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

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

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

Symptoms of bladder dysfunction are significant public health problem due to their prevalence, morbidity and treatment costs. Most stem from bladder control problem which is governed by the brain, yet we know little about CNS and bladder. Advances in brain imaging technology have brought new insight in how brain works in different bladder diseases ...

By Staša Tadić