Błażej Kieszek, P. Cichocki, Zbigniew Adamczewski, Michał Nowicki, Anna Masajtis-Zagajewska
{"title":"The need to perform renal artery embolization in an adult patient with Bartter's syndrome: a difficult but life-saving decision.","authors":"Błażej Kieszek, P. Cichocki, Zbigniew Adamczewski, Michał Nowicki, Anna Masajtis-Zagajewska","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140741038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ł. Krokowicz, Krzysztof Szmyt, M. Borejsza-Wysocki, J. Paszkowski, Tomasz Banasiewicz, A. Bobkiewicz
{"title":"Ileal pouch adenocarcinoma after restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis.","authors":"Ł. Krokowicz, Krzysztof Szmyt, M. Borejsza-Wysocki, J. Paszkowski, Tomasz Banasiewicz, A. Bobkiewicz","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":"34 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140744395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of weight loss on the expression of negative regulators of nuclear factor-kappa B (NLRP12, NLRC3, and NLRX1) in subcutaneous adipose tissue.","authors":"Kamil Klejbuk, Marek Strączkowski","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":"18 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140744466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elżbieta Szczepanek, Brygida Marczyk, Ositadima Chukwu, Stefan Chlopicki, Tomasz Sacha
{"title":"Endothelial function in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors is not related to cardiovascular risk assessed by SCORE2 algorithm.","authors":"Elżbieta Szczepanek, Brygida Marczyk, Ositadima Chukwu, Stefan Chlopicki, Tomasz Sacha","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16719","url":null,"abstract":"Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) revolutionized the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) but are endowed with negative effects on endothelial function.","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140603492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Goljan-Geremek, Piotr Radziński, Elżbieta Puścińska, Urszula Demkow
{"title":"Defining serum TNF-ɑ concentration related endotype of sarcoidosis: a Polish real life retrospective observational study.","authors":"A. Goljan-Geremek, Piotr Radziński, Elżbieta Puścińska, Urszula Demkow","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":"14 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140753581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jarosław Dulski, Rana H Al-Shaikh, Anna Sulek, Jakub Kasprzak, Jarosław Sławek, Zbigniew K Wszolek
{"title":"Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (Machado-Joseph disease).","authors":"Jarosław Dulski, Rana H Al-Shaikh, Anna Sulek, Jakub Kasprzak, Jarosław Sławek, Zbigniew K Wszolek","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40412835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michał J Pytka, Anna Pałasz-Borkowska, Jacek L Tarchalski, Aneta Nowak, Dagmara Przymuszała-Staszak, Agata Schneider, Mateusz Bryl, Jolanta Kaczmarek, Tomasz Krauze, Jarosław Piskorski, Andrzej Wykrętowicz, Przemysław Guzik
{"title":"The serum concentration of brain‑derived neurotrophic factor is lower in ambulatory and clinically stable patients with more advanced systolic heart failure.","authors":"Michał J Pytka, Anna Pałasz-Borkowska, Jacek L Tarchalski, Aneta Nowak, Dagmara Przymuszała-Staszak, Agata Schneider, Mateusz Bryl, Jolanta Kaczmarek, Tomasz Krauze, Jarosław Piskorski, Andrzej Wykrętowicz, Przemysław Guzik","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Brain‑derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is decreased in heart failure (HF), but whether serum BDNF concentration is related to the severity of HF with reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) below 50% is uncertain.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We aimed to compare cardiac structure and function in ambulatory and clinically stable patients with HF and LVEF below 50% for lower and higher BDNF serum concentrations.</p><p><strong>Patients and methods: </strong>A total of 361 ambulatory patients with a compensated HF and LVEF below 50% underwent cardiac evaluation and measurement of serum BDNF and N‑terminal pro-B‑type natriuretic peptide (NT‑proBNP). Patients from the lower (below median) and higher (equal to or above median) BDNF serum concentration groups were compared by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, resting heart rate, and systolic blood pressure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The patients were at a median age of 63.8 (interquartile range [IQR], 57.7-71.5) years and had a median LVEF of 31.0% (IQR, 23.0-37.4). Individuals with lower BDNF (<23.5 ng/ml) had significantly (P ≤0.05) more dilated right and left atria both before and after emptying, larger right ventricular end-diastolic diameter, LV end-systolic diameter, lower tricuspid annulus plane systolic excursion, shorter pulmonary acceleration time, higher mitral E to A waves ratio and mitral E wave to tissue Doppler e' wave ratio, and higher concentration of NT‑proBNP.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>HF patients with LVEF below 50% and lower serum BDNF concentration present more advanced cardiac remodeling and dysfunction than individuals with higher BDNF. Potential mechanisms and clinical consequences of these findings require further investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40594055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safety and feasibility of single‑day coronary angioplasty in low- and moderate‑risk patients: candidate selection criteria, management protocol, and outcomes.","authors":"Andrzej Ciszewski","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40641446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Liu, Shengyu Li, Xiaosong Ding, Dingkun Wang, Weiping Li, Hongwei Li
{"title":"Dynamic changes in soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 levels predict major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with ST‑segment elevation myocardial infarction.","authors":"Lei Liu, Shengyu Li, Xiaosong Ding, Dingkun Wang, Weiping Li, Hongwei Li","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Introduction:The predictive value of soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2) for the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in patients with ST‑segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We aimed to investigate the role of sST2 in predicting MACEs in STEMI patients after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI).</p><p><strong>Patients and methods: </strong>A total of 350 patients were enrolled in this study. The levels of sST2, N‑terminal pro-B‑type natriuretic peptide (NT‑proBNP), cardiac troponin I (TnI), and creatine kinase-MB (CK‑MB) were measured on admission as well as 24 hours and 5 days after pPCI. The end point was the incidence of MACEs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared with the values on admission, sST2 levels increased 24 hours post pPCI and decreased significantly at day 5 after the procedure in the whole cohort. The pattern of sST2 level changes between the 3 time points was similar in the MACE and MACE‑free groups. Notably, the change in the sST2 level from admission to 24 hours post pPCI (Δ1sST2) was significantly higher in the MACE group. After multivariable adjustment, Δ1sST2 was an independent risk factor for MACEs, with an area under the curve of 0.621 (95% CI, 0.547-0.695). Patients with a greater Δ1sST2 had a significantly higher incidence of composite MACEs, coronary revascularization, and cardiac rehospitalization. However, the change in sST2 levels from admission to 5 days post pPCI, as well as the dynamic changes in NT‑proBNP, TnI, and CK‑MB levels had no predictive value.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The increase in plasma sST2 levels from admission to 24 hours post pPCI has a potential value for independently predicting the incidence of coronary revascularization and cardiac rehospitalization at 1 year in patients with STEMI.</p>","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40721863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID‑19: different waves and different outcomes.","authors":"Filippo Patrucco, Mattia Bellan, Paolo Solidoro","doi":"10.20452/pamw.16352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20452/pamw.16352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519222,"journal":{"name":"Polish Archives of Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40650479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}