Case Report: Two Cases of Persistent Hiccups Complicating COVID-19.

Two cases are presented with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)-related hiccups: one during initial presentation and one 10 days after COVID-19 diagnosis. Hiccups in both patients were resistant to treatment and responded only to chlorpromazine. COVID-19 patients may present with hiccups and also may have hiccups after treatment.

Death as a Consequence of Foreign Body Aspiration in Children.

Aim: To analyze the rate of mortality in children with foreign body aspiration (FBA).

Methods: We outlined a retrospective review of hospital data of patients between 1971 and 2013. FBA occurring in children 0 year to 14 years was considered for inclusion (patient ages ranged from 0.

The Discrepancy Between Subjective and Objective Findings After Septoplasty.

Introduction: Surgical and medical treatments of nasal obstruction are a common parts of otolaryngologist practice. The definitive treatment of deviated nasal septum is septoplasty.

Aim: In this study was to evaluate the values of subjective parameters, and active anterior rhinomanometry parameters prior and three months after the septoplasty.

Foreign body impaction in esophagus: experiences at Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic in Tuzla, 2003-2013.

Objectives: This study aims to report our experience in the management of foreign body (FB) impaction in esophagus in the Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic, University Clinical Center of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-one patients (44 males, 27 females; mean age 32.99±28.

Complications Related to Insertion and Use of Central Venous Catheters (CVC).

Introduction: Central Venous Catheters (CVC) are essential in everyday medical practice, especially in treating patients in intensive care units (ICU). The application of these catheters is accompanied with the risk of complications, such as the complications caused during the CVC insertion, infections at the location of the insertion, and complications during the use of the catheter, sepsis and other metastatic infections.

Patients And Methods: This study is a retrospective-prospective and it was implemented in the period 1(st) January 2011- 31(st) December 2012.

Talc pleurodesis in pleuropulmonary diseases treatment.

Aim: To determine the efficiency and safety of talc pleurodesis in treating the malignant pleural effusion and recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax.

Methods: The study included 54 patients with malignant pleural effusion and recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax, who underwent talc pleurodesis using the "talc slurry" method of pleural talc obliteration.

Results: Pleurodesis was successful in 52 (96%) patients.

Glasgow prognostic score in patients receiving chemotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer in stages IIIb and IV.

Introduction: Lung cancer is most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is disease with very low 5-year relative survival rate. For patients with non-small cell lung cancer, roles of current treatments are to prolong survival time and to improve quality of life.