Prunus mume extract and choline treatment in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease estimated by b-mode ultrasonography and hepatorenal index.

Background: The aim of this study was to find the difference between the liver function test (LFT) and hepatorenal index (HRI), before and after the administration of (PM) and choline i.e., to find the predictors of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) severity according its HRI, during the three-month follow-up period.

Femoral neck and spine bone mineral density-Surrogate marker of aortic calcification in postmenopausal women.

Objective: Osteoporosis and abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal women. The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of anterior-posterior (AP) dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) compared with that of X-ray lateral lumbar radiography (LLR) in detecting and scoring AAC.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in 56 postmenopausal asymptomatic females aged 59.

Biomechanics of urinary stress incontinence surgery--theory of the non-permanently acting suburethral supportive structure.

This biochemical study of the lower urinary tract as it relates to urinary continence and incontinence is based on the morphotopographic results of radiological, autopsy and surgical investigations in the period 1966-1968. The process of urinary continence is simply explained by the application of universal hydromechanical laws, which demonstrated that continence during straining results from compression of the urethra over a suburethral resistant structure. Compression occurs during dorsocaudal physiologic displacement of the urethrovesical complex in conditions of increased intra-abdominal pressure.

The gamma-globin gene rearrangements in newborns from the Republic of Macedonia.

Cord blood samples of 3,232 newborns of different ethnic origins living in the Republic of Macedonia were analyzed by starch gel electrophoresis, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography. Hb Bart's was detected in 26 newborns (0.8%) indicating the low incidence of alpha-thalassemia in the Republic of Macedonia.

Obstetric ureterouterine fistula: a case report.

A fistula between the ureter and uterus is a rare disorder in obstetric practice. After reviewing available literature, we found only 27 published cases. We add our own case to this interesting surgical entity.

Hb F-Macedonia-II [G gamma 104(G6)Lys-->Asn]: a new gamma chain variant.

In the course of our newborn screening program for the presence of hemoglobinopathies in the Republic of Macedonia, we have detected a new G gamma chain variant with a Lys-->Asn or AAG-->AAC substitution at codon 104. The variant was found in a blood sample from a healthy baby boy of Macedonian nationality. The abnormal chain was quantitated at 32.

[Leiomyoma of the round ligament of the uterus].

A 53-year-old patient was surgically treated for a tumour the size of a female fist, located on the left of the uterus and appeared to be either a uterine myoma or an ovarian tumour, and also for urine incontinence. Laparotomy revealed a solid tumour on the uterine round ligament, about 2 cm from the uterine horn, and histologically diagnosed as leiomyoma. In the differential diagnosis the authors refer to Kleinwachter's sign having been known for a long time.

[Case report of clear cell carcinoma of the ovary (paramesonephric carcinoma of the ovary)].

A rare case of a clear cell carcinoma of the ovary (paramesonephric carcinoma of the ovary) is presented. Besides clinical implications, the authors discuss controversies concerning the histogenesis of these tumors.

[Pathogenesis of urinary stress incontinence and principles of its surgical treatment].

As in different types of stress incontinence the mechanism of the destroyed urethral support is not the same, the principles of their surgical treatment are bound to differ. Generally speaking, the surgical intervention in stress incontinence aims at securing adequate mobility of the lower urinary organs, forming an effective suburethral support, and correcting the elements of the prolapse. Applying these principles in 508 women with stress incontinence having been surgically treated at the University Hospital Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Skopje from 1968 to 1976 and followed up at least two years afterwards, the global rate of relapses was 6.

[Results of an inquiry on stress urinary incontinence in women].

The authors present the results of an inquiry into urinary stress incontinence in 415 women chosen at random, in whom the genital prolapse or stress incontinence were not complaints for hospitalization. The analysis also excluded all states of pregnancy or puerperium. As in other statistics, the frequency of urinary stress incontinence proved very high (39.

[New radiologico-clinical classification of changes in stress incontinence in women].

Setting forth their experience in over 800 colpocystographies applied in genital prolapse and stress incontinence, the authors propose an original classification of changes in urinary stress incontinence with a view to unifying clinical and radiological findings. Along with classical, wellknown radiological aspects (urethral vesicalization and the prolapse of the urinary bladder) one new type of changes is described. It is named the slipping prolapse of the urinary bladder and is determined by the deterioration of the urethro-vaginal septum leading to a completely isolated dislocation of the lower urinary organs and the frontal vaginal wall.

Colpocystography in cases of genital prolapse and urinary stress incontinence in women.

Experience with colpocystography used routinely in 586 cases of genital prolapse and urinary stress incontinence is described. Radiologic aspects are discussed and related to clinical findings by means of an original classification. The technique is described in detail.