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Schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and carries a lifetime risk of 1%. The International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision 461 (ICD 10), classifies the following forms of schizophrenia: paranoid, hebephrenic, catatonic, undifferentiated, residual, simple schizophrenia, and post-schizophrenic depression. The arti­cle describes most common paranoid and rare catatonic schizophrenia, their diagnostic guide­lines, clinical

Ethylene glycol intoxications are quite rare. The toxicity of ethylene glycol is largely related to its metabolites rather than the parent compound itself. Our case report represents the typi­cal clinical findings (neurological, cardiopulmonary and renal phase) and laboratory results (elevated serum osmolality, high osmolal gap, high anion gap metabolic acidosis, calcium oxa­late crystals in the urine) of an ethylene glycol

The article presents a patient who developed severe acute hyponatremia during transuret­hral prostate gland resection. This case is interesting because of the sudden onset as well as the severity of the initial clinical presentation of hyponatremia, which developed despite meti­culous supervision and routine preventive measures. Initial laboratory measurement revea­led an extremely low serum sodium level. Combined with the clinical picture

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The most common manifestation of the disease is pulmonary tuberculosis but other organs can also be affected (so called extra-pulmonary tuberculosis). Until the year 2005, the number of reported tuberculosis cases worldwide has been increasing. In Slovenia, in 1996, the control over tuberculosis patients was intensified and improved.

Abstract. Glucagonoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor with pancreatic alpha cell differen­tiation. This tumor is characterized by hypersecretion of a peptide hormone glucagon, which can be detected in this type of neoplasia. The majority of tumors are malignant and most patients already have a metastasis. The average patient age at the time of tumor discovery is 52.5 years. A characteristic,

Acute hepatic porphyrias are rare disorders of heme metabolism and can potentially be let­hal. Diagnosis is based on the clinical presentation and laboratory analysis of urine. Adequate and early treatment can prevent further complications. The paper presents a case of a 30-year-old patient with known diabetes mellitus, who had several episodes of abdomi­nal pain over the past three years. During