ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF RSU ISC 2026

The RSU International Student Conference 2026 closing ceremony has revealed our winners:

I place – Sofija Liskova

GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER – PREVALENCE TRENDS IN HELP-SEEKING ADOLESCENT POPULATION IN CHILDREN’S CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, RIGA, LATVIA, 2021-2025

II place – Arturs Titovs

WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY BURDEN AND AGE-MATCHED WHOLE BRAIN VOLUME IN PATIENTS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

III place – Matīss Šalms

CONVENTIONAL VS. 3D-PRINTED TEMPORARY DENTAL CROWNS: A MICRO-CT POROSITY AND FRACTURE RESISTANCE ANALYSIS

Case Report Final

Health Sciences – Case Reports

GYNAECOLOGY / GYNAECOLOGICAL SURGERY / OBSTETRICS / PERINATOLOGY

INTERNAL MEDICINE I (CARDIOLOGY, PULMONOLOGY)

I place – Katrina Verbovenko

THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES OF VENTRICULAR ELECTRIC STORM TREATMENT IN LATVIA

INTERNAL MEDICINE II (GASTROENTEROLOGY, NEPHROLOGY, ENDOCRINOLOGY, RHEUMATOLOGY)

I place – Anna Dobele

CAN HEMATURIA PERSIST FROM CHILDHOOD THROUGH TRANSPLANTATION?

II place – Ernestas Gulbickis

SEVERE HEADACHE AS A MANIFESTATION OF POST-TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER IN A YOUNG WOMAN AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: A CASE REPORT

III place – Anita Stepena

WHEN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MASKS LUPUS: A RARE CASE OF RHUPUS SYNDROME

NEUROLOGY / PSYCHIATRY / PSYCHOTERAPY / PSYCHOSOMATICS

I place – Ilona Kostadinova

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE FOLLOWING HORMONAL STIMULATION FOR IN VITRO FERTILIZATION

II place – Ieva Češūnaitė

EARLY-ONSET HEREDITARY SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA: A CASE REPORT

III place – Elīza Jeruma

FACIAL COLLICULUS SYNDROME FROM VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION: A CASE REPORT

ONCOLOGY & HAEMATOLOGY

I place – Marta Ločmele

DESMOID-TYPE FIBROMATOSIS IN A YOUNG ADULT: A DECADE OF REFRACTORY DISEASE AND EMERGING RESPONSE TO PAZOPANIB

II place – Valters Vēģelis

WHEN A KIDNEY MASS IS NOT CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA: MOLECULARLY CONFIRMED RENAL EWING SARCOMA IN AN ADULT

III place – Laura Bērziņa

THE ROLE OF TARGETED THERAPY WITH ALECTINIB IN METASTATIC ALK-POSITIVE LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA: CASE REPORT

PAEDIATRICS

I place – Anita Stepena

THE IMPORTANCE OF COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION TIMING FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN USHER SYNDROME: A COMPARATIVE CASE REPORT

II place – Dārta Valdovska

CASE REPORT: ACTIVATED PI3K-DELTA SYNDROME AND DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA OF THE ROOT OF THE TONGUE IN AN ADOLESCENT PATIENT

III place – Annija Grantina

ECMO SUPPORT AND DYNAMIC LUNG REMODELING IN SEVERE LEFT-SIDED CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA: A CASE REPORT

SURGERY (SURGICAL ONCOLOGY AND GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY)

I place – Michal Grucki

THE FIRST IMMEDIATE LYMPHATIC RECONSTRUCTION IN LATVIA DURING BREAST CANCER SURGERY: CASE REPORT

II place – Kristiāns Vištarts

FUNCTIONAL CLITORAL RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING RESECTION OF VULVAR SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA

III place – Emīls Zandersons

BIPHENOTYPIC SINONASAL SARCOMA: CASE REPORT

SURGERY (CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, THORACIC SURGERY, SURGICAL OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY)

