Association between burnout and immunological and endocrine alterations.

Background: Weather a psychological construct or a clinical entity, numerous studies have been focused on the biological link between stress, burnout, and biomarkers.

Aim: The purpose of our study was to search the existing literature and summarize the immunological and endocrine alterations found in burnout patients and, also, to provide updated data for clinicians to use.

Methods: We performed a literature search in PubMed database using specific terms.

Psychopharmacological Treatment, Intraocular Pressure and the Risk of Glaucoma: A Review of Literature.

Through the years, the available psychopharmacological treatments have expanded with numerous new drugs. Besides weight gain, gastro-intestinal problems or Parkinson-like symptoms, ocular adverse effects of psychiatric drugs have been reported. These adverse effects are not common, but can be dangerous for the patient.

Algorithm of Medical-Surgical Treatment in the Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Diabetic Patient.

We live in a society with a growing number of diabetics. That is why the number of diabetic patients with peripheral arterial disease is expanding, as is the number of cases of chronic ischemia, which threatens limb viability, or chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). The appearance of diabetic foot ulcers with an ischemic component represents the maximum risk of amputation in the absence of a firm and rapid revascularization intervention.

Surgical Revascularization in Chronic Limb-threatening Ischemia in Diabetic Patients.

Diabetes mellitus is one of the chronic diseases that showed a steady increase in the number of patients in the last decades. After the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, evolution towards limb amputation goes, step by step, through neuropathy, leg ulcers and infection appearance. The existence of diabetic arteriopathy prevents ulcer's healing due to the limb's ischemic status.

Romanian adolescents' knowledge and attitudes towards human papillomavirus infection and prophylactic vaccination.

Objectives: Since licensure of HPV vaccine in 2006, HPV vaccine coverage among Romanian adolescents remains worryingly low. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge and attitudes towards HPV infection and vaccination among Romanian adolescents and to explore the barriers to HPV vaccination with a view to developing strategies for expanding primary HPV infection prevention.

Study Design: This study was conducted in Bucharest between April and June 2015.