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

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

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

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

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

It is not enough just to do mammography, but perform a quality one. American Association of Radiologists (American College of Radiology - ACR) introduced a unique and a standard terminology in radiological diagnosis of breast disease calling it the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System or abbreviated BIRADS. The aim of the paper is to present a ...

By Rade Babić