Publications by authors named "A Kanka"

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  • - The research investigates the relationship between estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR), measured with the Schwartz equation, and renal scintigraphy in children with congenital kidney and urinary tract abnormalities (CAKUT), aiming to improve understanding of kidney function in this population.
  • - A study of 94 pediatric CAKUT patients revealed significant differences in eGFR between the right and left kidneys, particularly in relation to body surface area, indicating a potential bias in standard measurements.
  • - The findings suggest that current bedside eGFR methods may not be fully reliable for children with CAKUT, highlighting the need for more accurate diagnostic tools tailored for pediatric patients.
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Background: A link between mental health and freedom of choice has long been established, in fact, the loss of freedom of choice is one of the possible defining features of mental disorders. Freedom of choice has internal and external aspects explicitly identified within the capability approach, but received little explicit attention in capability instruments. This study aimed to develop a feasible and linguistically and culturally appropriate Hungarian version of the Oxford CAPabilities questionnaire-Mental Health (OxCAP-MH) for mental health outcome measurement.

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Introduction: The regulatory role of apolipoprotein E in lipid transport and metabolism was utilized to investigate the allelic association between the apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) allele and vascular dementia (VD) in a selected sample of Hungarian patients with multiple deep subcortical infarcts and leukoaraiosis.

Material And Methods: Thirty-four Caucasian VD cases and 79 healthy control probands were involved in this study according to the criteria of ICD-10 and NINDS-AIREN International Workshop Diagnostic Criteria. The genomic DNA was isolated from whole blood and the apoE alleles were determined by polymerase chain reaction.

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Introduction: The presence of the apolipoprotein E4 allele (apoE4) has been recognized as a risk factor for the development of presenile and senile forms of Alzheimer's dementia (AD).

Material And Methods: The apoE alleles frequency of 71 normal controls (NC), 60 demented controls (DC) and 50 senile type AD subjects was determined by polymerase chain reaction in order to get data about the apoE polymorphism of the Hungarian AD population.

Results: The apoE3/3 genotype was the most common in all groups.

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