Aim To evaluate retrospectively demographic, clinical and histopathological variables effective on mortality in patients who hadundergone emergency surgery due to complicated colorectal cancer.Methods A total of 39 patients underwent urgent surgical interventions due to complicated colorectal cancer at the Departmentof General Surgery, Dursun Odaba...

By Remzi Kızıltan, Özkan Yılmaz, Abbas Aras, Sebahattin Çelik, Çetin Kotan

Aim The administration of trans esophageal echocardiography (TEE) may cause nausea, shortness of breath, agitation, emotional distress and pain in patients due to pharyngo-esophageal intubation, which may be partially relieved by sedoanalgesia. The aim of this study was to compare clinical effects of midazolam, midazolam-alfentanil combination and ...

By Toman Huseyin, Atakan Erkılınc, Tuncer Kocak, Fusun Guzelmeric, Omer Faruk Savluk, Mevlut Dogukan, Goksel Acar

Aim To investigate a difference in odor and taste identification among pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum, those with healthy pregnancy and non-pregnant women.Methods This prospective, controlled study included 33 pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum, 33 healthy pregnant and 26non-pregnant women. For all participants, rhinological exa...

By Mehmet Yasar, Mustafa Sagit, Semih Zeki Uludag, Ibrahim Ozcan

Aim To investigate association of mean platelet volume (MPV) and glycemic control markers, and whether MPV could be used as a predictor of deterioration of glucoregulation in Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) patients.Methods The cross-sectional study included 106 DMT2 patients, treated at the Primary Health Care Centre in Zenica, distributedinto gro...

By Damira Kadić, Sabaheta Hasić, Emina Spahić

Aim To determine clinical prognostic factors and their impact on the risk of recurrence of newly discovered non-muscle-invasivebladder cancer.Methods The study included 120 patients of both sexes aged 45-80 years with newly discovered non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. All the patients were treated surgically by transurethral electro resection (TU...

By Haris Đug, Samed Jagodić, Jasmina Ahmetović-Ðug, Zijad Selimović, Alemdar Sulejmanović

Aim To compare the frequency of mental retardation with other psychiatric disorders at the Institute for Mentally Disabled Persons „Drin“ Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to asses psychosocial condition and necessary support to persons with mental retardation.Methods In this retrospective, descriptive and epidemiologic study neuropsychi...

By Edin Bjelošević, Amar Karahmet, Halima Hadžikapetanović, Sonja Bjelošević

Aim To evaluate an impact of eight dimensions of self-rated health measured by the SF-36 questionnaire on visits to family physicians among people older than 65.Methods This cross-sectional study was carried out in family medicine outpatient departments of the Public Institution PrimaryHealth Care Center of Canton Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

By Amira Kurspahić-Mujčić, Melisa Čalkić, Suad Sivić

Aim To verify and compare the accuracies of mortality predictions in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Internal Clinic ofCentral Military Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, using model APACHE II and the newer systems of the APACHE IV, SAPS 3 and MPMo III.Methods The data were collected retrospectively between 2011 and 2012, 1000 patients were e...

By Pavel Pavel Sedloň, Libor Kameník, Jan Škvařil, Martin Malý, Miloš Táborský, Miroslav Zavoral

Aim To investigate prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility, molecular characteristics, and genetic relationship of AmpC- and/or extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL)- producing Proteus spp. clinical isolates in Zenica-Doboj Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Methods Antibiotic susceptibility was determined by disc diffusion and broth microdilution m...

By Selma Uzunović, Amir Ibrahimagić, Branka Bedenić

Aim To investigate differences in vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) results with patients suffering from vestibular migraine and healthy people, taking into consideration values of threshold and latency of occurrence of the characteristic wave complex, size of amplitude, and interaural amplitude ratio. According to the results, determine...

By Tihana Vešligaj, Siniša Maslovara