The main issue in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) represents the impossibility of the host immune response to express bactericidal function and the sterilization of lesions depends exclusively on the specific antimicrobial chemotherapy. In order to investigate the value of acute-phase inflammatory response markers in patients with newly ...

By Milan Radović, Tatjana Pejčić, Ivana Stanković, Lidija Ristić, Milan Rančić, Zorica Ćirić

Spastic cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common type of CP. Up to 80% of all individuals with cerebral palsy suffer from some degree of spasticity. Spasticity adversely affects muscles and joints of the extremities, causing abnormal movements, and it is especially harmful in growing children. Several methods have been developed and used to assess sp...

By Lidija Dimitrijević, Hristina Čolović, Marija Spalević, Anita Stanković, Dragan Zlatanović, Bratislav Cvetković

Skin aging is a dynamic process that occurs due to chronological and photo-aging caused by the influence of external factors, especially ultraviolet-UV radiation. Cumulative oxidative stress, formation of free radicals and their adverse effects on biological systems in the skin cells is a common mechanism of both skin aging processes. The formed re...

By Dragana Stojiljković, Dušica Pavlović, Ivana Arsić

The sequence of precursor lesions for squamous cell carcinoma may be hyperplasia-metaplasia-dysplasia-carcinoma in situ. The aim of this study was to perform a karyometric analysis of squamous metaplasia, moderate dysplasia and squamous cell lung carcinoma. Bronchoscopic biopsies of normal mucosa in chronic bronchitis patients (n = 10), squamous me...

By Žaklina Mijović, Zoran Pešić, Nikola Živković, Tijana Denčić, Ana Ristić Petrović, Slavica Stojnev

Emergency hormonal contraception is used to prevent unintended pregnancy postcoitally. The mechanism of action of the most frequently used hormonal preparations for emergency contraception, levonorgestrel (LNG) and ulipristal acetate (UPA), is still not fully known, but clinical trials indicate that they act by inhibiting or delaying ovulation. LNG...

By Jelena Milosavljević, Katarina Ilić, Dušanka Krajnović

Bone marrow involvement is rare in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Its incidence varies with respect to risk factors from 4% to 14%. Low risk patients do not need trephine biopsy according to some research. In the era of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) staging prior to therapy, the role of trephine biopsy as a part of...

By Ivan Petković, Miljan Krstić, Slavica Stojnev, Ivica Pejčić, Svetislav Vrbić

The presence of diabetes mellitus leads to a decrease in life quality in all domains. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) in diabetic patients and the factors affecting it in type 2 diabetic mellitus patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study that included 86 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, in the territory of...

By Ana Spasić, Radmila Veličković Radovanović, Aleksandra Catić Đorđević, Nikola Stefanović, Tatjana Cvetković

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

The aim of this study was to show the influence of various risk factors on early postoperative complications following surgery for Crohn’s disease (CD). In this review, an online internet database was searched, and also systematic review of the literature was performed. Three different studies from different countries were analyzed and compar...

By Vladimir Joksimović, Aleksandar Karagjozov, Gjorgi Jota, Ilija Milev, Radomir Gelevski

While there is a large number of scientific papers reporting chemical composition and biological activities of Aronia melanocarpa, there is a lack information regarding the commercially available bagged tea. In order to supply new information on the antioxidant activity of the Aronia melanocarpa tea infusions, the aim of this study was to evaluate ...

By Jovana Veljković, Jelena Brcanović, Aleksandra Pavlović, Snežana Mitić, Biljana Kaličanin, Milan Mitić