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Sadržaj / Table of Contents.
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EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

3rd Dubrovnik Cardiology Highlights
An ESC Update Programme in Cardiology
September 26-29, 2013
Hotel Excelsior, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Organized by: European Society of Cardiology in collaboration with Croatian Cardiac Society.
Meeting Directors: Davor Miličić (HR), Otto Smiseth (NO).
Co-Directors: Dan Gaita (RO), Thierry Gillebert (B), Zlatko Fras (SLO).

Davor Miličić.
3rd Dubrovnik Cardiology Highlights – An ESC Update Programme in Cardiology.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):275.

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES

Zdravko Babić, Vjeran Nikolić Heitzler, Davor Miličić.
Croatian Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Network results (2005-2012).
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):276.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.276

Martin Marinšek, Andreja Sinkovič.
Ramipril and losartan are equal in preventing left ventricular systolic dysfunction in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):277.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.277

Matej Samos, Frantisek Kovar, Lukas Duraj, Marian Fedor, Ingrid Skornova, Peter Galajda, Radoslava Simonova, Jan Stasko, Peter Kubisz, Marian Mokan.
Dual antiplatelet treatment in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction — is it always sufficiently effective?
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):278.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.278

Jure Samardžić, Miroslav Krpan, Marija Brestovac, Boško Skorić, Maja Čikeš, Mate Petričević, Davor Miličić.
Suboptimal platelet response to clopidogrel after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute coronary syndrome is not associated with total platelet count and mean platelet volume.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):279.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.279

Miroslav Krpan, Jure Samardžić, Marija Brestovac, Boško Skorić, Hrvoje Jurin, Vedran Velagić, Davor Miličić.
Impact of repeated clopidogrel reloading doses and increased maintenance dose in patients with acute coronary syndrome and persistent low response to clopidogrel in 30-day follow-up.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):280.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.280

Marijana Knežević Praveček, Irzal Hadžibegović, Đeiti Prvulović, Katica Cvitkušić Lukenda, Ivica Dunđer, Krešimir Gabaldo, Božo Vujeva, Pejo Samardžić, Blaženka Miškić.
Vitamin D levels in Croatian patients with acute coronary syndrome.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):281.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.281

Snezana Lazic, Slavica Pajovic, Radojica Stolic, Daniela Celic.
Acute coronary syndrome without ST-elevation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and normal coronary angiogram: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):282.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.282

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

Rreze Koshi, Maja Strozzi.
Stent thrombosis between drug-eluting and bare-metal stents.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):283.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.283

Dario Gulin, Goran Miličević, Edvard Galić, Dean Strinić, Jasna Čerkez Habek, Jozica Šikić Vagić.
Drug eluting baloons — the new method of treating coronary artery disease.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):284.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.284

Adnan Delić, Enes Osmanović, Jasmin Čaluk, Samed Djedović, Mirza Dilić.
Predictive value and relationship between intima-media thickness/carotid artery plaque score and severity of coronary artery disease.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):285.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.285

Nino Kunac, Hrvojka Marija Zeljko, Ivica Premužić Meštrović, Tomislav Letilović, Darko Počanić, Stjepan Kranjčević, Damir Kozmar.
Pulmonary embolism after coronary angiography with femoral approach.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):286.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.286

HEART FAILURE

Azra Durak Nalbantic, Mehmed Kulic, Nerma Resic, Enisa Hodzic, Mirza Dilic.
Current problems in assessing prognosis in heart failure: importance of biomarker patient’s fingerprints.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):287.
ttp://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.287

Antonin Novak, Dana Kallmunzerova, Blanka Turcanova, Hao Nguen, Jozef Jakabcin, Ivana Havlova, Andrej Kupec, Marian Bystron, Radim Spacek, Pavel Cervinka.
The patients with severe heart failure: central role of echocardiography in indication of optimal treatment — two cases.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):288-289.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.288

Dario Gulin, Željko Sutlić, Daniel Unić, Davor Barić, Jozica Šikić Vagić.
Left ventricular assist device, HeartMate II — our experience.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):290.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.290

Tomislav Letilović, Stjepan Kranjčević, Damir Kozmar, Darko Počanić, Ivica Premužić Meštrović, Helena Jerkić, Radovan Vrhovac.
Differences in anthropometric and laboratory data, related to weight loss, in patients with heart failure and various tumors: is weight loss unique?
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):291-292.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.291

Gloria Bagadur, Ivo Planinc, Boško Skorić, Jana Ljubas Maček, Željko Baričević, Vedran Velagić, Jure Samardžić, Hrvoje Jurin, Maja Čikeš, Davor Miličić.
Low birth weight in patients with heart failure — does birth weight differ among patient subgroups?
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):293.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.293

Alexander Berezin, Alexander Kremzer.
Relationship between level of circulating endothelial progenitor cells and severity of ischemic chronic heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):294.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.294

Boško Skorić, Jure Samardžić, Hrvoje Jurin, Jana Ljubas, Ivo Planinc, Miroslav Krpan, Marija Brestovac, Marijan Pašalić, Davor Miličić.
Variation in platelet response may affect the hemodynamic response to vasoreactivity testing in patients with secondary pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):295.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.295

