In vivo susceptibility of ESBL producing Escherichia coli to ceftriaxone in children with acute pyelonephritisAmira Peco-Antic
School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Srp Arh Celok Lek 140:321-5. 2012
..coli) as the most common uropathogen and its antibiotic sensitivities considering that nowadays ESBL-producing [ESBL (+)] E. coli is on the rise worldwide...
Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in children in SerbiaAmira Peco-Antic
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Nephrol Dial Transplant 27:1978-84. 2012
..Here, we report the basic epidemiological data on childhood CKD in Serbia, gathered over the 10-year period of activity of the Serbian Pediatric Registry of Chronic Kidney Disease...
- Antibiotic resistance of uropathogens in newborns and young children with acute pyelonephritis
Amira Peco-Antic
School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Srp Arh Celok Lek 140:179-83. 2012
..Depending on the localization of the infection, severity of its clinical presentation and possible acute and long-term complications, it may be described as either acute cystitis or acute pyelonephritis...
- Infantile nephropathic cystinosis
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia
Srp Arh Celok Lek 139:486-90. 2011
..Infantile nephropathic cystinosis (INC) is a metabolic disorder due to impaired carrier-mediated transport of cystine out of cellular lysosomes...
- Familial hypomagnesaemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis: the first four patients in Serbia
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia
Srp Arh Celok Lek 138:351-5. 2010
..This is the first report of FHHNC of four patients in Serbia...
- [Renovascular hypertension in a child with type 1 neurofibromatosis]
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade
Srp Arh Celok Lek 131:254-8. 2003
..Our current case is illustrative for a difficult management of renovascular hypertension in children with NF1. This is the first and up to now the only case of autotransplantation performed in Yugoslavia...
- Hyperlipidemia, oxidative stress, and intima media thickness in children with chronic kidney disease
Jelena Kotur-Stevuljevic
Department for Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Vojvode Stepe 450, P Box 146, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Pediatr Nephrol 28:295-303. 2013
..Intima media thickness of common carotid arteries (cIMT) is used as a measure of early atherosclerosis...
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura outcome in children: a ten-year clinical study
Brankica Spasojević-Dimitrijeva
Nephrology Department, University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia
Srp Arh Celok Lek 139:174-8. 2011
..The pleiomorphism of clinical signs in HSP could be confused with other conditions or other vasculitis forms...
- Indications and results of renal biopsy in children: a 10-year review from a single center in Serbia
Dusan Paripovic
Department of Nephrology, University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia
J Nephrol 25:1054-9. 2012
..This study was conducted to retrospectively investigate the indications for renal biopsy in native kidneys and to analyze pathological findings in the last 10 years in a single tertiary pediatric hospital in Serbia...
- Masked hypertension and hidden uncontrolled hypertension after renal transplantation
Dusan Paripovic
Nephrology Department, University Children s Hospital, Tirsova 10, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia
Pediatr Nephrol 25:1719-24. 2010
..Regular use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in transplanted patients enables detection of masked and hidden uncontrolled hypertension...
- ACE and AT1 receptor gene polymorphisms and renal scarring in urinary bladder dysfunction
Mirjana Kostic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Pediatr Nephrol 19:853-7. 2004
..Our findings introduce ACE I/D gene polymorphism as an independent risk factor for parenchymal destruction in pediatric patients with BD...
- Renal functional reserve in children with apparently normal congenital solitary functioning kidney
Amira Peco-Antic
Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Clin Biochem 45:1173-7. 2012
..The aim of the study was to investigate renal functional reserve (RFR) and to assess its relationship with serum cystatin C and blood pressure in children with apparently normal congenital solitary functioning kidney (SFK)...
- [Chronic renal failure in children in Yugoslavia]
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Srp Arh Celok Lek 131:5-9. 2003
..The increasing incidence of pediatric TRF from 2.85 pmcp to 4.35 pmcp reflect better diagnosis and treatment of these patients in the recent years...
- [Renal transplantation again at the University Children's Hospital of Belgrade]
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade
Srp Arh Celok Lek 133:156-61. 2005
..These results showed that the University Children's Hospital in Belgrade fulfilled all necessary conditions to become a specialized Center for Pediatric Renal Transplantation...
- Childhood microscopic polyangiitis associated with MPO-ANCA
Amira Peco-Antic
Department of Nephrology, University Children s Hospital, Tirsova 10, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Pediatr Nephrol 21:46-53. 2006
..A high score of fibro-cellular glomerular crescents was associated with worse prognosis. Early treatment enables a favorable prognosis of MPO-ANCA-associated MPA in children...
- Circadian rhythms of diuresis, proteinuria and natriuresis in children with chronic glomerular disease
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
Pediatr Nephrol 24:1165-72. 2009
..Our findings strongly suggest that renal function diurnal variation and nocturnal MAP are related to decreased glomerular filtration rate at the time of examination...
- Characteristics of low-density and high-density lipoprotein subclasses in pediatric renal transplant recipients
Aleksandra Zeljkovic
Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Transpl Int 24:1094-102. 2011
..Changes in the proportion of small-sized HDL particles are significantly associated with cIMT. Advanced lipid testing might be useful in evaluating the effects of immunosuppressive therapy...
- Severe renovascular hypertension in an infant with congenital solitary pelvic kidney
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Pediatr Nephrol 21:437-40. 2006
..PTA should be considered as a viable option in infants with refractory hypertension due to renal artery stenosis in a solitary kidney, since it has the potential of improving hypertension while preserving renal function...
- Infantile polyarteritis nodosa presenting as hyponatraemic hypertensive syndrome
Amira Peco-Antic
University Children s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Acta Paediatr 95:504-7. 2006
..Renal ischaemia from intrarenal vessel disease may have been the trigger event for HHS in our case. Management of PAN-associated severe arterial hypertension is based on immunosuppressive and antihypertensive treatment...
Microalbuminuria in relation to metabolic control and blood pressure in adolescents with type 1 diabetesMaja Ješić
University Childrens Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia
Arch Med Sci 7:1037-41. 2011
..The objective of this study was to assess the frequency of microalbuminuria and the relationship with other risk factors for the development of diabetic nephropathy...
