Hrvoje Gašparović, Ivan Burčar, Tomislav Kopjar, Jakov Vojković, Rajka Gabelica, Bojan Biočina, Ivan Jelić,
Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the most commonly observed complication following myocardial revascularisation surgery. We aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of N-terminal fragment of the brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP), troponin T, transcoronary lactate gradient (TCLG) and C-reactive protein (CRP) as predictors of AF in patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).This study included 215 consecutive patients in sinus rhythm (SR) undergoing elective CABG between May 2007 ...
Tópico(s): Heart Failure Treatment and Management
2009 - Oxford University Press | European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
N Gubarev, Jadranka Šeparović, V. Gašparović, Ivan Jelić,
We present a 37-year-old male patient with a history of ulcerative colitis treated with corticosteroids and mesalazin due to exacerbation of his underlying condition. The patient was admitted to the hospital since there was no improvement of his clinical status. A central venous catheter was inserted via the right internal jugular vein for administration of intravenous antibiotic therapy, which included ciprofloxacin and metronidazol, as well as corticosteroids. The same catheter was employed for ...
Tópico(s): Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions
2007 - Georg Thieme Verlag | The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
Dorijan Radočaj, Mladen Jurišić, Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Plaščak,
Soybean is regarded as one of the most produced crops in the world, presenting a source of high-quality protein for human and animal diets. The general objective of the study was to determine the optimal soybean land suitability and conduct its mapping based on the multicriteria analysis. The multicriteria analysis was based on Geographic Information System (GIS) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) integration, using Sentinel-2 multitemporal images for suitability validation. The study area covered ...
Tópico(s): Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Luka Jurjević, Xinlian Liang, Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Balenović,
Tree height is one of the most important tree attributes in forest inventory. However, using conventional field methods to measure tree height is a laborious and time-consuming process. Despite the great interest in the past to facilitate tree height measurements, new, upcoming solutions are not yet thoroughly investigated. In this study, we investigated the applicability of different close-range remote sensing options for tree height measurement in a complex lowland deciduous forest. Six sample ...
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2020 - Elsevier BV | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Martina Deur, Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Balenović,
Spatially explicit information on tree species composition is important for both the forest management and conservation sectors. In combination with machine learning algorithms, very high-resolution satellite imagery may provide an effective solution to reduce the need for labor-intensive and time-consuming field-based surveys. In this study, we evaluated the possibility of using multispectral WorldView-3 (WV-3) satellite imagery for the classification of three main tree species (Quercus robur L., ...
Tópico(s): Remote-Sensing Image Classification
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Martina Deur, Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Balenović,
Quality tree species information gathering is the basis for making proper decisions in forest management. By applying new technologies and remote sensing methods, very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery can give sufficient spatial detail to achieve accurate species-level classification. In this study, the influence of pansharpening of the WorldView-3 (WV-3) satellite imagery on classification results of three main tree species (Quercus robur L., Carpinus betulus L., and Alnus glutinosa (L.) Geartn.) ...
Tópico(s): Remote-Sensing Image Classification
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Dorijan Radočaj, Mladen Jurišić, Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Plaščak, Oleg Antonić,
The determination of cropland suitability is a major step for adapting to the increased food demands caused by population growth, climate change and environmental contamination. This study presents a novel cropland suitability assessment approach based on machine learning, which overcomes the limitations of the conventional GIS-based multicriteria analysis by increasing computational efficiency, accuracy and objectivity of the prediction. The suitability assessment method was developed and evaluated ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Agronomy
Božena Smolková, Stefano Bonassi, Verona Buociková, Mária Dušinská, Alexandra Horská, Daniel Kuba, Zuzana Džupinková, Katarı́na Rašlová, Juraj Gašparovič, Ivan Slíž, Marcello Ceppi, Branislav Vohnout, Ladislava Wsólová, Katarı́na Volkovová,
Established risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) may be moderated by genetic variants. In 2403 unrelated individuals from general practice (mean age 40.5 years), we evaluated the influence of 15 variants in 12 candidate genes on quantitative traits (QT) associated with CVD (body mass index, abdominal obesity, glucose, serum lipids, and blood pressure). Prior to multiple testing correction, univariate analysis associated APOE rs429358, rs7412 and ATG16L1 rs2241880 variants with serum lipid ...
