Leo Pavicic

• Master of Science
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Background: Infantile nephropathic cystinosis (INC) is a systemic lysosomal storage disease causing intracellular cystine accumulation, resulting in renal Fanconi syndrome, progressive kidney disease (CKD), rickets, malnutrition, and myopathy. An INC-specific disproportionately diminished trunk length compared to leg length poses questions regardi...

Children with infantile nephropathic cystinosis (INC), an inherited lysosomal storage disease resulting in cystine accumulation in all body cells, are prone to progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), impaired growth and reduced weight gain; however, systematic anthropometric analyses are lacking. In this prospective multicenter study we investiga...

Background Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) is frequently used for treatment of short stature in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) prior to kidney transplantation (KT). To what extent this influences growth and transplant function after KT is yet unknown. Methods Post-transplant growth (height, sitting height, leg length) and clini...

Background Short stature is a frequent complication after pediatric kidney transplantation (KT). Whether the type of transplantation and prior treatment with recombinant human growth hormone (GH) affects post-transplant growth, is unclear. Methods Body height, leg length, sitting height, and sitting height index (as a measure of body proportions)...

This study compared different groups yearly based on the different annual quota of Physical Education (PE) classes in anthropometric parameters, physical fitness tests, and grades achievements. The study included adolescents from 14 to 18 years of age, at the Croatian Industrial School in Slavonski Brod. They were 225 participants in the 2015-2016...

Background Children with chronic kidney disease are frequently born small for gestational age (SGA) and prone to disproportionately short stature. It is unclear how SGA affects growth after kidney transplantation (KTx). Methods Linear growth (height, sitting height, and leg length) was prospectively investigated in a cohort of 322 pediatric KTx rec...

Background and objectives: Poor linear growth is a frequent complication of CKD. This study evaluated the effect of kidney transplantation on age-related growth of linear body segments in pediatric renal transplant recipients who were enrolled from May 1998 until August 2013 in the CKD Growth and Development observational cohort study. Design, se...

We analyzed the impact of birth parameters and parental height on long-term growth outcome in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 3-5. Linear growth was prospectively investigated in 509 children, with a mean follow-up of 4.1 years. Growth outcome was categorized in (i) poor growth (PG): height standard deviation score (SDS) during fol...

Background: The attainment of normal growth and maturation remains a major challenge in the management of children and adolescents requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT). Methods: We compared growth and maturation in 384 German children with RRT who were followed between 1998 and 2009 with 732 children who were enrolled in the European Dialys...

Collective tactics is based on the division of roles in all phases of the game. There are several roles or positions in water polo: center forward, guard, wing, external attacker and goal keeper, all of which are instruments in the realization of collective tactics. The aim of this study was to describe the play on the position of wing (W) and comp...

Collective tactics is based on the division of the roles in all phases of the game. Positions, either role in the water polo, are instrumentality in realization of collective tactics. Roles in water polo are: center forward, guard, wing, external attacker and goal keeper. The aim in this study was describes the role on the position of the External...

Collective tactics is based on the division of roles in all phases of the game. There are several roles or positions in water polo: center forward, guard, wing, external attacker and goal keeper, all of which are instruments in the realization of collective tactics. The aim of this study was to describe the play on the position of center forward (C...

The physique of elite players in a team sport game (Olympic sport water polo) of two generations is study and compared. In both generations, in the years 1995 (N =95) and 2008 (N=87) the same measurement procedures and variables were used. The analysis of variance and discriminative analysis showed statistically significant differences in most of t...

On the base of the objective measuring on the representative sample of entities and analyze of the central and dispersive parameters of all registrated and derived indicators is realized the first aim set up in this research. Determined are the basically parameters of the load in the play of the external attacker defined by different types and quan...

Investigation of the expert knowledge was carried out on the sample of 10 experts in the area of water polo. The condition which they have to accomplish was that they are graduated in kinesiology, ex First division players, and actual water polo trainers with remarkable experience. The sample of variables consists of two anthropometric variables (w...

Low birth weight has been identified as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). We analysed perinatal parameters taken from the National Birth Certificates of 435 children with CKD stages 3-5 of different aetiology and time of onset of CKD. Diseases were classified as congenital with onset of renal disease during fetal life (n = 260; 60%),...

A Unique Case of Supraspinatus Tendonitis after Tennis Forehand Repetitive Motions A unique case of a professional tennis player who sustained a traumatic supraspinatus tendonitis while playing Forehand was presented. This case shows how science fields could and should cooperate in the future since this appears to be the first report of high inflam...

A representative sample of 136 entities (quarters in water polo) has been taken to register the total activity of the wing during the international games of the Adriatic Water Polo League in the season of 2009/10. Various types and quantities of movement have been registered for different intensity, duration and frequency of events both in the hori...

The purpose of this research was to analyze and interpret the latent (factor) area of a tennis match. The entities in this research make 128 tennis matches played at the 2007 and 2008 Grand Slams hard court surfaces. The variables were created by use of the official statistics kept by the IBM Software - IBM DB2 Universal Database. The original vari...

This study was designed to compare three urinary protein expert systems for profiling proteinuria in children with kidney diseases. Freshly voided urine specimens were collected from 61 children with glomerular diseases, 19 children with tubular diseases and 25 healthy children aged 3-16 years. The urinary protein expert systems were: (1) albumin/t...

U ovom radu cilj je bio utvrditi razlike između pozicija u igri u vertikalnoj i horizontalnoj fazi tijekom utakmice u situacijskim uvjetima s obzirom na načine, intenzitete, frekvencije i vrijeme kao odrednice ekvivalenta opte-rećenja u igri. Osnovni nositelji informacija u ovom eksperimentu, ili entiteti, dijelovi su vaterpolske utakmice. Ona se i...

