Introduction: The efficacy of ureteric stents in the management of various urological conditions causing the upper urinary tract obstruction has been extensively proven, and their contribution to urology remains enormous. The clinical use of ureteric stents is associated with several complications. “Stent syndrome,” encrustation, migration and urothelial hyperplasia are the most common problems related to long-term ureteral stenting. Case report: This work presents an interesting case from our practice: a complete encrustation of a classical polyurethane double J stent two and a half months after its initial instillation, in a 70 year old man, with a solitary functioning kidney, as well as successful removal of it by using a simultaneous treatment of extracorporeal lithotripsy and ureteroscopy with a contact disintegration of encrustations and with percutaneous nephrostomy, as an auxiliary procedure for providing of additional urine derivation. Conclusion: These problems can be overcome by the introduction of new advanced ureteral stent designs and biomaterials.

AIM Recently increased attention and interest for Acinetobacterbaumannii are the result of the occurrence of multidrug resistant (MDR), extensive drug resistant (XDR) and pandrug resistant (PDR) isolates around the world. The aim of this study was to examine the resistance of A. baumannii isolates to antimicrobials in Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS Two hundred and fifty-seven A.baumannii isolates were collected between July 2011 and June 2012 in different wards and from different clinical samples. Multidrug resistant, XDR and PDR were defined according to international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance. RESULTS A total of 257 A. baumannii isolates showed eleven different patterns of resistance, of which ten patterns corresponded to MDR and one corresponded to XDR (sensitive only to colistin). Multidrug resistant and XDR strains were the most common at Intensive Care Units and surgical departments. The largest numbers of isolates were found in wound swabs, blood and bronchial aspirate. CONCLUSION This is the first report of XDR A. baumannii in the 2000-bed Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Although XDR strains have been detected, the resistance to colistin has not. The elevated prevalence of these strains indicates that local antibiotic prescription policies should be revised and infection prevention and control should be improved.

To investigate association of two LPIN1 gene variations with main traits of metabolic syndrome (MS) (waist circumference, body mass index, blood pressure, triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol and fasting glucose levels) in population from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In this case report we describe a 49 year-old man who presented with chronic urticaria, angioedema and soft stool consistency. During diagnostic examinations Hashimoto's thyroiditis was found even though the patient never had clear symptoms of this disease. Blastocystis hominis was isolated through a stool microbiologic examination, implicating that this parasite can cause the development of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and chronic urticaria. After two-weeks treatment with metronidazole the Blastocystis hominis was eradicated, then urticaria and angioedema disappeared. During the four years of follow-up, the patient presented without any symptoms, whereas thyroid hormones were normalized and anti-thyroid antibodies declined. For the first time in the literature we show that eradication of Blastocystis hominis can prevent the development of both symptomatic Hashimoto's thyroiditis and chronic urticaria.

ACTA INFORM MED. 2015 AUG 23(4): 250-251 Received: 11 March 2015 • Accepted: 15 May 2015 © 2015 Izet Masic This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the period from 9 to 11 July 2015, in a luxury hotel Di-vani Palace Acropolis, in the vicinity of one of the most visited parts of Athens and Greece (Acropolis), was held scientific conference " 13 International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare " (ICIMTH). This year ICIMTH represents 13 th Annual Conference in this series of scientific events, which is gathering scientists from all continents as well from the Greece from several important fields of Biomedical and Health Informatics. The Conference has a major focus on the applications of Biomedical Infor-matics starting with Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics to Public Health Informatics as well as on ICT applications in the Healthcare. Considering that, Management and Organizational Issues play an important role in the implementation phase of Biomedical Informatics into the Healthcare systems, so topics related to the above mentioned were more than welcomed. Conference covered the field of Biomed-ical Informatics in a very broad framework, including many technologies, such as Imaging, Sensors, Biomedical Equipment and Pharmacotechnology. Participants of the Conference were able to participate with presentations of full papers and posters at several scientific sessions and panels, workshops and tutorials related to the aspects of Biomedical Informatics as described in the Conference title. The major focus of the Conference was placed on the implementation of Biomedical Informatics Applications in the whole spectrum–from Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics to Public Health Infor-matics as applied in the domain of healthcare. Considering that Health management and Organization of healthcare depends of the quality of collected, processed, analyzed and in-which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In Prague (Czech Republic, from June 16th till June 18th 2015 was held Scientific conference “International Joint Meeting EuroMise 2015”. Scientific Conference was chaired by Pirkko Nykenen (Scientific Program Committee chair) and Scientific Symposium was chaired by Milan Tuček (Scientific Program Committee chair). Conference was held at Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology at First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague. Symposium was held at House of Physicians in Prague. International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2015 covered important Medical Informatics and Public Health topics methods and methodologies of collecting, capturing, processing and storing health data within the healthcare sectors at every level of Healthcare systems, especially the challenges of big data, which is today one of most important problems in Health Informatics. Conference and symposium opened many questions how to solve big data to be Figure 3. Participants of the IJM EuroMISE Course

