Cardiologia Croatica. 2025;20(5-6):97-180.

Cardiologia Croatica. 2025;20(5-6):97-180.

Naslovnica / Cover.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):97.

Sadržaj / Table of Contents.
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CroEcho 2025

13. hrvatski dvogodišnji ehokardiografski kongres s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem
13th Croatian Biennial Echocardiography Congress with International Participation

Poreč, Croatia
May 8-10, 2025

Organizacijski odbori. / Organizing Committees.
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Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački, Viktor Peršić.
CroEcho 2025.
CroEcho 2025.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):100.
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Scientific abstracts

Marija Brestovac, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Blanka Glavaš Konja, Martina Lovrić Benčić, Joško Bulum, Zvonimir Ostojić, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Outcomes of degenerative aortic valve regurgitation: a single center study.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):101-2.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.101xml

Ana Čala, Ana Bilić-Pavlinović, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Dejan Došen, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Marija Brestovac, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Prevalence of Valvular Heart Disease in University Hospital Centre Zagreb.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):103-4.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.103xml

Viktor Čulić, Željko Bušić, Ivan Velat.
Parathyroid hormone and cardiac function in male patients hospitalized for heart failure.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):105.
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Viktor Čulić, Ivan Velat, Željko Bušić.
Low T3 syndrome and cardiac function in patients hospitalized due to acute heart failure.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):106.
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Ana Đuzel Čokljat, Petra Grubić Rotkvić, Damir Čokljat, Zdravko Babić.
The significance of epicardial adipose tissue in indviduals with diabetes mellitus type 2 without clinical heart failure.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):107.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.107xml

Iva Golubić, Antun Zvonimir Kovač, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Marija Brestovac, Vedran Velagić, Ivan Prepolec, Andrija Nekić, Vedran Pašara, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić.
Echocardiographic Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Ablation: Insights form University Hospital Centre Zagreb.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):108-9.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.108xml

Karolina Beg, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Nevio Aradski, Katarina Arbanas, Bruno Lekaj, Laura Mikić, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Marija Brestovac, Martina Lovrić Benčić, Joško Bulum, Zvonimir Ostojić, Blanka Glavaš Konja, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Increased body mass could be a risk factor for the development of severe aortic valve stenosis.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):110.
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Karolina Beg, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Andro Koren, Luciana Koren, Vice Zubak, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Marija Brestovac, Martina Lovrić Benčić, Joško Bulum, Zvonimir Ostojić, Blanka Glavaš Konja, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Is kidney function a risk factor in the development of severe aortic stenosis?
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):111.
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Antun Zvonimir Kovač, Kristina Marić Bešić, Denis Došen, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Irena Ivanac Vranešić, Joško Bulum.
Predictors of residual shunt folowing patent foramen ovale closure: insights form University Hospital Centre Zagreb.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):112-3.
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Nora Knez, Tomislav Tokić, Ante Lekić, Hrvoje Gašparović.
A new hope for aortic valve surgery: the rise od minimally invasive aortic valve replacement – a retrospective cohort study.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):114-5.
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Nora Knez, Tomislav Tokić, Ante Lekić, Hrvoje Gašparović.
Decoding postoperative atrial fibrillation risk: a systemic review of preoperative echocardiographic predictors in cardiac surgery.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):116.
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Goran Međimurec, Irena Ivanac Vranešić, Ana Šutalo, Dražen Belina, Željko Đurić, Mislav Planinc, Kristina Marić Bešić, Hrvoje Gašparović, Darko Anić.
Stented bioprostheses in the pulmonary position – a single centre retrospective study.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):117.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.117xml

Karla Schwarz, Nino Petroci, Luka Perčin, Andrea Studen, Blanka Glavaš Konja, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Joško Bulum, Boško Skorić, Zvonimir Ostojić, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in mitral and tricuspid regurgitation: a review of results at University Hospital Centre Zagreb.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):119-20.
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Danijela Grizelj, Tomo Svaguša, Vanja Ivanović Mihajlović, Hrvoje Falak, Petra Vitlov, Marija Radić, Jana Tarnik, Maja Špoljarić, Mario Udovičić.
Comparison of echocardiographic and invasive measurment of pulmonary artery pressure in a tertiary cardiology center.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):121.
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Clinical cases

