Teleradiology has made  using the Internet explorer possible to access to images and patient findings, to browse, view and write radiological reports on any computer in any location, with all the appropriate rights (security and confidentiality). Diagnosis, consultation and education of students, doctors and  paramedical staff, scientific...

By Rade Babić, Zoran Milošević, Gordana Babić

Since time immortal, plants have been used for maintaining health and curing disease. With cancer being a widespread threat to humanity, plants play an important role in cancer prevention, as well as in therapy. Medicinal plants provide new active chemopreventive molecules. In addition, treatment with plants can ease side-effects as well as provide...

By Zohara Bachrach

Society is now at a stage at which it is possible to obtain information about almost anything within a very short period of time. Such a situation requires the usage of one language for mutual understanding and communication of scientific, technological and academic information among different linguistic groups within a multi-linguistic community. ...

By Zorica Antić

The analysis of the subpopulation of lymphocytes - CD4+, CD8+ lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of paediatric patients can provide useful information related the lung parenchyma.  The aim of the paper was to analyze the results of bronchoscopy of patients presenting with persistent lung infiltrates and to find out of the diagnostic y...

By Amina Selimović, Senka Dinarević, Tatjana Pejčić, Ermina Mujičić, Aida Hasanović, Siniša Ristić, Nataša Banjac, Željko Pavlović

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) means a distinct dislocation (lateralisation and cranialisation) of the femoral head from the poorly developed (hypoplastic and steeper) acetabulum.   The aim of the paper was to establish, in a retrospective and prospective study conducted in the period between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2010, th...

By Predrag Grubor, Milan Grubor, Marinko Domuzin, Ivan Golubović

Literature data on the association between the incidence of ruptured abdominal aorta and seasons are contradictory. The influence of climatic factors on the rupture of abdominal aorta is geographically dependent. The aim of this research was the investigation of the connection between the incidence of ruptured abdominal aorta and seasons at the ter...

By Zoran Damnjanović, Milan Jovanović, Predrag Đorđević, Nenad Ilić, Irena Janković, Igor Smiljković, Nikola Đorđević, Dragutin Grozdanović

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

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

Between 1996 and 2004, a total of 708 patients were enrolled in the AML ´96 and 2002 studies of the East German Study Group. Of those, 138 patients (19.5%) had unfavourable cytogenetics defined as complex karyotype, del (5q)/-5, del (7q)/-7, abn (3q26) and abn (11q23). Seventy-seven (56%) patients achieved CR1 after induction chemotherap...

By Nadežda Basara, Antje Schulze, Herbert Sayer