House calls are presented as an integral part of the general practitioner's daily work. Various forms of house calls, as well as their frequency, financing and the associated problems are…

The article presents some old and modern concepts of folie à deux, as well as the epidemiology, etiology, prognosis and course of this disorder. The basic principles of diagnosis and…

Ticks are well-known vectors of numerous diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and protozoa. In the recent years, the incidence of these illnesses has increased worldwide. Tick-borne meningoencephalitis and Lyme borreliosis…

Immunity consist of several mechanisms evolved to protect host organisms against infectious diseases. Microorganisms use different strategies to evade immune responses of the host. The immune system must be able…

Cerebral cortex and nuclei in the brain and brain stem trigger and control all human activities. Nerve centres in the central nervous system are directly or indirectly connected with peripheral…

Diabetes mellitus is an important risk factor for atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was, first, to determine whether young patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus display atherosclerotic changes at the…

Experiments on animals have demonstrated that during the initial 24 hours of tick attachment, the likelihood of transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, from an infected…

Early descriptions of various disorders, now recognized as part of Lyme borreliosis, included various psychiatric symptoms. Although they occur frequently in Lyme disease patients, they are poorly documented in the…

Central venous catether is for many years accompanist of intensive treatment. In the article are described supraclavicular subclavian vein approach by Yoffa and medial infraclavicular approach. Both are among the…

Regardless of its etiology, acute pancreatitis is a severe, even life-threatening disease. The etiologic agents in patients with acute pacreatitis are generally known, yet the exact pathogenetic mechanisms, which trigger…

The endocardial surface and the volume of the left ventricle were determined experimentally by an original noninvasive method with the goal of understanding the mechanism of the influence of the…

Our activities are controlled by nerve tracts, i.e. groups of nerve fibres with the common origin, course and destination. Afferent nerve pathways conveying information to the central nervous system are…

Arterial hypertension is one of the major risk factor predisposing to atherosclerosis. Since elevated blood pressure is part of endocrine metabolic syndrome, hypertensive patients have many other risk factors predisposing…

Doctor Joseph Hyrtl, a prominent scientist and teacher, descriptive and comparative anatomist, histologist and physiologist, medical historian and a sensitive medical philologist at the Prague and Vienna medical faculties died…

In the present study, depression and anxiety were evaluated in a sample of 81 secondary school-aged adolescents, hospitalised at the Adolescent Department, Centre for Mental Health, Ljubljana. The results were…

Cronic constipation is a common problem in children. The paper presents organic causes of constipation and the major risk factors for constipation, which are to be considered in the absence…

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is a hematogenic infection of ascitic fluid occurring in immunodeficient patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. The most common causative organisms of this monobacterial infection include enterobacteria and…

Artificial ventilation means that the air is forced artificially – by apparatus (ventilator) – into the lungs of the patient who is unable to breathe for himself due to his…

Breast cancer is treated by various methods depending on whether we have to deal with primary cancer or recurrence, which may be either locoregional or systemic. In the majority of…

The polymerase chain reaction is a relatively new in vitro method, which uses enzymatic synthesis to amplify, in an exponential manner, specific DNA or RNA sequences. The polymerase chain reaction…

We examined the firing characteristics of single motor units in response to noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation in 17 patients with stroke in order to assess differences in motor unit responses…

Amenorrhea in younger women is a fairly common problem encountered both by general practitioners, gynaecologists and school doctors. The spectrum of its causes is very broad. Fortunately, the disease is…

The paper reviews the current methods of treating trigeminal neuralgia. Procedures on the preganglionic fibres are considered useless, while those at the ganglion level, such as thermocoagulation, chemoneurolysis, and percutaneous compression,…

Cancer of the head and neck has particularly devastating effects both on the patients and his physician. All aspects of cancer pain, i.e. physical, psychological and sociological ones, are much…