Aim To analyze the relationship between timing of surgery and outcome in patients with cauda equina syndrome caused by lumbar disc herniation.Methods A retrospective, non-randomized clinical study included 25 consecutive patients with cauda equina syndrome (CES) caused by lumbar disc herniation. All patients were operated within 24 hours after hosp...

By Hakija Bečulić, Rasim Skomorac, Aldin Jusić, Fahrudin Alić, Melica Imamović, Alma Mekić-Abazović, Alma Efendić, Harun Brkić, Amir Denjalić

Aim Red cell distribution width (RDW), an index of erythrocyte size, is associated with high risk for cardiovascular disease. Nondipping hypertension (HT) is lack of nocturnal fall in blood pressure (BP). The association between RDW and non-dipping BP in normotensive and hypertensive patients was investigated.Methods A total of 170 patients were ca...

By Eyup Buyukkaya, Ali Erayman, Esra Karakas, Alper Bugra Nacar, Mustafa Kurt, Sule Buyukkaya, Adnan Burak Akcay, Nihat Sen

Aim To investigate the effect of magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) at different doses on isolated tracheal smooth muscle contraction in rats induced by different mechanisms.Methods Twelve rats’ tracheas were placed into organ bath. Consecutively, acetylcholine (10−6,10−5,10−4 M), histamine(10−8,10−5,10−3 M) and KCl...

By Hatice Betul Altinisik, Pakize Kirdemir, Ugur Altinisik, Osman Gokalp

Aim To evaluate the effectiveness and complication of vertebroplasty with high viscosity cement (HVC).Methods The patients with intensive pain caused by a fractured vertebrae were treated by application of HVC into the vertebralbody, through unilateral transpedicular approach. The application was performed in 422 patients (221 were treated for oste...

By Saša Rapan, Karin Krnić, Vjeran Rapan, Vjekoslav Kolarević

Aim To determine the acceleration of birth weight and birth length of newborns in the municipalities of Tuzla Canton in the last four decades. Tuzla Canton (TC) as an administrative territorial unit of the FBiH includes 13 municipalities.Methods In this retrospective study data from the Protocol Book of Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic, University ...

By Amela Begić, Jasminka H. Halilović, Lejla Mešalić, Sabina H.Halilović

Aim To determine frequency and type of thyroid cancer (TC) as well as gender and age distribution of patients operated at the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Methods A retrospective analysis of data obtained from an operating protocol and disease history of patients operated in the eightyea...

By Nermin Hrnčić, Amna Goga, Selma Hrnčić, Marijana Filipovska-Mušanović, Haris Hatibović, Đenad Hodžić

Aim To investigate effects of post-sampling analysis time, a type of blood samples and collection tubes on blood gas testing.MethodsThis study included 100 patients at the Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Centre Sarajevo. The partial pressure ofoxygen (pO2) and carbon dioxide (pCO2), and the oxygen saturation level of hemoglobin (sO2) were a...

By Jasmina Smajić, Damira Kadić, Sabaheta Hasić, Nafija Serdarević

Aim Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is a multifactorial disease with a genetic predisposition. The protein tyrosine phosphatase-22 (PTPN-22) gene is a powerful inhibitor of T-cell activation. The aim of this study was to compare messenger RNA (mRNA) PTPN22 expression between healthy persons and patients with hypothyroidism and with their affected...

By Gabriel Conzuelo Rodríguez, Hugo Mendieta Zerón

Aim Despite many studies published in recent years concerning the relationship between demographic factors and varicocele, this issue remains controversial. The aim of this study was to identify a possible influence of body mass index (BMI) and height on occurrence varicocele in men.Methods In a case-control study 153 patients aged 18-40 years from...

By Hamid Shafi, Mouloud Agajani Delavar

Aim To evaluate possibilities of computed tomography (CT) perfusion in differentiation of solitary focal liver lesions based ontheir characteristic vascularization through perfusion parameters analysis.Methods Prospective study was conducted on 50 patients in the period 2009-2012. Patients were divided in two groups: benignand malignant lesions. Th...

By Irmina Sefić Pašić, Anes Pašić, Spomenka Kristić, Adnan Beganović, Aladin Čarovac, Amra Dzananovic, Lidija Lincender, Sandra Vegar Zubović