Salek, Tomas Dhaifalah, Ishraq Langova, Dagmar Havalova, Jana
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The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of maternal hypothyroidism in the first trimester from 11 to 14 weeks of gestation according to the American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines from 2017 and to compare the rates for singleton and twin pregnancies. A total of 4965 consecutive Caucasian singleton pregnancies and 109 Caucasian t...
Dvorak, Petr Hoffmann, Petr Kocova, Eva Habal, Petr Nova, Marketa
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To retrospectively evaluate the technical features, feasibility, efficacy, accuracy and appropriate complications of CT-guided biopsies of mediastinal masses and correlate them with anatomical relationships in the mediastinum. Over the course of ten years, 81 percutaneous biopsy procedures in 78 patients for tumors sizes 27 - 189 mm in diameter (me...
Vonkova, Barbara Blahakova, Ivona Hruban, Lukas Janku, Petr Pospisilova, Sarka
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To explore whether miR-210 expression can be used as a diagnostic and prognostic marker in acute fetal hypoxia. Whole blood samples of 29 women and their fetuses without hypoxia and 24 women and their fetuses with hypoxia were analysed in this study. Reverse transcription and quantitative real-time PCR were used to measure the expression of miR-210...
Hrabovsky, Vladimir Blaha, Vladimir Hyspler, Radomir Ticha, Alena Skrobankova, Martina Svagera, Zdenek
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Cholesterol is derived via de novo synthesis and dietary absorption. Both processes can be monitored by determination of non-cholesterol sterol concentrations (lathosterol for synthesis; sitosterol and campesterol for absorption). The hypocholesterolemia that occurs during acute illness is a result of a multifactorial inability to compensate for th...
Homza, Miroslav Machaczka, Ondrej Porzer, Martin Kozak, Milan Plasek, Jiri Sipula, David
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Ankle brachial index (ABI) is the principal screening method for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In this study, we compare various types of Doppler-derived and oscillometric ABIs with results obtained through duplex ultrasonography. 62 patients were enrolled in the study. For each limb, blood pressures for both ankle arteries and the arm were me...
Studeny, Pavel Veith, Miroslav Krizova, Deli
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To evaluate the outcomes of the hybrid technique of posterior lamellar keratoplasty (Descemets' membrane endothelial keratoplasty with stromal rim, DMEK-S) in eyes with multiple ocular pathologies. A retrospective case control study of the consecutive group of all eyes with combined ocular pathologies which underwent DMEK-S keratoplasty. We evaluat...
Megalopoulos, Angelos Ioannidis, Orestis Varnalidis, Ioannis Ntoumpara, Maria Tsigriki, Lina Alexandris, Konstantinos Anastasiadou, Christiana Styliani, Parpoudi Paraskevas, George Mantzoros, Ioannis
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There is increased prevalence of inguinal hernia (ΙΗ) in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). As there is limited data on AAA in patients with ΙΗ our objective was to examine the prevalence of AAA in such patients. We prospectively examined 185 consecutive patients for AAA who presented to our department for surgical repair of an ΙΗ. All ...
Minarik, Jiri Pour, Ludek Maisnar, Vladimir Spicka, Ivan Jungova, Alexandra Jelinek, Tomas Brozova, Lucie Krhovska, Petra Scudla, Vlastimil Hajek, Roman
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The treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) remains challenging. The outcomes in highly pretreated populations are unsatisfactory and there is urgent need for novel and safe therapeutic approaches. Recently, daratumumab has been approved for RRMM with promising results even in monotherapy. The aim of this study was to assess th...
Pojar, Marek Haman, Ludek Parizek, Petr Myjavec, Andrej Gofus, Jan Vojacek, Jan
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We evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of thoracoscopic and a staged surgical and transcatheter ablation technique to treat stand-alone atrial fibrillation (AF). . Between 2009 and 2016, a cohort of 65 patients underwent bilateral totally thoracoscopic ablation of symptomatic paroxysmal AF (n=30; 46%), persistent AF (n=18; 28%) or long-stan...
Todic, Jelena Martinovic, Brankica Pavlovic, Jasna Tabakovic, Sasa Staletovic, Milos
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Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) refer to functional disorders of the masticatory system, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and masticatory muscles. The main objective of this study was to determine whether and to what extent temporomandibular disorders (TMD) affect the maximum bite force (MBF). The present study included subjects with and without tem...
