Aim To establish the prevalence of refractive errors in preschool and school children between 4 and 15 years of age, living in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Methods Children from all elementary schools in the city of Tuzla and as well from eight day-care centres were screened for refractive errors in the period 2015-2019. Any child, who failed to p...

By Amra Nadarević Vodenčarević, Meliha Halilbašić, Anis Međedović, Vahid Jusufović, Adisa Pilavdžić, Aida Drljević, Mufid Burgić

Aim To investigate interleukin 6 (IL-6) values depending on duration of diabetes mellitus (DM) and evaluate possible correlationwith diabetic polyneuropathy.Methods The research study included 90 patients with DM divided into three groups (30 patients each) according to the durationof DM: group A – patients who had DM for less than 10 years, ...

By Emina Karahmet, Besim Prnjavorac, Tamer Bego, Adaleta Softić, Lejla Begić, Edin Begić, Esma Karahmet, Lejla Prnjavorac, Irfan Prnjavorac

Aim To investigate the changes in the value of the signal to noise ratio (SNR) and to assess changes in the expression of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) in the organ of Corti of rat exposed to noise.Methods This study used a randomized post test only control group laboratory experimental design with 27 male Wistar strain Rattus ...

By Diana Amellya, Tengku Siti Hajar Haryuna, Wibi Riawan

Aim To evaluate if the sinus tarsi approach treated with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF), without using plate fixation, provided good functional results in active adult population. The hypothesis was that the sinus tarsi approach with limited incision provided good results comparable to other approaches. Methods A total of 78 patients (...

By Paolo Ceccarini, Francesco Manfreda, Rosario Petruccelli, Giuseppe Talesa, Giuseppe Rinonapoli, Auro Caraffa

Aim Facial aesthetics is at present a concept intricately linked to the degree of self-esteem. Unwanted submental fat (SMF) leads to an unattractive submental profile. Sodium deoxicolate (ATX) -101 is the only injectable drug approved to decrease submental fat of moderate to severe intensity.Methods We carried out a bibliographic review in PubMed u...

By Cristina Ibáñez-Vicente, Miguel Carrato-Gomez, Luigi Meccariello, Umberto Ripani, Michele Bisaccia

Aim To compare a medial pivot (MP) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with posterior stabilized (PS) TKA designs from a subjective, clinical and biomechanical point of view, in a single-centre, single-surgeon, case-control non-randomized trial.Methods Sixteen patients were randomly picked up from case series into each group. Subjective outcome was asses...

By Nicola Bianchi, Andrea Facchini, Nicola Mondanell, Federico Sacchetti, Roberta Ghezzi, Marco Gesi, Rodolfo Capanna, Stefano Giannotti

Aim To investigate the prevalence of Cryptosporidium sp. and B. hominis among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients in two different outpatient clinics, Haji Adam Malik General Hospital and Primary Care Centre of Padang Bulan, Medan, Indonesia, between two interval periods.Method Cryptosporidium spp. microscopic examination, as well ...

By Hemma Yulfi, Muhammad Fakhrur Rozi, Yunilda Andriyani, Dewi Masyithah Darlan

Aim To investigate the relationship between preoperative level of serum albumin in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), stage of CRC and postoperative complications.Methods This cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted at the Clinic for General and Abdominal Surgery of the UniversityClinical Centre Sarajevo (UCCS). A total of 107 patient...

By Amina Sofić, Ismar Rašić, Emsad Halilović, Alma Mujić, Denis Muslić

Aim Total knee arthroplasty represents a procedure that is successfully performed to relieve functional limitation and pain in advanced stages of osteoarthritis. In the next 20 years the number of these procedures will be increased about four times. Patient specific instrumentation (PSI) has been introduced in the past years. The aim of this study ...

By Michele Romeo, Giuseppe Rovere, Leonardo Stramazzo, Francesco Liuzza, Luigi Meccariello, Giulio Maccauro, Lawrence Camarda

Aim Posture requires fine integrative elaboration, performed by the central nervous system, of neurosensory information originated from the visual, vestibular and spinal circuit. Many perturbing agents can influence this elaboration and then the postural stability. Several studies have evaluated only the effect of a single agent on the postural con...

By Valentina Li Causi, Alessandro Manelli, Valentina Gianpaola Marini, Mario Cherubino, Luigi Meccariello, Michael Mazzacane, Mario Ronga