Evaluation of Some Anatomical and Anthropometric Characteristics of the Chest Based on the Analysis of Digital Images of the Anterior Aspect of Trunk in Top Athletes The aim of this research was to assess the size and shape of the chest in students and top athletes. The research involved 23 first-year students of the Faculty of Sport and Physical E...

By Natalija Stefanović, Ivana Ćirić, Snežana Pavlović, Braca Kundalić, Saša Bubanj, Emilija Petković, Miloš Puletić, Vlada Antić

Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis is the surgical treatment of choice for patients with medically refractory ulcerative colitis, ulcerative colitis with dysplasia or cancer, or familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), regardless of their age. The aim of the paper was to report our 6-year experience of restorative proctocole...

By Gjorgji Jota, Zoran Karadžov, Milčo Panovski, Nenad Joksimović, Andrijan Kartalov, Radomir Gelevski, Vladimir Joksimović

Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is the most common nutritional disorder in the world and is more prevalent among the female population in developing countries compared to developed countries. IDA in India accounts for more than 51% among the adult women population. This condition in females with gynaecological ailments not only delays the elective su...

By Nirmala Lakkawar, Santoshi Sankaran, Thirupurasundari Rangaswamy

Quality and safety in the health sector go “hand in hand”, which means that both components are inseparably linked - quality improvement will often affect more security. Good quality services will be successfully implemented in organizations that already have a "quality culture", i.e., where the value system of employees is consistent w...

By Aleksandar Višnjić, Vladica Veličković, Slađana Jović

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

72 years-old woman suffered an open fracture of the right tibia, as a pedestrian, when the bus tires crossed over the right foot. She was immediately transported to the Clinical Center Niš and following clinical examination, the amputation of the lower leg was advised due to extensive injury. On admission to the hospital (Clinic for Orthoped...

By Ivan Golubović, Goran Stevanović, Predrag Stojiljković, Zoran Golubović, Danilo Stojiljković, Aleksandar Višnjić, Stevo Najman, Vera Baščarević, Milan Grubor

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

The naturally occurring polyamines, spermine, spermidine and the diamine putrescine are widespread in nature. They have been implicated in growth and differentiation processes. In 1967, we reported that cancer cells are rich in polyamines. Subsequently, it has been shown that polyamines are released from cancer cells and may be detected in body flu...

By Uriel Bachrach

In the recent years the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been an important public health hazard, especially in Serbia, a country with too many smokers. A common component of tobacco smoke is particulate matter less than 10μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10), which is considered to be the most dangerous air pollutant for health. Th...

By Maja Nikolić, Aleksandra Stanković, Ivana Mladenović Ćirić

Hair loss is not a common feature of secondary syphilis. There are two types of syphilitic alopecia: “symptomatic” type where hair loss is associated with other symptoms of secondary syphilis, and “essential” alopecia that is either patchy (“moth-eaten” type), diffuse pattern with a generalized thinning of the sc...

By Milan Bjekić