In this research, the aim was to establish the difference between positions or roles in the game in the vertical and horizontal phases during the game in situational conditions concerning modality, intensities, frequencies and time as the attribute of effort equivalent in the game. The entities in this investigation are the parts of water polo game...

To assess the differences in anthropometric parameters, body fat, body mass index (BMI), and body density induced by sport-specific morphological optimization (adaptation) between two generations (1980 and 1995) of male elite water polo players. The survey included a total of 160 elite male water polo players, all members of the top clubs in Croati...

Water polo, as an activity, belongs to the category of polystructural complex move sports. The activities of a central player were sampled during competitive games of the First National League. The study is aimed to define a set of new measurement variables for the objective recording of the amount, intensity and duration of player's activities, an...

The aim of this study was to determine the latent structure of characteristics of leisure-time sporting and other recreation activities practised in the Republic of Croatia. The analysis was based on the survey of 1,126 adults of both sexes who filled in an open-ended questionnaire, which resulted in a list of 93 items - sporting and other recreati...

Water polo, as an activity, belongs to the category of polystructural complex move sports. The activities of a central player were sampled during competitive games of the First National League. The study is aimed to define a set of new measurement variables for the objective recording of the amount, intensity and duration of player's activities, an...

Water polo, as an activity, belongs in the category of polystructural complex move sports. The activities of a player's in role of second line attacker is observed on the sample of competitive games in the First national league. The study is aimed to define a set of new measurement variables for the objective recording of amount, intensity and dura...

Aim was to assess growth in 165 survivors of liver transplantation with follow-ups from 5 to 11 years after surgery. Medical records of 214 patients transplanted between March 1 1986 and March 30 1992 were reviewed. Height standard deviation scores (zH) and growth velocity scores (zGV) were computed for each of the 165 survivors over time. Factor a...

Over 200 papers produced by a multidisciplinary institute in a ten-year period were analyzed for the context of the citations they received during the 21-year period since their publication. They were grouped into 28 research topics from physics, chemistry, to biology, some half a dozen papers per topic on the average. Eleven percent of all the cit...

Over 200 papers produced by a multidisciplinary institute in a ten-year period were analyzed for the context of the citations they received during the 21-year period since their publication. They were grouped into 28 research topics from physics, chemistry, to biology, some half a dozen papers per topic on the average. Eleven percent of all the cit...

Over 200 papers produced by a multidisciplinary institute in a ten-year period were analyzed for the context of the citations they received during the 21-year period since their publication. They were grouped into 28 research topics from physics, chemistry, to biology, some half a dozen papers per topic on the average. Eleven percent of all the cit...

The morphological characteristics (20 anthropometric variables) of a total of 2,351 examinees (from the age of 18 to 90) were analyzed by a model of the principal components of the factor analysis. Four factors were extracted that explain 71.4% of the total variance. The factors-"general body voluminosity", "subcutaneous fat tissue", "longitudinal...

The main purpose of this study was to analyze specificity of growth and development of pubertal boys (age 11.5 to 14.5 years). Eighty six participants of elementary school from Zagreb, Croatia were observed (according to their 22 morphological and 4 respiratory data) annually through four consecutive years. They were classified, through the hierarc...

Growth channels phenomena in pubescence girls (aged 11.5 to 14.5 years) were used as a basis for a detailed analysis of the relation between the soft tissue growth component (related to growth channels) and menarcheal experience. The soft tissue component showed statistically significant differences between the growth channels (in all groups and at...

We studied the hemodynamic response to intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG) in 40 patients with and without acute heart failure (hemodynamic subsets I-IV) during acute myocardial infarction. Hemodynamic measurements were performed by right heart catheterization. The results showed that NTG response influenced mainly the preload and to a lesser extent th...

Intravenous nitrate therapy is widely used in the treatment of acute heart failure as well as for the improvement of myocardial perfusion and ventricular function in acute myocardial infarction [1–3]. Although much research has been done to determine the hemodynamic action of intravenous nitrates, the indications for nitrate therapy in acute myocar...

The action of isorsorbide-5-mononitrate (IS-5-MN) infusion (range 6.0 to 10.0 mg/hour) was studied in 24 patients with and without acute heart failure (hemodynamic subsets I to IV) during acute myocardial infarction. Hemodynamic measurements were performed by right-sided cardiac catheterization. Intravenous IS-5-MN demonstrated significant hemodyna...

Clinical efficacy of 5 mg per 24 hours transdermal nitroglycerin was studied in a placebo controlled, randomized, double-blind crossover trial, with three days wash-out period at the beginning, in 40 patients with chronic stable angina pectoris during two periods of 14 days. Assessment was carried out by means of a diary method, by the multistage t...

In a single-blind placebo controlled study, acute and chronic efficacy of low-dose nitroglycerin patches (NTG 5 mg/day) was studied in 24 patients with stable angina pectoris. NTG patch effects were evaluated by means of the multistage treadmill exercise test. During the acute study one exercise test was carried out after the wash-out period, after...

The hemodynamic effects of intravenously administered trinitroglycerin (TNT) and isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) in stechiometric equivalent doses were studied in 30 patients with acute myocardial infarction. Both drugs were given over 30 min in every patient, and the stability of the condition of the patient was checked by administering the initial dr...

The hemodynamic effects of intravenous isosorbiddinitrate (ISDN) were studied in 15 patients with acute myocardial infarction. Pressure and flow parameters were measured by right heart and radial catheterization and by the thermodilution method. 3-9 mg/hour ISDN was infused intravenously and the hemodynamic values were measured during half an hour...