Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the external iliac artery (AIE) and external iliac vein (VIE) after trauma is rare. Rarely, it occurs that fistula is accompanied by an aneurysm of external iliac artery. Two thirds of AVF occur after stab wounds, one third after puncture wounds and only one percent after blunt injuries. A 32-year-old male visite...

By Nenad Ilić, Milan Jovanović, Zoran Damnjanović, Goran Stanojević

Realization of prepositions and prepositional phrases in professional medical texts in English may affect the proper selection of certain prepositions. Also, the use of prepositions is affected by literal translation into English. Today, the English language is the basic language for communication in biomedical sciences, and one of the problems tha...

By Slobodanka Krulj, Bojana Prodanović, Stevan Trbojević

Acute exacerbations of asthma are the major cause of morbidity and mortality of the disease and are difficult to prevent and treat. Asthma exacerbations are associated with several factors, including allergen exposure, air pollution and stress, but the major cause of exacerbations is respiratory virus infection. Respiratory viral infections cause &...

By Ivana Stanković, Zorica Ćirić, Milan Radović

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

Open tibial shaft fractures rank as the most common fractures of the locomotor system. External skeletal fixation, after primary open fracture wound management, stands for a good method in the management of open tibial shaft fractures, as it does not poses an additional threat to the bone vascularisation in the fracture area, which is important for...

By Ivan Golubović, Zoran Golubović, Aleksandar Višnjić, Stevo Najman, Nenad Ilić, Goran Đorđević, Nebojša Krstić, Milan Grubor

A war wound is damage to the body having great kinetic energy, inflicted by firearms, (blast, projectile, burn) and sustained in wartime. It is characterised by massive destruction, primary contamination and modified reactivity of the body. The aim of this retrospective study was to show how to primarily treat the injured extremities, with and with...

By Predrag Grubor, Milan Grubor, Ivan Golubović, Predrag Stojiljković, Zoran Golubović

Scanty information is available regarding the clinical characteristics, quality of life (QoL) profile and manometric findings in unselected newly diagnosed cases of achalasia. Fifty-six consecutive cases of newly diagnosed achalasia have been characterized regarding the symptoms when a standardized protocol was applied, to which was added a more de...

By Srđan Kostić, Magnus Ruth, Ann Kjellin, Lars Lundell, Erik Svartholm, Mats Andersson, Hans Lönroth

High performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (HPLC -DAD) was used to study the autoxidation of gallic acid in alkaline aqueous solutions and the influence of Mg(II) ion on this process. At pH 10, one main autoxidation product was determined, and based on the data obtained in this study its structure was proposed to some kind of...

By Goran Nikolić, Aleksandar Veselinović, Žarko Mitić, Slavoljub Živanović

The aim of this paper was to determine how the needs of the Serbian health sector have been identified by the main donor and its implementation partners. The conceptual and analytical framework was synthesized and developed from the literature review and based on The Sphere Project, WHO and World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine prot...

By Sonja Novak

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of simvastatin therapy on bone mineral density in hypercholesterolemic postmenopausal women. Fifty-three women, mean age 62,92  +6,08 years treated at the Institute for Treatment and Rehabilitation Niška Banja were included into this study. All patients were divided into two groups: I gro...

By Todorka Savić, Dimitrije Janković, Irena Janković, Vladmila Bojanić, Boris Đinđić, Nataša Miladinović Tasić, Ivan Tasić