I place – Nils Zīle

ORTNER’S SYNDROME SECONDARY TO A THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSM: HOARSENESS AS THE INITIAL PRESENTATION

II place – Aadi Sunil

UNILATERAL BIDIRECTIONAL GLENN SHUNT IN HETEROTAXY SYNDROME

III place – Krišjānis Upenieks

EMERGENCY ASCENDING AORTIC REPLACEMENT FOR ACUTE TYPE A AORTIC DISSECTION IN A 31-WEEK PREGNANT PATIENT WITH MARFAN SYNDROME

SURGERY (UROLOGY AND GENITOURINARY SURGERY)

I place – Linda Podniece

ANTEPARTUM PREECLAMPSIA WITH DEVELOPMENT OF ECLAMPSIA AT 34 WEEKS GESTATION – CASE REPORT

II place – Arathi Nair

ADULT PRESENTATION OF DUPLICATED COLLECTING SYSTEM WITH URETEROCELE AND MULTIPLE URETERIC CALCULI

III place – Aleksandra Guzowska

RECONSTRUCTION OF BLADDER EXSTROPHY IN A CHILD – A COMPLEX PATH FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD

SURGERY (TRAUMA, ORTHOPAEDIC AND NEUROSURGERY)

I place – Zenons Beļskis

BEYOND GLIOMAS: 5-ALA–GUIDED RADICAL RESECTION OF EN PLAQUE MENINGIOMA WITH EXTENSIVE HYPEROSTOSIS

II place – Patrīcija Paula Mūrniece

MANAGEMENT OF POSTOPERATIVE ARTHROFIBROSIS AFTER ACL RECONSTRUCTION AND MENISCUS REPAIR: A CASE REPORT.

III place – Oskars Otaņķis

ASEPTIC LOOSENING OF GLENOHUMERAL JOINT REVERSE ARTHROPLASTY CASE REPORT.

Health Sciences – Oral

BASIC & PRECLINICAL SCIENCE (MORPHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, GENETICS)

I place – Ģertrūde Strance

FROM TISSUE TO TEACHING TOOL: MASTERING EPOXY RESIN FOR EDUCATIONAL MODEL CREATION

II place – Laura Ozola

BMP 2/4, IL-10, NF-ΚB P105/P50, HSP 70, LL-37, GAL-10 AND CASPASE 3 IN DIFFERENT CLEFT LIP PALATE AFFECTED TISSUE

III place – Georgijs Kuļibaba

CHARACTERIZATION OF INFLAMMATORY PROTEINS/FACTORS IN PALATAL TISSUE OF PATIENTS WITH BILATERAL CLEFT LIP PALATE

DENTISTRY / MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY & OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY / OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGERY

I place – Matīss Šalms

CONVENTIONAL VS. 3D-PRINTED TEMPORARY DENTAL CROWNS: A MICRO-CT POROSITY AND FRACTURE RESISTANCE ANALYSIS

II place – Arina Verzbicka

INCIDENCE AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PAEDIATRIC ORBITOCELLULITIS IN THE CHILDREN’S CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, LATVIA

III place – Vasilisa Jemeļjanova

TREATMENT OUTCOME OF IMPACTED MANDIBULAR CANINES

GYNAECOLOGY / GYNAECOLOGICAL SURGERY / OBSTETRICS / PERINATOLOGY

I place – Julia Kottmann

CAPTURING CLIMATE IMPACT: ADVANCED STATISTICAL MODELLING OF TEMPERATURE EXPOSURE AND PRETERM BIRTH IN LATVIA

II place – Anna Drozdecka

MISSED ABORTION IN LATVIA: EVALUATION OF PATIENTS’ EXPERIENCE FOLLOWING OUTPATIENT GYNAECOLOGIST CONSULTATIONS

III place – Elīna Butka

MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PRACTICES, ACCESSIBILITY OF MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS, AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS.

