SUMMARY Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a disease of predominantly young population, while in the elderly it occurs as a rare neoplasm. Elderly patients (age >60 years) represent a significant problem because of the inability to apply effective aggressive chemiotherapy in these cases. The risk of induction death is very high and unacceptible. Main...

By Ivan Petković, Dragan Mihailović, Miljan Krstić, Ivica Pejčić, Svetislav Vrbić, Mirjana Balić

Summary Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) develop complications including coronary artery disease (CAD), which is the leading cause of mortality in this group of patients. One of the diagnostic modalities for early detection of myocardial ischemia in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with DM is myocardial perfusion tomography (MPI). ...

By Miloš Stević, Marina Vlajković, Goran Koraćević, Radivoj Kocić, Milena Rajić, Slobodan Ilić

Summary Sex education is aimed at equipping individuals with sex-related information, motivation, and behavioral skills that will enable them to avoid sex-related problems and to achieve sexual well-being. Safer sex promotion and condom promotion and distribution programmes have grown significantly since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Cond...

By Biljana Kocić, Marina Kostić, Tatjana Cagulović

Summary Pain is a worldwide health disorder causing depression and decrease in daily activities, as well as cognitive, memory and attention impairments. In this regard, mucosal contact headache is a second type of headache disorder in the International Classification of Headache Disorders. Some studies have reported that contact points may wor...

By Seyyed Abdollah Madani, Seyyed Abbas Hashemi, Seyyed Amirhosein Morshedzadeh

Summary The influence of social changes in transitional country and transitional times, among other things, have made changes in the structure of the patients seeking psychotherapeutic treatment. However, there has not been any research studying characteristics of patients in psychotherapeutic treatment. The aim of our study was to establish s...

By Ljiljana Samardžić

Summary Nurses among other medical professions are expected and need to communicate in English. The present study will report the views of nurses and students of nursing on the efficacy of English programs at Iranian medical universities in three major areas: general usage, medical usage, and research usage. This descriptive study included...

By Nematullah Shomoossi, Mostafa Rad, Mohammad Hasan Rakhshani

Summary A war wound to the proximal humerus is characterised by profuse bleeding, multifragmentary fracture-dislocations, defects of the muscle tissue, capsule, skin and by primary contamination with polymorphic bacterial flora, and it is rarely isolated. Out of 27 injured people, subluxation/dislocation of the humeral head occured in the f...

By Predrag Grubor, Milorad Mitković, Milan Grubor, Milan Mitković

Summary The first line of defence in parasitic infection is the innate immune system. On the other hand, adaptive immune system posseses numerous mechanisams of hummoral and cellular immunity. Cellular immunity in a helminth infection is characterised by Th2 immune response. Considering the fact that the aim of a parasite is not to kill it...

By Dragan Zdravković, Jovana Kostić, Jelena Radović, Aleksandar Kostić, Milena Potić Floranović, Ana Ristić Petrović, Aleksandra Ignjatović, Aleksandar Tasić, Nataša Miladinović Tasić, Suzana Otašević

Summary The reason of prostate cancer is the mutation in the prostate cell. The present study was aimed at determining the effects of different concentrations of vitamin D on the anti-proliferative action of 24,25(OH)2D3 applied on LNCaP (cell line of human prostate cancer) cells. It was evident from the results that vitamin D having concentra...

By Ahmad Humayan Kabir, Ferdhos Khan, Mamunur Rashid Sarkar

Summary The interaction between non-English authors of medical articles and translators can be considered as a key component in perfect rendering of the content. In the era of rapid spread of research findings throughout the world, some researchers with little knowledge of English look for translation and editing services in order to share the...

By Nematullah Shomoossi