Prevalence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors for coronary artery disease and elevated fibrinogen among active military personnel in Republic of Serbia: A cross-sectional study.

Background: It is well known that less than 1% of the population achieves ideal cardiovascular health, and 65% of patients do not have their conventional risk biomarkers under control. Military service has its own particularities that may contribute to cardiovascular risk.

Methods: To define the preventive strategy goals, we analysed the prevalence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors for coronary artery disease and elevated fibrinogen among active military personnel in the Republic of Serbia.

Sexual rehabilitation after myocardial infarction and coronary bypass surgery: why do we not perform our job?

Background/aim: There is a perception that in patients with heart diseases in Serbia sexual rehabilitation does not exist. Why do we not perform our job? A kind of resistance to sexual rehabilitation is common for heart disease patients. Prejudices regarding patients' sexuality, fear and limited knowledge are not rare among the members of medical staff.

Diagnostic value of biohumoral markers of necrosis and inflammation in patients with right ventricular myocardial infarction.

Introduction/aim: Patients with right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) and patients with left ventricular myocardial infarction (LVMI) of the anterior wall with ST-elevation (STEMI), due to the profundity and volume of the necrosis, tend to have a more severe and more complicated clinical outcome as well as a higher mortality level compared to patients with myocardial infarction of inferoposterior localization in the left ventricle (IPILK), without the right ventricle being overtaken. C-Reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive and reliable indicator of acute inflammation and is in good correlation with creatin kinasis (CK) or the enzymes which indicate necrosis markers in acute myocardial infarction (AIM). Because of this, a common biohumoral answer is of greater importance and more reliable both diagnostically and prognostically; it signifies a more severe and more complicated clinical outcome, especially on the rupture of the myocardium.

Apolipoprotein(a) gene polymorphisms (TTTTA)n and G/A-914 affect Lp(a) levels in ischemic heart disease patients from Serbia.

Objectives: Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) concentration is determined primarily by the apolipoprotein(a) (apo(a)) gene. The pentanucleotide (TTTTA)n repeat and G/A-914 polymorphisms are in the 5' promoter region of the apo(a) gene. To elucidate whether these polymorphisms affect Lp(a) levels, a total of 211 Serbian adults were investigated.

Primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in the acute infarction of the right ventricle.

Background: Predilection site for the acute myocardial infarction of the right ventricle, (AMI-RV) is the upper third of the right coronary artery and for this reason such an infarction is followed by numerous complications, primarily by conduction disorders and very often by sudden and rapid cardiogenic shock development.

Methods: Primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PPTCA) was performed on three patients, in whom the acute infarction of the right ventricular was diagnosed and who had been hospitalized six hours after the beginning of chest pain. In all three patients intracoronary stent was implanted.