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abstract：AIM:To conduct developmental validation studies on a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based short tandem repeat (STR) multiplex typing system, developed for the purpose of genetic individualization and parentage testing in domestic cat samples. METHODS:To evaluate reproducibility of the typing system, the multiplex was...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Coomber N,David VA,O'Brien SJ,Menotti-Raymond M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the circumstances of building of the Civic Hospital in Split in the light of new archival evidence. The study necessitated a thorough review of the older historiography and previously unpublished archival sources kept in the State Archives in Venice and Zadar. The findings showed that construction of t...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Brisky L,Fatović-Ferencić S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the incidence of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in the population of Zagreb, Croatia, and to determine the patients' demographic and clinical characteristics. METHODS:From 2012-2017, we identified patients with POTS by a retrospective analysis of medical records at University Hospital...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Adamec I,Crnošija L,Ruška B,Pavičić T,Junaković A,Krbot Skorić M,Pekmezović T,Habek M

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the results of current reforms in Macedonian health sector. METHOD:Description and situation analysis, covering the period 1991-1997, are focused on demographic and vital indicators, morbidity and mortality data, elements of health care system, legislation, health insurance, health care financing, and ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ivanovska L,Ljuma I

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polish physicians-philosophers tried to find a compromise between medicine as a science and medicine as a healing art. They stated that clinical practice should be transformed into science, bearing in mind that there would be no medicine without the existence of the sick. A perfect physician is a good and wise person ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pedziwiatr MJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the growth patterns of Qatari preschool children aged 0-5 years with the growth reference charts developed by the American National Center for Health Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NCHS/CDC). METHODS:The demographic data of weight, height, and age were collected in a cross-se...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kamal AA,Bener A,Kareem Al-Mulla AM

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate long-term cognitive consequences of subarachnoid hemorrhage with good outcome and the opinion of patients and their relatives about these consequences. METHODS:The study included 10 patients surgically treated for subarachnoid hemorrhage due to the rupture of aneurysm of the anterior communicating arte...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ravnik J,Starovasnik B,Sesok S,Pirtosek Z,Svigelj V,Bunc G,Bosnjak R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in mechanical circulatory support have significantly expanded the treatment options for patients with heart failure, whether acute or chronic. There are numerous devices available that offer patients short-, intermediate-, and long-term duration of support depending on their clinical needs and cardiac recover...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stulak JM,Lim JY,Maltais S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels modulate the tocolytic effect of β2-adrenergic receptor (β2-AR) agonists (ritodrine and salmeterol) in early-pregnant (day 6) and late-pregnant (day 22) rat uterus in vitro, in order to examine the relation between the K(ATP) channel sulphonylurea-bin...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Lovasz N,Koncz A,Domokos D,Gaspar R,Falkay G

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound in the treatment and follow-up after transvaginal instillation of methotrexate in ectopic pregnancy. Three patients diagnosed with ectopic pregnancies were treated with a single 50 mg dose of methotrexate, transvaginally instilled, under direct color sonog...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Plancher S,Conway C,Zalud I

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calculation of the heart axis in the frontal plane can be performed with the combination of any two leads. The use of combination of bipolar (I, II, III) and unipolar leads (aVR, aVL and aVF) can produce wrong results. Calculation of the electrical axis from leads I and aVF without correction (sometimes used in EC...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Novosel D,Noll G,Lüscher TF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the physical activity level of the Croatian population in different domains of everyday life. METHODS:A random stratified sample of 1032 Croatians aged 15 years and older was interviewed using the official Croatian long version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Total physica...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Jurakić D,Pedisić Z,Andrijasević M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a paternity testing case in which a double incompatibility was found for two short tandem repeat (STR) markers, human fibrinogen alpha (FGA) and Penta E. Analysis of the trio (mother, father, and daughter) included the amplification with a battery of 15 autosomal short tandem repeats (STR) by using a commer...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nutini AL,Mariottini A,Giunti L,Torricelli F,Ricci U

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alport syndrome (AS) is a genetically heterogenic, structural disorder of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) due to the mutation of COL4A3, COL4A4, or COL4A5 genes, which clinically presents as progressive hematuric nephritis with ultrastructural changes of the GBM, high tone sensorineural hearing loss, and ocular...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Šenjug P,Nikuševa Martić T,Šenjug Perica M,Oroz M,Horaček M,Ćuk M,Abdović S,Galešić Ljubanović D

