Nora's lesion or bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation is a rare benign bone neoplasm that is usually localized on the small bones of the hands. The paper was aimed at clinical, morphological and structural analysis of Nora's lesion case, the second registered in Ukraine. A 42-year-old male patient presented with complaints of painless...

By Borys Fylenko, Nataliia Roiko, Andriy Roiko, Іvan Starchenko, Dmytro Kuvichka, Volodymyr Koka

This study aimed to evaluate and quantify the antimicrobial activity of lyophilized fruit juice (BCLJ) and waste extract (BCLW) obtained from the black currant (Ribes nigrum L.) variety Čačanska crna. The study was conducted using four Gram (+) (Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis) and five Gram (-)...

By Milica Trajković, Dušanka Kitić, Tatjana Mihajilov-Krstev, Katarina Šavikin, Milica Ranđelović, Milica Milutinović, Suzana Branković, Nemanja Kitić, Bojana Miladinović

Chronic granulomatous invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (CGIFRS) is an extremely rare form of invasive fungal sinusitis. The disease has a long-lasting and indolent course, so the invasion and destruction in the sinonasal and adjacent regions is progressing slowly. This disease has been reported primarily in Middle East, North Africa, India and Pakist...

By Milica Labus, Jelena Sotirović, Biserka Vukomanović-Đurđević, Aleksandar Perić

Body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (or pounds) divided by the square of height in meters (or feet). Obesity affects a wide spectrum of age groups, from the young to the elderly, and there are several eye diseases related to obesity like diabetic retinopathy, floppy eyelid syndrome, retinal vein occlusion, stroke-related vision ...

By Suzan Rattan, Abdulhadi Alrubaie, Send Salih, Sajad Abdalla, Sajad Hussein, Fatima Tariq

Those born small for gestational age are all newborns whose weight, length and head circumference deviate by more than minus two standard deviations in relation to the same parameters of average children of the same sex, corresponding gestational age and population. The goal is their early recognition and adequate treatment. They should be clearly ...

By Jelena Miolski, Maja Ješić, Vlada Bojić, Smiljka Kovačević, Jelena Blagojević, Vera Zdravković

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with periods of remission and exacerbation. Numerous studies have been conducted in order to identify the ideal marker when it comes to the inflammatory bowel diseases. In the literature, fecal calprotectin is mentioned as a marker of inflammation. Elevated levels of calprotectin ca...

By Mladen Maksić, Tijana Veljković, Mirjana Cvetković, Marija Marković, Saša Perić, Olivera Marinković, Nataša Zdravković

When receiving anesthesia, patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to experience perioperative difficulties than those without this diagnosis. Aim. The aims of the paper were to highlight the correlation between OSA and increased risk of perioperative complications and present possible complications and pathophysiological mechan...

By Zoran Stamenković, Lidija Ristić

Traumatic injury to the cervical segment of the spinal cord causes disability and quadriplegia. Upper extremity mobility and restoration of hand function for people with quadriplegia is a priority. With coordinated electrical stimulation of peripheral muscles and nerves, known as functional electrical stimulation (FES), this is possible. Upper limb...

By Ranka Ogurlić, Anka Vukićević, Emira Švraka

There are several definitions given by various anesthesiology professional organizations that explain the term procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA). The International Committee for the Advancement of PSA has defined procedural sedation as the use of anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics, analgesics and/or dissociative drugs to alleviate anxiety, pai...

By Šćepan Sinanović, Tanja Prodović, Olivera Milovanović, Saša Bubanj, Miljan Krstović, Srećko Potić, Jelena Sekulić, Danilo Jeremić

Medicinal plants are the main ingredient of numerous medicines and pharmaceutical products, and antimicrobial activity has been demonstrated in a large number of medicinal plant extracts and essential oils. Considering that Verbascum L. species (mullein), officially approved by the European Medicines Agency, show antimicrobial properties, but also ...

By Maja Grigorov, Dragana Pavlović, Snežana Mladenović-Antić, Marija Tasić-Kostov, Dušan Ilić