7 results match your criteria: "Zvezdara University Clinical Centre[Affiliation]"
Faecal occult blood screening for colorectal cancer in Serbia: a pilot study.
Eur J Cancer Prev
May 2017
aEU Funded Technical Assistance Project 'Implementation of the National Screening Programme for Colorectal, Cervical and Breast Cancer in Serbia', HD European Consulting Group bDepartment of Surgery, Zvezdara University Clinical Centre cClinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Gastroenterology and Hepatology dDepartment for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Institute of Public Health of Serbia 'Dr Milan Jovanović Batut' eClinical Hospital Center 'Bežanijska kosa' fUniversity Hospital 'Dr Dragisa Misovic' gClinical Hospital Center 'Zemun', Clinic for Gastroenterology and Hepatology hMilitary Medical Academy, Clinic for Gastroenterology, Belgrade iMinistry of Health Serbia, Beograd jClinical Center Niš, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Niš kDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, General Hospital Leskovac, Leskovac lDepartment of Gastroenterology, Clinical Center Kragujevac, Kragujevac mGeneral Hospital Kraljevo, Kraljevo, Serbia nUniversity Clinical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia oRegister of Digestive Cancers, INSERM U 866; CHU de Dijon, Université de Bourgogne, France.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is becoming a major public health problem in the Republic of Serbia. Organized mass screening has been shown to decrease CRC mortality and even its incidence. The aim of this study was to assess the acceptability of a faecal immunochemical test for haemoglobin proposed by primary care physicians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEuropean experience with methotrexate treatment in Crohn's disease: a multicenter retrospective analysis.
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol
July 2016
aDepartment of Gastroenterology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan bSackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv cDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel dDivision of Gastroenterology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina eDepartment of Gastroenterology, Venizeleio General Hospital, Heraklion fFirst Department of Gastroenterology, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens gDepartment of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Heraklion, Crete, Greece hDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands iDepartment of Gastroenterology, Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica Ourense-Pontevedra-Vigo, Xerencia Xestion Integrada de Vigo, Spain jDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Zvezdara University Clinical Centre, Zvezdara kMedical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia lCentral IBD Clinic, Nicosia, Cyprus mIBD Center, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Introduction: Methotrexate (MTX) has been utilized for the treatment of Crohn's disease (CD) for decades. Nevertheless, current data provide equivocal evidence on the efficacy of MTX in CD.The aims of this study were to describe the efficacy of MTX for maintenance of remission in CD and to identify the factors associated with the probability of steroid-free clinical remission in a multicenter European referral center cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible serious vision damage in persons over 50 years of age. In treating AMD many medicaments are applied such as inhibitors of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), have been very carefully included over the last few years after a series of study research.
Aims: To analyze the past methods of treatment, discuss emerging therapies which could advance the treatment of exudative AMD.
C-reactive protein as an early predictor for anastomotic leakage in elective abdominal surgery.
Tech Coloproctol
October 2013
Zvezdara University Clinical Centre, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro,
Background: Anastomotic leakage (AL) represents a serious complication after abdominal surgery. Therefore, it is important to detect it early before it becomes clinically apparent. The predictive value of C-reactive protein (CRP) as a marker of infective postoperative complications, particularly in the form of anastomotic leakage, has been investigated by several authors with promising results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParathyroidectomy for the attainment of NKF-K/DOQI™ and KDIGO recommended values for bone and mineral metabolism in dialysis patients with uncontrollable secondary hyperparathyroidism.
Langenbecks Arch Surg
March 2012
KBC Zvezdara University Clinical Centre, Clinic for Surgery "Nikola Spasic", D. Tucovica 161, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Purpose: The National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-K/DOQI™) 2003 and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) 2009 have established guidelines for the treatement of secondary hyperparathyroidism. This study evaluated the impact of parathyroidectomy to achieve recommended values for parathyroid hormone, calcium, phosphorus and CaxPO(4) product in dialysis patients with severe secondary hyperparathyroidism that is resistant to medical treatment.
Methods: This study included 43 consecutive patients who underwent parathyroidectomy for a severe form of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) that is unresponsive to medical treatment.
[Multivascular disease in clinical practice].
Srp Arh Celok Lek
April 2003
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Zvezdara University Clinical Centre, Belgrade.
Multiple arterial disease is presented by coexistence of ischaemic heart disease, carotid disease and peripheral obliterate arterial disease. Atherosclerosis is the main factor for onset of the disease. Among 150 patients with clinical manifestations of obliterate disease of at least two aforementioned arterial systems, we examined by many noninvasive and invasive procedures the existence and degree of obliterate arterial disease of coronary, carotid and peripheral arteries of the lower extremities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Arterial hypertension in patients with primary glomerulonephritis].
Srp Arh Celok Lek
May 1995
Prof. dr. Vasilije Jovanovitsh Institute for Kidney Diseases and Metabolic Disorders, Zvezdara University Clinical Centre, Belgrade.
Arterial hypertension is a state of blood pressure permanently higher than 160/90 mm Hg (21.3/12.6 kPa).
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