Publications by authors named "Uros Batranovic"
Systemic thrombolytic therapy is not recommended for patients with intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) because of major bleeding and intracranial bleeding overcomes the benefit of reperfusion. A total of 342 PE patients with intermediate-risk PE from the multicenter Serbian PE registry were involved in the study. Of this group, 227 were not treated with reperfusion therapy (anticoagulation only), 91 were treated with conventional thrombolysis protocols at the discretion of their physicians and 24 patients were treated with ultrasound assisted catheter thrombolysis (USACT) with the EKOS® system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Shortage of intensive care beds has led to more frequent use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) outside respiratory units, and data on NIV efficacy and safety on general wards is lacking.
Objective: The aim was to identify potential predictors for NIV failure.
Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of patients treated with NIV at the Institute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina from 2009 to 2013.
Wegener's granulomatosis usually presents with clinical features of systemic vasculitis affecting lung, upper respiratory tract, kidney and even a nervous system. Yet, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is characterised by invasion of blood vessels in the lungs, but the infection often spreads to kidneys, skin and central nervous system. We report a case of a 46-year-old male patient with no prior medical history.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aim: Influenza A (H1N1) re-emerged in the human population during 2009. The aim of this study was to describe characteristics, laboratory findings, clinical presentation and treatment outcome among patients with influenza A (H1N1) infection.
Methods: The study was performed at the Institute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina including all the patients hospitalized at the Intensive Care Unit or High Dependency Unit with confirmed, probable or suspected Influenza A (H1N1) infection between November 6th, 2009 and April 13th, 2010.
Aim: To describe characteristics and outcome of mechanically ventilated patients admitted to three newly established intensive care units (ICU) in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia for 2009 H1N1 influenza infection.
Methods: The retrospective observational study included all mechanically ventilated adult patients of three university-affiliated hospitals between November 1, 2009 and March 1 2010 who had 2009 H1N1 influenza infection confirmed by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) from nasopharyngeal swab specimens and respiratory secretions.
Results: The study included 50 patients, 31 male (62%), aged 43±13 years.
Background: Legionnaires' disease (LD) is a pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila (LP). The disease occurs more often in immunocompromised persons and can be manifested by severe pneumonia, multiple organ failure and has a high mortality.
Case Report: Immunocompetent patient, male, 53-year old, with severe form of LB had fever, cough, weakness and diarrhea as the initial symptoms of the disease.
Introduction: Ventricular fibrillation (VF) presents a complete disintegrated myocardial activity associated with hemodynamic collapse and loss of consciousness requiring urgent reanimation. VF mostly occurs following myocardial infarction and endstage of ischemic heart disease in patients with ejection fraction less than 30%.
Material And Methods: This paper analyzes occurrence of VF following coronary artery revascularization in patients undergoing surgery at the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Sremska Kamenica.