Portal Hypertension—Prevention from Variceal Rebleeding
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
Childhood Asthma and its Comorbidities
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
Obsessive‐compulsive Disorder and Treatment—One‐Year Follow up Study
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by the presence of either obsession or compulsion that is severe enough to be time consuming or to cause marked distress or significant impairment. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person recognizes that the obsessions and compulsions are excessive or unreasonable. Twenty-one patien...
By Lydia Sushevska, Nichola Olumchev, Mirjana Saveska
Ileo‐Ileal Intussusception Caused by Metastatic Deposits in the Small Intestine in Patients with Malignant Melanoma
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
QALY: Measure of Cost‐Benefit Analysis of Health Interventions
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
Early Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Results in Higher Overall Survival and Leukemia Free Survival Compared to Conventional Chemotherapy in High Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Patients
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
Clinical Quality of Life and Manometric Findings in Newly Diagnosed Achalasia Patients
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
Clinical and Neurophysiological Features in Patients Presenting Clinically Isolated Syndrome Suggestive on Multiple Sclerosis
Clinically isolated syndrome suggestive on multiple sclerosis is monophasic clinical presentation with suspected underlying inflammatory demyelinating disease. Clinically isolated syndrome supported with magnetic resonance evidence may present the earliest manifestation of multiple sclerosis. Clinical manifestations are still the basis of the first...
By Dejan Savić, Slobodan Vojinović, Stevo Lukić, Ljiljana Savić
Importance of Digital Dental Photography in the Practice of Dentistry
Digital photography has today, quite sure, penetrated into all segments of life, providing new facts and perceptions in the field of science, medicine, industry, fashion design, communications and arts. The aim of this paperwork was to, based of the observations from literature and clinical experience, inform and assist the physician-practitioner i...
By Dragan Mladenović, Lidija Mladenović, Sanja Mladenović
Seroincidence of Echinococcosis at the Territory of the City of Niš
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is caused by the larva of tapeworm Echinococcus spp.. Echinococcosis may develop after accidental ingestion of tapeworm eggs. The aim of this study was to examine the seroprevalence and seroincidence of echinococcosis at the territory of the City of Niš in the last 22 years. From 1988 until the end of 1998, 1....
By Suzana Otašević, Nataša Miladinović-Tasić, Aleksandar Tasić, Dragan Zdravković, Jovana Đorđević, Aleksandra Ignjatović, Roberta Marković, Dragana Cvetković