Vitamin D Deficiency in Acute Coronary Syndrome - Clinically Relevant or Incidental Finding?

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to determine serum concentration of 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and to assess the prognostic role of serum vitamin D level in ACS patients during 3-year follow up.

Methods: The study included 60 ACS patients hospitalized at cardiology department for ACS between March 2012 and October 2012, and 60 age- and sex-matched control patients without ACS.

Association Between Serum Vitamin D Level and Glaucoma in Women.

The aim of the study was to determine whether serum vitamin D level is lower in female patients with glaucoma as compared with control group. The mechanism by which vitamin D reduces intraocular pressure is not fully clarified. Almost all tissues possess vitamin D receptor (VDR).

Head trauma and posttraumatic epilepsy in Slavonski Brod, East Croatia, 1988-2008.

Posttraumatic epilepsy is result of head trauma. The aim of our research was to establish how many patients after head trauma developed posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE). Retrospectively we analyzed 50 patients with head trauma different severity in period from 1989 to 2008, which we werified radiological, electroenfephalographic, and psychical changes were established according pto psychiatric examination.

Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report with 15-year follow-up.

Meningiomas are benign neoplastic lesions of arachnoidal cells of the meninges. These tumors may arise wherever meninges exists, such as in the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, middle ear, and mediastinum. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas (ONSMs) are usually unilateral and occur predominantly in middle-aged females, although they may be present at any age.

Postoperative quality of life after two different methods of tonsillectomy.

Background And Objectives: Tonsillectomy is a very painful procedure. Pain may be severe, and patients are often unable to perform in school or eat regular food for a number of days after the surgery. The aim of this study was to compare the quality of life after undergoing two different surgical techniques of tonsillectomy, harmonic scalpel and classic tonsillectomy with bipolar cauterization.

The influence of pterygium morphology on fibrin glue conjunctival autografting pterygium surgery.

To evaluate the influence of pterygium morphology on the efficacy and safety of fibrin glue in pterygium surgery with conjunctival autografting. A prospective case series. During a period of 15 months, 45 patients (51 eyes) were recruited from the General Hospital for pterygium surgery.

Extranodal lymphomas of head and neck with emphasis on NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type.

Purpose: To determine the occurrence, clinical course and outcome of our patients with natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL), nasal type. The nasal type of natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL), is rare in the European population but is more frequent in Asia, Central and South America where it accounts for 15-20% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). This type of lymphoma is characterized by tissue necrosis and destruction of the nasal cavity and upper aero-digestive tract.

Neuroretinitis caused by Bartonella quintana.

A 57-year-old woman presented to the eye clinic for impaired vision on the left eye persisting for three months. Clinical examination revealed massive peripapillary exudate and stellate macular exudate, raising suspicion of a cat-scratch disease. Tetracycline therapy was introduced, followed by azithromycin and topical corticosteroids.

Giant aneurysm of basilar artery.

In the article we showed the patient, a woman with unruptured giant aneurysm of basilar artery, we showed the done examinations, and therapy dilemmas about what to do in the given case. We found in literature a number of examples which suggest operation treatment, but of embolisation too, some suggest conservative treatment.