted on Iranian medical journals approved as “scient...

By Mohsen Koushan, Akbar Pejhan, Nematullah Shomoossi, Azam Shomoossi

The aim of the survey was to present the clinical course and surgical treatment of the first case of human ocular dirofilariosis on the territory of the city of Niš, in the southeast Serbia. Male patient, 57 years old, visited an ophthalmologist because of extreme swelling and redness of the eyelids of the right eye, scratches and pain in hi...

By Marija Trenkić Božinović, Branislav Tomašević, Simona Gabrielli, Suzana Otašević, Aleksandar Petrović, Gabriella Cancrini, Aleksandar Tasić, Milan Trenkić

The aim of this paper was to determine the trend of diseases and epidemiological characteristics of viral antigen carrying of hepatitis B for better implementation of prevention and control of the disease activity. The annual reports, reports of diseases - deaths from infectious diseases, epidemiological survey of the Public Health Institute (IPH) ...

By Marina Kostić, Biljana Kocić, Nataša Rančić

Evaluation is the most important field of efficacy in clinical education. Since knowledge of the current situation is one of the most essential requirements for planning a desirable one and students' and tutors' viewpoints act as a facilitator in this regard, we conducted this study to compare the current and desirable situation of clinical evaluat...

By Farzaneh Jafarnejad, Bibi Leila Hoseini, Seyed Reza Mazloum

Anal sphincter injuries are rare and usually related to obstetric injuries. Other more frequent causes of a violent injury of the anal muscles (including the rectum) are war injuries, violent civil injuries, iatrogenic injuries during surgeries, sexual injuries and accidental injuries. Accidental injuries are extremely rare and, searching Medline, ...

By Momčilo Stošić