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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：AIM:To compare the health-related quality of life of unemployed and employed women with disabilities and establish factors affecting their life satisfaction. METHODS:The study included 318 women with disabilities, 160 of whom were employed and 158 unemployed, paired according to age and region of residence. The health...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Barisin A,Benjak T,Vuletić G

更新日期：2011-08-15 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 The study necessitated a thorough review of the older historiography and previously unpublished archival sources kept in the State Archives in Venice and Zadar.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 study the effects of d- and l-limonene on pregnant rat myometrial contractility in vitro, and investigate how these effects are modified by other agents. D- and l-limonene (10(-13)-10(-8) M) caused myometrial contraction in a dose-dependent manner. METHODS:Contractions of uterine rings from 22-day-pregnant rats...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Hajagos-Tóth J,Hódi Á,Seres AB,Gáspár R

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the changes in the expression level of gonadal steroid, insulin, and leptin receptors in the brain of adult Sprague-Dawley female rats due to ovariectomy and/or chronic stress. METHODS:Sixteen-week-old ovariectomized and non-ovariectomized female Sprague-Dawley rats were divided in two groups and expos...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ivić V,Blažetić S,Labak I,Balog M,Vondrak L,Blažeković R,Vari SG,Heffer M

更新日期：2016-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Susac syndrome is a rare microangiopathy of cochlea, retina, and brain. We report a case of a 30-year-old man with Susac syndrome. The patient initially suffered from unilateral hearing loss associated with peripheral vestibular syndrome, and followed with recurrent arterial retinal occlusions and encephalopathy. The ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Szilasiová J,Klímová E

更新日期：2004-06-01 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 investigate breastfeeding practices among mothers of infants in the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS:The cross-sectional self-report study was conducted among 326 mothers of infants visiting the Advisory Center for Infants at the Medical Center in Mostar and at the Children's Department of Mostar...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Simić T,Sumanović-Glamuzina D,Boranić M,Vuksić I,Boban A

更新日期：2004-02-01 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 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：: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 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 human Y-chromosome haplogroup backgrounds of intermediate-sized variant alleles displayed by short tandem repeat (STR) loci DYS392, DYS449, and DYS385, and to evaluate the potential of each intermediate variant to elucidate new phylogenetic substructure within the human Y-chromosome haplogroup tree...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Myres NM,Ritchie KH,Lin AA,Hughes RH,Woodward SR,Underhill PA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the influence of depression on patients' satisfaction with lumbar discectomy performed by two different surgical techniques. METHODS:A prospective matched-cohort analysis of classical lumbar discectomy following static imaging (n = 45) and microlumbar "key-hole" discectomy after dynamic CT/myelography (n...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ljubicić Bistrović I,Ljubicić D,Ekl D,Penezić L,Mocenić D,Stancić MF

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：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：AIM:To evaluate clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of oral cancer in Jordan. METHOD:We retrospectively analyzed the medical records 118 consecutive patients treated for oral cancer from 1989 until 1998. RESULTS:The age of the patients ranged from 35 to 90 years (median 62.5 years); three quarters were men. N...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ma'aita JK

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

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：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 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：: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 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 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：:A continuous rise in life expectancy has led to an increase in the number of senior citizens, now amounting to a fifth of the global population, and to a dramatic increase in the prevalence of diseases of the elderly. This review discusses the threat of dementia, a disease that imposes enormous financial burden on hea...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Mitrečić D,Petrović DJ,Stančin P,Isaković J,Zavan B,Tricarico G,Kujundžić Tiljak M,Di Luca M

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the proportional contribution of influenza viruses (IV), parainfluenza viruses (PIV), adenoviruses (AV), and coronaviruses (CV) to the burden of severe acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI). METHODS:The review of the literature followed PRISMA guidelines. We included studies of hospitalized childre...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Lukšić I,Kearns PK,Scott F,Rudan I,Campbell H,Nair H

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess diseases outcomes and tolerability of real-life second-line nivolumab in a series of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) patients. METHODS:This retrospective chart review involved prospectively monitored patients (named patient program) treated with second-line nivolumab for mRCC at the University Hos...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gamulin M,Nham E,Rkman D,Antunac Golubić Z,Likić R

更新日期：2020-08-31 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 determine whether and in what concentrations the underground waters, stream waters, spring water, and tap water from the Zagreb area contain phthalates -- compounds used as plastic softeners, which have recently been ascribed carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic effects. METHOD:The presence of dimethyl phth...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Mihovec-Grdić M,Smit Z,Puntarić D,Bosnir J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Revised European-American Classification of Lymphoid Neoplasms (REAL) classification has been validated by a multi-institutional study, and project data showed that it is both reproducible and clinically relevant. The new World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Neoplastic Diseases of Hematopoietic and Ly...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Jakić-Razumović J,Aurer I

更新日期：2002-10-01 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