Bruno Ban, Kristina Krželj, Dorotea Bartoniček, Ivona Vučić, Ante Lekić, Hrvoje Gašparović, Željko Đurić.
Complex mitral valve re-repair utilizing homograft mitral valve tissues.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):122.
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Bruno Ban, Kristina Krželj, Ivona Vučić, Daniel Dilber, Ante Lekić, Hrvoje Gašparović, Željko Đurić.
A case report of combined tricuspid valve and pulmonary valve repair.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):123.
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Tina Bečić, Andrija Matetić, Antonia Melada, Ivona Mustapić, Tea Domjanović Škopinić, Frane Runjić, Darija Baković Kramarić.
Percutaneous treatment of severe degenerative mitral regurgitation due to papillary muscle rupture with a posterior mitral cusp flail.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):124-5.
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Ada Đozić, Edin Begić, Zorica Mladenović.
The Gerbode defect after the reconstruction of the NCC Sinus Valsalva Aneurysm – the importance of using 3DTOE.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):126.
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Tea Domjanović Škopinić, Andrija Matetić, Frane Runjić, Antonia Melada, Ivona Mustapić, Tina Bečić, Darija Baković Kramarić.
Percutaneous managment of progressive aortic root pseudoaneurysm.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):127-8.
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Željko Đurić, Kristina Krželj, Bruno Ban, Sanja Konosić, Irena Ivanac Vranešić, Ante Lekić, Hrvoje Gašparović.
Ross procedure in a young adult patient with prosthetic aortic valve andocarditis.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):129-30.
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Željko Đurić, Hrvoje Gašparović.
Complex Aortic Root Surgery – Experience from University Hospital Center Zagreb.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):131.
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Filipa Grljušić, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Blanka Glavaš Konja, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački, Marija Brestovac, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak.
Pericardial effusion: what to blame – electrical cardioversion, drug-drug interactions or something else?
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):132-3.
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Antonio Hanžek, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Joško Bulum, Zvonimir Ostojić, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Blanka Glavaš Konja, Marija Brestovac, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Valve-in-valve Matryoshka doll.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):134-5.
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Anita Jukić, Jasmina Ćatić, Ivica Kristić, Frane Runjić, Admira Bilalić, Ivana Gavran.
Infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve replacment: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):136.
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Fabio Kadum, Ana Petretić, Koraljka Benko, Ivana Smoljan.
Peripartum-related conditions – treat one for the sake of two.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):137.
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Lucija Klobučar, Sandra Šarić, Kristina Selthofer-Relatić, Marko Stupin.
Case report: “If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”, or is it?
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):138.
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Lana Maričić, Lucija Klobučar, Matija Drinković, Igor Leškan.
Two Cardiac Tumors, Two Atria, Two Different Outcomes.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):139-40.
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Petar Martinčić, Marin Međugorac, Ana Šutalo, Sandra Jakšić Jurinjak, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić, Marko Brinar, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački.
Acute myocardial necrosis in newly diagnosed hypereosinophilic syndrome – a case report of early detection and managment.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):141-2.
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Antonia Melada, Andrija Mustapić, Ivona Mustapić, Tea Domjanović Škopinić, Tina Bečić, Frane Runjić, Darija Baković Kramarić.
Percutaneous closure of paravalvular leak in a patient with mechanical mitral valve prosthesis.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):143-4.
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Anica Milinković, Ana Marija Slišković, Petra Angenbrandt Belošević, Davor Radić, Richard Matasić, Eduard Margetić, Dejan Došen.
Diagnosis and management of papillary fibroelastomas – a case series.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):145-7.
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Ivona Mustapić, Tea Domjanović Škopinić, Antonia Melada, Tina Bečić, Darija Baković Kramarić, Vedran Carević.
Primary pericardial mesothelioma – the master of disguise: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):148-9.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.148xml

