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 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 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 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 a correlation between calculated creatinine clearance as a measure of kidney’s functional abilities and ultrasonographically determined kidney volume, which represents actual size of the kidney, in fact residual renal mass in chronic kidney disease, in order to determine possibilities of ultrasound as a diagnostic method in...

By Sandra Vegar Zubović, Spomenka Kristić, Irmina Sefić Pašić

Aim To establish a correlation between positive values of IGFBP-1 (>10 mg/L, Actim Partus Test, APT) and premature cervical ripening in imminent preterm labor.Methods A prospective study was conducted in primary health care centers in Tuzla, Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic of theUniversity Clinical Centre in Tuzla and General Hospital Te&scaron...

By Larisa Mešić Ðogić, Dragana Mićić, Feđa Omeragić, Refka Kovač, Seid Fazlagić

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 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