from 20 patients with bladder injury due to war trauma, three patients were in critical condition because of extensive bladder injury associated with rectosigmoid injury and septicemia. in these three patients, early supravesical diversion was undertaken using ileal conduit. after stabilization of the patients' condition, undiversion was performed successfully, bringing the patients back t...

The aim of this study was to determine the differences in epidemiological and clinical manifestations of breast cancer in time of war in Croatia and in peacetime before and after the war, in the defined population of Pozesko-Slavonska County. The methods used in this study were the evaluation of relative predictive value of variables by means of chi 2-test and the analysis of variance, while th...

The Gulf War Illnesses story points at a particular public health problem of our time – how to convey complicated information to the public in an acceptable and understandable way. For public health, it is of crucial importance to present and communicate the truth, which always goes hand in hand with some degree of uncertainty. The responsibility of public health professionals and other physici...

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...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop after a terrifying event involving physical injury or the threat of physical harm in war. Eight years of war after Iraq attacked Iran (between 1980-1988) caused thousands of PTSD among Iranian soldiers as well as civilians. Many of those people are suffering several decades from this form of anxiety most now a complicated form of complex PTSD. Y...

The influence of war circumstances on tumor morphological characteristics in patients with breast cancer has not been studied up to now. The aim of this study is to investigate if war circumstances have influenced breast cancer incidence. The study covered both the patients in which during a period of observation a breast cancer was diagnosed as well as those who died of the same disease in the...

BACKGROUND The primary aim was to induce a high number of pCR in early (FIGO IC, IIB + C) - and advanced (FIGO III-IV) - stage ovarian cancer with a surgery plus 4 cycles of cisplatin and melphalan (PAMP) regimen. The second objective was to prevent relapse with WAR in patients in remission after chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS 218 eligible patients were treated after staging laparotomy wi...

AIM To asses the intermediate rehabilitation outcome of patients with war-related below-knee amputations and compare it with the patients with other causes of amputation. METHOD The study comprised 74 patients with below-knee stumps admitted for rehabilitation at the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Split University Hospital, Croatia, in 1994. They were fitted with a prelimi...

abstract introduction: in attention to post traumatic stress disorder as the most ‎prevalent disorder among iran -iraq war veterans and expanded affect of ‎sufficient and well sleeping on personal and social functions, we are going ‎to find out which factors have significant relationship with low quality of ‎sleep. among handicapped patients with ptsd. ‎ methods: this study is a eross- sectiona...

our experience as a result of this war shows that early intubation, aggressive resuscitation and gcs score are important factors for survival. the time of arrival has great importance on mortality. despite the diversity of views in the literature, patients with gcs of 4 and above should be operated if surgical pathologies exist, and decompressive craniectomy must made wide. if duraplasty is nec...