Ivona Mustapić, Andrija Matetić, Frane Runjić, Tea Domjanović Škopinić, Antonia Melada, Tina Bečić, Ante Anić, Darija Baković Kramarić.
Combined interventional procedures for the best patient outcome: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):150-1.
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Ivana Peršić, Ena Mršić, Tin Nadarević, Ivana Grgić Romić, Teodora Zaninović Jurjević.
Unexpected discovery of anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries during routine evalutaion: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):152.
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Ivana Petrović Juren, Marija Ivić Čikara, Danijela Grizelj, Nikola Pavlović, Sandra Prša, Kristina Milevoj Križić, Vlasta Soukup Podravec, Andreja Čleković-Kovačić, Matea Lukaš, Iva Ladić, Gabriela Lipošćak.
Hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasis (Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrme) and atrial fibrillation – is it ever too late to do something?!
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):153-4.
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Anto Stažić, Kristina Selthofer-Relatić, Dijana Dumančić, Ivana Lukić.
Case report: acute viral (Parvovirus B-19) myocarditis in a young adult with recovery of left ventricular dysfunction.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):155-6.
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Tomo Svaguša, Danijela Grizelj, Mario Udovičić, Šime Manola, Dijana Rudan.
Muscular ventricular septal defect: which diagnostic test to trust when calculating shunt fraction?
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):157.
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Jure Šeremet, Ivana Smoljan, Davorka Lulić, Petra Baumgartner, Gordana Bačić.
Case report: cardiac manifestation of infiltrative lung tumor.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):158.
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Lucija Grbić, Dubravka Šipuš, Daniel Lovrić.
A comprehensive approach to reduced left ventricular function following massive pulmonary embolism: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):159-60.
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Dubravka Šipuš, Ana Marija Slišković, Richard Matasić, Davor Radić, Petra Angenbrandt Belošević, Eduard Margetić, Vedran Velagić, Ivo Planinc, Maja Čikeš, Boško Skorić, Dora Fabijanović, Ana Mataić, Davorin Herceg, Hrvoje Gašparović, Davor Miličić, Daniel Lovrić, Dejan Došen.
A comprehensive diagnostic approach to primary cardiac tumors: a case report.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):161-2.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.161xml

Dubravka Šušnjar, Tomislava Bodrožić Džakić Poljak, Tomo Svaguša, Davor Barić, Daniel Unić, Josip Varvodić, Marko Kušurin, Savica Gjeorgjievska, Gloria Šestan, Nikola Slišković, Šime Manola, Igor Rudež.
Large hole no low-flow symptoms.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):163-4.
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Dubravka Šušnjar, Daniel Unić, Josip Varvodić, Davor Barić, Marko Kušurin, Savica Gjeorgjievska, Gloria Šestan, Nikola Slišković, Igor Rudež.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation following aortic valve repair.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):165.
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Marija Tomac Stojmenović, Irena Ivanac Vranešić, Tamara Žigman, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački, Neven Čače, Vlatka Rešković Lukšić.
X-linked FLNA mutation with valvular dysplasia.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):166-7.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.166xml

Aleksandar Trbović, Monika Žepić, Vedrana Vlahović, Krešimir Štambuk, Filip Štembal.
Central aortic cannulation with transesophageal echocardiography guidance for Stanford type A aortic dissection.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):168-9.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.168xml

Iva Turić, Andrija Matetić, Vedran Carević, Nikola Crnčević, Darija Baković Kramarić.
Echocardiography in anomalous coronary artery diagnostics.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):170-1.
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Ana Veljača, Irena Ivanac Vranešić, Dražen Belina, Željko Đurić, Kristina Marić Bešić, Darko Anić, Hrvoje Gašparović.
Infective endocarditis of the Melody valve in a patient with absent pulmonary valve syndrome.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):172.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.172xml

Iva Zec, Tereza Knaflec, Martina Roginić, Nikolina Mijač Mikačić, Siniša Roginić.
Infective endocarditis as a clinical marker for the presence of occult colorectal disease.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):173-4.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.173xml

Monika Žepić, Vedrana Vlahović, Krešimir Štambuk, Vito Mustapić, Aleksandar Trbović.
Patent foramen ovale closure with intracardiac echocardiography guidance.
Cardiol Croat. 2025;20(5-6):175.
https://doi.org/10.15836/ccar2025.175xml