CONTENTS    Volume 4, No. 2, 2009                         

ORIGINAL PAPERSThe contribution of chronic hepatitis C virus infection and iron overload to hepatocellular injury in b thalassemia major patients
Tudor Arbanas, Florentina Vladareanu, Alice Albu, Mircea Diculescu

Activated protein C resistance and pregnancy - Department's of Haematology, Coltea Clinical Hospital experience
Simona Avram, Anca Roxana Lupu, Oana Ciocan, Nicoleta Berbec, Andrei Colita, Silvana Angelescu, Carmen Saguna, Ileana Delia Mut

GSK-3b expression after treatment of glial cells with lithium and Maria lithium mineral water from Malnas-Bai
Constantin Munteanu, Diana Munteanu, Delia Cinteza

Health anxiety in somatoform disorders - Results of a comparative longitudinal study
Andreia Vasilescu, Eugenia Panaitescu

EDITORIALSIs there a need for trained nurses in Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Romania? Present conditions, new trends
Crin Marcean, Ana-Maria Catuneanu, Alexandru Lupu, Beatrice Ioanitescu, Carmen Preda, Tudor Nicolaie, Mircea Diculescu

Paraneoplastic neurological disorders
M. Cojocaru, Inimioara Mihaela Cojocaru, Isabela Silosi

The therapeutic protocol for rehabilitation after surgical chondral lesion treatment of the knee
Florina Ojoga, Veronica Gusita

STATE OF THE ARTHypereosinophilic syndromes - recent advances in definition, classification and therapeutic approach
Irina Voican, Ana-Maria Vladareanu, Mihaela Dervesteanu

Actual management of essential trigeminal neuralgia
Gabriel Iacob

Pediatric Inflamatory Bowel Disease - Up to date
Dumitru Matei, Ioan Gherghina, Eliza Cinteza, Ana Burlacu

IMAGES IN MEDICINERenal colic is not always because of renal stones!
Laith Alrubaiy

REPORTS FROM MAJOR CONGRESSESThe American College of Cardiology Scientific Session - ACC'09, Orlando, Florida
Andrei D. Margulescu

JOURNAL CLUBTwo major infections asociated with extensive use of PPIs (proton pump inhibitors)
Alexandru Burlacu

The ACTIVE Trial - Effect of clopidogrel added to aspirin in patients with atrial fibrillation
Vlad Vintila

Is romiplostim an alternative treatment for Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)?
Claudiu Stoicescu

Left atrial appendage occlusion - Closure or just the beginning?
Nora Toma

Risks of long-acting beta-agonists in achieving asthma control
Gabriela Bicescu

Graduated compression stockings do not reduce the risk of deep vein trombosis in neurological patients immobilized after stroke
Andrei-Dumitru Margulescu

Age, neuropathology, and dementia
Andrea Ciobanu

Surgical ventricular reconstruction - no additional benefit to coronary bypass surgery alone
Roxana Sisu

Fenofibrate may decrease the risk of amputation in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Maria Florescu

Managing and reducing uncertainty in the emerging influenza pandemic 
Stefania Magda