8 articles in this issue
Petra Lušicky, Danica Avsec
Organ transplantation has become an established method of treatment of organ failure. In some cases, it represents the only effective treatment.With the accelerated development of transplant medicine in the world, three main models of organ donation and t... see more
Kristijan Skok, Nina Skornšek, Marko Hocevar, Pavel Skok
In the past, patients with peritoneal metastases have been treated only with palliative therapy. Their state was deemed to be incurable. The median survival time was approximately two months. The therapeutic approach started to change in the nineties. Som... see more
Jurij Janež, Žan Cebron
Peritoneal dialysis is used worldwide as a treatment for end-stage kidney failure. Globally, it accounts for about 11 % of all therapeutic dialysis interventions, with over 200.000 patients currently undergoing the procedure in more than 130 countries. In... see more
Jasna Rodman Berlot, Paola Pascolo, Marina Praprotnik, Uroš Krivec
Acute bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection in children under two years of age. Treatment of acute bronchiolitis is supportive, i.e. application of oxygen to children with hypoxaemia and care for proper hydration. The value ob... see more
Sara Kukman, Tina Šmid, Tomaž Kocjan
We present a patient with a tumour of the left adrenal gland who has been treated for resistant hypertension and hypokalaemia for years. Primary aldosteronism was confirmed but despite multiple attempts of adrenal vein sampling we were unable to prove uni... see more
Alma Kurent, Dragica Kosec
Amblyopia is a reduction of vision in one or both eyes due to a failure of normal neural development in the immature visual system.Amblyopia occurs due to two basic conditions – abnormal binocular interaction (e.g., strabismus) and blurring or distortion ... see more
Marta Cvijic, Jana Ambrozic, Andreja Cercek Cerne, Mojca Bervar, Janez Toplišek
Myocardial deformation derived by speckle tracking imaging (STI) is a novel method in echocardiography, that provides an insight into cardiac mechanics and is becoming more widely used in daily clinical practice. With this method a new global parameter of... see more
Vesna Fabjan Vodušek, Lilijana Kornhauser Cerar, Helena Mole, Barbara Šajina Stritar, Marko Pokorn, Nataša Tul Mandic
Antibiotic agents are administered during the intrapartum period to prevent and treat maternal infection and to prevent neonatal disease. Short courses of antibiotics are used during the labour to prevent such infections as group B streptococci (GBS) in n... see more