Tópico(s): Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
2015 - Elsevier BV | Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
Lukáš Gašparovič, Ivan Hrablay, Zuzana Vojteková, Ľudovít Jelemenský,
Tópico(s): Municipal Solid Waste Management
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | Chemical Papers
Mateo Gašparović, Damir Medak, Ivan Pilaš, Luka Jurjević, Ivan Balenović,
Abstract. Different spatial resolutions satellite imagery with global almost daily revisit time provide valuable information about the earth surface in a short time. Based on the remote sensing methods satellite imagery can have different applications like environmental development, urban monitoring, etc. For accurate vegetation detection and monitoring, especially in urban areas, spectral characteristics, as well as the spatial resolution of satellite imagery is important. In this research, 10- ...
Tópico(s): Remote-Sensing Image Classification
2018 - Copernicus Publications | The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Mateo Gašparović, Dino Dobrinić, Ivan Pilaš,
Mapping and identifying allergenic tree species in densely urbanized regions is vital for understanding their distribution and prevalence. However, accurately detecting individual allergenic tree species in urban green spaces remains challenging due to their smaller site and patchiness. To overcome these issues, PlanetScope (PS) satellite imagery offers significant benefits compared with moderate or high-resolution RS imagery due to its daily temporal resolution and 3 m spatial resolution. Therefore, ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2023 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Forests
Luka Jurjević, Mateo Gašparović, Xinlian Liang, Ivan Balenović,
Digital terrain models (DTMs) are important for a variety of applications in geosciences as a valuable information source in forest management planning, forest inventory, hydrology, etc. Despite their value, a DTM in a forest area is typically lower quality due to inaccessibility and limited data sources that can be used in the forest environment. In this paper, we assessed the accuracy of close-range remote sensing techniques for DTM data collection. In total, four data sources were examined, i. ...
Tópico(s): Forest ecology and management
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Luka Jurjević, Mateo Gašparović, Anita Šimić Milas, Ivan Balenović,
The quality and accuracy of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) products greatly depend on the methods used to define image orientations before they are used to create 3D point clouds. While most studies were conducted in non- or partially-forested areas, a limited number of studies have evaluated the spatial accuracy of UAS products derived by using different image block orientation methods in forested areas. In this study, three image orientation methods were used and compared: (a) the Indirect Sensor ...
Tópico(s): Archaeological Research and Protection
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Pilaš, Damir Klobučar, Iva Gašparović,
The ash dieback pandemic, caused by the invasive fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, represents one of Europe’s biggest threats to preserving natural biodiversity. To ensure the suppression of forest damage caused by fungi, timely recognition of the symptoms of ash dieback and further continuous monitoring on an adequate spatial scale are essential. Visual crown damage assessment is currently the most common method used for identifying ash dieback, but it lacks the spatial and temporal coverage required ...
Tópico(s): Horticultural and Viticultural Research
2023 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Mateo Gašparović, Ante Seletković, Alen Berta, Ivan Balenović,
Today we are witnessing the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring purposes.Potential applications of UAVs can be found in agricultural, forestry, and environmental sciences; surveillance, and reconnaissance; aerial monitoring in engineering; cultural heritage; and traditional surveying, conventional mapping and photogrammetry, and cadastral applications [1].Due to various construction solutions UAVs are flexibile to solve various surveying tasks.Compared to the classical terrestrial ...
Tópico(s): Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
2017 - Croatian Forest Research Institute | South-east European forestry
Hrvoje Gašparović, Ranko Ugljen, Vedran Ćorić, Igor Gošev, V. Gašparović, Ivan Jelić,
We report on a 34-year-old woman who presented with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction 12 weeks postpartum. Cardiac catheterization documented a left main coronary artery dissection with complete occlusion of the left anterior descending artery. The surgical treatment and the complicated postoperative course are discussed here.
