Publications by authors named "A Pajak"
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Summary Of Background Data: The optimal surgical approach for multilevel cervical stenosis in elderly patients is controversial because of the risk of life-threatening complication.
Objective: To compare life-threatening early complication rates between ≥3 levels anterior and posterior cervical surgery in elderly patients.
Background: Although a few recent studies showed good outcomes in back pain-predominant patients following decompression alone, none of the studies had a comparative fusion group.
Purpose: We sought to compare outcomes of minimally invasive decompression alone versus fusion in patients with predominant back pain.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent minimally invasive decompression alone or fusion and had preoperative back pain > leg pain.
Background: This study investigates the association between frailty and mortality in Eastern European populations, which remains largely unexplored compared with Western Europe. The aim is to assess the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality associated with varying levels of frailty.
Methods: A prospective multicentre cohort study was conducted, involving random population samples from the Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania.
Unlabelled: We present the case of a 63-year-old female diagnosed with atypical SSc in the setting of acute SRC. She was undergoing work-up for progressive dyspnoea in the outpatient setting when she was found to have newly diagnosed restrictive lung pathology and worsening renal function, thus prompting acute hospital admission. Given multisystem involvement of the pulmonary and renal systems, the differential diagnosis included autoimmune and connective tissue disorders.
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