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…

An ideal medical treatment for affec­tive disorders is not yet available. Specific needs of individual patients can be met by selecting from among a wide range of drugs on the…

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoim­mune demyelinating disease. In the article, the epidemiological situation in the world as well as the prevalence and incidence of multiple sclero­sis in our country…

Two polymorphic sites of the CYP1A1 gene, coding for cytochrome P4501A1 enzyme, have been discovered so far. One involves the 7th exon of the coding region; a nucleotide chan­ge leads…

The purpose of this study was to de­termine the diagnostic value of the lymphocyte blast transformation test in Lyme disease. Our laboratory results were compared with the diag­noses established by…