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Medicina, Volume 51, Issue 4

2015 August - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

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Comparison of the improvement in myocardial perfusion and function in cases of rapid and slow electrocardiographic stage dynamics between patients with TIMI-3 flow after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction

  • Eglė Kalinauskienė and
  • Albinas Naudžiūnas
Medicina2015, 51(4), 217-221;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.04.003

5 August 2015

Background and objective: Post-PCI TIMI flow grade 3 in infarct-related artery not always is associated with follow-up improvement in myocardial perfusion and function. We compared the improvement in myocardial perfusion and function in cases of rapi...

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Management of coronary artery disease patients in Latvia compared with practice in Central-Eastern Europe and globally: Analysis of the CLARIFY registry

  • Andrejs Erglis,
  • Iveta Mintale,
  • Gustavs Latkovskis,
  • Inga Balode,
  • Sanda Jegere,
  • Iveta Bajare,
  • Aldis Rozenbergs,
  • Nicola Greenlaw,
  • Roberto Ferrari and
  • For the CLARIFY registry investigators
  • + 1 author
Medicina2015, 51(4), 240-246;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.05.004

4 August 2015

Background and objective: Management of outpatients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) is important in secondary prevention. The objective was to describe differences in the characteristics of CAD patients in Latvia compared with other countri...

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Health-related quality of life measurement in chronic liver disease patients

  • Jolanta Šumskienė,
  • Limas Kupčinskas and
  • Linas Šumskas
Medicina2015, 51(4), 201-208;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.06.006

1 August 2015

Background and objective: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important health indicator in medical outcome research and clinical practice. This issue tends to attract even more attention with the recent improvements of patient survival afte...

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Left ventricular function by speckle-tracking echocardiography in patients with low-T3 syndrome and acute myocardial infarction

  • Edita Jankauskienė,
  • Paulius Orda,
  • Eglė Rumbinaitė,
  • Diana Žaliaduonytė-Pekšienė,
  • Rasa Steponavičiutė,
  • Aurelija Krasauskienė,
  • Jolanta Justina Vaškelytė and
  • Robertas Bunevičius
Medicina2015, 51(4), 209-216;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.07.004

1 August 2015

Background and objective: Low-T3 syndrome is common in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Recent experimental and clinical data have suggested a potential negative impact of low-T3 syndrome on myocardial function in patients with AMI. T...

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Impact of left ventricular function on health-related quality of life in coronary artery disease patients

  • Margarita Staniūtė,
  • Jolanta Vaškelytė,
  • Eglė Rumbinaitė,
  • Birutė Kaminskaitė,
  • Sigita Samsanavičienė,
  • Sigita Plungienė,
  • Julija Brožaitienė and
  • Robertas Bunevičius
Medicina2015, 51(4), 233-239;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.07.005

1 August 2015

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and left ventricular systolic and diastolic function parameters in stable coronary artery disease (CAD) patients with mild and moderate hea...

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Prevalence and etiology of midfacial fractures: A study of 799 cases

  • Linas Zaleckas,
  • Vytautė Pečiulienė,
  • Ieva Gendvilienė,
  • Alina Pūrienė and
  • Jūratė Rimkuvienė
Medicina2015, 51(4), 222-227;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.06.005

31 July 2015

Background and objective: The prevalence and etiology of midfacial fractures varies among countries. Until now, knowledge about such type of injuries in the region of the Baltic countries was rather scarce. The purpose of the study was to analyze the...

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Body physique and dominant somatotype in elite and low-profile athletes with different specializations

  • Boris Gutnik,
  • Aurelijus Zuoza,
  • Ilona Zuozienė,
  • Aleksandras Alekrinskis,
  • Derek Nash and
  • Sergei Scherbina
Medicina2015, 51(4), 247-252;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.07.003

31 July 2015

Background and objective: Somatotyping is helpful in sports in which the body shape could influence the resulting performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the somatotype of high profile Lithuanian athletes in kayaking, basketball and f...

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Temperature influencing permeation pattern of alfuzosin: An investigation using DoE

  • Satyanarayan Pattnaik,
  • Kalpana Swain,
  • Jupally Venkateshwar Rao,
  • Talla Varun and
  • Subrata Mallick
Medicina2015, 51(4), 253-261;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.07.002

30 July 2015

Background and objective: There has been relatively little investigation of the effect of temperature on skin permeation compared to other methods of penetration enhance-ment. A principal physicochemical factor which controls the passive diffusion of...

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Oral bony outgrowths: Prevalence and genetic factor influence. Study of twins

  • Adomas Auškalnis,
  • Olaf Bernhardt,
  • Eglė Putnienė,
  • Antanas Šidlauskas,
  • Irena Andriuškevičiūtė and
  • Nomeda Basevičienė
Medicina2015, 51(4), 228-232;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.07.001

29 July 2015

Objective: The aim of the study was to verify the influence of a genetic factor on the etiology of oral bony outgrowths and to determine the prevalence and type of oral bony outgrowths (tori and exostoses) among a group of Lithuanian twins.

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