Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is the first non-invasive imaging technique that allows the evaluation of the lumen and walls of the coronary arteries. The sensitivity in defining significant stenosis (>50% caliber reduction) is 93% for the evaluation of single vessels. This is a method for determination of the so-called Calcium s...

By Dejan Hristov, Marina Deljanin Ilić, Katarina Marković, Sanja Stojanović

Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are the most common vascular malformations in the brain, and occur at a rate of approximately 0.6 per 100.000 people. Recognized as familial or sporadic cases, CCMs are characterized as single or multiclusters of enlarged capillary-like channels with a single layer of endothelium and without intervening brain...

By Anuška V. Anđelković

The geriatric population i.e. the elderly population is comprised of people older than 65, or, according to some authors, older than 75, which is relative, given the fact that there is often a  mismatch between an individual’s biological age and chronological age. Aging is a rather complex process during which various changes occur ...

By Tatjana Pejčić, Ivanka Đorđević, Ivana Stanković, Desa Nastasijević Borovac, Tatjana Rađenović Petković

The aim of this study is to present the importance of pharmacologic therapy in an early prevention of bleeding and rebleeding from the oesophageal varices in patients with portal hypertension. Three hundred and fifteen patients with liver cirrhosis have been evaluated and diagnosed in the University Clinic of Gastroenterohepatology. In the evaluati...

By Nenad Joksimović, Vladimir Andreevski, Magdalena Genadieva, Meri Trajkovska

Numerous comorbidities are frequently associated with asthma and may influence the clinical expression and severity of asthma. The aim of our study was to determine the presence and prevalence of other diseases in children with asthma, both of allergic and non-allergic origin. The study included 974 non - hospital patients, of whom 669 had asthma, ...

By Sanja Dimitrijević, Snežana Živanović, Ljiljana Šaranac

Prepositions and prepositional phrases play an important role in the professional medical register in English and they are very abundant. Realization of the prepositions in medical texts could cause difficulties to non-native English language speakers scientists. The subject of this paper is prepositions with their meanings (single and multiple). P...

By Slobodanka Krulj, Bojana Prodanović, Stevan Trbojević

The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of hysteroscopy for identifying abnormal findings in uterine cavities of pre- and postmenopausal women presented with abnormal uterine bleeding and to correlate the hysteroscopic with histological findings. The study involved 239 female patients referred to the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics...

By Sonja Pop Trajković Dinić, Vesna Kopitović, Vladimir Antić, Snežana Stamenović, Dejan Mitić, Jelena Milošević

Severe pathologic resorption of the mandible may result in weakening of the jaw, unstable dentures, abnormal functions of mastication and speech, and a marked reduction of the facial and vertical dimension. This clinical report describes the rehabilitation of a severely resorbed mandible treated with mini dental implants and an iliac bone graft. A ...

By Marija Bubalo, Zoran Lazić, Radomir Milović, Anika Ćuković

Malignant melanoma presents unusual predilection for metastasizing in small intestine, becoming one of the most common malignancies that metastasize in small intestine. Intestinal metastases can be identified at the moment of primary disease or later, as a first sign of recurrence. We report a case of malignant melanoma metastatic to the GI tract. ...

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

For the purpose of economic evaluation in the health economics, several analytical techniques that are designed for comparing two or more health interventions in terms of costs and effects are used. Cost-benefit analysis provides the opportunity of comparing values of alternative health interventions that have very different health benefits, which ...

By Aleksandar Višnjić, Vladica Veličković, Nataša Šelmić Milosavljević