Publications by authors named "H Pasic"
Parkinson's disease (PD) is generally considered as a primary movement disorder, but the majority of patients also suffer from non-motor oral, salivary symptoms. The most common salivary symptoms, sialorrhea and xerostomia, have a considerable negative impact on the quality of life. Although these symptoms are completely opposite ones, both significantly impair oral health of patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cognitive dysfunction appears all through the course of multiple sclerosis (MS). Mild and moderate cognitive impairment is present in up to 40% of MS patients and severe cognitive decline affects more than 50% of patients in progressive course of the disease. The most common cognitive disorders in MS include diminished information processing speed, compromised word fluency, complex attention deficit and executive dysfunction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic inflammatory neurodegenerative disease, is accompanied by a number of comorbidities. Among the psychiatric ones, depression and anxiety occupy a special place. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety in the MS population is 22.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Comorbidities in multiple sclerosis (MS) have a big role in management of this chronic demyelinating neurodegenerative disorder. The aim of this study was to evaluate comorbidities in patients with MS in Croatia.
Subjects And Methods: This was a prospective cross-sectional study carried out in an out-patient setting at a tertiary healthcare centre over 10 months, which included 101 consecutive patients with MS (mean age 42.