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February 17, 2014

Hand hygiene among health care workers (HCW) is the most important, the easiest and the cheapest preventative measure against nosocomial…

September 8, 2013

The Jebsen hand function test is one of several tests available for hand function. The Slove­ne version of the test…

August 27, 2013

Dialysis-associated steal syndrome occuring after creation of arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis is an uncommon but disturbing and often debilitating complication…

April 3, 2018

BACKGROUNDS. Studying medicine is perceived as very stressful. Despite the fact that the regular stress is a necessary and an…

April 1, 2018

The paper provides a review of indications and contraindications for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, which can be divided into absolute…

March 27, 2018

Traumatic injury of the axillary artery or its branches with distal embolization to the hand arteries is a rare finding,…

March 25, 2018

Peritoneal dialysis is a generally accepted method for management of renal failure in chronic and acute renal failure. A multidisciplinary…

December 8, 2017

Crossed aphasia results from a lesion in a non-dominant, right cerebral hemisphere. This kind of neurological damage is rare and…

December 8, 2017

Glasgow coma scale was first defined in 1974. It was designed as a unified scoring system for assessing a patient’s…

November 30, 2017

Temporal bone contains several cavities: the external auditory meatus, the middle ear, the inner ear and internal auditory meatus. Modern…

June 3, 2014

Epidemiological studies have shown that about 50% of children younger than 15 years have already experienced low back pain. In…

June 2, 2014

BACKGROUNDS. Treatment of total edentulism with implant-supported overdenture is an established alternative to the conventional removable denture, especially in the…

June 2, 2014

Endothelial dysfunction represents one of the earliest changes in arterial function and is an important event in the atherosclerotic process.…

June 2, 2014

BACKGROUNDS. Hypothyroidism is a condition in which clinical, pathophysiological and biochemical changes are found due to thyriod hormone deficiency. Hypothyroidism…

May 30, 2014

Slovenia, unfortunately, ranks top in the European and world suicide rates. In the group of children and adolescents under the age…

May 30, 2014

The importance of hypertension lies in the fact that it represents one of the most significant risk factors for the development…