Ljiljana Popović, Sandra Alavuk, Tomislav Kovačević.
Plasma cholinesterase activity in children with infective endocarditis.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):296.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.296

ARRHYTHMIAS AND CARDIAC PACING

Sandro Brusich, Maja Dembić, Zlatko Čubranić, Paula Hedley, Koraljka Benko, Anting Liu Carlsen, Eduard Margetić, Tam Thanh Pham, Luka Zaputović, Michael Christiansen.
First results of genetic testing in Croatian arrhythmia patients.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):297.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.297

Lidija Poposka, Elizabeta Srbinovska, Dejan Risteski, Jane Taleski, Sasko Kedev.
First Macedonian Registry on Atrial Fibrillation.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):298.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.298

Mirza Dilic, Alden Begic, Nirvana Sabanovic Bajramovic, Amina Bico, Osman Terzic.
Antithrombotic therapy for the secondary prevention of ischemic stroke related to atrial fibrillation: ESC/ACC/ACCP Guidelines.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):299.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.299

Elena Keting, Nikolay Vatutin, Maryna Khrystychenko, Valeriy Adarichev.
Effect of buspirone hydrochloride on dispersion of ventricular repolarization in patients with anxiety and depressive disorders and ischemic heart failure.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):300.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.300

Vladimir Boshkov, Lidija Poposka, Ilina Danilovska.
Vascular anomaly – persistent left superior vena cava.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):301.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.301

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

Snezana Bongard, Marina Jurukovska, Irina Tonovska, Dushko Mihajlovski, Salis Tager.
Ebstein’s anomaly and left proximal pulmonary artery stenosis complicated by pulmonary embolism: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):302.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.302

CARDIAC IMAGING

Jean-Yves Wielandts, Stijn De Buck, Joris Ector, Dieter Nuyens, Frederik Maes, Hein Heidbuchel.
Left ventricular 4D imaging with low radiation dose through optimised interphase registration of rotational angiography images.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):303-304.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.303

Nina Jakuš, George R. Sutherland, Maja Čikeš, Peter Haemers, Jens-Uwe Voigt, Frank Rademakers, Rik Willems, Jan D’hooge, Piet Claus.
Acute afterload increase causes mechanical dispersion — potential mechanism for pressure induced arrhythmias?
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):305-306.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.305

Nina Jakuš, Vedran Velagić, Dubravka Memić, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački, Davor Miličić, Maja Čikeš.
Inducible left-ventricular intracavity gradient during dobutamine stress echocardiography — a condition worth noting.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):307-308.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.307

CARDIOVASCULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY, PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION

Hrvoje Pintarić, Sanja Pintarić, Tomislava Bodrožić-Džakić, Robert Bernat.
The effect of air pollution by nitrogen dioxide and meteorological parameters on a number of patients admitted to the Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre Emergency Department.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):309-311.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.309

Ljiljana Banfić, Zoran Miovski, Davorka Čapalija, Majda Vrkić Kirhmajer.
Venous thrombosis – the importance of cardiovascular disease as a risk factor.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):312.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.312

Viktor Peršić, Marko Boban, Bojan Miletić, Irena Kužet Mioković, Saša Mikuličić, Viktor Ivaniš, Igor Klarić, Milan Milošević.
Nutritional risk screening in patients hospitalized for stationary cardiac rehabilitation.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):313.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.313

Kristina Selthofer-Relatić, Jasmina Rajc, Boris Dumenčić, Ivica Bošnjak, Radivoje Radić, Robert Steiner, Domagoj Boban.
Epicardial adipose tissue, intramyocardial fat and right heart morphology: histopathological analysis.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):314.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.314

Ivana Mikolašević, Lidija Orlić, Sandra Milić, Vesna Lukenda, Ervin Avdović, Sanjin Rački, Davor Štimac, Luka Zaputović.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease proven by transient elastography in patients with coronary heart disease.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):315.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.315

Oxana Akulova.
Influence of the body mass index on the remote outcomes after the first myocardial infarction.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):316.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.316

Mislav Vrsalović, Ksenija Vučur, Tomislav Krčmar, Boris Car.
Inflammation, platelet activity, renal function and major cardiovascular events in patients with severe peripheral artery disease.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):317.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.317

Zdravko Babić, Vjeran Nikolić Heitzler, Davor Miličić, Bojan Biočina, Robert Bernat, Duško Cerovec.
Working ability after cardiovascular events or procedures.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):318.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.318

Hrvoje Pintarić.
Physical activity and sport in patients with cardiac diseases.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):319.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.319

ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

Ekrem Hasani, Mimoza Lezha, Elizana Petrela.
The comparison of cost-effectiveness of different drugs used for high blood pressure lowering in the Emergency Department in the University Hospital Centre Tirana, Albania.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):320.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.320

Ekrem Hasani, Mimoza Lezha.
The effect of intravenous nitroglycerine on the treatment of high blood pressure in the emergency department.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):321.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.321

Alexander Berezin, Oxana Lisovaya.
Vascular endothelial growth factor-1 as a predictor of unfavorable cardiovascular events in arterial hypertension patients after ischemic stroke.
Cardiol Croat. 2013;8(9):322.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15836/ccar.2013.322

 

INDEX OF AUTHORS – Cardiologia Croatica, September 2013.
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