SUMMARY – Comorbidity decreases survival but it still remains unknown to what extent functional recovery after ischemic stroke is affected. The aim of this research was to determine the prevalence of the most common comorbidities in patients with ischemic stroke and to examine their predictive value on the functional status and recovery. In order to obtain relevant information for this research, we conducted a prospective study over a two-year period. It included patients with acute/subacute ischemic stroke who had inhospital rehabilitation treatment in our institution. Functional status of the patients was evaluated by the following three aspects at the beginning and at the end of rehabilitation treatment: Rivermead Mobility Index was used for mobility, Barthel Index for independence in activities of daily living, and modified Rankin Scale for total disability. Modified Charlston Comorbidity Index was used to assess comorbidity. Multivariate analysis was applied to evaluate the impact of recorded comorbidities on the patient functional outcome. Independent predictors of rehabilitation success in our study were the value of modified Charlston Comorbidity Index, atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction. Our study demonstrated that patients with more comorbidities had worse functional outcome after stroke, so it is important to consider the comorbidity status when planning the rehabilitation treatment.

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: Introduction: Chronic gastritis is inflammation of the gastric mucosa. It can be non-atrophic and atrophic. Atrophy is defined as the loss of appropriate glands. It is frequently located in antral mucosa as consequence of Helicobacter pylori infection and it is associated with intestinal gastric cancer. Goal: Describe histopathological and demographic characteristics of atrophic gastritis. Matherial and methods: We assessed the pathological reports of 100 patients with atrophic gastritis whose characteristics were evaluated by using a semiquantitative scale of Sidney system of classification of gastritis. To assess the significance between the incidence of various parametres we used χ 2 test. Results: We found that the difference in frequency of atrophic gastritis between men and women was not statistically significant. The difference in distribution is statistically significant in favor of the antrum. Among patients who have atrophy with Helicobacter pylori infection and intestinal metaplasia and those who do not have metaplasia, it was found that the difference is highly statistically significant. Conclusion: The most frequent localisation of atrophic gastritis is antral mucosa. There is no difference between men and women in frequency of atrophic gastritis, while the aging is related with more often occurrence of atrophic gastritis.