The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health: A Web-Based Study Among Romanian Adults.

Background In Romania, as in other parts of the world, the family doctor is the first to make contact with a healthy patient and is also the first to notice even the smallest pathological changes. In the context of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the patient's communication with the family doctor became even closer and some behavioral changes could be easily noticed. Objective To assess the symptoms of anxiety and depression in the Romanian population using social media platforms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Long-term survival in a patient with advanced gastric cancer and metachronous right-sided colon cancer.

Gastrointestinal carcinomas represent the most common cancers worldwide. The coexistence of gastric cancer with metachronous colon cancer represents a rare phenomenon, and the prognosis of the patient is poor. We present here a case of an elderly patient with primary gastric intestinal type well-differentiated adenocarcinoma (pT3N0, stage IIA) who developed a metachronous right-sided colon cancer diagnosed and treated after 11 years from the first surgical intervention.

[Contributions to the implementation of screening tests for assessing the neuropsychic development in children].

Unlabelled: Currently, in Romania the general practitioner does not use screening tests to detect the developmental problems in children. That might be the reason why many cases are diagnosed too late.

Aim: To evaluate the impact and the usefulness of a screening tool for neurodevelopmental disorders in primary care.

[Correlations between the level of bacterial resistance and the rate of clinical efficiency in the therapy of community-acquired respiratory tract infections].

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the first-line antibiotic treatment of the community-acquired respiratory tract infections in a population of young adults from an urban setting and to establish the pattern of antibiotic resistance of the germs involved. The bacteria most frequently identified have been: S. pneumoniae, H.

[Clinical and epidemiologic aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome (ADHD) in ambulatory practice].

The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and to describe the clinical presentations of Attention Deficit Hyperkinetic Syndrome in the pediatric patients of the Outpatient Specialty Clinic of the "Sf. Spiridon" University Hospital of Iaşi (a pediatric neuro-psychiatry practice and a general pediatric practice). The studied group consisted of 51 children and adolescents ages 2 years 6 month-18 years of age (urban environment 34 children--66%, rural environment 17 children--34% ; male gender 36 children--70%, female gender 15 children--30%).

[Can the child with congenital heart disease have a normal life-style?].

Is it possible for the child with Congenital Heart Disease to have an adequate life-style? The life-style of the child mainly depends on the life-style of his/her family. Consecutively, the parents themselves must adopt a healthy life-style to be a good example for their children; on the other side, certain restrictions (hyponatremic regimen, the limitation of the physical activity) must be shared among entire family, the education of the parents being essential. To accomplish this, there must be an interdisciplinary team, including the GP, the cardiologist, the psychotherapist and the physiotherapist.

[Headache in children and adolescent in ambulatory practice].

Headache in children and adolescent represents one of the most frequent and potentially severe pathological conditions, requiring a paediatric consult. The purpose of the study was to establish the headache prevalence from the total paediatric consultations in ambulatory practice as well as to establish the main etiological causes of the headache. The study, including 400 children and adolescents (M/F ratio=150/250, U/R ratio=290/110) with headache selected from 3100 cases between 2003 and 2004, in two practices (one general paediatric office and one paediatric neuropsychiatry office) from the Outpatient Clinic of the "Sf.

[The study of two immunological markers in patients with type-1 diabetes and in their first degree relatives].

Unlabelled: The prediction of diabetes mellitus is mostly based on the existence of plasma markers. The aim of this preliminary study was to determine islet cell antibodies (ICA) and glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GADA) in 28 diabetic children (12 of them having an evolutive disease of 1 year and 16 at the beginning of the diabetes) and to 47 of their first-degree relatives. There have been determined the levels of these two autoantibodies using the ELISA technique.

[Aspects of the children's candidiasis in outpatient practice].

Candidiasis are conditions caused by fungi from Candida genus. The most frequently involved in humans pathology is Candida albicans, which, even if is in balance with endogenous bacterial flora, became pathogenic in certain conditions. The hereby study aims to evaluate retrospectively on a period of 5 years (1999-2003), an group of 101,000 children aged 14 days-18 years, the prevalence of candidiasis, the clinical aspects determined in pediatric population diagnosed and treated in the paediatric offices of the outpatient clinic of "Sf.