INTRODUCTION Acquired hemophilia is a rare condition of impaired coagulation with a yearly incidence of around 0.2 to 1 case per 1,000,000 population. The cause of the disease is the presence of antibodies to an essential blood-clotting protein, the so-called factor VIII (F VIII), also known as...

INTRODUCTION Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent cardiac rhythm disturbance in clinical practice and is most commonly associated with coronary disease and hypertension. It is known, from relevant literature, that several classes of drugs (sympathomimetics, parasympathomimetics, and...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is a serious health problem of modern society. Obese women are at higher risk of developing certain gynecological diseases including endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial carcinoma [1]. In addition, excessive body weight makes it difficult to perform surgical procedures in...

INTRODUCTION Coronary-cameral fistula (CCF) is an anomalous connection between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber. Most CCFs are discovered incidentally during angiographic evaluation of coronary vascular disorders. It was previously believed that coronary-cameral fistula, first described...

INTRODUCTION Painful symphysis syndrome in athletes was, in detail, first described by Spinelli, in 1932, but literature also shows that, in the 1990s, Gilmore named this syndrome Gilmore’s groin. Other synonymous names for the condition, also found in literature, are as follows: symphysis...

INTRODUCTION Treating pelvic fracture is one of the greatest challenges in orthopedic surgery and traumatology. Pelvic fractures occur as the result of powerful force, primarily in traffic accidents (60%), in falls from height (30%), as well as in shooting and industrial accidents [1]. In a...

INTRODUCTION The age of the population is increasing worldwide and is becoming an emerging problem in society. During the 50-year period between 1900 and 1950, the elderly population doubled in number in the United States of America (USA) – people over the age of 65 years comprised 4.1% of the...

INTRODUCTION Acute stroke is the second most common cause of death in the world and the first most common cause of disability in developed countries. It is estimated that one person suffers stroke every 45 seconds, while there is one death related to acute stroke every three minutes, in the...

INTRODUCTION Antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in surgery is an efficient method for preventing and reducing the risk of surgical site infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), surgical site infections are considered an important global problem [1]. They are...

INTRODUCTION The system of diagnosis related groups (DRG) is a modern system for classifying patients treated in hospital (inpatients) into groups which describe different combinations of cases in patients – casemix. This system is being used all over the world with the aim of improving...

INTRODUCTION Primary health care (PHC), as the “cornerstone of a sustainable health system“ [1], is essential for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary health care was expected, not only to meet the ‘usual’ needs in health care, but also to respond to the crisis situation, as well as to...

INTRODUCTION Multicyclic and permanent cytopoiesis is the process of cell development or expansion of a large number of progenitors and precursors, as well as mature cells, from a small number of undifferentiated (immature) stem cells (SCs), in vivo or ex vivo [1,2,3]. Generally, SCs guarantee...

INTRODUCTION Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a progressive and rare multisystem disease of unknown etiology, which predominantly affects women, causing damage to the function of the lungs [1]. An epidemiological study, car- ried out in seven countries, showed the incidence of LAM to be 3.4 –...

TA Aleksandra Radovanović Spurnić, MD, PhD Secretary of the Serbian Journal of the Medical Chamber   Dear colleagues, On my own behalf and on behalf of the editorial staff, I have the great honor and even greater pleasure of addressing all of the supporters of our...

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