Prevalence of spinal pain in a population of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and risk factors of spinal pain in the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey conducted online in November/December 2018. Participants were inhabitants of BiH of both sexes, aged ≥ 16 years.

Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC): an assessment of the diagnostic potential in histologically proven thyroid nodules.

Aim Results of ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) as the compatibility of cytological findings with histopathological diagnoses (the "gold standard") in the diagnosis of nodular thyroid lesions are inconsistent. The aim of this prospective study was to determine the validity of FNAC, as well as the compatibility of findings with histopathological diagnoses. Methods The study included 92 patients who underwent FNAC and later surgery and histopathological assessment with a final diagnosis.

Non-Melanoma Skin Carcinomas of the Head and Neck.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and clinical features of non-melanoma tumors of the head and neck, as well as the validity of surgical therapy in their treatment.

Subjects And Methods: The study included 530 patients who were operated in the Otorhinolaryngology department of the Livno County Hospital.

Results: In 295 cases (65.

Relationship between Education of Pregnant Women and Listening to Classical Music with the Experience of Pain in Childbirth and the Occurrence of Psychological Symptoms in Puerperium.

Introduction: Pregnancy is a unique experience accompanied by significant physiological, biochemical, and psychological changes that may affect a woman's mental health status. With the development of a holistic approach, midwives have become continuous support during pregnancy and childbirth. Childbirth education is an intervention that affects delivery outcomes and the experience of childbirth.

Music Therapy and Mental Health in Pregnancy.

Introduction: In a woman's life, pregnancy is a unique experience accompanied by significant physiological, biochemical, and psychological changes that can affect mental health status. Participation in preventive activities during pregnancy has an impact on better emotional state after childbirth.

Discussion: The therapeutic effects of listening to music on the health of mother and child have been proven in numerous studies.

The Influence of Religiosity and Personality Dimensions on the Attitudes about Abortion.

Background: A major public health problem is illegal abortion and its consequences and reliable data on abortions is globally unavailable. The Catholic Church advocates the protection of the human right for life that begins with conception. Religion was proven as an important predictor in forming abortion attitudes.

Anaphylaxis during pregnancy.

Anaphylaxis occuring during pregnancy has a potential to cause devastating damage to the unborn baby and the mother. However, majority of adverse outcomes of anaphylaxis during pregnancy frequently affect the neonates rather than the mothers. The negative neurologic outcomes of the fetus are mostly due to delayed caesarean delivery or inadequate doses of adrenaline during anaphylaxis.

The Incidence of Depression and Anxiety Among the Elderly in the Area of Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Introduction: The most common mental disorders in elderly, beside dementia, are depression and anxiety, which are important public health problem, although they are diagnosed and treated in under 20% of the population. Mental health care for elderly is one of the indicators of quality or omissions in the health system of a country.

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the incidence of depression and anxiety among the elderly in the Livno area.

PARENTS' ATTITUDES ON THE INTRODUCTION OF HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Introduction: We explored parents' views on the introduction of HE into the educational system, as well as differences in the degree of agreement, depending on the gender of the respondents, the school which the children attend and children's age.

Patients And Methods: Examinees in this study were parents (N = 531) of children attending primary and secondary schools in the area of Municipality Livno. The study was conducted by using cross-sectional study and a special questionnaire was created assessing attitudes on the introduction of HE in the education system which contains 26 items.

The lymph node roundness index in the evaluation of lymph nodes of the neck.

The study assessed the validity of the lymph node "roundness index" (RI) in the evaluation of enlarged lymph nodes of the neck. A total of 107 subjects were included in the prospective study, and 135 enlarged lymph nodes were examined. All the subjects were examined clinically and sonographically, the lymph node roundness index was determined, and soon after the nodes was surgically removed and pathohistologically diagnosed.

Child- and family-centered care in the treatment of children - knowledge, attitudes, practice.

Despite the advances in medical technology, health care improvements have not always been accompanied by commensurate attention to the child's well-being. Psychological and emotional status of children during hospital treatment is often underestimated. Namely, certain kind of institutional negligence is frequently present in everyday practice in children's institutions.

Microbiology of the chronic suppurative otitis media.

The aim of the study was to determine aetiological agents of chronic suppurative inflammation of the middle ear and their susceptibility to antibiotics, which could lead to better therapeutic decisions and consequently avoidance of appearance of resistance to specific antibiotics. Most frequently isolated agents were Staphylococcus aureus (30.6%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (22.

