CROATIAN VERSION OF THE QUALITY OF RECOVERY QUESTIONNAIRE (QoR-40): TRANSCULTURAL ADAPTATION AND VALIDATION.

The Quality of Recovery-40 (QoR-40) questionnaire is a psychometric instrument designed to quantify postoperative recovery. It has been translated and validated in several countries but not in Croatia. The aim was to translate, cross-culturally adapt, and validate Croatian version of the QoR-40.

Tentorial alignment and its relationship to cisternal dimensions of the pineal region: MRI anatomical study with surgical implications using the new clivotentorial method.

Objectives: Tentorial alignment and dimensions of posterior fossa cisterns are measurements whose variability can decrease surgical freedom if not taken into account when choosing the approach to the pineal region. The aim is to provide quantitative anatomical information regarding these dimensions, and to discuss their relevance in two most commonly used approaches to this region: the occipital transtentorial and supracerebellar-infratentorial approach.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study of midsagittal T1-weighted MRI images of 410 randomly selected healthy subjects was performed.

Scarcity of Implants Has Partially Replaced Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Decompression and Instrumented Fusion with Implant-Less Expansile Cervical Laminoplasty: Poverty Teaches all the Arts.

Objective: The scarcity of implants during the economic crisis partially has replaced decompression and instrumented fusion for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy with implant-less expansile cervical laminoplasty (ECL). The aim of the study was to compare the results obtained with instrumented anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion with implant-less ECL.

Methods: Patients suffering from cervical spondylotic myelopathy Nurick 3-5 with preoperative tethering and postoperative untethering were included.

First report of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Croatia.

In February 2011, a 78-year-old male patient was admitted to Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb with subdural haematoma. Klebsiella pneumoniae with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems was isolated. PCR revealed the presence of bla(KPC), bla(TEM), and bla(SHV) genes.

Spread of CTX-M-15 positive Providencia spp. causing urinary tract infections at the University Hospital Split in Croatia.

Aim: During 2010-2011, six Providencia spp. (five Providencia stuartii and one Providencia rettgeri) urine isolates with unusual resistance phenotype were collected from various hospital units at the University Hospital Split in Croatia. The aim of the study was to analyze the mechanisms of resistance to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins.

Emergence of CTX-M group 1 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in the community.

Aim: Molecular characterization of ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae strains isolated from urine of outpatients in Zagreb region during the last five years.

Methods: During the five-year study period a total of 2, 651 K.