[Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction with complication--case report].

This case report examines the surgical treatment of megacolon and its complications in a 17-year-old male patient. He was examined in the surgical emergency unit because of severe abdominal pain and absence of stool for one week. Detailed history revealed that the patient had difficulties in defecation from the early childhood.

[Colorectal cancer in Krapina-Zagorje County: the Zabok General Hospital experience].

Aim: To analyze data and current experience in diagnosing and treating colorectal cancer at Zabok General Hospital in Krapina-Zagorje County during a 5-year period (2002-2006).

Methods: Retrospective study of 265 cases of colorectal carcinoma treated at Departments of Internal Medicine and of Abdominal Surgery, Zabok General Hospital, and analysis of epidemiological data obtained from the Croatian Public Health Institute for this County.

Results: The incidence rate of this malignancy in Krapina-Zagorje County was between 47.

[Approach to coronary heart disease patients at a county hospital--Zabok General Hospital].

The aim of the study was to determine health care measures taken in coronary patients hospitalized at Zabok General Hospital in order to identify the problems and accomplishments acquired during the period of observation (2000-2006). Nowadays, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world and in this area. This fact was the main reason for monitoring patients treated at Department of Internal Medicine, Zabok General Hospital with the diagnosis of coronary heart disease.

Risk factor analysis and diagnoses of coronary heart disease in patients with hypercholesterolemia from Croatian Zagorje County.

Our aim is to determine if there exists a difference in risk factors and diagnosis between patients being treated on internal medicine ward for coronary heart disease who have higher levels of cholesterol in their blood and other patients, without proved higher levels of cholesterol, hospitalized for coronary heart disease. We followed patients hospitalized in General Hospital Zabok for coronary heart disease for the period between 2004-2006y. On admission patients were diagnosed with coronary heart disease based on laboratory markers specific for the disease (CK, troponin, LDH,CRP), ECG and history taking.

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients from Croatian Zagorje County treated at Department of Medicine, Zabok General Hospital from 2000 to 2006.

The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients treated for coronary heart disease (CHD) at Department of Medicine, Zabok General Hospital during the 2000-2006 period. Cardiovascular diseases are a group of diseases that occur due to arterial. The risk factors that lead to the development and occurrence of cardiovascular disease are hypertension, cigarette smoking, hyperholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, diabetes mellitus and positive family history.