Acta clinica Croatica
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Acta clinica Croatica · Dec 2012
Historical ArticleHistorical survey of ophthalmic echography in Croatia.
The first beginnings of ophthalmic echography in Croatia started at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. When the two largest medical institutions in Croatia, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital (former Dr. Mladen Stojanović General Hospital) and Zagreb University Hospital Center, both in Zagreb, were supplied with ultrasonic diagnostic devices, Krautkrimer/ Siemens Echoophthalmograph and Echoophtalmograph 7200 MA Kretz, they had to start using the instruments. ⋯ The first course in ophthalmic echography as continuing medical education at the Zagreb School of Medicine was held in 1992. Ultrasound Division of the Croatian Ophthalmologic Society was organized in 1994 and 1998. The references accompanying this survey includes all papers on ophthalmic ultrasound published in Croatia and some abroad, thus representing Croatian echographic bibliography.
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Acta clinica Croatica · Dec 2012
Stereological survey of the ameliorative effects of sulforaphane and quercetin on renal tissue in unilateral ureteral obstruction in rats.
Hydrostatic pressure, which is the result of urinary tract blockage, initiates renal injuries. The injuries are characterized by tubular dilatation and/or atrophy, tubular cell death, inflammatory process and progressive interstitial fibrosis with loss of renal parenchyma. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ameliorative effects of sulforaphane and quercetin, the two natural compounds that can be found in vegetables, in unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO). ⋯ Changes in the length of Henle's loop and collecting ducts were not significant. In conclusion, quercetin and sulforaphane were found to be effective in preventing some structural renal damage in the direct obstruction model. Quercetin had a more ameliorative role on renal structures.