The Therapeutic Hypothermia in Treatment of Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy due to Urea Cycle Disorders and Organic Acidemias.

Background: Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in newborns with urea cycle disorders and certain organic acidurias can cause severe brain injury, coma and death. Standard therapy includes protein restriction, nitrogen-scavenging drugs, prevention of catabolism and hemodialysis. Neuroprotective hypothermia as part of the treatment has been reported only 3 times.

Perinatal Health Statistics as the Basis for Perinatal Quality Assessment in Croatia.

Context: Perinatal mortality indicators are considered the most important measures of perinatal outcome. The indicators reliability depends on births and deaths reporting and recording. Many publications focus on perinatal deaths underreporting and misclassification, disabling proper international comparisons.

[Post-transplant erythrocytosis].

Post-transplant erythrocytosis is defined as an increase in hematocrit above 55%. It occurs in 10%-15% of renal transplant recipients, most commonly from 8 to 24 months after transplantation. Twenty-five percent of patients experience spontaneous remission within 2 years, while 75% develop symptoms and signs of hyperviscosity (headache, hypertension, plethora).

[Post-transplantation anemia--diagnostic and therapeutic challanges].

Renal transplantation is a method of choice for treatment of patients with end-stage renal disease. Anemia may complicate post-transplantation course. It is a significant correctable risk factor for development of cardio-vascluar diseases.

[Cytomegalovirus infection in renal transplant recipients].

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) belongs to the family of human herpes viruses. It is also known as the human herpes virus 5 (HHV-5). In immunocompromised host it becomes significant pathogen, causing the spectrum of different symptoms and affecting different tissues and organs.

[Clinical and epidemiological features of the mitral valve prolaps in children].

The study deals with the incidence and clinical significance of mitral valve prolapse in the population of outpatient pediatric cardiology patients in the time period from November 1999 to April 2004. The sample included 1187 children of both sexes, 688 of whom had a structural cardiac anomaly (57.9%), and the prolapse was diagnosed in 51 children (4.

[Permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia (PJRT) and dilated cardiomyopathy].

We present 14-year-old girl with permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia which was refractory to medicamentous therapy, who also had dilated cardiomyopathy. She underwent successful radiofrequent catheter ablation of accessory pathway after wich the histologic changes in the myocardium were observed in the form of compensatory hypertrophy of cardiac muscle (cardiac remodelling). The question of cause and consequence appeared: whether the arrhythmia is a consequence of dilated cardiomyopathy, or it is tachycardia- induced cardiomyopathy.