An immunocompromised patient with fulminant sepsis of unknown etiology is described. Within a few hours of onset he developed septic shock and died. The importance of right cardiac catheterization in…

We present a 33-year-old patient who developed high grade fever after returning from his 3-week journey in the south of Africa. He presented with 3 ulcers involving his left ankle…

In this article we present a pacient who has been admited to a Department of otorhinolaryngology and cervicofacial surgery at General Hospital in Celje, after external otitis with retroauricular abscess…

Dialysis-associated steal syndrome occuring after creation of arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis is an uncommon but disturbing and often debilitating complication of upper extremity arteriovenous fistulas. It is decidedly rare with…

We present a patient suffering from focal epilepsy manifested by frequent epileptic 
attacks resistant to anticonvulsant drugs since early childhood. Because of unsuccessful drug 
treatment, high seizure frequency and positive…

Differential diagnosis of asthma in infants and toddlers is not easy to establish. The paper
 presents a girl with asthma who aspirated a foreign body, which was misinterpreted as deterioration
…

Trophic defect of the ala nasi is a rare complication occurring in patients with trigeminal denervation following operation for trigeminal neuralgia and accidental surgical trauma, and less frequently in neurological,…

Renal cholesterol embolization can occur spontaneously or arises as a complication of invasive diagnostic tests and therapeutic procedures on the aorta and its major vessels, including transplantations, in patients with…

The author presents comprehensive long-term treatment of a patient with congenital bilateral malformation of the tibia. He hopes that the encouraging result presented will challenge other investigators to further refine…

The main principles of crisis interventions are discussed and illustrated by reports on three patients admitted to the Crisis Intervention Unit. The author wants to point out one of the…

Contemporary management and treatment of most malignant diseases are conducted in multidisciplinary teams. New knowledge in the field of tumor biology and about molecular mechanisms related to function of chemotherapeutics,…

Dengue fever has reemerged in the past 20 years and expanded to new geographic regions. Together with its causative agents (dengue viruses) and the vectors (Aedes mosquitoes), the epidemic activity…

Transjugular intrahepatic portosys­temic shunt is an alternative therapeutic approach in the treatment of portal hypertension and its complications. Two cases with implant­ed transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt are described. Doppler ultrasonography…

Speaking of acute hepatitis, acute viral hepatitis is what we usually have in mind, although a similar liver inflammation can also be caused by many other etiologic agents such as…

Diffuse interstitial lung diseases, in the strict sense, are immunologically mediated inflam­mations accounting for up to 5% of all pulmonary diseases, while diffuse interstitial lung diseases in the broader sense…

After describing the main characteristics of the desease, the author presents several cases of discitis in order to illustrate the difficult diagnosis due to the misleading clinical picture. The desease…

During the Si.mobil Ski Everest 2000 expedition the hypothesis that hypoxia affects temperature perception was tested. Subjects (N = 5), all members of the expedition, provided subjective ratings of temperature…

Freezing cold injury (FCI), commonly known as frostbite, is a local injury of peripheral tissues caused by freezing. Its main pathophysiological mechanism is arterial vasoconstriction and hypoxia of peripheral tissues.…