INTERNAL MEDICINE I (CARDIOLOGY, PULMONOLOGY)

I place – Beatrise Brikovska

SPONTANEOUS REDUCTION IN PREMATURE VENTRICULAR CONTRACTION BURDEN WHILE AWAITING CATHETER ABLATION

II place – Rolands Paluga

ETIOLOGY MATTERS: PROGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM RISK SCORES IN UNPROVOKED VERSUS PROVOKED CASES

III place – Everita Kupriša 

PROGRESSION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND ASSOCIATED COMPLICATIONS IN A REAL-WORLD COHORT

INTERNAL MEDICINE II (GASTROENTEROLOGY, NEPHROLOGY, ENDOCRINOLOGY, RHEUMATOLOGY)

I place – Ilze Skrastiņa

CHANGES IN BONE AND MINERAL METABOLISM BEFORE AND AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: A SINGLE-CENTER STUDY IN LATVIA

II place – Annija Zodāne

SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF A POLYHERBAL FORMULATION ON THE GUT MICROBIOME IN METFORMIN-TREATED PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES

III place – Anastasija Makarova

A SINGLE-CENTER RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF DENOSUMAB THERAPY IN MEN WITH OSTEOPOROSIS (OSTEOPROM PART 4)

NEUROLOGY / NEUROSURGERY

I place – Arta Adele Pore

PLASMA NEUROFILAMENT LIGHT CHAIN AND DISEASE INSTABILITY IN CHRONIC AUTOIMMUNE NEUROPATHIES

II place – Elīza Jeruma

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES OF STROKE IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER: A SINGLE-CENTER STUDY

III place – Dāvis Kannenieks

A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICIAN BASED APPROACHES IN THE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF COGNITIVE AGING IN PATIENTS WITH SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE AND RISK OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

ONCOLOGY & HAEMATOLOGY

I place – Dārta Valdovska

ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE WITH THE PEDSQL 3.0 CANCER MODULE IN LATVIAN PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY PATIENTS

II place – Valters Vēģelis

PROLIFERATION OVER MUTATION: INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF MITOTIC INDEX IN MELANOMA

III place – Valters Dumpis

TAXONOMIC DYNAMICS OF THE GUT MICROBIOME IN LATVIAN PEDIATRIC HEMATO-ONCOLOGY PATIENTS UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY

OPHTHALMOLOGY

I place – Agita Arbidāne-Rupaine

PERIPHERAL RETINAL CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY

II place – Karina Antonova

NEAR VISION IN PATIENTS AFTER MONOFOCAL INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANTATION

III place – Laura Petersone

SURGICAL TREATMENT OUTCOMES AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AFTER RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY: PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (2023-2025)

PSYCHIATRY / PSYCHOTHERAPY / PSYCHOSOMATICS

I place – Sofija Liskova

GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER – PREVALENCE TRENDS IN HELP-SEEKING ADOLESCENT POPULATION IN CHILDREN’S CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, RIGA, LATVIA, 2021-2025

II place – Tadas Valiulis

MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS AND PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION USE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN LITHUANIA (2020–2024)

III place – Marija Spruģevica

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE RESERVE AND LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM MEMORY INDICATORS AND EVOKED POTENTIAL P300 WAVE AMPLITUDE IN OLDER ADULTS

PUBLIC & GLOBAL HEALTH / OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE / NUTRITION / DIGITAL MEDICINE

I place – Sergejs Katinskis

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSIONS FROM FIREARM MAINTENANCE: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISKS

II place – Paula Birzniece

MENTAL HEALTH – RELATED STIGMA IN ACUTE CARE SETTINGS IN LATVIA: A SURVEY OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS’ BELIEFS AND AWARENESS

III place – Nadīna Judeika

CHANGES IN WORK-RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS IN LATVIA, 2005–2015 (EWCS DATA)

