Health professionals from the University Clinical Center Tuzla for the first time applied Nusinersen, an antisense oligonucleotide drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Nusinersen is administered to a newborn patient aged 1.5 months after spinal muscular atrophy was diagnosed by a screening test at birth, and then confirmed by molecular genetic analysis. Spinal muscular atrophy…
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A year ago, an idea of improving the treatment conditions of oncology patients in the Outpatient clinic of the Clinic for Oncology and Radiotherapy University Clinical Center Tuzla came up from our management team and the Associations of oncology patients suffering from breast cancer. As a result of all that, the assistant director for nursing…
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On the occasion of World Psoriasis Day 2023, the Clinic for Skin Diseases University Clinic Center Tuzla teamed with Psoriasis Association FBiH and hosted a series of clinical lectures on psoriasis. The organizer’s goal was to to share knowledge and insights about psoriatic disease and to present therapeutic protocols that can influence the improvement of…
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On Friday, 20th October, as part of continuing training for health professionals, the University Clinical Center Tuzla Clinic for Orthopedy and Trauma hosted Dr Semin Bećirbegović, who supervised corrective valgus osteotomies of the femur and tibia. Corrective osteotomy is an effective procedure for the surgical management of several degenerative knee conditions mostly performed on younger…
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Yesterday, world- renowned experts in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmeck and Dr. Susanne Schlüter-Müller paid a visit to the Clinic for Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla. Our guests hosted the head of the Clinic for Psychiatry Ass. Prof. Nerminka Aljukić and medical director Assoc. Prof. Igor Hudić. The representatives…
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