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Medicina, Volume 49, Issue 6

June 2013 - 7 articles

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Articles (7)

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,489 Views
7 Pages

Perioperative Factors Affecting Length of Hospital Stay Among Elderly Patients

  • Gytė Damulevičienė,
  • Vita Lesauskaitė,
  • Jūratė Macijauskienė,
  • Kastytis Šmigelskas and
  • Donatas Venskutonis

Background and Objective. Timely assessment and prevention of risk factors for the main perioperative complications in elderly patients provide an opportunity to avoid them, decrease mortality, and diminish costs associated with longer hospital stay....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,472 Views
8 Pages

Cognitive Profile and Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Epilepsy

  • Maarika Liik,
  • Liina Vahter,
  • Katrin Gross-Paju and
  • Sulev Haldre

Background and Objective. The aim of the present study was to describe the cognitive profile of patients with focal and generalized epilepsy syndrome in comparison with healthy control subjects and to investigate whether depression was related to neu...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,375 Views
11 Pages

Prognosis of In-Hospital Myocardial Infarction Course for Diabetic and Nondiabetic Patients Using a Noninvasive Evaluation of Hemodynamics and Heart Rate Variability

  • Rūta Ablonskytė-Dūdonienė,
  • Giedrė Bakšytė,
  • Indrė Čeponienė,
  • Algimantas Kriščiukaitis,
  • Kęstutis Drėgūnas and
  • Eglė Ereminienė

Background and Objective. The objective of our study was to investigate whether the combination of markers of heart rate variability (HRV) and impedance cardiography (ICG) help evaluate the risk of in-hospital death, ventricular arrhythmia, or compli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,691 Views
5 Pages

Associations Between Contrast Sensitivity and Aging

  • Rasa Liutkevičienė,
  • Džastina Čebatorienė,
  • Giedrė Liutkevičienė,
  • Vytautas Jašinskas and
  • Dalia Žaliūnienė

Objective. The aim of this study was to assess age-related visual functions (visual acuity and contrast sensitivity) and compare the results by different age groups. Material and Methods. A total of 231 patients were examined. The patients were divi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,160 Views
6 Pages

Background and Objective. An insufficient supply of oxygen to the heart influences the process of protein synthesis. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the Polyscias filicifolia Bailey biomass tincture on the protein synthesis proce...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,674 Views
7 Pages

Career Intentions and Dropout Causes Among Medical Students in Kazakhstan

  • Kamila Faizullina,
  • Galina Kausova,
  • Zhanna Kalmataeva,
  • Ardak Nurbakyt and
  • Saule Buzdaeva

Background and Objective. The number of new entrants to higher medical schools of Kazakhstan increased by 1.6 times from 2007 to 2012. However, it is not known how it will affect the shortage of human resources for health. Additionally, human resourc...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,572 Views
9 Pages

Keratoprosthesis Surgery as an Alternative to Keratoplasty

  • Vytautas Jašinskas,
  • Paulius Rudalevičius,
  • Arūnas Miliauskas,
  • Darius Milčius and
  • Ūla V. Jurkūnas

Corneal transplant surgery after chemical or thermal burns has a very low success rate. Vision in these patients can be restored by using an artificial cornea (keratoprosthesis). In this report, we present 5 clinical cases of implanting a fresh corne...

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