Simple uninvestigated dyspepsia: age threshold for early endoscopy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Objective: To establish an optimal age threshold for endoscopy referral in patients with simple uninvestigated dyspepsia in the setting of European developing country (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with low availability and high workload of endoscopy units.

Methods: We reviewed patient information on all upper endoscopies performed during a 6-year period (2000-2005). Different age thresholds were evaluated in terms of their predictive power for absence of malignancy.

Crohn's disease in Tuzla region of Bosnia and Herzegovina: a 12-year study (1995-2006).

Background: Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) is one of the Eastern European countries with lacking data on Crohn's disease (CD) epidemiology.

Goal: We aimed to assess incidence of CD in Tuzla Canton of B&H during a 12-year period (1995-2006).

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated hospital records of both CD inpatients and outpatients residing in Tuzla Canton of B&H (total of 496,280 inhabitants) between 1995 and 2006.

Genetics, clinical manifestations and management of FAP and HNPCC.

Colorectal cancer occurs in the familial cancer syndromes in about 2 to 4 percent. The major genetic syndromes are Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). FAP is caused by germline mutation of APC gene, and HNPCC is caused by germline mutation in one of five MMR genes.

[Percutaneous treatment of abdominal and retroperitoneal echinococcal cysts using ultrasonography].

Aims: In recent year's percutaneous drainage has been used successfully to treat the hydatid cysts. We performed a controlled trial to present the successful appliance of this method in the treatment of abdominal and retroperitoneal hydatid diseases.

Methods: In a prospective study, we have assigned 84 patients (51 women and 33 men, average age 45.

[Balloon dilatation in esophageal stenosis].

The most frequent causes of the stenosis are as follows: Schatzki rings, structures as the complications of GERB', postcorrosive and postoperative at nosis. The Balloon dilatation is one from the therapeutic procedures of stenosis of the esophagus. By the clinic research is included 12 patients with the stenoses of the esophagus of the various cause.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities of interventional echotomography in gastroenterology].

Interventional ultrasound includes all diagnostic and therapy procedures controlled by ultra sound. In this manner, conventional ultrasound diagnostics which has a very important diagnostic role in gastroenterology increases its potential in diagnosis and gives an important contribution in the therapy of abdominal organs diseases. Diagnostic interventional ultrasonography enables sampling from solid and cystic changes for histological or cytological analyses.

[Interventional ultrasound in the treatment of acute pancreatitis].

Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the possibilities of interventional ultrasonography in the treatment of liquid collections created during and after an acute pancreatitis.

Patients And Methods: Ultra-sound controlled percutaneous drainage of peripancreatic liquid collections was done in 58 patients (44 men and 14 women, average age 47.8 within the span of 15-68) in the period between May 1995 and September 2001.