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Medicina, Volume 46, Issue 2

2010 February - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
1,450 Views
8 Pages

Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors (II): clinical application and outcomes

  • Tomas Vanagas,
  • Antanas Gulbinas,
  • Juozas Pundzius and
  • Giedrius Barauskas

10 February 2010

Radiofrequency ablation is one of the alternatives in the management of liver tumors, especially in patients who are not candidates for surgery. The aim of this article is to review applicability of radiofrequency ablation achieving complete tumor de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
1,577 Views
6 Pages

Factors determining age-related macular degeneration: a current view

  • Rasa Liutkevičienė,
  • Vaiva Lesauskaitė,
  • Virginija Ašmonienė,
  • Dalia Žaliūnienė and
  • Vytautas Jašinskas

10 February 2010

Age-related macular degeneration affects the macula and is the leading cause of significant and irreversible central visual loss. It is the most common cause of visual loss in people older than 60 years. The pathogenesis of age-related macular degene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,240 Views
9 Pages

Identification of predictors of inhospital postreperfusion mode of death in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

  • Edvardas Vaicekavičius,
  • Ramūnas Navickas,
  • Leonas Survila,
  • Vytautas Štuikys,
  • Arnoldas Janavičius and
  • Kęstutis Valančius

10 February 2010

Objectives. The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of the postreperfusion mode of death using the distinctions in clinical characteristics of patients who died and survived after reperfusion therapy, treated due to ST-elevation myocardi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,141 Views
5 Pages

Late-onset nocturnal intractable seizure during sleep: what is the origin?

  • Skaidrius Miliauskas,
  • Vanda Liesienė,
  • Marius Žemaitis and
  • Raimundas Sakalauskas

10 February 2010

A 54-year-old man was admitted to the Sleep Laboratory, Hospital of Kaunas University of Medicine, for assessment of nocturnal seizures of unknown origin during sleep. This patient complained of increasing daytime sleepiness, morning headaches. Befor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,309 Views
4 Pages

Type III longitudinal deficiency of the tibia and outcome of reconstructive surgery in a female patient

  • Radivoj Brdar,
  • Ivana Petronic,
  • Dusan Abramovic,
  • Marija Lukac,
  • Dragana Cirovic,
  • Tatjana Knezevic and
  • Dejan Nikolic

10 February 2010

Type III longitudinal deficiency of tibia according to Kalamchi and Dawe denotes the presence of distal hypoplasia of the tibia with diastasis. We report a case of type III longitudinal deficiency of the tibia in a female patient who later underwent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,089 Views
6 Pages

Aerobic exercise-induced changes in body composition and blood lipids in young women

  • Arvydas Stasiulis,
  • Asta Mockienė,
  • Daiva Vizbaraitė and
  • Pranas Mockus

10 February 2010

The objective of the study was to assess changes in body composition, blood lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in 18–24-year-old women during the period of two-month aerobic cycling training.

Material and methods
. Young, healthy, nonsmoking women (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
2,075 Views
7 Pages

Severe early childhood caries and behavioral risk factors among 3-year-old children in Lithuania

  • Eglė Slabšinskienė,
  • Simona Milčiuvienė,
  • Julija Narbutaitė,
  • Ingrida Vasiliauskienė,
  • Vilija Andruškevičienė,
  • Eglė-Aida Bendoraitienė and
  • Kristina Saldūnaitė

10 February 2010

The objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and severity of early childhood caries (ECC) and severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) in 3-year-old Lithuanian children. The impact of selected behavioral risk factors on the devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,570 Views
16 Pages

Kūno sandara ir policistinių kiaušidžių sindromas

  • Lina Zabulienė and
  • Janina Tutkuvienė

10 February 2010

Policistinių kiaušidžių sindromas (PKS) yra viena svarbiausių reprodukcinio amžiaus moterų endokrininių metabolinių ligų, lemianti androgenų perteklių, mėnesinių ciklo sutrikimus, nevaisingumą, nutukimą ir kitus organizmo pokyčius. Įvairių autorių du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,414 Views
9 Pages

9 February 2010

Objective. The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between bone mineral density in the calcaneus measured using the dual x-ray and laser osteodensitometry technique and bone mineral density in the mandible calculated using the panorami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,364 Views
7 Pages

Pleuros empiemos ir komplikuoto parapneumoninio pleurito priežastys ir rizikos veiksniai

  • Rolandas Zablockis,
  • Rūta Petruškevičienė and
  • Remigijus Valdemaras Nargėla

9 February 2010

Tyrimo tikslas. Išnagrinėti pleuros empiemos ir komplikuoto parapneumoninio pleurito priežastis ir rizikos veiksnius.

Tirtųjų kontingentas ir tyrimo metodai
. Ištirta 120 ligonių, sirgusių pleuros empiema (n=67) ir komplikuotu parapneumoniniu pleuritu...

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