Jurnal Medical Brasovean

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Authors: Antonella Cheşcă

The properties of the stem cells are the subject of numerous researches and debates, as well as the starting point of numerous technologies. In the same time, the stem cells represent a major bioethics issue, through the scientific, religious, philosophic and ethic implications that their use might have on the human being and on the future of human kind. The stem cells have the ability to transform in more than one type of cells during their development. Its proliferation capacity and its ability to specialize define the stem cell as being unique. The stem cells may self-reproduce several times, having the ability to self-renew. It is important to determine the genetic status of these cells in order to maintain them, to know their differentiation potential and their conduct after the transplantation.

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Authors: Milica Martinović , Ljubica Pejakov

Introduction: Asthma is most common chronic disease in the childhood. It is estimated that 8-10% of school age children in Podgorica have child asthma. The data about prevalence of child asthma in Montenegro are uncertain. Material and methods: The data about different aspects of child asthma in Montenegro were collected (different regions in Montenegro: 100 patien ts from sea-side and 100 patients mountain part of the country, both sexes, age 6-14) from 2004 to 2008 using qu estionnaire from Institute for Health Care of Mother and Children from Faculty of Medicine from Belgrade. Results: The most common environmental factor involved in the development of child asthma was domestic mite, without differences between two explored regions from Montenegro. Conclusion: Most of children affected by child asthma in Montenegro have allergic asthma. The most common environmental factors involved in the development of child asthma in Montenegro are house dust mite and outdoors allergens: pollen of trees and some sorts of grasses.

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Authors: Cristina Tomşa

The germs of the genus Acinetobacter have long been regarded as opportunistic infections possibly involving lack of seriousness. In the past 20 years it increased the incidence and severity of infection caused by Acinetobacter inducing an alarm in the medical world.

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Authors: Pleş Liana, Apostu Anca, Pleş Nicolae, Ignat Cristina

Environmental factors play an important role in human reproduction, affecting fertility, birth outcome and even having long term effects on the cognitive and social development of children exposed to pollutants. A large number of women are exposed to pollutants weather it’s in the work place or at home and that can have serious consequences on reproductive health. Environmental fact ors that have been implicated in adverse pregnancy outcome include metals like lead and mercury, air polluta nts, organic solvents, radiation, pesticides and most importantly smoking. All of these factors have been associated with an increased risk of abortion, stillbirth, low birth weight, preterm delivery and congenital defects. The link between environmental factors and poor reproductive outcome is apparent but sometimes may be difficult to prove.

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Authors: Onisâi L. Lazăr , Greavu Mihai

The antero-lateral abdominal wall is a real mosaic from its origin point of view. The muscles are developing from the mesenchyme brought by the cranial, the caudal and the two lateral folds. The nerves are derived from ectoderm. Some of these structures are devel oping quicker and they will act as inductor factors modeling the dynamics of other elements.

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Authors: Idomir Mihaela , Gavrilă Gabriela, Nemet Codruţa, Chichernea Nicoleta,Manafu Elenis

The aim of this retrospective study has consisted in analysing the resistance to antibiotics of the germs from the Enterobacteriaceae family implicated in urinary infections. The study group has consisted in the patients hospitalized in the Clinical County Emergency Hospital of Braşov during a 2 years period (2007-2008). From the urine of these patients there were isolated 3281 Enterobacteriaceae strains. The preparation of the urine samples for the bacteriologic diagnosis has been performed in the laboratory of this medical unit, acco rding to standard methodologies. The identification was based on biochemical methods and the testing of susceptibility to antibiotics of the germs ethiologically implicated was performed using the standardized Kirby-Bauer method and the automated VITEK 2 COMPACT system. The ethiological spectrum of urinary tract infect ions was dominated by Escherichia coli species (77.7%), followed, with lower percenteges, by Enterobacter spp., Proteus spp., Klebsiella spp.şi Citrobacter spp. All the isolated Enterobacteriaceae st rains have presented different levels of resistance to antibiotics, with the exception of colistine, for which the sensitivity in vitro was preserved. The sensitivity to imipenem was higher in all the analyzed bacterial genres.

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Authors: M . Zhelyazkova-Savova, B. Galunska

Vitamin K has long been associated solely with its role in haemostasis. The last two decades brought new intriguing insights to the function of vitamin K. While the present recommendations for daily intake are based mainly on amounts required to maintain coagulation, they may not be high enough to ensure adequate functions of vitamin K not involved in blood clotting, In the present review the role of vitamin K on bone in health and disease is being discussed. Theoretical gr ounds connected with the function and diagnostic application of the vitamin K-dependent protein osteocalcin is described. Available clinical data related to the use of vitamin K in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis is provided.

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Authors: Nicoleta Taus, Laurian Taus², Mirela Donea, Monica Potroviţa, Daniela Marinescu, Ligia Neica¹

A significant number of in vitro and animal st udies have demonstrated ROS activation in the cardiovascular system in response to various stressors and in the failing heart. Hypoxia / reoxygenation increases level of oxi dative species and attenuation of those species protects cardiomyocytes from induced damage.

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Authors: Ion Moleavin ̧ Alexandru Keresztes

Health is a state of wellbeing free from all types of diseases. It is the general condition of complete physical, mental and social well being. Inte rest in health status indicators and indices has grown considerably in the past few decades. This re flects the growing awareness that health can be influenced by a multiplicity of social, environmen tal and personal factors. An additional influence has been the realization that traditional measures of health such as mortality and morbidity data do not always provide appropriate forms of information for advanced societies. This article presents the main procedure of measuring and evaluation of the health state after it was defined.

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Authors: Borzea Daniela , Liliana Rogozea, Roxana Miclăuş , Moleavin Ion

Covasna resort and baths has the capacity to proceed a large number of balnear procedures and climatic therapy applied to many patients, especially suffering of cardiovascular diseases. The retrospective study developed between January – August 2009 in Balnear Policlinic in Covasna, Hefaistos Hotel, showed that the main indication of treatment is cardio-vascu lar pathology (mostly high blood pressure) as well as the associated pathology of beneficiary of balnear treatment (classified by frequency in loco-motor pathology 66%, metabolic 32%, neurological and psychiatric 12%, respiratory 6%, digestive 5%, etc). Also, the study revealed that the majority of patients treated with balnear methods are 60 to 70 years old. The main prescription for cardio-vascular patients in Covasna resort and baths is represented by carbonic baths (with CO2) 96% and mofettes 86%, possible to be applied stri ctly in perfect natural environment, extremely well preserved, exploited and pretected.