The author reports a patient with acute liver and kidney failure diagnosed on his retur­ning from 14-day trip to Brasil, where he had been exposed to various risk factors for…

The article presents some facts about vegetarian diet, its influence on child develop­ment, possible complications and their preven­tion. A vegetarian diet, if properly selected, can meet all the requirements of…

The supracondylar fractures of the hu­merus are the most common type of elbow fractures in children. They occur in either extension or fle­xion pattern. Both patterns have three types distin­guished…

Patients with ovarian cancer are trea­ted individually. The basic method of treatment is the operation, precisely revealing the spread of disease and removing as much of the tumor as possible.…

The advent of ultrasonography and computed tomography has facilitated the ima­ging of kidneys in patients with chronic renal fai­lure. Patients with diffuse renal parenchymal disease present with small, shrunken end-sta­ge…

The recent technical development of echocardiography, especially transesophageal echocardiography, made the diagnosis of patent foramen ovale in adult life possible. The defect pre­disposes the patient to paradoxical embolism and is…

Apoptosis, named as programmed cell death, represents one form of cell death and has a crucial role in the tissue homeostasis. Be­sides this, apoptosis is involved in a number of…

Collateral sprouting of axons in the pe­ripheral nervous system is a branching out­growth of new axon terminals from non-injured axons into adjacent denervated regions of tar­get tissue. The initiation of…

Elevated plasma fibrinogen concen­tration is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. In addition to several factors such as advanced age, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disea­ses, elevated plasma cholesterol and glucose, and…