The author presents a female patient with severe status asthmaticus. He presents pathogenesis, pathophysiology and potential complications of the disease and stresses the importance of clinical evaluation of the patient…

The author describes different methods employed in the treatment of warts, classifying them by their therapeutic value and frequency of use. They include the use of keratolytic agents, surgical excision,…

Modern medicine has been paying increasing attention to eating disorders. The official classification of the diseases deals only with those clinical entities which are related to serious mental and physical…

In congenital coxa vara, the femoral neck-shaft angle is extremely small. Therefore valgus osteotomy is usually performed in order to increase the neck-shaft angle, and thus reduce stress in the…

The clinical relevance and theories on intraabdominal adhesion formation are presented. Pathogenesis and some basic attitudes towards intraabdominal adhesion prevention are described. Intraabdominal adhesion prevention by surface active materials and…

The tumor marker CA 125 was detected in the sera of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer using high levels of labeled monoclonal antibodies. The paper lists the tissues in which…

In spite of long term expectations of the discovery of heart natriuretic substance only nine years ago the atrial natriuretic peptide was discovered. Some essential data about structure, synthesis, secretion…

Oxygen free radicals play an important role in many processes: they are involved in various phases of the inflammatory process and therefore take part in the defence of the organism.…

Clinical entities that most commonly complicate the early postinfraction course and have adverse effects on prognosis include myocardial ischemia, heart failure and arrhythmias. The objective of the study was to…

We studied 62 young healthy volunteers, mostly students, with the mean age of 23,7 years. They were devided into a group with positive family history of hypertension (group A, N=27)…

Acute cholangitis is a serious complication occurring in patients with extrahepatic obstruction of the biliary tract, most commonly due to common bilr duct stones. Mortality rates associated with this complication…

Marfan's syndrome, which is a fairly uncommon disease in Slovenia, is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern and can involve connective tissue in the following three systems: cardiovascular system, skeleton…

Warts are benign infectious epitheliomas induced by the human wart virus. The paper describes the most common cutaneous manifestations, which include plantar warts, caused by human papillomavirus 1, common warts,…

In this paper the author presents the classification of affective disorders, proceeds with the importance of basic genetic research, bit does not refer to the epidemiological studies. Different methods of…

Anatomy and physiology of nervous structures involved in temperature and pain perception, as well as single sensations, receptive structures and afferent nerve fibers are defined. Peripheral nerves and spinal cord…

Positron emission tomography is a noninvasive research technique used in medicine to measure the three-dimensional distribution of the biologically active substances, marked with a positron emitter in the living body.…

Lumbar disc degeneration is the most common cause of low back pain. The author describes the pathogenetic factors and clinical diagnosis of this disorder. A thorough physical examination can determine…

The number of household pets is constantly increasing. In Slovenia, there are between 140000 and 150000 dogs and about three to four times as many cats. The number of birds,…

Oxygen free radicals are obligatory side product of the aerobic cell metabolism. In the first part of the paper their main characteristics and formation paths as well as the reactions…

Acute complications of diabetes are life-treatening conditions requiring immediate medical assistance. Although they are responsible for a rather small proportion of deaths in diabetic patients, the mortality rates associated with…

Fibrinolytic response to venous occlusion is used to asses efficiency of fibrinolytic system. All factors that might influence fibrinolytic response are not known. The venous occlusion was preformed twice within…

We studied 44 patients receiving venom immunotherapy. Among the patients who suffered insect sting during the immunotherapy period, the number of subjects responding only by local reaction (60%) or mild…

The authors report on a young female patient with Cogan's syndrome. Diagnosis, differential  diagnosis and treatment of this rare disease are presented.

Malignant tumors are the second most common cause of death in children under 15 years, after injuries. While cancer of the epithelial origin is most common in adults, leukemia and…