Uprkos znacajnim teorijskim izvorima koji se odnose na lose držanje kod djece i adolescenata, a koje je izazvala promjena nacina života, saznanja o problemu abnormalne kicmene krivine treba da budu dopunjena. Može se uvidjeti sve veci broj gojazne djece i ovaj problem težine može dovesti do vece ucestalosti loseg držanja tijela. Ovaj rad ima za cilj da utvrdi ucestalost dobrog i loseg držanja tijela kod djevojcica u odnosu na njihove tjelesne težine, kao i da otkrije da li prekomjerna težina (gojaznost) daju predispoziciju za lose držanje. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo 500 djevojcica uzrasta 7-15 godina, koje žive u Szczecinu u Poljskoj. U procjeni držanja tjela, koriscena je sferosomatometrijska metoda Ivanovskog. Djevojcice sa normalnom tjelesnom težinom su predstavljale 77,7% ispitanika. U 6,7% slucajeva, identifikovana je nedovoljna tjelesna težina. 11,3% su imale  visak kilograma , dok je 4,3% djevojcica bilo gojazno - sto iznosi 15,6 % ispitanica. Nepravilno držanje tijela je identifikovano u 32,4% ispitanica. Najveci broj djevojcica sa losim držanjem tijela pronađeno je među 9-godisnjakinjama (38,6%), 13-godisnjakinjama (35.2 %) i 15-godisnjakinjama (35,1%). Prekomjerna težina i gojaznost je bila predispozicija kod ispitanica za pojavu nepravilnog držanja kicme: abnormalna kicmena krivina je pronađena u 30,8% gojaznih djevojcica i djevojcica sa prekomjernom težinom.

Problem upotrebe zabranjenih supstanci (dopinga) u sportu je bio, jeste i bice aktuelan problem koji narusava sam duh sporta, ljepotu i zadovoljstvo, a vrlo cesto i zdravlje sportiste. Zbog toga je neophodno pristupiti rjesavanju ovoga problema, ako je moguce i trajno, mada je to nekada jednostavno neizvodljivo. U istraživanju je ucestvovalo ukupno 200 studenata Fakulteta fizickog vaspitanja i sporta, od cega 100 studenata Univerziteta u Istocnom Sarajevu (Bosna i Hercegovina) i 100 studenata AMU Aligarh PU (Indija), starosne dobi od 18-26 godina. Od ukupnog uzorka 170 (85%) su bili ispitanici muskog pola, dok je 30 (15%) ženskog pola. Osnovni cilj istraživanja je bio da se provjeri nivo znanja i utvrde stavovi studenata i utvrde njihove međusobne razlike o upotrebi zabranjenih supstanci u sportu. Za prikupljanje neophodnih informacija koriscen je anonimni anketni upitnik sa 13 jasno definisanih pitanja, (11 pitanja zatvorenog i 2 pitanja otvorenog tipa) koja su se odnosila na određena znanja, stavove o dopingu u sportu. Dobijeni su relevantni rezultati koji su globalni pokazatelj informisanosti, znanja i stavova populacije studenata fizickog vaspitanja i sporta o sve vecem problemu danasnjeg modernog sporta koga nazivamo doping. Od ukupnog uzorka, cak 85% studenata oba subuzorka su oznacili atletiku kao sport sa najvise doping afera, a zatim slijedi biciklizam (43%), bodi bilding i dizanje tegova (22%), dok su sportske igre sa (28%), Cricket (25%), Streljastvo i Sah sa (19%), kao sportovi sa najmanjim brojem doping afera.