Medicina, Volume 43, Issue 10

The aim of the study was to evaluate the activity and the validity of the expansion of the Clinic of Ophthalmology of the University of Lithuania (since 1930 – Vytautas Magnus University) operating in Kaunas city between 1922 and 1938. The evaluation...

The aim of this article is to review various methods used and started to introduce into practice for determining platelet function, their possibilities, advantages, and disadvantages. Nowadays, in platelet function investigations, devices and their s...

Objective. The aim of this study was to estimate the equivalence and correlation between transition zone volume, measured by transrectal ultrasound, and removed prostate tissue weight in surgically treated patients due to benign prostatic hyperplasia...

Objective. To determine the influence of electrocardiographically documented cardiac rhythm during sudden cardiac arrest on successful resuscitation among out-of-hospital deaths in Kaunas city.

Material and methods. An observational prospective study...

Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia is a rare condition, and there is a lack of clear guidelines for the necessity and indications for prophylactic antiarrhythmic or curative treatment. The aim of this study was to review the clinical picture of idiop...

The aim of the study was to investigate an action of 2-aminopyridine and its new sulfonylcarbamide derivatives 2-AP21, 2-AP22, 2-AP26, and 2-AP27 (10^–5–10^–3 M) on carbachol-induced shortening of action potential duration and reduction of contraction...

The aim of this study is to assess health behavior among families growing up the preschool children. The study was performed in 2007 in Kaunas kindergartens selected randomly. The anonymous questionnaires were filled in by 271 families. Mothers answe...

The aim of this article is to introduce Lithuanian clinical practice guidelines for the management of laryngopharyngeal form of gastroesophageal reflux disease for standardization of the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and prevention of its co...

The aim of this study was to evaluate leptin concentration at birth and in early postnatal life in small- and appropriate-for-gestational-age infants and to assess its relationship with infants’ anthropometry at birth and some characteristics of mate...

The aim of this study is a next step of our previous, initial, publications – to explore the links between monthly death number (total, and for the major death causes and each gender) with levels of monthly cosmophysical activity in a long-term, big...

Aim of the study. To evaluate relationship between isolation of extended spectrum beta-lactamaseproducing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains and course of hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Materials and methods. K. pneumoniae strains isolated from bronchial se...