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Peritonsillar Abscess Complication: A Case Report
In the pre-antibiotic era, parapharyngeal infection was a frequent complication of tonsillitis. However, due to widespread use of antibiotics, its frequency has decreased and consequently the infection is quite uncommon…
Read more ›Crossed Aphasia in a Patient with Acute Ischemic Stroke? A Case Report
Crossed aphasia results from a lesion in a non-dominant, right cerebral hemisphere. This kind of neurological damage is rare and raises a number of issues in relation to the distribution…
Read more ›A Practical Approach to the Evaluation of Consciousness with the Glasgow Coma Scale
Glasgow coma scale was first defined in 1974. It was designed as a unified scoring system for assessing a patient’s conscious state. During the four decades of use, several versions…
Read more ›Treatment with Magnesium Sulphate for Cerebral Palsy Prevention in Preterm Birth: A Literature Review and Protocol Presentation
Cerebral palsy is a group of movement and posture disorders sometimes associated with other neurological deficits. It represents a significant decrease in the patients’ quality of life and a substantial…
Read more ›Diagnosis and Management of Diseases of Pulmonary Valve in Adult Patients
The pulmonary valve separates the right ventricle outflow tract from the pulmonary artery and prevents deoxygenated blood from the pulmonary artery to return into the right ventricle. The pulmonary valve…
Read more ›Heart Rate Variability Parameters and Their Use in Medicine
The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in various pathological situations such as myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure or diabetic neuropathy and is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of…
Read more ›Methods for the Assessment of Functional and Structural Characteristics of the Arterial Wall
Tests of functional and structural properties of arteries are becoming clinically more and more relevant. Numerous non-invasive methods for assessing endothelial function and arterial stiffness have been developed, many of…
Read more ›Targeted Cancer Cell Therapy
Cancer patients today live longer and have a better quality of life. This is mainly due to a multidisciplinary approach in cancer diagnostics. A close collaboration between pathologists, who perform…
Read more ›New Indications and Development of Cannabis-based Medicines
Cannabis has a long history of consumption both for recreational and medicinal uses. After the discovery of endogenous cannabinoid system and cloning of cannabinoid receptors during the last decade of…
Read more ›Long-term Results of Proximal Femoral Reconstruction with the Kent Hip Endoprosthesis
BACKGROUNDS. Proximal femur reconstruction after removal of bone tissue due to various causes presents a major challenge for orthopaedic surgeons. One of the possible solutions is the Kent Hip endoprosthesis,…
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