Publications by authors named "Ranka Samardzic"
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- The study examined the impact of carvedilol as an additional treatment on heart function in children with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), focusing on measurements like ejection fraction and fractional shortening.
- Children aged 16 and under with stable DCM and specific heart failure classifications participated in a year-long study comparing their health metrics before and after taking carvedilol alongside standard treatments.
- Results indicated that some children experienced serious side effects leading to discontinuation of carvedilol, emphasizing the need for careful monitoring during treatment.
Antipsychotic polypharmacy at the University Psychiatric Hospital in Serbia.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
November 2007
The aim of the study was to analyse the prevalence of polypharmacy with antipsychotic drugs and analyse types of coprescribing episodes at the University Psychiatric Hospital in Serbia. A sample of 120 patients (198 hospitalisations) was analysed. The prevalence of polypharmacy was calculated as the proportion of patients receiving two or more antipsychotic drugs concomitantly for at least 28 days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrends in consumption of psychiatric drugs in Serbia and Montenegro 2000-2004.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
November 2006
Purpose: To investigate the trends in psychiatric drugs utilization in Serbia and Montenegro over the 5-years period (2000-2004).
Materials And Methods: The wholesale data issued by the manufacturers or distributors were used. Also, the lists of drugs used from the Institute of Mental Health (institution which provides primary, secondary and tertiary psychiatric care) were used to corroborate the wholesale data.
Background/aim: The analysis of drug prescribing in general practice in Serbia showed that the use of benzodiazepines is most frequently associated with hypertension. The aim of this study was to establish the correlation of the characteristics of patients with hypertension to antihypertensive drug therapy, and the intake of benzodiazepines.
Methods: A special questionnaire was used for interviewing the patients (n = 171) chronically treated for hypertenson.
Background: High consumption of benzodiazepines (BDZ) occurs in populations exposed to stress. In the last decade of the 20th century, when the population of Serbia experienced increasing economic hardships due to the civil war in former Yugoslavia, UN sanctions and air raids in 1999, diazepam became the most frequently prescribed drug. This period was also characterized by the free marketing of all drugs, which made them available without prescription.
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