Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a common cause of reduced cardiac capacity and functional status of a patient. Successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) in acute coronary syndrome and appropriate, complex cardiovascular rehabilitation play a major role in preserving left ventricular function and improvement of prognosis and ...

By Dejan Petrović, Marina Deljanin Ilić, Sanja Stojanović, Viktor Stoičkov

By introduction of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) in de novo acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) an revolution in therapy of this disease has been made. The rate of molecular complete remissions (CR) have been doubled compared to conventional chemotherapy with anthracyclines ranging from 90% to 95%. Consolidation therapy is required in order to redu...

By Ivan Petković, Ivica Pejčić, Svetislav Vrbić

Eye infections can be caused by metazoans - helminths and for long this parasitosis was believed to spread only in tropical regions of the world. Lately, mostly subconjunctival infections of adults or immature forms of D. repens, which is nematoda-filaria of canids, have been described and the man is just an accidental host. The genus Thelazia (Spi...

By Suzana Otašević, Marija Trenkić Božinović, Aleksandar Tasić, Aleksandar Petrović

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

The aim of the paper was to determine the disease trends and characteristics of anti-HCV antibody carrier status for the purpose of better prevention and disease control. The materials used were annual reports, reports of diseases and deaths from infectious diseases, and epidemiological surveys of the Public Health Institute Niš in the perio...

By Marina Kostić, Biljana Kocić, Lidija Popović Dragonjić

In recent years, medical studies in English have been organized at the Niš Faculty of Medicine. Thus, modern teaching approaches are required. It has been shown that there are many similarities between the two fields - English and medicine. As a result, it is believed that the methods and strategies used in teaching medical English language ...

By Zorica Antić, Nataša Milosavljević

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 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 concentrations of 10-9...

By Ahmad Humayan Kabir, Ferdhos Khan, Mamunur Rashid Sarkar

Since the time of Freud’s “Project for psychology as natural science” in 1895, at the dawn of psychoanalysis as the theory and therapy, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in general have been attempting to establish and develop their biological roots. Numerous external and internal limitations and resistances have been limiting and ...

By Ljiljana Samardžić, Gordana Nikolić

People with metabolic syndrome (MetSy) are about twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease and over four times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to subjects without metabolic syndrome. Waist circumferences (WC) and body mass index (BMI) are useful screening tools for making the diagnosis. MetSy has increased the health risk in p...

By Veroslava Stanković, Svetlana Stojanović, Nađa Vasiljević