Jordakieva, Galateja Budge-Wolfram, Roswitha M Budinsky, Alexandra C Nikfardjam, Mariam Delle-Karth, Georg Girard, Angelika Godnic-Cvar, Jasminka Crevenna, Richard Heinz, Gottfried
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Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are involved in systemic inflammatory responses and organ failure. The aim of this study was to evaluate early circulating plasma levels of MMP‑2, MMP‑9 and their inhibitors TIMP‑1 and TIMP‑2 and their prognostic significance in critically ill patients on admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). In a single cente...
Weitgasser, Laurenz Ihra, Gerald Schäfer, Bruno Markstaller, Klaus Radtke, Christine
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been shown to improve tissue hypoxia, neovascularization and ischemia reperfusion injury and reduce pathologic inflammation in various clinical settings and was proposed to be a game changer in treatment of burns. Improved and faster wound healing as well as a reduction of morbidity and mortality after thermal a...
Zjacic Puljiz, Danijela Mestrovic, Antonio Zaja, Ivan Tonkic, Ante Grgurevic, Ivica Duplancic, Darko Delic Jukic, Ivana Kristina Ljutic, Dragan Puljiz, Zeljko
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The impact of hemodialysis on liver stiffness is still unclear. The aim of the study was to assess liver fibrosis by real-time two-dimensional shear wave elastography (RT 2D-SWE) and to quantify the influence of net fluid withdrawal on liver stiffness during one hemodialysis session. The second aim was to investigate the influence of systolic blood...
Puchner, Rudolf Schaffer, Gertraud Sautner, Judith Alkin, Alois Machold, Klaus Stamm, Tanja
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To explore the medical care of individuals in rural areas during a public health awareness project on musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). A tour bus was adapted to accommodate rheumatological consultations at widely accessible sites in 16 towns, providing individual medical advice with respect to MSD. The participating rheumatologists assessed the nat...
Zajic, Paul Heschl, Stefan Schörghuber, Michael Srekl-Filzmaier, Petra Stojakovic, Tatjana Weixler, Viktoria Zelzer, Sieglinde Amrein, Karin
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There is controversy about the impact of acute illness on vitamin D levels. This study was carried out to assess the influence of perioperative fluid loading on 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH)D] levels. The study evaluated the clinical utility of a commonly available chemiluminescence assay (ECLIA, IDS-iSYS) and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry...
Hamböck, Martina Staudenherz, Anton Kainz, Alexander Geist, Barbara Hecking, Manfred Doberer, Konstantin Hacker, Marcus Böhmig, Georg A
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Donor kidney function is considered a critical determinant of allograft survival after live donor (LD) kidney transplantation, but its independent impact on the evolution of graft function is less well defined. The objective of this study was to dissect the relative contribution of LD kidney function to baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate...
Lawitschka, Anita Brunmair, Matthias Bauer, Dorothea Zubarovskaya, Natalia Felder-Puig, Rosemarie Strahm, Brigitte Bader, Peter Strauss, Gabriele Albert, Michael von Luettichau, Irene
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The psychometric properties of an instrument, the Activity Scale for Kids-performance (ASKp), were assessed which was proposed to capture physical functioning after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Additionally, this multicenter observational prospective study investigated the influence of clinical correlates focusing on c...
Krečak, Ivan Peran, Nena Lapić, Ivana Gverić-Krečak, Velka Krečak, Filip Rončević, Pavle Duraković, Nadira
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Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), and myelofibrosis (MF), are rare clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorders accompanied by a strong inflammatory milieu, which is directly responsible for constitutional symptoms associated with the disease, such as fever, weight loss or...
Seeber, Andreas Weiss, Lukas Romeder, Franz Szkandera, Joanna Kuehr, Thomas Kostner, Susanne Pichler, Petra Jaeger, Thomas Kocher, Florian Greil, Richard
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Olaratumab is a humanized monoclonal antiplatelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha antibody that has been approved in combination with doxorubicin for the treatment of patients with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS). The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess the clinical efficacy in STS patients treated with olaratumab in a real-...
Nitsche, Christian Mascherbauer, Julia
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