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Analysis of countertransference problems in the treatment of a heterogeneous group of war veterans. METHOD:The method used in this work was psychodynamic clinical observation and analysis of countertransference phenomena in group therapy. RESULTS:In the beginning of our work, we faced with a regressive group, whi...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gregurek R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the stimulation site of both facial and hypoglossal nerves after transcranial magnetic stimulation. METHODS:After surgical exposure of the brainstem in 22 patients with intrinsic pontine (n=9) or medullary (n=13) tumors, the facial colliculus and the hypoglossal triangle were electrically stimulated. ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Liscić RM,Morota N,Deletis V

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On behalf of the European Commission, a Cross-Border Health Care Project was undertaken to explore how citizens living in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine can obtain improved access to health services in the Member States concerned: Belgium, Germany, and The Netherlands. Main attention of the project is focused on practical is...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Hermans HE,den Exter A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than a century, since the introduction of modern hernia repair by Basinni, technical aspects of hernia surgery have been surrounded by controversies. The purpose of this article is to examine these controversies with special attention to (a) mechanical versus degenerative nature of hernias, (b) traditional ti...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Amid PK

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze the haplotype of the Ezhava population of Kerala, south India, using 8 short tandem repeat (STR) loci on the Y chromosome and trace the paternal genetic lineage of the population. METHODS:Whole blood samples (n=104) were collected from unrelated healthy men of the Ezhava population over a period of one ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nair SP,Geetha A,Jagannath C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine how 5-factor personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness) and 3 higher-order health-related personality constructs (negative experience, optimistic control, and passivity) are related to self-reports of subjective health outcomes (positive and negative mo...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Hudek-Knezević J,Kardum I

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine changes in sexual behaviors and other relevant characteristics related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infection (STI) risks among young Croatian adults. METHOD:We surveyed adults aged 18-24 in 2005 (n=1092) and 18-25 in 2010 (n=1005). Both samples were probabilistic and...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Landripet I,Stulhofer A,Bacak V

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the relationships between body mass index (BMI), dietary habits, and cardiovascular risk factors in isolated Adriatic island populations of Croatia. METHODS:Random sample of subjects (n=1001) was interviewed, using a validated questionnaire developed for this research program. Dietary habits were as...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pucarin-Cvetković J,Mustajbegović J,Doko Jelinić J,Senta A,Nola IA,Ivanković D,Kaić-Rak A,Milosević M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To present a novel strategy for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL), using human metapopulations. The strategy is based on the expectation that in geographic clusters of small and distinct human isolates, a combination of founder effect and genetic drift can dramatically increase population frequency of rare QTL ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Rudan I,Biloglav Z,Carothers AD,Wright AF,Campbell H

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the characteristics and determine risk factors for hantanvirus infection in natural focus of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) on the Dinara Mountain, where outbreak of disease emerged among Croatian soldiers in 1995, and to describe the features of HFRS acquired on the Dinara mountain and...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ledina D,Bradarić N,Borcić B,Turković B,Ivić I,Bakić J,Erceg M,Tvrtković N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the early biochemical response and rate of adverse effects in patients who received prednisolone (PRED)/azathioprine (AZA) and those who received budesonide (BUD)/AZA as the first-line treatment for autoimmune hepatitis. METHODS:The study involved 25 patients receiving PRED 30 mg/day + AZA 50 mg/day and...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Binicier OB,Günay S

更新日期：2019-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores the merits of foregrounding the dichotomy of politicization vs de-politicization for our understanding of bio-objects in order to study their production, circulation, and governance in European societies. By asking how bio-objects are configured in science, policy, public, and media discourses an...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Maeseele P,Hendrickx K,Pavone V,Van Hoyweghen I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Several amplification and detection formats for the analysis of short tandem repeat loci are readily available to the forensic laboratory. Careful consideration must be given to the throughput, sensitivity, concordance, data interpretation, facility requirements, and costs of operation. The Pennsylvania State Polic...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Tomsey CS,Kurtz M,Kist F,Hockensmith M,Call P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attainment of the fifth Millennium Development Goal requires adequate national reserves of skilled birth attendants. Nurses, midwives, and their equivalents form the frontline of the formal health system are a critical element of global efforts to reduce ill-health and poverty in the poorest areas of the world. Pl...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Wirth M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the seroprevalence of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in Croatia. METHODS:During 2005, a total of 137 serum specimens from Croatian patients aged from 6 days to 51 years, without respiratory symptoms, were collected at the Croatian National Institute of Public Health. The sera were examined using the indire...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ljubin Sternak S,Vilibić Cavlek T,Falsey AR,Walsh EE,Mlinarić Galinović G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health and health care provision are among the most important and politically sensitive public service areas. Politicians carefully incorporate health care program changes in their political agendas to gain votes. However, knowing health care priorities of the electoral body is not useful only to politicians, but also...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Dzakula A,Polasek O,Sosic Z,Voncina L,Pavleković G,Brborović O

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00