Publications by authors named "L Pavicic"
Background: The physical changes that accompany the onset of puberty demand a constant restructuring of the adolescent's perception of their body and may influence adolescents' mental health.
Aim: To describe weight status perception and its association with socio-demographic characteristics (SDC) and mental health disorders among adolescents in a low and middle-income country (LMIC).
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in high schools in the urban area of the governorate of Sousse, Tunisia in 2018.
Background: Infantile nephropathic cystinosis (INC) is a systemic lysosomal storage disease causing intracellular cystine accumulation, resulting in renal Fanconi syndrome, progressive kidney disease (CKD), rickets, malnutrition, and myopathy. An INC-specific disproportionately diminished trunk length compared to leg length poses questions regarding the functionality of the trunk.
Methods: Thus, we prospectively investigated thoracic dimensions and proportions, as well as their clinical determinants in 44 pediatric patients with INC with CKD stages 1-5 and 97 age-matched patients with CKD of other etiology between the ages of 2-17 years.
Introduction: Minor physical anomalies (MPA) are subtle morphological deviations with little to none clinical significance that are developed prenatally and therefore could be an indicator of structural changes in the brain developing at the same time. Aim of this study was to determine whether the MPA of the hand can distinguish psychotic patients from patients with non-psychotic diagnoses as well as from the healthy individuals.
Subjects And Methods: 100 consecutive patients from the University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of psychiatry, were included in this case-control study along with 100 healthy control subjects.
Children with infantile nephropathic cystinosis (INC), an inherited lysosomal storage disease resulting in cystine accumulation in all body cells, are prone to progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), impaired growth and reduced weight gain; however, systematic anthropometric analyses are lacking. In this prospective multicenter study we investigated linear growth, body proportion, body mass index (BMI), upper arm fat area (UFA) and biochemical parameters in 43 pediatric INC patients with CKD stages 1 to 5 and 49 age-matched CKD controls, with 193 annual measurements. INC patients showed more impaired height than CKD controls (-1.
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- - Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) is commonly used to promote growth in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) before they receive a kidney transplant, but its impact on growth and transplant outcomes post-surgery is not well understood.
- - A study of 146 CKD patients who underwent kidney transplantation before age 8 revealed that those who received rhGH had similar height at transplant but showed greater improvements in growth measurements and lower steroid exposure after the procedure.
- - Ultimately, patients treated with rhGH prior to transplant had better growth outcomes linked to improved transplant function, lower inflammation (as measured by C-reactive protein), and less anemia compared to those who did not receive rhGH before their transplant.