BACKGROUND During the Croatian War of Independence, 1991-1995, Croatian soldiers were exposed to traumatic and stressful events. Certain number of soldiers who took part in the war, developed depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stress is one of the etiological factors in the development of myofascial pain (MPS), although the mechanism of these processes is not entirely understo...

Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are the most prevalent chronic wounds in western countries with a heavy socioeconomic impact. Compression therapy is the etiologic treatment of VLU but until now no wound dressing has been shown to be more effective than another. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a new dressing in the management of VLU. Adult patients presenting a noninfected VLU and r...

BACKGROUND/AIM Nowadays, eye injuries are a leading cause of one-eye disease or blindness worldwide. The aim of this study was to comparatively analyze the frequency of endophthalmitis following war and peace eye injuries. METHODS All the patients went throught the detailed ophthalmologic examinations, prophylactic antibiotic treatment, and pars plana vitrectomies (VPP), or other required sur...

declared that the hospital was fit to take sick and wounded French soldiers. The hospital remained in existence until March 1919, expanding to over 600 beds. Women from Royaumont also managed a speciallyconstructed casualty clearing station nearer the front, which was established at VillersCotterets in 1917. Eileen Crofton tells the story of the hospital, its staff and its patients with conside...

The war in Ukraine is now entering its ninth year, and a year has passed since the russian army invaded on large scale. A few months ago, Ukrainian Renal Disaster Relief Committee of Association Nephrologists Kidney Transplant Specialists was established began work to provide immediate support kidney patients during war. In this brief report, we present first data collected number receiving rep...

The study sought to understand better how people come to believe they have been exposed to biological and chemical warfare. We conducted telephone interviews with 1,009 American veterans (65% response rate) deployed and not deployed to the Gulf War, a conflict during which there were credible threats that such warfare could be used. Only 6% of non-Gulf War veterans reported exposure to biologic...

By the 1990s, 9 of 10 people who died in war from direct and indirect effects were civilians. Bombs and weapons of modern war kill and maim civilian women in equal numbers to civilian men. A unique harm of war for women is the trauma inflicted in military brothels, rape camps, and the growing sex trafficking for prostitution and by increased domestic violence, all of which is fueled by the cult...

all people have experience about anxiety in their lives and it is natural when facing with reactional threatening situations. but chronic and intense feeling is unusual in absence of clear cause. anxiety includes uncertainty, helplessness and physiological arousal feelings. generally anxiety is a diffuse, very unpleasant and often vague concern feeling. clinical studies of war veterans over the...

The aim of this article is to offer an overview of the research into diagnosis and treatment of war neuroses at the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow before the outbreak of World War II. It also includes a profile of the work of Prof. Jan Piltz, the then director of the Clinic, and his major scientific achievements. The publications cited in the art...