Preschool children as frequent attenders in primary health care in Croatia: retrospective study.

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the effect of intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in the prevention of recurrence and progression of the superficial bladder cancer. METHODS:Between February 1989 and May 1994, 170 patients with histologically proven superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder stage T...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Librenjak D,Situm M,Eterovic D,Dogas Z,Gotovac J

更新日期：2003-04-01 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 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：: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：AIM:To develop an automated, high throughput extraction protocol in order to produce database eligible profiles from fingerprints and other low copy number (LCN) DNA sources. METHODS:Extraction of either purified control DNA or buccal cells, for example, with commercial kits was compared to extraction with a simple di...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Schiffner LA,Bajda EJ,Prinz M,Sebestyen J,Shaler R,Caragine TA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the feasibility of using peer review for the quality control of online materials. METHODS:We analyzed the inter-rater agreement on the quality of epidemiological lectures online, based on the Global Health Network Supercourse lecture library. We examined the agreement among reviewers by looking at kappa...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Linkov F,Lovalekar M,LaPorte R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To ascertain health priorities of older patients and treatment priorities of their general practitioners (GP) on the basis of a geriatric assessment and to determine the agreement between these priorities. METHODS:The study included a sample of 9 general practitioners in Hannover, Germany, and a stratified sample ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Voigt I,Wrede J,Diederichs-Egidi H,Dierks ML,Junius-Walker U

更新日期：2010-12-01 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 update the estimate of multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence in Croatia using multiple epidemiological tools. METHODS:This level IV, epidemiological study gathered data from three national patient registries and one database of a non-governmental MS patients' organization. Data were extracted on all individuals wh...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Benjak T,Štefančić V,Draušnik Ž,Cerovečki I,Roginić D,Habek M,Mihel S,Stevanović R

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate if there is an association between M235T polymorphism of angiotensinogen gene and myocardial infarction (MI) risk and perform a meta-analysis and an in silico approach. METHODS:This case-control study included 340 participants (155 MI patients and 185 controls) examined at Kashan University of Medic...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Raygan F,Karimian M,Rezaeian A,Bahmani B,Behjati M

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine overall cardiac effects of flavonoid catechin on ischemia-reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:After perfusing hearts at the pressure of 70 mm Hg, coronary perfusion was interrupted for 30 minutes and then re-established. There were four experimental groups, with 10 ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Modun D,Music I,Katalinic V,Salamunic I,Boban M

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：AIM:To determine types and frequency of CAPN3 mutations in 29 unrelated Croatian families, analyzed during 6-year prospective and ongoing genetic and epidemiological study of muscular dystrophies in Croatia. METHODS:Mutation analysis included allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or combination of PCR and re...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Milic A,Canki-Klain N

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report on our experience with a voice-directed robotic arm for scope management in different procedures for "solo-surgery" and in complex laparoscopic operations. METHODS:A chip card with orders for the robotic arm is individually manufactured for every user. A surgeon gives order through a microphone and the o...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bacá I,Schultz C,Grzybowski L,Göetzen V

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic medicine is usually considered to be a tripartite composition of teaching, research, and health care services delivery or patient care. The meaning of each component varies with interpretation. Developing countries such as Malawi face particular challenges in the field of academic medicine, including research...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Muula AS,Lau C

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate successes in the clinical management of severe diarrheal diseases in a busy referral hospital in Ghana, four years after the introduction of the World Health Organization's protocol for the clinical management of diarrhea and the establishment of an oral rehydration therapy Corner. METHOD:Data on the c...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Baffoe-Bonnie B,Addo-Yobbo E,Plange-Rhule J

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：AIM:To analyze the incidence, transvaginal detection age, sonographic appearance, clinical course, and outcomes of pregnancy in cases with abnormal fetal brain structure and/or circulation, and to evaluate the clinical significance of sonographic abnormalities. METHODS:Serial observation of the fetal brain and intracr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pooh RK,Nakagawa Y,Nagamachi N,Pooh KH,Maeda K,Fukui R,Aono T

更新日期：1998-06-01 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 determine the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in high-risk groups, ie, injecting drug users, patients with sexually transmitted infections, and men who have sex with men, and compare it with the prevalence determined in low-risk group, ie, pregnant women. METHODS:Residual sera from sp...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Klavs I,Poljak M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary factor XI (FXI) deficiency is a mild bleeding disorder, rare in the general population but relatively common among Ashkenazi Jews. The human F11 gene comprises 15 exons, spanning over 23 kb of the long arm of chromosome 4 (4q35). Homozygotes or compound heterozygotes typically show severe FXI deficiency, wh...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gotovac Jerčić K,Blažeković A,Hančević M,Bilić E,Borovečki F

更新日期：2020-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Promising research developments in both basic and applied sciences, such as genomics and participatory health care approaches, have generated widespread interest in personalized medicine among almost all scientific areas and clinicians. The term personalized medicine is, however, frequently used without defining a cle...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Evers AW,Rovers MM,Kremer JA,Veltman JA,Schalken JA,Bloem BR,van Gool AJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 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 if there are differences in medical ethics education between different schools of medicine in Spain, specifically between private and public schools and between recently founded schools and older ones. METHOD:The curricula of medical degrees from all Spanish faculties were reviewed for the 2014/20...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ferreira-Padilla G,Ferrández-Antón T,Lolas-Stepke F,Almeida-Cabrera R,Brunet J,Bosch-Barrera J

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess retrospectively the results and complications of surgical techniques applied in the treatment of patients with trauma of the lacrimal drainage system. METHODS:Out of 32 patients with lacrimal drainage system trauma included in the study, 25 were treated at the University Eye Clinic, Ljubljana Medical Cen...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Drnovsek-Olup B,Beltram M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the incidence and timing of cardiac rupture following streptokinase (SK) administration in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS:We analyzed retrospectively the clinical sheets of AMI patients treated at the Coronary Care Unit in University Hospital Split, Croatia, between January 1, 1996, and Decem...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Polić S,Perković D,Stula I,Punda A,Lukin A,Rumboldt Z

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two closely related boys from the same house hold (Home 1), aged two and three, were affected with fulminant meningococcal sepsis known as Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. Neisseria meningitidis serogorup B was isolated from their blood and cerebrospinal fluid. The two-year-old boy died one day after the onset of the...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Smilović V,Vrbanec-Megla L,Payerl-Pal M,Puntarić D,Baklaić Z

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：AIM:To explore the economic justification for introducing ultrasound screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Croatia. METHODS:The analysis was based on the two formulas: that cost-benefit equals benefit/cost, and that net benefit equals benefit minus cost. Screening costs were expressed as a sum of trainin...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bralić I,Vrdoljak J,Kovacić L

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the association of carotid atherosclerosis and right ventricular diastolic dysfunction (DD) among treated hypertensive Nigerian patients. METHODS:This was a single center cross-sectional study performed at the Cardiology Clinic of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria between January and Decemb...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Akintunde AA,Adebayo PB,Aremu AA,Opadijo OG

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00