Factor structure and psychometric characteristics of the City birth Trauma Scale- Slovak version.

Objective: The City Birth Trauma Scale (City BiTS) is a questionnaire designed to assess the posttraumatic symptoms after birth. This study aimed to explore the factors structure, internal consistency, known-groups validity, and convergent validity of the City Birth Trauma Scale in Slovakia.

Methods: Cross-sectional Slovak national data from the INTERSECT study were analyzed in this study.

Selected Factors of Experiencing Pregnancy and Birth in Association with Postpartum Depression.

Background: The aim of the study is to analyse the risk of postpartum depression using dimensions of perceived support (information, emotional, and physical), antenatal education (satisfaction and attitude), and attitude toward pregnancy (wanted or unwanted).

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 584 postpartum women in two university birth centres in Slovakia. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) score was used.

Virtual patients: an option for future distance midwifery education?

Background: The objective is to introduce the creating a set of virtual patients (VPs) to support distance midwifery education as well as the impact of distance education by means of VPs on knowledge, skills, motivation, clinical practice, and student satisfaction.

Methods: VPs were created using OpenLabyrinth (OL). The impact of the distance education was assessed using a feedback questionnaire.

The Association between Birth Satisfaction and the Risk of Postpartum Depression.

Negative experiences with childbirth might have a negative impact on a woman's overall health, including a higher risk of postpartum depression. The aim of the study was to examine the association between birth satisfaction and the risk of postpartum depression (PPD). A 30-item version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale (BSS) and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) were used, as well as the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).

Factor Structure of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in a Sample of Postpartum Slovak Women.

Background: Postpartum depression has a negative impact on quality of life. The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).

Methods: A paper and pencil version of the 10-item EPDS questionnaire was administered personally to 577 women at baseline during their stay in hospital on the second to fourth day postpartum (age, 30.

[Cognitive impairments and microvascular endothelial dysfunction in unilateral occlusion of the carotid artery].

Objective: The study was aimed at determining cognitive impairments, vascular endothelial dysfunction and morphofunctional alterations of neurons in brain structures (neocortex and hippocampus) in unilateral occlusion of the common carotid artery in albino rats.

Material And Methods: The experiments were carried out on Wistar albino rats. The animals were divided into two groups: group 1 - the control group composed of sham-operated rats and group 2 - the study group consisting of rats with cerebral ischaemia.

Creation of virtual patients for midwifery education.

Objective: The objective of the study was to create several new, original virtual patients (VPs) in the Slovak language, especially for educational purposes in midwifery.

Setting: Virtual patients have been created for the needs of university midwifery education in Slovakia.

Model: The creation of the six virtual patients basically consisted of three fixed stages: preparation, design and development, implementation into the virtual environment.

Experience of lecturers with simulation training in midwifery education in Slovakia.

The simulation training in midwifery has a long tradition. It is aimed at acquiring basic and advanced practical skills such as performing a certain number of births, episiotomy and subsequent suture, assisting during breech birth etc. Midwifery education is currently based on the requirements of the Directives of the European Union exactly specifying number of performed practical procedures and approaches (World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe, 2009).

[Atypical maxillofacial shot wound].

Maxillofacial shot wounds belong to the relatively less frequent injuries. The soft tissues might be affected in particular, however the most of injuries are combined with infliction of hard tissues. Shot wounds by the bow or crossbow are very rare.

Behavior of bioactive glass-ceramic implanted into long bone defects: a scintigraphic study.

The purpose of the study was to assess the long-term behavior and incorporation of the bioactive oxyhydroxyapatite glass-ceramic used to fill defects of long bones after curettage of bone cysts in 17 patients. The method of evaluation was a three-phase bone scintigraphy combined with radiographic and clinical evaluation. At a mean follow-up of 7 years, the glass-ceramic material had been completely incorporated.

Behaviour of nonresorbable bioactive glass-ceramic implanted into long bone defects: comparison with cancellous allografts.

Introduction: The goal of this retrospective study was to compare the long-term results after implantation of the nonresorbable glass-ceramic material and transplantation of the cancellous allografts into the defects of long bones.

Method: The bone cysts were excochleated and filled using granules of glass-ceramic material or cancellous allografts. Clinical, radiographic and scintigraphic examinations of 30 patients were carried out 2-14 years after their surgery.

[Scintigraphic detection of osteoblast activity after implantation of BAS-0 bioactive glass-ceramic material into long bone defects].

Purpose Of The Study: The aim of the study was to demonstrate, by three-phase bone scintigraphy, radionuclide uptake at the site of defects in long bones filled with the non-resorbable bioactive glass-ceramic material BAS-0 at a long follow-up.

Material: Twenty patients, 14 men and 6 women, operated on between 1990 and 2000 for benign bone tumors or tumor-like lesions localized in the femur, tibia or humerus were comprised in the study. Their average age at the time of operation was 14 years (range, 8 to 24).

Selective medium for primary isolation of members of the tribe Proteeae.

A selective Proteeae medium (SPM) for isolation and preliminary detection of species of genera Proteus, Morganella, and Providencia was evaluated. The SPM contains tryptose phosphate agar with phenolphthalein monophosphate (as substrate for phosphatase activity), bile salts and polymyxin B (as inhibitors). The selectivity of the SPM was tested by the ecometric method of quality assurance of culture media.

[Monitoring the incorporation of bioactive glass ceramics in the area of the acetabulum after surgical revision of the hip joint arthroplasty by scintigraphy.].

