Publications by authors named "Ana Gasic"
Assessing Symptomatic Hypocalcemia Risk After Total Thyroidectomy: A Prospective Study.
Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol
January 2024
The most common postoperative complication of total thyroidectomy is hypocalcemia, usually monitored using serum parathyroid hormone and calcium values. To identify the most accurate predictors of hypocalcemia, construct a risk assesment algorithm and analyze the impact of using several calcium correction formulas in practice. A prospective, single-center, non-randomized longitudinal cohort study on 205 patients undergoing total thyroidectomy.
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- - Darier disease (DD) is a rare genetic skin disorder caused by mutations in the ATP2A2 gene, characterized by skin lesions, nail abnormalities, and mucosal changes.
- - A case study of a 40-year-old woman revealed pruritic skin lesions concentrated on one side of her body, leading to a diagnosis of localized segmental DD after a biopsy showed characteristic cell changes.
- - The condition typically appears between ages 6 and 20 and presents with crusty, itchy papules; it results from calcium imbalance and loss of cell adhesion due to impaired ATP2A2 gene function.
Reports from various countries have described increasing numbers of scabies cases, especially in the past two decades. The epidemiological data for various world regions showed prevalence estimates ranging from 0.2% to 71%, with the highest prevalence in the Pacific region and Latin America.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory skin condition that greatly affects patients' quality of life, psychological condition, and social relationships.
Materials And Methods: To analyze different aspects of AD patients' quality of life, we used the SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD) index (for AD severity), the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF), the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief IPQ), and the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index (CCEI) to analyze personality traits. The study included 84 AD patients, 42 with clinical manifestations and 42 in remission.