Academic medicine in a southern African country of Malawi.

abstract：AIM:To compare the myocardial effects of cardioplegia by warm blood, tepid blood, and cold crystalloid during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS:Patients undergoing CABG surgery at Kaunas University Hospital between 2000 and 2004 were randomized into three groups (n=156), receiving a different method of c...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sirvinskas E,Nasvytis L,Raliene L,Vaskelyte J,Toleikis A,Trumbeckaite S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain death or neurologic death has gradually become recognized as human death over the past decades worldwide. Nevertheless, in Japan, the New York State, and the State of New Jersey, death is declared based not on brain death criteria, but on cardio-pulmonary criteria. In Japan, the 1997 Organ Transplant Law legaliz...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kato Y

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the workload of general practitioners (GPs) in Austria, with a focus on identifying the differences between GPs working in urban and rural areas. METHODS:Within the framework of the Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe (QUALICOPC) study, data were collected from a stratified sample of GPs using a ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Hoffmann K,Wojczewski S,George A,Schäfer WL,Maier M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate molecular mechanisms of tissue-protective effects of antioxidants selenomethionine (SeMet) and D-pantethine (D-Pt) applied in combination with doxorubicin (Dx) in B16 melanoma-bearing-mice. METHODS:Impact of the chemotherapy scheme on a survival of tumor-bearing animals, general nephro- and hepatotoxic...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Panchuk RR,Skorokhyd NR,Kozak YS,Lehka LV,Moiseenok AG,Stoika RS

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the influence of 1991-1995 war on the prevalence, duration, and practice of breast-feeding Croatian children up to 5 years of age. METHOD:In 1996, interviews were conducted in households with children up to 2 years of age (757 children) and 2-5 years of age (1,180 children). Data for war-free areas,...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Zakanj Z,Armano G,Grgurić J,Herceg-Cavrak V

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the influence of psychological and social factors on health risk behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol and psychoactive drug consumption among adolescents and to determine the prevalence of consuming various psychoactive substances. METHODS:The survey was conducted among adolescents in the Primorsko-g...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Malatestinić D,Mićović V,Kendel G,Baricev-Novaković Z

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A basic premise of this article is that the political and ethnic division of the city of Mostar imperils community health planning efforts beyond those normally encountered in the aftermath of war. Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided among ethnic groups, and the city of Mostar is further subdivided between the Croatian ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pyle GF,Thompson CR,Oresković S,Bagaric I

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess fetal behavior in all three trimesters of normal pregnancy and to investigate the continuation of behavior from fetal to neonatal period. METHODS:One hundred out of 130 pregnant women in all trimesters with singleton pregnancy were assigned for the investigation. All recordings were performed in the morn...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kurjak A,Stanojevic M,Andonotopo W,Scazzocchio-Duenas E,Azumendi G,Carrera JM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To elucidate whether Raman spectroscopy aided by extensive spectral database and neural network analysis can be a fast and confident biomarking tool for the diagnosis of various types of cancer. METHODS:Study included 27 patients with 11 different malignant tumors. Using Raman microscopy (RM) a total of 540 Raman ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pavićević A,Glumac S,Sopta J,Popović-Bijelić A,Mojović M,Bacić G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze the main indicators of income inequality, objective and subjective poverty, material deprivation, and the role of public social transfers in the reduction of poverty in 15 old and 10 new member states of the European Union (EU), undergoing post-communist socio-economic transition, as well as in Croatia, ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Matković T,Sucur Z,Zrinscak S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether socioeconomic inequalities at a micro-scale, through their effect on major health risk factors and other health indicators, contribute to health status in an isolated island population with demonstrated reduced genetic and environmental variability. METHODS:This cross-sectional study was per...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Smoljanović A,Vorko-Jović A,Kolcić I,Bernat R,Stojanović D,Polasek O

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the possibility of brain imaging by microcomputed tomography (microCT) using x-ray contrasting methods to visualize mouse brain ischemic lesions after middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). METHODS:Isolated brains were immersed in ionic or nonionic radio contrast agent (RCA) for 5 days and subsequentl...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Dobrivojević M,Bohaček I,Erjavec I,Gorup D,Gajović S