Improved continence in patients with neurogenic sphincteric incompetence with combination tubularized posterior urethroplasty and fascial wrap: the lengthening, narrowing and tightening procedure.

Purpose: We evaluated the outcome in 19 patients who underwent bladder neck reconstruction by lengthening, narrowing and tightening the bladder neck with a combined tubularized posterior urethroplasty and circumferential fascial wrap.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed the records of all patients who underwent bladder neck lengthening, narrowing and tightening between April 1996 and November 2002. Preoperative urodynamic and radiographic data were available on all patients.

War surgical care--experience from Franciscan Hospital "dr. fra Mato Nikolić" in Nova Bila during conflict in Central Bosnia (1993-1994).

This report presents experience in treatment of war injuries in Franciscan hospital "dr. fra Mato Nikolić" in Nova Bila, during the war in Central Bosnia from 1993 to 1994, in conditions of encirclement and typhoid fever outbreak. Descriptive-retrospective analysis of organization, implementation and outcomes of surgical care for patients treated from January 1, 1993 till August 20, 1994.

Outcomes of bladder neck closure for intractable urinary incontinence in patients with neurogenic bladders.

Objective: Recent reports of outcomes of bladder neck closure for neurogenic urinary incontinence reveal poor initial continence and high vesicourethral fistula rates. We evaluated a large series of patients who underwent complete transection and closure of the bladder neck with modified abdominal stoma creation.

Materials And Methods: The medical records of 52 consecutive patients (23 males and 29 females) undergoing bladder neck closure by a single surgeon between July 1996 and January 2003 were reviewed.

Paraneoplastic syndromes in urologic malignancy: the many faces of renal cell carcinoma.

Renal cell carcinoma is unique among the genitourinary malignancies in that close to one third of affected patients show signs and symptoms of a paraneoplastic syndrome. The paraneoplastic syndromes associated with renal cell carcinoma range from those manifesting in constitutional symptoms (ie, fever, cachexia, and weight loss) to those that result in specific metabolic and biochemical abnormalities (ie, hypercalcemia, nonmetastatic hepatic dysfunction, amyloidosis, etc). The presence of a paraneoplastic syndrome in a patient with renal cell carcinoma is neither a marker of metastatic disease nor necessarily indicative of a poor prognosis.

The effects of intentional cryoablation and radio frequency ablation of renal tissue involving the collecting system in a porcine model.

Purpose: Ablative techniques for the treatment of urological malignancy are gaining acceptance and they are likely to become more widely used in clinical practice. Indications and limitations of the technologies are still evolving. In a porcine model we evaluated the safety and efficacy of cryotherapy and radio frequency ablation (RFA) of cortical and deep renal tissue.

Treatment of renal transplant ureterovesical anastomotic strictures using antegrade balloon dilation with or without holmium:YAG laser endoureterotomy.

Objectives: To report our results after antegrade endoscopic treatment of ureteral stenosis with balloon dilation with or without holmium laser endoureterotomy. Ureteral stenosis is the most common long-term urologic complication of renal transplantation.

Methods: From July 2000 to October 2002, 9 renal transplant patients with ureteral obstruction diagnosed by an increase in serum creatinine and radiologic evidence presented for endoscopic treatment.

Quality of life, pain and return to normal activities following laparoscopic donor nephrectomy versus open mini-incision donor nephrectomy.

Purpose: We evaluated pain, convalescence and health related quality of life in patients undergoing laparoscopic and open mini-incision donor nephrectomy.

Materials And Methods: We compared the records of consecutive patients who underwent laparoscopic and mini-incision open donor nephrectomy from our donor nephrectomy data base in retrospective fashion using 2 questionnaires. The first questionnaire evaluated postoperative pain, return to functioning time and satisfaction.

Possible mechanisms for epididymal sparing during testicular ischemia.

Objectives: Although extensive research has been conducted on the normal anatomy and physiology of the epididymis, the effects of ischemia on the organ have not been primarily investigated. The aim of the present study was to investigate the macroscopic and microscopic effects of prolonged ischemia on the epididymis and the factors that may contribute to its resistance to ischemia.

Methods: Six groups of male Sprague-Dawley rats (6 rats/group) were studied.

Low airloss hydrotherapy versus standard care for incontinent hospitalized patients.

Objective: To determine whether low airloss hydrotherapy reduces the incidence of new skin lesions associated with incontinence in hospitalized patients and results in more rapid healing of existing pressure sores compared with standard care. To assess subjectively patient and nursing satisfaction related to using low airloss hydrotherapy beds.

Design: Randomized, prospective, unblinded study.