CONTENTS    Volume 1, No. 1, 2006                         

EDITORIALClinical medicine: better or bitter?
Mircea Cinteza

ORIGINAL PAPERS: CLINICAL OR BASIC RESEARCHBone mineral density in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Laura Muntean, Siao-pin Simon, Calin R. Bolosiu, Simona Rednic, Laura Damian, Horatiu D. Bolosiu

Ultrasonographic features of cutaneous malignant melanoma
Adina Andrei, Radu Badea, Monica Lupsor, Rodica Cosgarea, Stefan Hica, Georgeta Antofie, Irina Ionescu, Bogdan Avram

The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in a male population with erectile dysfunction
Vasile Coca, Georgiana Nicolescu, Adrian Copcea, Mariana Cecilia Coca, Nicolae Hancu

Use of the temperament and character inventory personality questionnaire in dysthymic disorder
Mircea Alexandru Birt, Aura Vaida, Dan Prelipceanu

EDITORIAL COMMENTSThe impact of the study of personality on the diagnosis of dysthymic disorder
Dan Prelipceanu

STATE-OF-THE-ARTCoronary arterial anomalies and variations
Horia Muresian

Genetic factors in cholesterol gallstone disease
Monica Acalovschi

The economic problem of medicine - "Friend or foe"
Mircea Cinteza, Andrei-Dumitru Margulescu

EDITORIALSUp-to-date in the hematological malignancies treatment
Anca Roxana Lupu

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors - from a poorly defined pathologic oddity to a milestone in solid tumor oncology
Lucian Miron, Ingrith Miron

The indications for the wireless capsule endoscopy
Silviu Iobagiu, Dana Maria Pasca, Oliviu Pascu

CASE REPORTSRenovascular hypertension in neurofibromatosis, type I
Carmen Ciofu, Eliza Cinteza, Roxana Darabont, Bogdan Popa, Ioan Cernatescu, Emil Lapadat

JOURNAL CLUBDo the Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors provide renoprotection beyond blood pressure lowering?
Liviu Segall, Adrian Covic

REPORTS ON MAJOR CONGRESSESEUROECHO 9. From research tools to clinical practice
Dragos Vinereanu