Comparison of preprocessing methods and storage times for touch DNA samples.

abstract：AIM:To detect polymorphisms of 23 Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci, including 6 new loci, in a reference database of male population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as to assess the importance of increasing the number of Y-STR loci utilized in forensic DNA analysis. METHODS:The reference sample consiste...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kovačević L,Fatur-Cerić V,Hadzic N,Čakar J,Primorac D,Marjanović D

更新日期：2013-06-01 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 evaluate maternal and paternal smoking habits during pregnancy and determine their correlation with pregnancy complications and newborn status. METHODS:The study included 499 pregnant women who delivered at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Uludag University School of Medicine, over a period of one...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Uncu Y,Ozcakir A,Ercan I,Bilgel N,Uncu G

更新日期：2005-10-01 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 clinical and demographic characteristics of Turkish children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. METHOD:The study comprised 47 children and adolescents (31 boys and 15 girls) aged between 9 and 15 years, who were diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder according to Diagnostic and Sta...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Diler RS,Avci A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare primary and secondary wound reconstruction as a treatment method for Gustilo type III open tibial fractures. METHODS:Thirty-five consecutive patients with a Gustilo type III open tibial shaft fracture were treated and followed up for 3 years. The patients were divided into two groups depending on the tr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stalekar H,Fuckar Z,Ekl D,Sustić A,Loncarek K,Ledić D

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) are useful forensic DNA markers in investigation of sexual assault cases when a mixture of male and female DNA (e.g., in vaginal swabs) is present in a sample, especially when DNA of the male contributor is present only in very small amount compared to the DNA of the female ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Parson W,Niederstätter H,Köchl S,Steinlechner M,Berger B

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate scientific production among research fellows employed at the Zagreb University School of Medicine and identify factors associated with their scientific output. METHOD:We conducted a survey among research fellows and their mentors during June 2005. The main outcome measure was publication success, defin...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Polasek O,Kolcić I,Buneta Z,Cikes N,Pećina M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Faculty of Medicine in Tirana, the only institution providing medical training in Albania, has currently developed three separate branches of study, General Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. Since the early 1990s, following the collapse of the communist regime, many faculty members have been trained abroad in dif...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Roshi E,Burazeri G

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the relationship between war experiences and war-related distress in Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS:The survey was performed in the late 2003 on a representative sample of 3313 respondents. The face-to-face interviews included 15 items on war-related distress and 24 items on war experiences. From these...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ringdal GI,Ringdal K,Simkus A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the diagnostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in lung cancer (LC). We compared the ratios between healthy participants and all LC patients, as well patients with different pathohistological LC subtypes. METHODS:We retrieved the data on neutrophil, lym...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nikolić I,Kukulj S,Samaržija M,Jeleč V,Žarak M,Orehovec B,Taradi I,Romić D,Kolak T,Patrlj L

更新日期：2016-06-30 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：: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

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：AIM:To immunohistochemically evaluate the expression of MAGE-A1, MAGE-A, and NY-ESO-1 cancer/testis (C/T) tumor antigens in medullary breast cancer (MBC) tumor samples and to analyze it in relation to the clinicopathological features. METHODS:This retrospective study included samples from 49 patients: 40 with typical ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Matković B,Juretić A,Spagnoli GC,Separović V,Gamulin M,Separović R,Sarić N,Basić-Koretić M,Novosel I,Kruslin B

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the accuracy of eye color prediction based on six IrisPlex single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in a Slovenian population sample. METHODS:Six IrisPlex predictor SNPs (HERC2 - rs12913832, OCA2 - rs1800407, SLC45A2 - rs16891982 and TYR - rs1393350, SLC24A4 - rs12896399, and IRF4 - rs12203592) of 105 ind...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kastelic V,Pośpiech E,Draus-Barini J,Branicki W,Drobnič K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate motoric intestinal disturbances during inflammation with Trichinella spiralis in rats as an experimental model. METHODS:We examined the changes in worm-positive (jejunum) and worm-free (ileum) intestinal segments of rats infected with T. spiralis. To investigate the relationship between structural and ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Tanović A,Fernández E,Jiménez M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate risk factors related to total mortality in an unselected population of patients implanted with a cardioverter defibrillator. METHODS:Survival analysis was performed retrospectively investigating the records of 77 consecutive patients implanted with defibrillators (median 67 years, range 38-83 years; 63...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Schernthaner C,Pichler M,Strohmer B

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Increasing evidence suggests that B cells contribute both to the regulation of normal autoimmunity and to the pathogenesis of immune mediated diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). B cells in MS are skewed toward a pro-inflammatory profile, and contribute to MS pathogenesis by antibody production, antigen presen...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Milo R

更新日期：2019-04-30 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 assess the quality of diabetes care provided by family medicine teams in primary health centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) through a medical audit, addressing the extent to which clinical practice complied with pre-determined explicit criteria of long-term management. METHOD:Retrospective analysis included ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Novo A,Jokić I

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the relationship between cognitive functions, severity of depressive symptoms, and expression of interleukin 1 (IL)-1 in patients treated with systemic anticancer therapy. METHODS:This prospective study, conducted in 2017-2018, involved 55 patients (56% men) subjected to systemic anticancer therapy. Fort...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Jasionowska J,Talarowska M,Kalinka E,Skiba A,Szemraj J,Mikołajczyk I,Gałecki P

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To define predictive factors for frequent attenders among preschool children in primary health care and investigate the association between socioeconomic factors and medical factors, as well as the reasons for child's appointment in the physician's office. METHODS:This retrospective study was conducted in 7 primar...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stojanović-Spehar S,Blazeković-Milaković S,Bergman-Marković B,Matijasević I

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Hrabač P,Trkulja V

更新日期：2019-02-28 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 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：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