Systemic antibiotics are increasingly used in the treatment of periodontal infections. Whilst these drugs are used mostly on an empirical basis, some physicians contend that rational use of antibiotics should be the norm due to their wide abuse and global emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms. This is a review of the principles and rational a...

By Ana Pejčić, Ljiljana Kesić, Radmila Obradović, Dimitrije Mirković

The purpose of this review was to show the available clinical and biological advances of umbilical cord blood allogeneic stem cell transplantation in adult patients. In adults, umbilical cord blood transplantation, due to less pronounced graft versus host disease compared to conventional approaches may, be feasible in spite of slower engraftment. T...

By Goran Marjanović, Milena Todorović-Bakrač, Tatjana Jevtović-Stoimenov

The prognosis of malignant hypertension without treatment is poor, with more than 80% mortality in two years. It is unusual to see it on more than one occasion in the same patient. We demonstrated clinical course, response to treatment and outcome of a patient presenting with recurrent malignant hypertension. In this patient, we did not see high re...

By Rok Accetto, Olga Pirc-Čerček, Andreja Marn-Pernat