Doctor Joseph Hyrtl, a prominent scientist and teacher, descriptive and comparative anatomist, histologist and physiologist, medical historian and a sensitive medical philologist at the Prague and Vienna medical faculties died…

In the present study, depression and anxiety were evaluated in a sample of 81 secondary school-aged adolescents, hospitalised at the Adolescent Department, Centre for Mental Health, Ljubljana. The results were…

Cronic constipation is a common problem in children. The paper presents organic causes of constipation and the major risk factors for constipation, which are to be considered in the absence…

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is a hematogenic infection of ascitic fluid occurring in immunodeficient patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. The most common causative organisms of this monobacterial infection include enterobacteria and…

Artificial ventilation means that the air is forced artificially – by apparatus (ventilator) – into the lungs of the patient who is unable to breathe for himself due to his…

Breast cancer is treated by various methods depending on whether we have to deal with primary cancer or recurrence, which may be either locoregional or systemic. In the majority of…

The polymerase chain reaction is a relatively new in vitro method, which uses enzymatic synthesis to amplify, in an exponential manner, specific DNA or RNA sequences. The polymerase chain reaction…

We examined the firing characteristics of single motor units in response to noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation in 17 patients with stroke in order to assess differences in motor unit responses…

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the results of operative reconstruction of the foot with a musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi free flap. At the Department of Plastic Surgery and…