Cognitive Function during and after Pregnancy and One-Year Postpartum in Type 1 Diabetes: A Longitudinal Study.

Background: This study aims to compare the cognitive function of women with T1DM during and after pregnancy, as well as one year post-delivery. Additionally, it aims to investigate the impacts of leptin and body mass index on cognitive function.

Methods: A prospective longitudinal cohort study was conducted involving 64 pregnant women with T1DM.

Relationship of Glucose, C-peptide, Leptin, and BDNF in Maternal and Umbilical Vein Blood in Type-1 Diabetes.

Unlabelled: The study aimed to determine the relationship between glucose, C-peptide, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and leptin between mother and fetus and neonatal weight.

Methods: In the prospective observational cohort study, we included 66 women with type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). According to the z-score for neonatal weight, patients were divided into healthy-weight neonates ( = 42) and overweight neonates ( = 24).

Positive Association between Preserved C-Peptide and Cognitive Function in Pregnant Women with Type-1 Diabetes.

This study focused on the cognitive function of women with type 1 diabetes in pregnancy. We investigated risk factors for a low cognitive score such as age, duration of Diabetes, BMI, subclinical hypothyroidism, cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy, the impact of hypo-/hyperglycemia, and C-peptide preservation. Material and methods.

Awakened Beta-Cell Function Decreases the Risk of Hypoglycemia in Pregnant Women with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

Unlabelled: Diabetes in pregnancy creates many problems for both the mother and child. Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes experience more frequent hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic episodes. This study aimed to determine the risk of clinically significant biochemical hypoglycemia (CSBH) by HbA1c, fasting C-peptide, mean plasma glucose (PG), and insulin dose in pregnant women type 1 diabetes mellitus according to each trimester of the pregnancy.

N-3 PUFA and Pregnancy Preserve C-Peptide in Women with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the gradual loss of β-cell function and insulin secretion. In pregnant women with T1DM, endogenous insulin production is absent or minimal, and exogenous insulin is required to control glycemia and prevent ketoacidosis. During pregnancy, there is a partial decrease in the activity of the immune system, and there is a suppression of autoimmune diseases.

The Impact of Hypoglycemia and EPA and DHA Supplementation on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Level in Pregnant Women with Type 1 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: In addition to its neuroprotective effect, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) also plays a role in glucose and lipid metabolism. This study aims: a) to find changes in the BDNF concentration during pregnancy in type 1 diabetes. b) to prove the effect of DHA and EPA supplementation on changes in BDNF concentrations c) to investigate the impact of hypoglycemia on BDNF concentration.

Supplementation of EPA and DHA in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Background/objective: Lower proportions of n-3 PUFAs have been observed in neonates born to diabetic mothers. We aimed to investigate the association between DHA and EPA supplementation during pregnancy complicated with type 1 diabetes on concentration and proportion of fatty acids in maternal and foetal blood.

Subjects And Methods: We conducted a prospective randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of 111 eligible pregnant women with type 1 diabetes and presented the results of 84 (intervention arm and control arm comprised 42 participants each) of them who successfully finished the trial in an academic hospital.

THE ROLE OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN IN WOMEN WITH HEREDITARY THROMBOPHILIA FOR GOOD PERINATAL OUTCOME.

The aim of the study was to establish the importance of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) treatment for good pregnancy outcome in patients with hereditary thrombophilia. This retrospective study included 70 patients with inherited thrombophilia who gave birth at Zagreb University Hospital Center in the period from January 2014 to January 2015. Fifty-seven women were treated and 13 women were not treated with LMWH.

Perinatal Health Statistics as the Basis for Perinatal Quality Assessment in Croatia.

Context: Perinatal mortality indicators are considered the most important measures of perinatal outcome. The indicators reliability depends on births and deaths reporting and recording. Many publications focus on perinatal deaths underreporting and misclassification, disabling proper international comparisons.

Successful delivery of fetus with fetal inherited thrombophilia after two fetal deaths.

A pregnant woman with inherited thrombophilia (factor II mutation--20210A) had two late pregnancy losses. The first pregnancy was not well documented, but the second pregnancy was complicated by fetal thrombophilia and umbilical artery thrombosis, proven after fetal death. During the third pregnancy enoxaparine was introduced in the therapy and early amniocentesis was performed.

Redefinition of gestational diabetes mellitus: implications for laboratory practice in Croatia.

An increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes has become a very challenging task in prenatal care worldwide. International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) has recently issued recommendations on the diagnosis and classification of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy. These recommendations, the first to provide harmonised, evidence-based criteria for the diagnosis and classification of diabetes in pregnancy, are currently being discussed and accepted worldwide by the relevant authorities.

[Pregnancies and deliveries in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease].

Hereditary motor sensory neuropathy (HMSN), also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, is a spectrum of disorders caused by a specific mutation in one of several myelin genes, which results in defects in myelin structure, maintenance and formation. Affected individuals show progressive distal limb atrophy and weakness, often with gait disturbance and deformity of feet and hands. There have been few studies on how CMT disease can affect pregnancy, birth and the newborn.

[Effect of diet and salt intake on the development of hypertension in children and adolescents].

Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal diseases. A common opinion, even among physicians, is that arterial hypertension is rare in children and that it is mainly caused by renal disease. It only holds true for infants and small children.

Abdominal hernias in pregnancy.

A hernia is an area of weakness or complete disruption of the fibromuscular tissues of the body wall. In addition to the body wall, hernias can occur in the diaphragm, pelvic wall, perineum, pelvic floor, and internal abdominal viscera (hernias through omental or mesenteric defects, ligaments and folds). Surgical repair of different types of hernia is the most common general surgical procedure with more than 20 million hernioplasties performed each year.

[Pregnancy in patients treated with hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis: review of the literature and management guidelines].

Pregnancy in patients suffering from chronic renal disease is still a rare phenomenon due to a number of factors that impair fertility in such patients, in spite of a number of new treatment techniques that have been introduced recently, e.g. renal replacement therapy with biocompatible dialysis membranes, highflux dialyzers, erythropoietins, and new types of peritoneal dialysis and higher level of care for such patients.

[Guidelines for diagnostics and treatment of arterial hypertension. Practical recommendations of the Croatian Working Group for Hypertension. Consideration on the ESH-ESC 2007 guidelines].

ESH/ECS guidelines for diagnostics and treatment of arterial hypertension 2007 is a basic paper for all physicians who treat hypertensive patients. Since publishing, this article has been the most cited medical paper. According to ESH/ECS guidelines some local peculiarities in each country should be considered when diagnosing and treating hypertensive patients.

[Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents--our results].

Unlabelled: Objective of the study was to present the results of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in children and adolescents with hypertension diagnosed by primary care physician.

Methods: we retrospectively reviewed ABPM studies in 76 children. Mean patient age was 14.

[Clinical and histopathological characteristics of biopsy-proven renal diseases in Croatia].

There is little data on the spectrum of renal diseases in children in Croatia. The Croatian Society for Pediatric Nephrology has established the Registry of Biopsy-Proven Renal Diseases in an attempt to address this issue nationwide. Here we report preliminary results of a retrospective analysis of clinical and histopathological data of 565 children aged < or =17 years presenting to 9 hospitals in Croatia from 1991 to 2004, in whom kidney biopsy was performed.

[Hypertension in pregnancy].

Pregnancy in hypertension is not a single entity, and currently several classifications exist. Most often used is the updated classification of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which classifies hypertension into chronic hypertension, preeclampsia-eclampsia, preeclampsia superposed on chronic hypertension, and gestational hypertension. Preeclampsia occurs in about 7% of pregnant women.

Birth weight of healthy newborns in Zagreb area, Croatia.

The aim of this study was to assess birth weight of healthy newborns from the City of Zagreb and Zagreb County, Croatia. Birth weights of healthy newborns, born at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Center "Zagreb" in the year 2001, were included into analysis. Since there were only few newborns in the 22nd-27th week of gestation, they were excluded from the study.

Treatment of a retained placenta with intraumbilical oxytocin injection.

The aim of the study was to assess the effect of intraumbilical administration of oxytocin in the management of retained placenta. This prospective double-blinded clinical study included 31 mothers with retained placenta. The women were divided into three groups: group 1 (n = 19) was given 20 IU syntocinon in 20 ml 0.

Successful treatment of alloimmune thrombocytopenia using corticosteroid therapy in a woman with two consecutive neonatal deaths--case report.

Alloimmune thrombocytopenia is a serious fetal disorder resulting from platelet-antigen incompatibility between the mother and the fetus. In mild cases, the diagnosis is usually made upon detection of neonatal thrombocytopenia, but serious consequences such as fetal intracranial hemorrhage and/or unexplained fetal death may complicate the disorder. Various treatment modalities are suggested in the management of alloimmune thrombocytopenia, however, none has yet been confirmed as obviously superior.