Tópico(s): Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
2006 - Georg Thieme Verlag | The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
Mateo Gašparović, Ivan Balenović, Ante Seletković, Anita Šimić Milas,
Digitalni model reljefa (DTM, engl. Digital Terrain Model ) ima široku i važnu primjenu u mnogim djelatnostima, uključujući i šumarstvo. Međutim, precizno modeliranje terena, odnosno izrada DTM-a u šumama, bilo korištenjem terenskih metoda ili metoda daljinskih istraživanja, izazovan je i vrlo zahtjevan zadatak. U većini razvijenih zemalja svijeta, zračno lasersko skeniranje (ALS, engl. Airborne Laser Scanning ) bazirano na LiDAR (engl. Light Detection and Ranging ) tehnologiji trenutno predstavlja glavnu ...
Tópico(s): Remote Sensing in Agriculture
2018 - | Šumarski list
Mate Petričević, Bojan Biočina, Davor Miličić, Sanja Konosić, Višnja Ivančan, Milan Milošević, Ivan Burčar, Hrvoje Gašparović,
Tópico(s): Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
Olga Gornik, Ivan Gornik, Vladimir Gašparović, Gordan Lauc,
Early prediction of severe acute pancreatitis is one of the problems in clinical practice. Since many diseases are associated with alteration in glycosylation, in this work we studied sialylation of transferrin and serum proteins in acute pancreatitis. Sialylation was analyzed during first eight days of hospitalization of 30 patients and compared to 28 healthy controls. Transferrin sialylation was measured using enzyme linked lectin assay, while sialic acid on proteins was measured using resorcinol ...
Tópico(s): Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
2008 - Elsevier BV | Clinical Biochemistry
Boško Škorić, Maja Čikeš, Jana Ljubas Maček, Željko Baričević, Ivan Škorak, Hrvoje Gašparović, Bojan Biočina, Davor Miličić,
Development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy represents the major determinant of long-term survival in patients after heart transplantation. Due to graft denervation, these patients seldom present with classic symptoms of angina pectoris, and the first clinical presentations are progressive heart failure or sudden cardiac death. Although coronary angiography remains the routine technique for coronary artery disease detection, it is not sensitive enough for screening purposes. This is especially ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Immunology Research
2014 - Medicinska naklada, Zagreb | Croatian Medical Journal
Marijana Medić, Ivan Gornik, Vladimir Gašparović,
Objectives To analyze clinical characteristics, treatment, outcomes of critically ill patients with hematologic malignancies (HM) admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) and to identify predictors of adverse outcome. Methods We analyzed prospectively 170 patients. Data included: demographic characteristics, hematologic diagnosis, reasons for ICU admission, transplant status, the presence of neutropenia, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation-II and sequential organ failure assessment ...
Tópico(s): Neutropenia and Cancer Infections
2014 - Maney Publishing | Hematology
Ivan Gornik, Vladimir Gašparović, Nina Gubarev Vrdoljak, Arta Haxiu, Boris Vucelić,
Statin treatment was shown to be associated with improved outcomes in several inflammatory conditions. We wanted to evaluate the effects of statin therapy on the course and outcome of acute pancreatitis (AP). A prospective cohort study included patients with acute pancreatitis divided into two groups according to statin use prior to hospitalization. Age, sex, etiology of AP, Ranson's score, APACHE II score and maximal CRP were recorded. Outcome measures were hospital length of stay and mortality. ...
Tópico(s): Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
2013 - Elsevier BV | Pancreatology
Toma Keser, Ivan Gornik, Frano Vučković, Najda Selak, Tamara Pavić, Edita Lukić, Ivan Gudelj, Hrvoje Gašparović, Bojan Biočina, Therese Tilin, Annika Wennerström, Satu Männistö, Veikko Salomaa, Aki S. Havulinna, Wei Wang, James F. Wilson, Nishi Charutvedi, Markus Perola, Harry Campbell, Gordan Lauc, Olga Gornik,
Better understanding of type 2 diabetes and its prevention is a pressing need. Changes in human plasma N-glycome are associated with many diseases and represent promising diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. Variations in glucose metabolism directly affect glycosylation through the hexosamine pathway but studies of plasma glycome in type 2 diabetes are scarce. The aim of this study was to determine whether plasma protein N-glycome is changed in individuals who are at greater risk of developing ...
