Publications by authors named "D Mikulic"
Congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) is one of the most common congenital musculoskeletal deformities, and is defined as tilted head position with hypertonic sternocleidomastoid muscle and limited cervical spine mobility. Incidences up to 16% have been recorded, more often in male children. Clinical features are characterized by an inclined position of the head on the diseased side and a gaze directed towards the healthy side, deformities such as plagiocephaly, and various complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMeningeal cryptococcosis in a pancreas transplant recipient requiring grafectomy: A case report.
World J Gastrointest Surg
September 2024
Background: Through continuous improvement in transplantation medicine, a wider range of solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients is considered suitable for complex procedures. Despite advances in modern transplantation practice, transpiring invasive fungal infections pose a substantial threat for SOT recipients. To our knowledge, cryptococcal infection confined amidst sole pancreas SOT recipients has not been described to date.
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- - The study addresses the increasing demand for liver transplants (LT) and the trend of using older donor livers, which is traditionally thought to provide poorer outcomes compared to younger livers.
- - The research analyzed 656 liver transplants to evaluate the effects of donor age using advanced statistical methods, comparing outcomes between patients receiving livers from donors aged 75 and older versus those 45 and younger.
- - Results indicated no significant impact of donor age on patient survival post-transplant, suggesting that older liver grafts may be as viable as those from younger donors, challenging prior assumptions.
Introduction: Smoking tobacco results in the death of more than 8 million people every year. Our study aims to explore a new approach for smoking cessation by analyzing body composition differences between smokers and non-smokers, focusing on potential variations in biological and chronological ages.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2019 at the Special Hospital for Medical Rehabilitation in Croatia.
Retroperitoneal paragangliomas are tumors of neuroectodermal origin rarely appearing in the pediatric population. We report a case of a large paraganglioma infiltrating the right kidney and inferior vena cava in a 16-year-old boy who initially presented with a right-sided varicocele. Right retroperitoneal paraganglioma was embolized preoperatively, followed by total tumor excision, right nephrectomy, inferior vena cava resection, and reconstruction using a prosthetic vascular graft.
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