Yesterday, health professionals from the Clinic for Children’s Diseases, University Clinical Center Tuzla together with members of “Heart for Children” Society hosted a press conference with aim to raise awareness to the burden of childhood cancer. On that occasion it was said that Bosnia and Herzegovina faces large increase in number of children diagnosed with…
Today, the bone marrow transplant team from the Clinic of Hematology and Transplantation, University Clinical Center Tuzla performed autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) of bone marrow in a 24- year- old patient suffeing from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is the second hematopoietic stem cell transplant that our transplant team performed over the past two weeks.…
World Cancer Day is an international day marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer, and to encourage its prevention, early detection, treatment and care of patients suffering from cancer. World Cancer Day originated from 2000 when the first World Summit Against Cancer was held in Paris. At this meeting, leaders of government agencies…
The bone marrow transplant team from the Clinic of Hematology and Transplantation, University Clinical Center Tuzla has successfully performed autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Chief of transplant team and head of the Clinic of Hematology and Transplantation, Prof. Dr. Aida Čustović Arnautović, on that occasion said that autologous HSCT was done to a 49-…
Today, the University Clinical Center Tuzla hosted a press conference to present the Piljic- method that was used in surgery of total occlusion of the aorta with critical limb ischemia. This method invented and carried out Prof. Dr. Dragan Piljić, cardiovascular surgeon, head of the Department for vascular surgery. In speaking to the press Prof.…