Tópico(s): Pancreatic function and diabetes
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | Diabetologia
Ivan Pilaš, Mateo Gašparović, Alan Novkinić, Damir Klobučar,
The presented study demonstrates a bi-sensor approach suitable for rapid and precise up-to-date mapping of forest canopy gaps for the larger spatial extent. The approach makes use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) red, green and blue (RGB) images on smaller areas for highly precise forest canopy mask creation. Sentinel-2 was used as a scaling platform for transferring information from the UAV to a wider spatial extent. Various approaches to an improvement in the predictive performance were examined: ( ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Ante Šiljeg, Lovre Panđa, Fran Domazetović, Ivan Marić, Mateo Gašparović, Mirko Borisov, Rina Milošević,
Pixel-based (PB) and geographic-object-based (GEOBIA) classification approaches allow the extraction of different objects from multispectral images (MS). The primary goal of this research was the analysis of UAV imagery applicability and accuracy assessment of MLC and SVM classification algorithms within PB and GEOBIA classification approaches. The secondary goal was to use different accuracy assessment metrics to determine which of the two tested classification algorithms (SVM and MLC) most reliably ...
Tópico(s): Remote-Sensing Image Classification
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Michal Hulman, Panagiotis Artemiou, Matej Ondrusek, Vladan Hudec, Ivo Gašparovič, Martin Beňa, Ivan Glonek,
Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a devastating complication and the most common cause of early death following a heart transplant. The goal of this study was to report our experience of using mechanical circulatory support to manage severe PGD.Following 208 heart transplants performed between January 2007 and May 2017, 14 (6.7%) patients presented with severe PGD. We provided haemodynamic support using the following approaches: a venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation device, left ventricular ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
2018 - Oxford University Press | Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Hrvoje Gašparović, Vedran Ćorić, Davor Miličić, Gordana Rajsman, Ivan Burčar, Ranka Štern-Padovan, Ivan Jelić,
Cardiac fibromas are exceedingly rare neoplasms. We report the case of a 21-year-old woman who presented with symptoms that were initially misinterpreted as an acute coronary syndrome. Radical surgical resection was undertaken and was considered curative, as the mass histology was consistent with a benign fibroma. Cardiac fibromas are exceedingly rare neoplasms. We report the case of a 21-year-old woman who presented with symptoms that were initially misinterpreted as an acute coronary syndrome. ...
Tópico(s): Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomas
2006 - Elsevier BV | The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Igor Gošev, Franjo Širić, Hrvoje Gašparović, Ranko Ugljen, Marin Nola, Ivan Jelić,
Primary cardiac lymphomas (PCL) are rare cardiac neoplasms that carry an ominous prognosis. They occur more frequently in immunocompromised patients. We report on an immunocompetent 67-year-old who presented with dyspnea and dysphagia. Echocardiographic evidence of impending cardiac tamponade and obstruction of the inferior vena cava (IVC) with the tumor was seen. The deteriorating hemodynamics of our patient prompted an urgent surgical intervention. Pathohistological diagnosis showed diffuse large ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
2006 - Wiley | Journal of Cardiac Surgery
Mladen Jurišić, Dorijan Radočaj, Stjepan Krčmar, Ivan Plaščak, Mateo Gašparović,
Interpolation accuracy of the soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N) has a direct impact on soil maps for agricultural land management planning, affecting the financial gains of farmers and environmental contamination. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of different ordinary kriging parameters on the interpolation accuracy and spatial variability of soil C/N. These values were necessary to determine the effect of potential soil C/N deficiency on five major crops in the study area during 2017–2019, ...
Tópico(s): Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Agronomy
Panagiotis Artemiou, Ivo Gašparovič, Branislav Bezák, Vladan Hudec, Ivan Glonek, Michal Hulman,
The mortality rate after the development of postinfarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) remains high, despite progress in pharmacologic therapy, invasive cardiology, and surgical techniques. We present three cases of preoperative venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to reparative surgical repair in patients with cardiogenic shock who would otherwise require emergent cardiac surgery with an associated risk. Two patients were discharged, whereas the third patient died due ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
2020 - Wiley | Journal of Cardiac Surgery