Problems in the treatment of osteoporotic fractures of the lower limbs.

Based on literature and own experience, author presents epidemiology data and treatment strategy; diagnostics preoperative procedures, possibilities of conservative and a specially operative treatment of the most common osteoporotic fractures of the proximal femur end and pelvis.
Author presents also the rules of the fractures prevention and post operative treatment.

Influence of autologous serum on rabbit chondrocytes proliferation in vitro. Comparing study to standard sera supplements.

Background. Autologous chondrocyte transplantation (ACT) is a method in reconstructive surgery. Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is still a "gold standard" for media supplementation in many laboratories.

Combined subarachnoid and epidural anaesthesia for endoprosthetoplasty of the knee joint.

Background. We investigated the efficacy of combined spinal epidural anaesthesia (CSEB) that combines the main spinal and the supporting epidural anaesthesia for pain treatment after total knee replacement (TKR). Material and methods.