Results: The commonest symptoms were epigastric pain, other upper abdominal pain, and dyspepsia while common signs were epigastric and right upper quadrant tenderness, and epigastric mass. Complete data was obtained in 172 patients of which 114 had abnormal findings. The commonest were duodenal ulcer, gastritis and duodenitis. Less common findings were gastric ulcer, gastric cancer and oesophag...

Prodynorphin (PDYN; OMIM: 131340) is the precursor of the dynorphin related peptides which plays an important role in several complex traits such as drug abuse [1]. It has been reported that the expression level of the PDYN gene is significantly increased by cocaine [2]. On the other hand, the Pdyn knockout mice showed increased explorative behavior in anxiety tests suggesting an anxiogenic rol...

RESULTS: 16.7% TB patients have not received any assistance when diagnosed with TB and 8.4% were treated badly by a member of the family or close friends because of the disease, consequences ranging from living the patient completely, refusal to talk or telling other people that the person is infected. An odd for such behavior were higher if the patient is male, married, have no formal educatio...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited heart muscle disease with an estimated prevalence in the adult population of 1:500. Owing to the autosomal dominant nature of this disease, persons who have a parent with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have a 50 % risk of inheriting the mutation. From the genetics point of view, the disease is highly variable with respect to the specific gene mutation an...

Results: On the hot plate model ED50 value was per body weight 0.34 (0.18 0.63) mg/kg of the pyrodazol /i.g, 1.00 (0.59 1.70) mg/kg/of the ketorolac/ i. g. in 90 minutes post administration. On the hot plate model in 0.3 1.3 mg/kg/doses i.m the pirodazol is similar to morphine hydrochloride in dose 2.5 mg/kg i.m. On the tail-flick model ED50 values of the pyrodazol and ketorolac are 1.9 (1.12 3...

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Affiliation search of the Scopus database was performed on November 23, 2014 in order to identify published papers from the Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (UC&M), Republic of Macedonia. A total number of 3960 articles (3055 articles from UC&M, 861 articles from Faculty of Medicine, UC&M, and 144 articles from Faculty of Pharmacy, UC&M) were selected for analys...

The paper focusses its attention to the medical work of the British Military hospitals stationed in Macedonia during the First World War, the surgical work carried out under very heavy conditions in improvised operating theatres as well as the treatment of the wounded and sick solders brought from the battlefields on the Macedonian Front.

Two main objectives of the reported research are as follows: (1) to compare variants vowel e in standard varieties three Slavic languages, which opposition based on length does not exist, (2) expression word stress using an example realization those languages terms particular variants, well their spectral characteristics.The results conducted can be summarized following way: variant Standard Ma...

Bladder exstrophy is a rare congenital malformation. It presents as leakage of urine in the anterior abdominal wall following defects in midline anterior abdominal wall skin and bladder. We report the use of combined general anaesthesia and caudal epidural analgesia in a 4yr old boy for repeat bladder exstrophy repair. Problems of prolonged surgery and the challenges of pain and sedation manage...