Kidney transplantation using a colon pouch (Mainz pouch III): a case report.

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：: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 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：:The aim of this article is to offer a concise interpretation of the scientific data about the topic of Croatian genetic heritage that was obtained over the past 10 years. We made a short overview of previously published articles by our and other groups, based mostly on Y-chromosome results. The data demonstrate that C...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Primorac D,Marjanović D,Rudan P,Villems R,Underhill PA

更新日期：2011-06-01 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 estimate the impact of high fat diet and estrogen deficiency on the oxidative and antioxidative status in the liver of the ovariectomized rats, as well as the ameliorating effect of physical activity or consumption of functional food containing bioactive compounds with antioxidative properties on oxidative damag...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Vuković R,Blažetić S,Oršolić I,Heffer M,Vari SG,Gajdoš M,Krivošíková Z,Kramárová P,Kebis A,Has-Schön E

更新日期：2014-06-01 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:Several amplification and detection formats for the analysis of short tandem repeat loci are readily available to the forensic laboratory. Careful consideration must be given to the throughput, sensitivity, concordance, data interpretation, facility requirements, and costs of operation. The Pennsylvania State Polic...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Tomsey CS,Kurtz M,Kist F,Hockensmith M,Call P

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:This article explores the merits of foregrounding the dichotomy of politicization vs de-politicization for our understanding of bio-objects in order to study their production, circulation, and governance in European societies. By asking how bio-objects are configured in science, policy, public, and media discourses an...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Maeseele P,Hendrickx K,Pavone V,Van Hoyweghen I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the clinical profile, burden of risk factors, and quality of care among patients hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with special focus on gender differences. METHODS:The study included 256 AMI patients admitted to the Coronary Care Unit of "Mother Teresa" hospital in Tirana during 2...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Myftiu S,Sulo E,Burazeri G,Sharka I,Shkoza A,Sulo G

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：: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 evaluate thyroid function and the presence of antithyroid autoantibodies in patients with sarcoidosis, compared to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (controls). METHODS:Sera were obtained from 26 patients (19 women and 7 men) with active sarcoidosis, age and sex matched to 26 patients with dia...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ilias I,Panoutsopoulos G,Batsakis C,Nikolakakou D,Filippou N,Christakopoulou I

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the Middle Ages a unique Croatian Glagolitic script co-existed with Latin and western Cyrillic scripts, thus creating an open, large, and tolerant cultural environment. Many works common to European cultural heritage were translated into Croatian (Church Slavonic) language and preserved in the Glagolitic sc...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Fatović-Ferencić S,Duerrigl MA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare morbidity and mortality of patients with severe intra-abdominal infections after two types of surgical treatment, on-demand ("wait and see") relaparotomy and modified planned relaparotomy. METHODS:We prospectively analyzed the outcomes of 65 patients with severe peritonitis surgically treated in two Cro...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Rakić M,Popović D,Rakić M,Druzijanić N,Lojpur M,Hall BA,Williams BA,Sprung J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To present two patients with basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx, a rare, highly aggressive variant of the squamous cell carcinoma. METHODS:Surgical excision of the polypoid tumor of the anterior comissure of the larynx was performed in a 62 year-old male, and in the second case, total laryngectomy with...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kruslin B,Tomasović C,Cupić H,Belicza M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the relationships between body mass index (BMI), dietary habits, and cardiovascular risk factors in isolated Adriatic island populations of Croatia. METHODS:Random sample of subjects (n=1001) was interviewed, using a validated questionnaire developed for this research program. Dietary habits were as...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pucarin-Cvetković J,Mustajbegović J,Doko Jelinić J,Senta A,Nola IA,Ivanković D,Kaić-Rak A,Milosević M

更新日期：2006-08-01 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 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 test for differences in hemodynamic and analgesic properties in patients with breast cancer undergoing quadrantectomy with paravertebral block (PVB) induced with a solution of either one or two local anesthetics. METHOD:A prospective, single-center, randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial was conducted fro...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Župčić M,Graf Župčić S,Duzel V,Šimurina T,Šakić L,Fudurić J,Peršec J,Milošević M,Stanec Z,Korušić A,Barišin S

更新日期：2017-08-31 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 assess the usefulness of a DNA-based method for identifying mushroom species for application in forensic laboratory practice. METHODS:Two hundred twenty-one samples of clinical forensic material (dried mushrooms, food remains, stomach contents, feces, etc) were analyzed. ITS2 region of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kowalczyk M,Sekuła A,Mleczko P,Olszowy Z,Kujawa A,Zubek S,Kupiec T

更新日期：2015-02-01 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 examine the role of perceived stressfulness of trauma exposure and economic, social, occupational, educational, and familial adaptation after trauma in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in displaced war survivors. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was conducted between March 2000 and July 2002 ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Letica-Crepulja M,Salcioglu E,Francisković T,Basoglu M

更新日期：2011-12-15 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 evaluate the administration of antipyretics to children with upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) by their parents or guardians without consultation with physicians, and compare epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients who received antipyretics and of untreated patients. METHODS:A prospecti...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Andabaka T,Globočnik T,Vukelić D,Esposito S,Baršić B

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels modulate the tocolytic effect of β2-adrenergic receptor (β2-AR) agonists (ritodrine and salmeterol) in early-pregnant (day 6) and late-pregnant (day 22) rat uterus in vitro, in order to examine the relation between the K(ATP) channel sulphonylurea-bin...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Lovasz N,Koncz A,Domokos D,Gaspar R,Falkay G

更新日期：2015-04-01 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 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