Pregnancy outcomes of COVID-19 positive pregnant women at the Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Aim To investigate clinical presentation of COVID-19 infection in pregnancy, its course during pregnancy, effects on pregnancy outcomes for both mothers and newborns as well as the potential for vertical transmission. Methods This retrospective observational study included all identifi ed COVID-19-positive pregnant women admitted to the Cantonal Hospital in Zenica at any stage of pregnancy or labour from 30 April 2020 to April 30 2021. Maternity and newborns were followed until discharge from the hospital.

A one-year review of macrosomic births at the Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Aim To identify a rate of macrosomic births in a one-year review, associated maternal characteristics and pregnancy outcome. Methods This one-year retrospective review included all macrosomic deliveries at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Cantonal Hospital Zenica between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018. The data were collected from maternal and newborn medical records.

Nitric oxide biosynthesis during normal pregnancy and pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia.

Aim To investigate biosynthesis in nitric oxide (NO) during normal pregnancy and in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia. Methods This prospective cross-sectional study included 80 patients hospitalized at the Department of Women's Health, Neonatology and Perinatology Cantonal Hospital in Zenica. Serum NO concentration in 20 non-pregnant women, 40 healthy pregnant women and 20 pregnant women with preeclampsia aged 17-40 years were measured.

Occupational risk factors for prostate cancer in an area of former coal, iron, and steel industries in Germany. Part 2: results from a study performed in the 1990s.

Currently, there is no established occupational risk factor for prostate cancer. However, in the 1980s, a hospital-based case-control study in the greater Dortmund area showed an elevated risk for hard coal miners and, based on few cases, for painters and varnishers. Therefore, approximately 10 yr later, a similar study regarding prostate cancer was performed in this area.

Effect of antihypertensive therapy with alpha-methyldopa on umbilical artery Doppler in pregnancies with hypertensive disorders.

Aim To clarify whether applying alpha-methyldopa treatment influences flow resistance in umbilical cord artery in pregnant women suffering from hypertensive disorder. Methods In this prospective cross-sectional study a follow-up was done for 50 pregnant women with singleton pregnancies between 36 and 40 gestation weeks, who had been hospitalized at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department of the Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina from October 2009 to January 2012. Pregnant women were classified in two groups according to the level of using alpha-methyldopa in the treatment.

Bladder cancer documentation of causes: multilingual questionnaire, 'bladder cancer doc'.

There is a considerable discrepancy between the number of identified occupational-related bladder cancer cases and the estimated numbers particularly in emerging nations or less developed countries where suitable approaches are less or even not known. Thus, within a project of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health, a questionnaire of the Dortmund group, applied in different studies, was translated into more than 30 languages (Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese/Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish/Mexican, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese). The bipartite questionnaire asks for relevant medical information in the physician's part and for the occupational history since leaving school in the patient's part.

[Intact twin tubal pregnancy].

A case of a unilateral eight-week twin ectopic pregnancy diagnosed with transvaginal sonography is presented here. This ectopic pregnancy was found in the right Fallopian tube of a 35-year old woman. After the surgical procedure conducted by the method of transversal laparotomy, we removed the right Fallopian tube with two gestational sacs So far only a hundred of such cases of ectopic twin pregnancy have been described worldwide.

Elevated bladder cancer risk due to colorants--a statewide case-control study in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Occupational exposure to aromatic amines is a known bladder cancer risk factor, whereas the impact of exposure to azo dyes, which may release aromatic amines in humans, is at present controversial. Therefore, the impact of occupational exposures to colorants was investigated in 156 bladder cancer cases and 336 controls in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. All bladder cancer cases and controls (diagnosed with prostate cancer) requested after-care treatment.

Primary testicular carcinoid.

Background: Testicular tumors in general can be classified as seminoma, embryonal carcinoma, teratocarcinoma, choriocarcinoma, and mixed tumors. Nevertheless, other histological types may also be observed. In rare cases, primary or secondary neuroendocrine tumors derived from chromaffine cells can be observed in the testicle.