Publications by authors named "Tomislav Ivanovic"
Gallbladder drainage is a treatment option in high-risk surgical patients with moderate or severe acute cholecystitis. It may be applied as a bridge to cholecystectomy or a definitive treatment option. Apart from the simple and widely accessible percutaneous cholecystostomy, new attractive techniques have emerged in the previous decade, including endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage and endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage.
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- Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is explored as a body composition assessment method to detect sarcopenia in patients with liver cirrhosis, using skeletal muscle index (L3-SMI) from CT scans as a reference.
- A study involving 106 patients found BIA parameters correlate fairly with L3-SMI, proposing cut-off values for BIA-SMI and phase angle to identify sarcopenia with varying sensitivity and specificity.
- The research indicates that lower skeletal muscle mass significantly increases the relative risk of death and that BIA could serve as a simple, non-invasive method for the timely detection of sarcopenia in liver cirrhosis patients, warranting further investigation.
Gastric cancer (GC) therapies include gastrectomy and chemoradiotherapy. The tumor immune microenvironment (TME) has implications for potential immunotherapy. We analyzed the expression of PD-L1, CD8, CTLA-4 and IFN-γ in the tumor and regional lymph node (LN) of patients with GC and compared it with clinical and pathological data.
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