Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 42 No. (3-4), 2010.
Review article
The importance of collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to solving problems of urolithiasis: yesterday, today and tomorrow
Vesna Babić-Ivančić
Antun Tucak
Milenko Marković
Vatroslav Šerić
Selma Cvijetić Avdagić
Helga Füredi-Milhofer
Abstract
Collaboration between chemists, physicians and urologists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Institute for Medical Research and the Occupational Health and Clinical Hospital Osijek, has started more than 30 years ago through the projects in the filed of urolithiasis. Those investigations have contributed to new understandings of risk factors for kidney stones formation and also for diagnostic and therapy of urolithiasis. Several articles have been published in the journal „Medicinski vjesnik (1984 and 1985) and in the book „Urolitijaza (1989.). The article published in 2004 (Babić-Ivančić V, et al; Medicinski vjesnik presented the review of basic and clinical investigations which results have been published in scientific journals or presented at the scientific conferences til 2004 and financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science, European Union, USA or TEMPUS. This article presents the results of investigations from 2004 until today and also gives a vision about future scope in this issue.
Keywords
Inerdisciplinary studies; Review; Risk Factors; Urolithiasis — pathology, prevention & control, urine
Hrčak ID:
191888
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2010.
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