COMORBIDITY IMPACT ON SOCIAL FUNCTIONING AFTER HIP FRACTURE: THE ROLE OF REHABILITATION.

Objective: To analyze the impact of rehabilitation treatment on social functioning in elderly patients after hip fracture during a rehabilitation program.

Methods: This study included 203 patients with hip fracture. Four groups were analyzed on rehabilitation: Group 1, at admission, Group 2, at discharge, Group 3, three months after discharge and Group 4, six months after discharge.

Very short/short-term benefit of inpatient/outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.

Background: Exercise-based rehabilitation is an important part of treatment patients following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

Hypothesis: To evaluate effect of very short/short-term exercise training on cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) parameters.

Methods: We studied 54 consecutive patients with myocardial infarction (MI) treated with CABG surgery referred for rehabilitation.

Functional status measured by Levine questionnaire in surgically and conservatively treated patients with carpal tunnel syndrome regarding nerve conduction studies.

Aim: To evaluate and compare the functional status in surgically treated patients with Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) compared with those treated conservatively by Levine Questionnaire (LQ) in relation to electroneurographic findings.

Methods: The prospective study included 80 patients with diagnosed CTS. Patients were assessed clinically and electrophysiologically.

Effect of short-term exercise training in patients following acute myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Exercise-based rehabilitation is an important part of treatment patients following acute myocardial infarction (MI). However, data are scarce on the efffects of short-term exercise programs in patients with acute MI treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI).

Aim: To evaluate the effect of short-term exercise training on cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) parameters in patients suffering acute MI treated with PPCI.

Placebo-controlled investigation of low-level laser therapy to treat carpal tunnel syndrome.

Objective: This study investigated the short-term efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in patients with mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), lasting for <1 year.

Methods: Seventy-nine patients with CTS were included in this double-blind, placebo-controlled study, and randomly divided in two treatment groups: Experimental group (EG), active laser group (40 patients); and control group (CG), placebo (sham) laser group (39 patients). A GaAlAs diode laser [780 nm, 30 mW continuous wave (CW), 0.

Estimation of functional recovery in patients after hip fracture by Berg Balance Scale regarding the sex, age and comorbidity of participants.

Aim: To evaluate the functional status measured by Berg Balance Scale (BBS) in elderly aged more than 65 years after hip fractures, and to evaluate the influence of sex, age and comorbidity on balance function improvement.

Methods: The study included 203 patients with hip fractures. Functional status was evaluated by BBS: at admission (Group 1), at discharge (Group 2) and 3 months after discharge (Group 3).

Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone in relation to bone mineral density in postmenopausal women.

Background/aim: Despite vitamin D insufficiency being widely reported, in Serbia the epidemiological data lack information regarding vitamin D status in the sera of postmenopausal women. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of inadequate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations in postmenopausal Serbian women with seasonal variations of 25(OH)D, in relation to parathyroid hormone (PTH) and bone mineral density (BMD).

Methods: A total of 95 postmenopausal women, mean age 65.

Association between atherosclerosis and osteoporosis, the role of vitamin D.

The latest data support the correlation of atherosclerosis and osteoporosis, indicating the parallel progression of two tissue destruction processes with increased fatal and non-fatal coronary events, as well as higher fracture risk. Vitamin D inadequacy associated with low bone mineral density increases fall and fracture risk, leads to secondary hyperparathyroidism, calcifies coronary arteries and significantly increases cardiovascular disease. Randomized clinical trial evidence related to extraskeletal vitamin D outcomes was limited and generally uninformative.

Insulin-like growth factor-I in wound healing of rat skin.

Growth factors play an important role in orchestrating and enabling the cellular responses required for successful wound healing. In the present study, rat surgical incision was used to investigate insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) expression in skin cells as well as its systemic and cutaneous tissue concentrations during acute phase of wound healing. Thirty two animals were sacrificed at days 2, 3, 5 and 9 after surgery.