Treatment of Hypertension with Combination of Lisinopril/Hydrochlorothiazide.

Introduction: Paper is written on the basis of data collected in collaboration with family doctors in several cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective, randomized study was carried out processing of data collected by special design questionnaire from the field through studies and analyzes carried out in 5 health care institutions in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study included 270 patients who underwent three consecutive medical examinations.

Thermal properties and changes of acoustic parameters in an egg white phantom during heating and coagulation by high intensity focused ultrasound.

A polyacrylamide phantom containing egg white has been proposed previously as an adequate tissue-mimicking material for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) application. In this work, we report on measurements of egg white phantom thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity. We measured changes in acoustical properties which occurred during the heating and the coagulation process.

[Sound-field modification with acoustic lenses for high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy].

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy is a minimally invasive method for precise thermal tissue destruction. Most applications make use of spherical, sharply focused fixed-focus transducers. These allow only small ablation rates, thus the treatment of large tumours is a very time-consuming process.

Focal gene induction in the liver of rats by a heat-inducible promoter using focused ultrasound hyperthermia: preliminary results.

Objective: We sought to examine high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)-induced hyperthermia in the liver of a rat model to focally induce green-fluorescent protein (GFP).

Materials And Methods: A total of 25 Copenhagen rats were included in this study. Rats were divided into groups treated with an adenovirus coding for green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of a hsp70B promoter and a CMV promoter.

[Focused ultrasound surgery. Basics, current status, and new trends].

There is an increasing interest in high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for thermo ablative tumor therapy. The attractiveness of this method is based on its ability to destroy tumor tissue non invasively while sparing surrounding tissue from outside the body. HIFU induced tissue necroses are sharply circumscribed.