214 results match your criteria: "Mother and Child Health Institute[Affiliation]"
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol
January 2025
Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade.
Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease due to a pathogenic variant in the NBN gene causing impaired DNA repair and increased predisposition for lymphoid malignancy. By contrast, solid tumors have been rarely reported. Neuroblastoma (NB) is a rare childhood solid tumor, associated with the worse outcome if MYCN oncogene is amplified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiovasc Dev Dis
December 2024
Cardiology Department, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, 11070 Belgrade, Serbia.
Background: The vertical vein (VV) ligation during the total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) correction is still controversial. Our study aimed to define the potential risk factors for VV persistence and their percutaneous occlusion.
Methods: The retrospective cohort study included 40 patients (26 males) with TAPVR treated at the tertiary referral center from 2005 to 2024.
Front Cardiovasc Med
November 2024
Cardiology Department, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Objectives: The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart defect. Patients with BAV frequently develop aortopathy, which depends on the dysfunction and morphotype of the BAV.
Aim: The aim of our study was to compare the echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) findings in BAV patients, and to define the risks of BAV dysfunction and aortopathy.
Indian J Pediatr
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Microorganisms
September 2024
Department of Medicine and Surgery, "Kore" University of Enna (UKE), Contrada Santa Panasia, 94100 Enna, Italy.
is a Gram-negative bacterium and part of the intestinal microbiota. However, it can cause various diarrhoeal illnesses, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiovasc Dev Dis
September 2024
Cardiology Department, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, R. Dakica St. 6-8, 11070 Belgrade, Serbia.
Objectives: Coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) are rare congenital anomalies with an occurrence rate of 0.002-0.3%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBalkan J Med Genet
June 2024
Department of Pulmonology, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
The pathogenic variants in the telomerase reverse transcriptase () gene have been identified in adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, while their connection to childhood diffuse lung disease has not yet been described. Within this study, we present a case of a five-month-old, previously healthy infant, with early-onset respiratory failure. The clinical suspicion of diffuse lung disease triggered by cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis was based on clinical and radiological presentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cyst Fibros
September 2024
Department of Respirology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: Factors associated with severe COVID-19 infection have been identified; however, the impact of infection on longer-term outcomes is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of COVID-19 infection on the trajectory of lung function and nutritional status in people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF).
Methods: This is a retrospective global cohort study of pwCF who had confirmed COVID-19 infection diagnosed between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021.
Glob Health Action
December 2023
Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Background: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) pose a significant global health challenge. Primary health centres are pivotal in addressing this challenge by providing essential care to NCD patients. The WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions has been designed to enhance the quality of NCD consultations and ensure adherence to the protocol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiovasc Dev Dis
November 2023
Cardiology Department, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, 11070 Belgrade, Serbia.
Clinical presentation, course, and treatment for patients with isolated right ventricular (RV) hypoplasia (IRVH) depends on the degree of hypoplasia that is present-this is a spectrum from spontaneous maturation to Fontan circulation over time. An 8-month-old infant presented with IRVH; in the patient, a modified Blalock-Taussig (MBTS) shunt was closed percutaneously after spontaneous RV function recovery. A female newborn was diagnosed with differential cyanosis at birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Am Thorac Soc
March 2024
University Children's Hospital Wuerzburg, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Front Immunol
August 2023
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Background: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with being infected with coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) is a life-threatening condition resulting from cytokine storm, increased synthesis of reactive oxygen species (ROSs), and hyperinflammation occurring in genetically predisposed children following an infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Aim: The primary aims of our study were to identify changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes in erythrocytes and total oxidative status in plasma after being treated with methylprednisolone (MP).
Methods: A prospective cohort study of 67 children (56.
Thromb Haemost
December 2023
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.
Background: Few previous studies indicated the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of childhood idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), but there are little data regarding changes in redox balance in different forms of the disease, and changes after therapeutic procedures. We aimed to investigate the values of pro-oxidants and antioxidative capacity in various forms of ITP before and after the applying therapy.
Materials And Methods: The research included 102 children, classified into the following groups: (1) newly diagnosed ITP (ndITP), (2) persistent ITP, (3) chronic ITP (chITP), and (4) control groups: (A) healthy control and (B) previously experienced ITP-healthy children who had been suffering from ITP earlier.
Antibiotics (Basel)
January 2023
Department of Pediatrics, University of Patras Medical School, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are repeatedly exposed to antibiotics, especially during the pulmonary exacerbations of the disease. However, the available therapeutic strategies are frequently inadequate to eradicate the involved pathogens and most importantly, facilitate the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The evaluation of AMR is demanding; conventional culture-based susceptibility-testing techniques cannot account for the lung microenvironment and/or the adaptive mechanisms developed by the pathogens, such as biofilm formation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTex Heart Inst J
January 2023
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.
Background: The optimal treatment strategy for patients with severe carotid artery disease undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting is still problematic. The important question is whether it is necessary to treat significant carotid disease in patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting. This study analyzed short- and midterm results after same-day carotid artery stenting and coronary artery bypass grafting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Immunol
January 2023
Pediatric Infectious Disease and Pediatric Immunology Department, Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
November 2022
Institute of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Unselective use of antibiotics to treat children with COVID-19 is one of the major issues during the pandemic in Serbia. Thus far, there has been no evidence about the predictors of multiple antibiotic use in the treatment of children with COVID-19. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of antibiotic use, as well as to examine demographic and clinical factors associated with a greater number of antibiotics and with a longer antibiotic treatment administered to hospitalized children with COVID-19 during the lockdown in Serbia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Public Health
December 2022
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
A National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) is a multi-disciplinary body of national experts that provide evidence-based recommendations to policy-makers to assist them in making informed immunization policy and programme decisions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, NITAGs faced many challenges in making evidence-based recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines due to the rapidly evolving situation with new vaccine products available in a short time period and limited data on vaccine effectiveness. The authors reviewed the process used by Serbia's NITAG, which is called the Serbian Expert Committee on Immunization, to develop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations during the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Open
November 2022
Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Objectives: The aim of this study was to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric cardiac services in critical access centres in low-income and middle-income countries.
Design: A mixed-methods approach was used.
Setting: Critical access sites that participate in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative (IQIC) for congenital heart disease (CHD) were identified.
Front Pediatr
September 2022
Medical School, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Biomol Biomed
March 2023
Cardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Cardiovascular manifestations are common (35-100%) in the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Our study aimed to analyze treatment impact and cardiovascular involvement in patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. The retrospective cohort included 81 patients treated between April 2020 and December 2021 (9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann
November 2022
Department of Cardiac Surgery, 606093Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.
Background: The revascularisation strategy for concomitant carotid and coronary disease is unknown. Simultaneous or stage coronary artery stenting and carotid endarterectomy are the most common revascularisation approach in the CABG population. This study aimed to evaluate long-term results after simultaneous carotid artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy in patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBraz J Cardiovasc Surg
May 2022
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.
The left ventricular aneurysm is a pathological condition defined as an akinetic or dyskinetic area of the left ventricle (LV) wall associated with reduced ejection fraction. The most common surgical technique to reconstruct a left ventricular aneurysm is endoventricular patch plasty (Dor procedure). In this case, endoventricular reconstruction of the left ventricular aneurysm using a double-layer extracellular matrix was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Bras Pneumol
April 2022
. Department of Pulmonology, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis
March 2022
Cardiology Department, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia; Belgrade, Serbia.