Publications by authors named "B Orawiec"

We present a case of a 4-year-old girl with ocular venous malformation in her left eye. Over a one-year follow up, the symptoms progressed and sclerotherapy with bleomycin was performed. The bleomycin solution was injected directly into the abnormal vessel under visual control, which lead to a complete obliteration of malformation in a long-term follow-up.

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The current paper presents a case of 14 months old girl with WAGR's syndrome. This syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by the deletion at 11p13 locus which gives clinical presentation of aniridia, Wilms' tumor, genitourinary anomalies and mental retardation. Although WAGR's syndrome is a rare disorder, knowledge of its presentation is helpful in early diagnosis of nephroblastoma and may have impact on clinical outcome of the patient.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to present the clinical and histopathological characteristics of choristoma tumors of the eye in children and to estimate the surgical treatment.

Material And Methods: The study comprised 23 children with choristoma of visual organ including 10 girls (43.5%) and 13 boys (56.

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Purpose: of the study was to evaluate blood flow in the arteries of the eye in preterm neonates.

Material And Methods: Color Doppler imaging (CDI) of ophthalmic artery, central retinal artery and posterior ciliary arteries was performed in 36 preterm infants and 19 full-term infants. Maximal systolic velocity, end-diastolic velocity, resistance index--RI and pulsatility index--PI were assessed for the studied vessels.

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The aim of the study was to determine the prognostic value of some pathologies related to prematurity in the development of stage 3 ROP in children with extremely low birth-weight. The group of 35 prematures with diagnosed 3rd stage ROP and 64 prematures without ROP was examined. The presence of the respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), persistent ductus arteriosus (PDA), necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and intraventricular haemorrhages (IVH) were analyzed.

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