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As a tension-free repair technique, Lichtenstein operation has gained great popularity worldwide during the last decade. Expert centres do this technique using local anaesthesia in nearly 95 % of cases. However, general anaesthesia is used in many hospitals, while regional anaesthesia is preferred in some centres. To d…

INTRODUCTION: Some low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) struggle to implement smoke-free policies. We sought to review the academic and gray literature, and propose a research agenda to improve implementation of smoke-free policies and make them more effective in LMICs. METHODS: We reviewed 10 databases for variat…

Ultrasound imaging is a vital tool for exploring in vivo the placental function which is essential to understand pathological phenomena such as preeclampsia or intrauterine growth restriction. As technology advances including ready availability of three-dimensional (3D) probes and novel software, new markers of placent…

Updated and expert-quality knowledge bases are fundamental to biomedical research. A knowledge base established with human participation and subject to multiple inspections is needed to support clinical decision making, especially in the growing field of precision oncology. The number of original publications in this f…

BACKGROUND: Hypernatremia is common following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and occurs from a variety of mechanisms, including hyperosmotic fluids, limitation of free water, or diabetes insipidus. The purpose of this systematic review was to assess the relationship between hypernatremia and mortality in patients with TB…

BACKGROUND: The omentum has unique angiogenic and immunologic properties, and its low risk of donor-site lymphedema makes it an ideal donor site for lymph node transfer. However, it is unpopular due to the technicalities and the possibility of donor site-related abdominal complications during its harvest. METHODS: A s…

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary nodule in patients with breast cancer is a difficult problem and constitutes a therapeutic challenge. This study questioned the significance of solitary pulmonary nodule in breast cancer patients and compared the survival with patients who had normal thorax tomography. METHODS: There were 58 brea…

OBJECTIVES: Review of outcomes for children undergoing surgical repair of sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVASD) and proposal of optimal treatment strategy. BACKGROUND: Unlike secundum-type atrial septal defect (ASD II), surgical correction of SVASD is more challenging and carries higher risk of postoperative comp…

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OBJECTIVES: To compare the manual and digital cephalometric analyses and to research a new procedure of analog cephalogram digitalization. METHODS: 40 repeated measurements were used to evaluate the reproducibility and reliability of both methods. The analog x-ray was CHIRALUX2, the digital camera used was Canon Power…

OBJECTIVES: Laparoscopic management of acute cholecystitis may still be associated with increased risk of complications and the conversion rate to open cholecystectomy is accordingly higher when compared to elective cases. The aim of this study was to evaluate preoperative factors associated with conversion in acute ch…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine if the evaluation of the metabolic score is a suitable approach to assess the risk of preeclampsia. RESULTS: The overall number of deliveries in the study period was 2263, preeclampsia occurs in 182 cases. The evaluated metabolic score in these patients was followi…

INTRODUCTION: Opioid analgesics are drugs of choice in the treatment of moderate and severe malignant or noncancer pain. Consumption data helps us to evaluate the status of country's public health. METHODS: We analysed the consumption of opioid analgesics from ATC class N02A in Slovakia in the year 2006 and compared i…

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: To analyze the outcome, complications and functional results in patients undergoing bladder substitution with the Studer continent urinary pouch. MATERIALS AND METHODS: At our Clinic, between January 2005 and December 2006, 20 male patients underwent a radical cystoprostatectomy followed by…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the history, diagnostic procedures, extent and success of the surgical treatment, and possible complications in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. The authors further discuss the findings in the context of literature data. METHODS: Retrospectively, 48 patients (7…

The extensor digitorum (ED) muscle of the hand originates from the lateral condyle of the humerus and splits into four tendons; each for one phalanx except the thumb. Literature reports have described multiple tendons (usually two) to each digit but in the presented study we observed four tendons to the ring finger, wh…

BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the bowel, that may affects the urinary system. Although fistula formation has been reported in up to 35% patients suffering from Crohn's disease, urinary fistulas affect only 2 to 8% patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Authors have done a retrospective stud…

BACKGROUND: The therapy of pathological type of cough presents serious medical problem. OBJECTIVES: The aim of experiments was to investigate polysaccacharide influence on experimentally induced cough. METHODS: The purified and/or modified polysaccharides from the flowers and plants, characterized by chemical composi…

The renal artery is known to exhibit variations in its number and position. The present study was performed on 50 cadaveric kidneys to observe the topographical anatomy of the accessory renal arteries (ARA) entering the upper or lower poles of the kidney. Out of 50 kidney cadaveric specimens (irrespective of sex) studi…

BACKGROUND: Central neurocytoma is a rare primary brain tumour, mostly localised in the lateral ventricles in relation to the foramen of Monro. OBJECTIVES: To report a case of a rare central neurocytoma with a complete loss of Synaptophysin expression and provide the differential diagnosis. METHODS AND RESULTS: We de…