Uroflowmetry in Non-Monosymptomatic Nocturnal Enuresis in Children of Coastal Region of Croatia.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to describe clinical characteristics and bladder assessment in children with Non-Monosymptomatic Nocturnal Enuresis (NMNE) in coastal region of Croatia.

Materials And Methods: Records on 85 patients with NMNE were retrospectively reviewed. Bladder assessments were performed in all children.

Epidemiology of 10-year paediatric renal biopsies in the region of southern Croatia.

Background: Information about renal diseases in children is available from national registries of renal biopsies. Aim of the study was to compare the clinical presentation of glomerular diseases and tubulointerstitial space diseases with pathohistological diagnosis of indicated renal biopsies from pediatric population in the Croatian region of Dalmatia.

Methods: Out of 231 pediatric patients with suspected glomerular and tubulointerstitial diseases, 54 underwent ultrasound-guided renal biopsy at University Hospital of Split.

Association of Appendicitis, Helicobacter Pylori Positive Gastritis and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in an Adolescent.

BACKGROUND Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in children is a rare life-threatening syndrome, characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia with renal dysfunction, neurologic symptoms, and fever. TTP is usually caused by deficient activity of von Willebrand factor cleaving protease (ADAMTS13), due to either gene mutations or acquired via anti-ADAMTS13 autoantibodies. It can be triggered by bone marrow or solid organ transplantation, cardiothoracic-, abdominal-, and orthopedic surgeries, infections including very rarely Helicobacter pylori infection.

Perinatal risk factors in newborns with gastrointestinal perforation.

Aim: To investigate correlation of perinatal risk factors in newborns with gastrointestinal perforation (GIP).

Methods: Single-center retrospective cohort study was conducted between January 1990 and December 2012. Medical records on all newborns with GIP were reviewed ( = 35).

Gastrointestinal Lymphorrhea Diagnosed by Exercise Lymphoscintigraphy.

Lymphoscintigraphy is not considered as a first line diagnostic procedure in abdominal or thoracic lymphorrhea of various origin. We report a patient with lymphangiectasia in whom posttraumatic lymphorrhea was diagnosed by lymphoscintigraphy only after third attempt when we applied pushups exercise with the aim to raise venous pressure and thus provoke lymph backflow in ductus thoracicus and enteric lymphytics. Lymphorrhea was clearly visible in colon ascendens and colon transversum on 9h planar scintigram.

Venomous snakebites in southern Croatia.

This retrospective study is based on the analysis of 542 snakebite envenomation cases in southern Croatia, which were treated in the University Hospital Split over the period of 21 years. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of venomous snakebite in southern Croatia, epidemiological and clinical features of snakebite and treatment in the region. The mean annual snakebite incidence in southern Croatia was 5.

[Is permanent renal function damage possible after hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome?].

Aim: To investigate the possibility of permanent renal function impairment and other organ lesions following hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).

Methods: Data on 30/37 patients infected with HFRS, treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Split University Hospital, in 1995 were retrospectively analyzed. The data were collected three to six years following the appearance of HFRS.