The metabolism and effects of the abuse of psychoactive substances are not yet fully understood, but it is evident that they represent a tremendous risk to the health of individuals. This paper aims to present a review of published results on the impact of psychoactive substance abuse on kidney function. PubMed and MEDLINE databases were used to se...

By Radojica Stolić, Marija Milić, Vekoslav Mitrović, Andrijana Karanović, Kristina Bulatović, Dragiša Rašić, Milica Mirović, Branka Mitić

Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS) or congenital poikiloderma is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis with involvement of many systems. The risk of mesenchymal malignancy is high in this disease which is accompanied by skin findings such as skin atrophy, hypo-hyperpigmentation, short stature, growth retardation, hypogonadism, nail and tooth dyspl...

By Sebahattin Memis, Mehmet Demirtas

Heart failure is the leading public health concern as its prevalence increases and the cost of care increases dramatically due to poor prognosis. Ineffective disease management can increase morbidity and lead to repeated hospitalizations. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the care needs of patients treated for heart failure. The da...

By Tahere Zahedifard, Khadijeh Mirzaei-Najmabadi, Talat Khadivzadeh, Ali Vafaee-Najar, Marzieh Lotfalizadeh

Knowing the precise position of the mental foramen is of great clinical importance in dentistry due to significant anatomical structures that pass through this foramen. The aim of this study was to examine the sexual dimorphism of the horizontal and vertical position of the mental foramen in relation to constant anatomical landmarks in the populati...

By Antonije Stanković, Jelena Popović, Marija Daković-Bjelaković, Aleksandar Mitić, Nenad Stošić, Marija Nikolić

Pediatric stroke (PS) is a rare disease with the global incidence of 1.2 -13/100,000, but nevertheless, is an important cause of disability in children. What makes it a challenging research topic is its alarming upsurge in the prevalence of 35%. The most prevalent motor deficit in that regard is hemiparesis in 50% to 80% of children with PS. The fo...

By Hristina Čolović, Dragan Zlatanović, Vesna Živković, Anita Stanković, Dejan Nikolić

The length of tooth enamel conditioning time and the size of bracket bases are some the factors influencing the bond strength between the two adherents. The aim of this study was to compare the shear bond strength (SBS) between two different types of bonded metal brackets and acid-etched enamel surface in two different times. Forty extracted human ...

By Vladimir Mitić, Ana Todorović, Aleksandar Mitić, Kosta Todorović, Milan Miljković

Patients who undergo kidney transplantation can encounter significant changes in body composition because of weight gain caused by fat mass accumulation and muscle mass loss, resulting in poor graft outcomes. The study aimed to investigate the impact of different obesity parameters on graft function in kidney transplant recipients. A cross-sectiona...

By Zorica Dimitrijević, Ina Konstantinović, Jelena Ranđelović, Tamara Vrećić, Mina Cvetković, Karolina Paunović, Goran Paunović, Branka Mitić

Beginning as a wave of unexplained pneumonia cases in Wuhan in December 2019, the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 illness (COVID-19) spread throughout the world and posed a major threat to public health. People's lives were changing quickly, and COVID-19 instances were spreading quickly over the world, making people frightful. One of the ways in which...

By Ana Pjevač, Teodora Safiye, Ardea Milidrag, Tatjana Mladenović, Ivana Rodić, Mirjana Jovanović

Postoperative delirium is defined as an acute state of confusion that develops within hours or days after surgical intervention. With the global aging of the world population, the number of geriatric patients who will undergo surgery is on a steady rise, increasing therefore the possibility of postoperative delirium. The primary aim of this study w...

By Marija Stošić, Velimir Perić, Jelena Živadinović, Aleksandar Kamenov, Vladimir Stojiljković, Dragan Milić, Milan Lazarević, Aleksandar Nikolić, Dalibor Stojanović, Mlađan Golubović

Voice is an acoustic phenomenon that must be viewed multidimensionally. In the quantitative assessment of voice characteristics, the use of acoustic parameters becomes a necessary method of analysis. The aim of the paper is to examine whether there are differences in the acoustic parameters of the voice (the average value of the fundamental frequen...

By Ivana Ilić-Savić, Mirjana Petrović-Lazić