Biomedical subjects

E Saracević

Publications and source records attributed to E Saracević.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

[Cat-scratch disease].

We report a case of fourteen years old boy with cat scratch disease. He was treated at Pediatric Clinic in January and February 2000. Cat scratch disease is benign infectious chronic disease which appears in all ages. It begins after contact with cat and its scratch. Yearly incidence of this disease for whole population is 0.77-0.86/100.000. The cause is bacillus Bartonella which is also called genus Rochalimaea. It is Gram negative, mobile, aerobe bacillus with ten flagellas on one pole. Our patient was admitted at hospital because of high temperature, paleness, fatigue, bad appetite and pains in his joint. Ultrasound and magnet resonance scans of liver and spleen showed enlarged but regulary contured liver and two focal changes with diameter 16 mm, 12 mm and 7 mm in spleen. All those focal changes were described as abscesses. Diagnose was set up according increasing titre of IF-Bartonella hensalae IgG 1:256 (positive). This diagnostic test was performed at Institute for microbiology and Immunology at Medical Faculty in Ljubljana. Disease had long lasting course, and was cured by antibiotics without surgical intervention.

Adolescent↗

PubMed2000

[Hypoparathyroidism].

Hypoparathyreoidism of different etiology is the most common disorder of parathyreoidea. Symptoms caused by hypocalcemia are dominant and they are sign of disturbed neuromuscular balance. Alopecia is frequent disorder which occurs in the course of the illness. We report a case of five year old girl sent from Mostar because seizures incurable by phenobarbitone. Total alopecia was obvious. At admission total serum calcium level was 1.23 mmol/l. The level of parathormon was measured two times, and both results were under lowest value of normal range (< 10 pg/ml). After introducing calcitriol (Rocaltrol) in therapy, serum calcium level was almost normal and child was without symptoms.

Alopecia↗

PubMed1999

[Allergy skin-prick tests and standard inhalation of allergens in children up to 3 years of age].

There were 27 children tested on standard inhalation allergens. The number of children till one year old was 7, from one year till two years old were 8 children, and from two till three years of age were 12 children. Six children in the first group had a positive response to the histamine, only one child had a positive finding on house duct (urtica 5 mm, and histamine 2 mm). In the second group, from one till two years all children had histamine positive finding. Two children had positive finding on house dust, three of them had positive finding on dermatophagoides pteronisimus, while one child was positive on fungus. The remaining three children had regular finding. In the third group all children had positive finding on histamine, eight children were positive on house dust, three of them on dermatophagoides pteronisimus and one child on grass pollen. We think that the age of children is not a limit to application of allergy tests as a part of allergy examinations.

Administration, Inhalation↗