Evaluating Serum Calcium and Magnesium Levels as Predictive Biomarkers for Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Severity: A Romanian Prospective Study.

In Romania, the highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB) within the European Union was reported in 2020, highlighting a significant health challenge. This is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely impacted healthcare services, including TB management. Both TB and COVID-19, diseases with considerable morbidity and mortality, have shown potential links to electrolyte imbalances.

Anticipatory Grief in the Families of Patients with Palliative Requiring Metastatic Cancer.

Background/aim: When dealing with metastatic cancer patients, family distortions, such as anticipatory mourning, psychiatric and psychosocial disorders may occur. In the case of anticipatory mourning, there exists the risk of the patient being "given up" as if he is already gone, which will only make the patient feel lonely, with numerous problems occurring in the subsequent period of familial mourning. Currently, the importance of identifying the type of mourning affecting families of cancer patients has become more and more clear, as this allows not only for greater therapeutic success, but also avoids a high number of risks and complications that appear during the critical care period.

Mismatch repair gene expression in gastroesophageal cancers.

Background/aims: Mismatch repair (MMR) genes play a critical role in maintaining genomic stability, and the impairment of MMR machinery is associated with different human cancers, mainly colorectal cancer. The purpose of our study was to analyze gene expression patterns of three MMR genes (MSH2, MHS6, and EXO1) in gastroesophageal cancers, a pathology in which the contribution of DNA repair genes remains essentially unclear.

Materials And Methods: A total of 45 Romanian patients diagnosed with sporadic gastroesophageal cancers were included in this study.

[Perilesional changes in gastric ulcer].

Unlabelled: Our work aims to provide a descriptive analysis of the perilesional changes associated with gastric ulcer, which were observed on a group of patients diagnosed by endobiopsy.

Material And Method: The group comprised 90 persons with clinical diagnosis of gastric ulcer, who were investigated both endoscopically and pathologically. The gastric fragments were processed for light microscopy (HE, PAS, alcian blue stains).