SPORTS MEDICINE / SPORTS SCIENCE / REHABILITOLOGY / MEDICAL SIMULATIONS

I place – Daido Dagne Brūvere

EFFECTS OF ADVANCED FOOTWEAR TECHNOLOGY ON RUNNING ECONOMY, BIOMECHANICS AND PERFORMANCE DURING A HALF-HOUR TREADMILL RUN

II place – Madara Ketlīna Štarka-Rantiņa

MODERATING ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS IN WEEKLY SLEEP AND FATIGUE DURING BREAST CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY

III place – Māris Lācis

USE OF 3D-PRINTED HAND ORTHOSES IN ACUTE AND SUBACUTE STROKE REHABILITATION TO REDUCE FLEXION–EXTENSION-RELATED COMPLICATIONS

SURGERY

I place – Viktorija Kvedaraitė

LONG-TERM ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC COMPARISON OF AORTIC ROOT SURGICAL TECHNIQUES

II place – Raivis Bricis

EARLY RESULTS OF AORTIC VALVE SPARING ROOT REPLACEMENT SURGERY IN COMPARISON WITH BENTALL PROCEDURE IN ELECTIVE PATIENTS

III place – Beatrise Alise Sarkanābola

SURGICALLY TREATED GALLBLADDER CANCER PATIENTS: OUTCOMES OF A RETROSPECTIVE SINGLE CENTRE STUDY

III place – Artūrs Vecbaštiks

ANALYSIS OF AXILLARY LYMPH NODE SURGERY OUTCOMES IN BREAST CANCER

TRAUMATOLOGY / ORTHOPEDICS / TRAUMA & ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY / RADIOLOGY

I place – Arturs Titovs

WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY BURDEN AND AGE-MATCHED WHOLE BRAIN VOLUME IN PATIENTS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

II place – Pauls Kristiāns Osipovs

APPLICATION OF CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN PATIENTS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE

III place – Evelīna Rama

PERCUTANEOUS CRYOABLATION FOR SMALL RENAL MASSES: FIRST PATIENT GROUP EFFICACY AND SAFETY ANALYSIS FROM LATVIAN REGISTRY

BIOCHEMISTRY / PHARMACOLOGY / PHARMACY / PHYSIOLOGY

I place – Kristofers Rudzitis

DEVELOPMENT OF PYRUVATE KINASE M2 INHIBITORS

II place – Elīza Ķibilda

ASSESSMENT OF L-NAME DOSE EFFECTS IN A TWO-HIT HFpEF MOUSE MODEL

III place – Daniela Paula Prudņikova

FROM SYNTHESIS TO FINAL FORMULATION: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS GUIDED OPTIMIZATION OF GALLIC ACID-LOADED TRANSETHOSOMAL CHITOSAN GEL

Health Sciences – Poster

BASIC & PRECLINICAL SCIENCE (MORPHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, GENETICS)

I place – Letīcija Karele

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MARSH I TYPE CHANGES IN THE DUODENUM AND H. PYLORI PRESENCE IN GASTRIC BIOPSY.

II place – Alise Peica

FACIAL AND LIP MORPHOLOGICAL PROPORTIONS IN INDIVIDUALS FROM LATVIA BASED ON HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM 1936

III place – Elizabete Brikune

CHANGES IN ENDOMETRIAL G-CSF, BMP-2/4, HSP-70, TUNEL, PROGESTERONE AND ESTROGEN IN INFERTILE WOMEN

DENTISTRY / MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY & OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY / OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGERY

I place – Maksims Ģermanovičs 

ATTITUDES TOWARD VIRTUAL SIMULATORS IN PRECLINICAL DENTAL EDUCATION AMONG STUDENTS AND LECTURERS AT RĪGA STRADIŅŠ UNIVERSITY

II place – Ugnė Dulskaitė

PERCEPTION OF SMILE AESTHETICS AMONG DENTISTRY AND NON-DENTISTRY STUDENTS

EMERGENCY MEDICINE / ANAESTHESIOLOGY / REANIMATOLOGY

I place – Sofja Grundane

VANCOMYCIN PENETRATION INTO INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS DURING SPINE SURGERY: A POPULATION PHARMACOKINETIC ANALYSIS