更新日期：2013-02-01 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 genetic diversity and genetic distances among isolated populations from Dagestan. METHODS:A cross-population genetic epidemiology design was applied in ethnically and demographically diverse isolates from Dagestan, some with more than 200 and some with less than 100 generations of demographical history s...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bulayeva KB

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To retrospectively analyze the rate of multi-type abuse in childhood and the effects of childhood abuse and type of coping strategies on the psychological adaptation of young adults in a sample form the student population of the University of Mostar. METHODS:The study was conducted on a convenience sample of 233 s...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sesar K,Simic N,Barisic M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Svalastog AL,Allgaier J,Gajović S

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic medicine integrates three of the most honorable human activities: treating the ill, teaching, and research. The quality that all three share is persistent quest for truth. However, there is reluctance of academic medicine today to openly defend scientific truth by challenging the arguments and the very existe...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marusic M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the correlation between the length of the title of a scientific article and the number of citations it receives, in view of the common editorial call for shorter titles. METHODS:Title and the number of citations to all articles published in 2005 in 22 arbitrarily chosen English-language journals (n=...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Habibzadeh F,Yadollahie M

更新日期：2010-04-01 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 quantify the exchange of water between cerebral compartments, specifically blood, tissue, perivascular pathways, and cerebrospinal fluid-filled spaces, on the basis of experimental data and to propose a dynamic global model of water flux through the entire brain to elucidate functionally relevant fluid exchange ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Linninger AA,Xu C,Tangen K,Hartung G

更新日期：2017-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most lethal of known human toxins, exerting their actions by cleaving the soluble N-ethyl maleimide-sensitive fusion protein attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) required for neurotransmitter release. Early detection of these toxins is important for appropriate medical treatment....

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Parpura V,Chapman ER

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article brings an overview of the influence of molecular medicine on pathophysiology, medical practice, and medical education. Various aspects of the growing impact of molecular medicine on clinical practice are discussed: diagnostic and predictive testing, gene and targeted therapy, and pharmacogenomics. Insuffi...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gamulin S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct diameter dilatation after laparoscopic cholecystectomy with magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography. METHODS:Forty-eight patients (35 women, mean age 54.58±11.83 years) underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy because of gallstones. The intrahepatic and extra...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pavlović T,Trtica S,Troskot Perić R

更新日期：2020-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the prevalence and characteristics of bullying between two towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina-Stolac, which was exposed to firearm conflict during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Posusje, which was outside of the active combat zone. METHODS:In this cross-sectional study, we included 484 pr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Cerni Obrdalj E,Rumboldt M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess treatment outcomes of psychotherapy for war veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to investigate self-perceived social acknowledgment. METHODS:In this prospective cohort study, a set of psychological instruments was used to assess the level of posttraumatic stress symptoms (Cli...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ljubotina D,Pantić Z,Francisković T,Mladić M,Priebe S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To present our preliminary results with stentless aortic valve bioprostheses. METHODS:From November 2001 to February 2002, 15 patients (8 men and 7 women) underwent aortic valve replacement with aortic stentless bioprosthesis. The patients age ranged from 50 to 79 years (mean+/-SD, 63.3+/-5.7 years). Three patient...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sutlić Z,Unić D,Rudez I,Biocina B,Barić D,Kontić M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the basic facts about education, health care system, and academic medicine in Finland. The issue of the academic medicine in the world is discussed and Finnish models compared with those of the rest of the world. Possible solutions for the recovery of academic medicine, education, and research ar...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stefanović V

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine plasma concentration of IgA, IgM, IgG classes, and IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4 subclasses in children with autism. METHODS:Infantile autism was diagnosed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 criteria. Plasma sampl...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Trajkovski V,Ajdinski L,Spiroski M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last three decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in female sports participation at all levels. However, increased sports participation of female athletes has also increased the incidence of sport-related injuries, which can be either acute trauma or overuse injuries. Overuse injuries may be defined as an im...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ivković A,Franić M,Bojanić I,Pećina M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the problems in the interpretation of Croatian mortality data and explore possible reasons for the recorded increase in mortality in the 1990-1999 period, particularly related to different methods of collection and estimation of data on deaths and population. METHODS:Numbers of recorded deaths and popu...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bozicević I,Oresković S,Stevanović R,Rodin U,Nolte E,McKee M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00