The authors investigated changes of osteoblastic activity at the site of a reconstructed defect of the acetabulum after aseptic loosening of a total endoprosthesis of the hip joint by administration of an osteotropic radiopharmaceutical preparation, methylendiphosphonate, labelled with 99mTc. The defect of the acetabulum was filled with bioactive glass ceramic material BAS-0 (Lasak Co., Prague) in the shape of dense granules 4-8 mm in size and a metal antiprotrusion basket.

[Cysts and pseudocysts of the spleen in children].

A cyst in the upper pole of the spleen was diagnosed in three children. In all the pole of the spleen was resected -in two instances it contained a cyst, in one a pseudocyst. The postoperative course was without complications.

[Identification of Citrobacter species and their occurrence in raw products and foods].

Fifty-nine strains of bacteria were tested in study that were isolated from raw materials and foods (raw milk, farm milking parlors, sausage meat, raw potatoes, cheese, frozen oven-ready foods, confectionery products, cold dishes), and they were included in the genus Citrobacter using a commercial diagnostic kit ENTEROtest 16 (Lachema a.s., Brno), numeric identification program TNW (Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Science of Masaryk University at Brno) and identification key (O'Hara et al.

[The NEFERM test in the identification of psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from milk and dairy products].

Sanitary and nutriti on quality of foods from animal sources, that means also of milk and dairy products, are significantly influenced by the presence of psychrotrophic bacteria, the lipolytic and proteolytic activity of which contributes to their nutritive and sensory changes. This applies particularly to psychrotrophic bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, Shewanella, Alcaligenes and Flavobacterium (Muir and Phillips, 1984; Piton and Richard, 1985; Craven and Macauley, 1990). These bacteria cause raw and pasteurized milk to turn bitter and gelatinize, and/or technological problems during processing.

[The NEFERM-Test for identification of psychrotrophic bacteria in food].

Identification of gramnegative nonfermentative bacteria by traditional methods requires much labor and time consumption. Therefore in this study we tested the use of an available commercial diagnostic kit and processing of its results by computerized numerical identification systems. Identification involved 83 gramnegative, psychotrophic, nonfermentative, oxidase-positive bacteria isolated from just slaughtered and deep-frozen chickens.

[Blunt injury of the kidney--personal experience and present views on its therapy].

Between 1972 to 1994 there were admitted 105 patients with blunt trauma of the kidney, 89 men and 16 women with median age 32 years. In 53 patients the left kidney was affected and in 52 of them the right side was injured. According to the grade of trauma we evaluated in 77 patients a contusion (73.

[A computerized numerical identification system for the diagnosis of bacteria isolated from raw animal food products].

Acceleration of bacteria identification and certain standardization of results in clinical, and also veterinary and food microbiology is enabled by use of commercial diagnostic sets and computer processing of their results. In the present paper, 80 bacterial strains isolated from animal sources in the department of food hygiene were used for assessment of two numerical identification systems (TNW and IDENTI). They were isolated from primary cultures on End's, meat-peptone and blood agar (Imuna, HI-Media) under different culture regimes (37 degrees C/24 h, laboratory temperature/3 days, 7 degrees C/10 days).

[Identification of reference strains of intestinal bacteria using the TNW, IDENTI and NIS 86 numeric identification systems].

A total of 176 reference strains including 63 species of Enterobacteriaceae mainly of clinical origin were tested by commercial diagnostic kits ENTEROtest 1 & 2. The identification efficacy in both systems TNW and IDENTI was nearly in agreement 144 (81.8%), 142 (80.

[A rapid method of detecting psychrotrophic bacteria in raw milk].

Determination of the counts of psychrotrophic bacteria offers an important indicator of the technological quality of purchased raw milk, and also an indicator of the hygienic level of its production in agricultural primary production, particularly with respect to the sanitation of milking machines. The applied and published methods of determination of the counts of psychrotrophic microbial contaminants have revealed large differences, multiplied by insufficient legislation in this country, by vague and even wrong definition of the given group of bacteria, and/or by the misuse of the concepts psychrotrophic and psychrophil bacteria. Since the level of the microbial quality of raw milk should be increased, we investigated and developed convenient methods of determination of psychrotrophic bacterium counts in the last years (Urbanová et al.

[Hexakis, (t-butylisonitryl/technetium, 99mTc-TBI), a cold-focal cardiac radiopharmaceutic agent and its distribution in the body].

The distribution of coldfocal cardiopharmacological substance 99mTc-TBI has been studied on a total of 14 dogs in relation to the healthy heart tissue. The quality heart scan resulted from the use of 99mTc-TBI. It may be performed 30 min after the administration of mentioned substance, when its blood activity is smaller than 10% activity of myocardium From the other organs, the myocardium scan may be influenced negatively with only liver which achieves 200% activity of left heart ventricle what is evidently consequential in worse imaging of "lower" ischemic lesions.

[Scintigraphic imaging of the heart in dogs damaged by irradiation].

The paper verified literature data assuming that the heart damage caused by irradiation of thorax may be scintigraphically detected by means of 99mTc-pyrophosphate. Three dogs underwent a single irradiation of thorax with a gamma cobalt source by the Dose 40 Gy. The myocardium scan was performed 24 hours, 20 days, 50 days, 80 days and 93 days after the irradiation.

[The pathophysiologic basis for the incorporation of 99mTc-pyrophosphate into myocardial infarct].

The investigation studied the relation of 99mTc-pyrophosphate incorporation (99mTc-PYP) into experimental, 48-hours old myocardial infarction in dogs to tissue vascular supply and to the extent of necrotic tissue. The experimental myocardial infarction was induced in five animals during an operation by the ligation RIVA. The myocardial blood supply was measured in tissue samples, taken from transverse sections of the infarction by means of 86Rb captation.