Teratomas constitute a group of nongerminomatous germ cell tumors that are composed of an admixture of different tissue types representative of ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm. Intracranial teratomas are rare, comprising approximately 0.5% of all intracranial tumors. They preferentially involve the midline structures, and occur primarily in childre...

By Irena Dimov, Desanka Tasić, Ivana Stojanović, Simonida Stojanović, Nebojša Stojanović, Ivan Stefanović, Dragan Dimov

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important worldwide public health problem and stroke represents a continuously evolving medical and social problem. Renal dysfunction carries a substantial risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, the risk increases with a decline in kidney function. In the last 15 years the link between CKD and cerebrovas...

By Radovan Hojs, Tanja Hojs Fabjan

The degree of patient cooperation plays a key role in the success of antihypertensive drug therapy. Non-adherence is the major health and economic problem in the treatment of arterial hypertension (HTA). The aim of the study was to evaluate the degree of adherence in hypertensive patients and to study risk factors affecting adherence and the effect...

By Jelena Lalić, Radmila Veličković Radovanović, Branka Mitić, Valentina Nikolić, Ana Spasić, Goran Koraćević

Nutrition plays a very important role in every physical fitness program. Despite many advances in nutritional knowledge and dietary practices, sports nutrition-associated issues are still a challenge. The aim of this study was to determine and compare nutritional knowledge and behavior among the youth practicing sports situated in two different Eur...

By Gabriele Trabucco, Maja Nikoić, Bojana Vuković Mirković

The incidence of preinvasive changes in the cervix is constantly rising. It is particularly alarming that there is a larger number of younger patients in whom some stage of these changes has been diagnosed or who had already received some type of treatment before. Technological development and improvement of various forms of treatment have lead to ...

By Radomir Živadinović, Goran Lilić, Aleksandra Petrić, Vekoslav Lilić, Biljana Đorđević

Panic disorder is characterized by spontaneous and unexpected occurrence of panic attacks, the frequency of which can vary from several attacks per day to only a few attacks per year. Panic disorder is usually qualified with the presence or absence of agoraphobia. Panic disorder with agoraphobia is an anxious disorder where repeated attacks of fear...

By Lidija Panevska

Telemedicine represents interactive audio-visual communication between doctors and their patients. The Center for Telemedicine in Kosovska Mitrovica organizes and manages the process of teleconsultation using the computer-medical system XPA3 Online. This paper explains the procedure of posting teleconsultation requests by doctors, consultation seek...

By Dejan Dubovina, Branko Mihailović, Biljana Vujičić, Saša Tabaković, Vladimir Matvijenko, Dušan Živković

On the basis of the Law on Medicines and Medical Devices of the Republic of Serbia, a magistral medicine means a medicine prepared in the pharmacy according to a prescription (formula) for an individual patient - user. In practice, the more need is for ex tempore production of vaginal preparations in the pharmacy and galenic laboratory. Due to the ...

By Milica Stanković, Vesna Savić, Valentina Marinković

The study represents a review of most common pathologic microorganisms with persistent lung infiltrates in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of paediatric patients. The aim of the paper was to present the results of bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage in children with persistent lung infiltrates and most common pathologic microorganisms isolated...

By Amina Selimović, Tatjana Pejčić, Milan Rančić, Ermina Mujičić, Kasim Bajrović

The high incidence of premalignant lesions of the cervix in our country and worldwide was the primary aim for conducting this study so as to establish whether HPV16, smoking and coitarche (first intercourse) are significant factors in the developmental stages of cervical dysplasia in the case of which the conization is a surgical treatment of choic...

By Goran Dimitrov, Elena Džikova, Gligor Dimitrov, Gjorgji Babushku, Vesna Antovska