Editor ad interim - prospects and reality.

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：:A radical primary health care-oriented reform of the medical services in Albania is now under way, calling for adequate revision in medical education. The reform has started in 1994. In January 1997, the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, was established for the development...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Rrumbullaku L,Theodorakis PN,Caca P,Lionis C,Trell E

更新日期：2002-02-01 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 assess the ability to work and employability of individuals taking part in opioid substitution treatment programs (OSTP). METHODS:The study was composed of two surveys. In the first survey, 237 of 480 patients enrolled in OSTP responded to the questionnaire about their employment status, opinion about employmen...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bilban M,Kastelic A,Zaletel-Kragelj L

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：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

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：: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: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 provide a screening tool to reduce time and sample consumption when attempting mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typing. METHODS:A single base primer extension assay was developed to enable typing, in a single reaction, of twelve mtDNA haplogroup specific polymorphisms. For validation purposes a total of 147...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nelson TM,Just RS,Loreille O,Schanfield MS,Podini D

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：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 present the results obtained in the identification of human remains from World War II found in two mass graves in Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS:Samples from 10 skeletal remains were collected. Teeth and femoral fragments were collected from 9 skeletons and only a femoral fragment from 1 skeleton. DN...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marjanović D,Hadžić Metjahić N,Čakar J,Džehverović M,Dogan S,Ferić E,Džijan S,Škaro V,Projić P,Madžar T,Rod E,Primorac D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the usefulness of dental methods in the identification of victims in the railway accident in Zagreb (August 30, 1974) and midair collision of a British and a Slovenian airplane near Vrbovec (September 10, 1976). METHODS:There were 152 people killed in the railway accident, and 176 fatalities in the pl...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Dumancić J,Kaić Z,Njemirovskij V,Brkić H,Zecević D

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

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 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 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：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：:The Croatian Pharmaceutical Sector Reform Project was one component of a larger Health Reform Project financed by the World Bank. The Croatian government was concerned that Croatia appeared to spend more money on medicinal drugs than most other countries in the region; that the price of drugs purchased in Croatia was ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Harvey K,Kalanj K,Stevanović R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze use and distribution of resources by otolaryngology (ENT) hospital wards in Romania between 2003 and 2008, in order to plan the improvement of patient access to health care services and health care services' financial performance. METHODS:Clinical electronic records were searched for all patients discha...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stamate M,Chiriac ND

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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 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

abstract：AIM:To test antinociceptive properties of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) in rats with carrageenan- and capsaicin-induced pain and inflammation. METHODS:Pain was provoked with carrageenan (1%) or capsaicin (0.1%) injection into the plantar surface of the rat paw-pad. The effect of BTX-A 5 U/kg on carrageenan- and capsa...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bach-Rojecky L,Lacković Z

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether the students enrolled in the computer-based teaching program would take the final examination in pathology earlier than those who studied according to the previous traditional program. METHODS:The study included all medical students enrolled in the pathology course at the Zagreb University Sch...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nola M,Morović A,Dotlić S,Dominis M,Jukić S,Damjanov I

更新日期：2005-06-01 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 make a survey of children's health and psychosocial needs after the 1992-1995 war in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS:Representative samples of school-age children (n=310) from 6 public schools in the Sarajevo Canton, their parents (n=280), and teachers (n=156) were surveyed by means of self-administer...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Baràth A

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:There may be valuable research going on in the developing and financially less-privileged countries, but it usually does not reach international visibility, in spite of a large number of scientific journals in these countries. Such journals are not only invisible but, by perpetuating a vicious circle of inadequacy, ma...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marusić M,Marusić A

更新日期：2001-04-01 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