II place – Arturs Kļeščevņikovs

CAUSES OF READMISSION AMONG INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENTS FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY

III place – Everita Binde, Marta Aukone

STRESS AND CORTISOL LEVELS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS PERFORMING AN EMERGENCY FRONT-OF-NECK AIRWAY PROCEDURE USING LOW- AND HIGH-FIDELITY MANIKINS

INFECTIOUS DISEASES / MICROBIOLOGY / IMMUNOLOGY / ALLERGOLOGY / DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY

I place – Pooja Nagarkoti

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EXAM-INDUCED PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND SELF-REPORTED DERMATOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN EUROPE

II place – Unda Lomanovska

DRUG PROVOCATION TEST POSITIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED HYPERSENSITIVITY TO LOCAL ANESTHETIC

III place – Olga Maria Iova

THE EFFECTS OF ANTHYLLIS VULNERARIA EXTRACT AS AN ADJUVANT IN WOUND HEALING

INTERNAL MEDICINE

I place – Aysha Rafeeque

B CELL PROFILING IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD AND PEYER’S PATCHES IN IGA NEPHROPATHY

OPHTHALMOLOGY

I place – Kazimieras Kaušyla

AUTOIMMUNE RETINOPATHIES: DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES AND MISDIAGNOSIS

II place – Agilė KučinskaitėStāks

USE OF THE IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF DOXYCYCLINE IN OPHTHALMOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

PSYCHIATRY / PSYCHOTHERAPY / PSYCHOSOMATICS

I place – Madara Druvaskalna

ADOLESCENT EATING DISORDER COURSE IN RELATION TO PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: MIXED-METHODS STUDY AT CHILDREN’S CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

II place – Danilas Pavilionis

TREATING PTSD WITH VIRTUAL REALITY

III place – Rola Juma

WHEN ANXIETY MASKS ADHD: DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES FOR WOMEN IN PRIMARY CARE – A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

PSYCHOLOGY

I place – Austra Dute

DEVELOPING SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND ATTENTION PERSISTENCE IN ADOLESCENT BASKETBALL PLAYERS USING MIXED REALITY: INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT

II place – Estere Promberga

EFFECTIVENESS OF A MIXED REALITY INTERVENTION IN DEVELOPING SUSTAINED SELECTIVE ATTENTION IN ADOLESCENT BASKETBALL PLAYERS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED PILOT STUDY

III place – Kristaps Stinka

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF THE SHORT VERSION OF THE RIGA COGNITIVE SCREENING TEST: INTERNAL CONSISTENCY AND ITEM ANALYSIS OF RITA-S

PUBLIC & GLOBAL HEALTH / OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE / NUTRITION / DIGITAL MEDICINE

I place – Patrīcija Kaņepāja

DYNAMICS OF MEDICATION REPACKAGING FOR F30-39 DIAGNOSES (MOOD DISORDERS): BEFORE AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

II place – Rusnė Šulniūtė

PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AS A PROTECTIVE FACTOR FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND ITS CONNECTION TO ALTRUISM

III place – Eva Lāce-Stalidzāne

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SEASONAL TRENDS OF LEPTOSPIROSIS IN LATVIA

Social Sciences – Oral

I place – Reinaert Demey

THE BALTIC BREAKAWAY – NORM CONTRADICTIONS & LEGITIMACY CONSTRUCTION IN THE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE OTTAWA PERSONNEL MINE BAN TREATY

II place – Gustavs Pagrabs

VATICAN’S COMMUNICATIVE DIPLOMACY DURING POPE FRANCIS’ PONTIFICATE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIA–UKRAINE WAR (2022–2025)

III place – Anastasija Tetarenko-Supe

LANGUAGE AS SECURITY: SECURITIZING THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT IN LATVIA THROUGH THE EXCLUSION OF RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE CONTENT