Publications by authors named "Branislav Kucinsky"
Article Synopsis
- The Ursodeoxycholic acid response score (URS) is a predictive model that estimates how well treatment with UDCA will work for patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) after a year.
- In a study involving 194 Slovak and Croatian patients, it was found that 79.38% of patients responded positively to the treatment.
- The URS demonstrated good predictive ability with an area under the curve of 0.81, indicating reliable accuracy in estimating treatment outcomes.
Objective: To identify pretreatment laboratory parameters associated with treatment response and to describe the relationship between treatment response and liver decompensation in patients with primary biliary cholangitis treated with ursodeoxycholic acid.
Methods: We defined treatment response as both ALP ≤ 1.67 × ULN and total bilirubin ≤ 2 × ULN.
Objective: To determine both the incidence and the prevalence of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) in Eastern Slovakia and to describe its clinical course and the response to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA).
Methods: We recorded data of patients with PBC, who were followed up in gastroenterology and hepatology centers in Eastern Slovakia during the period from June 30, 1999, through June 30, 2019.
Results: The annual incidence of PBC varied from 0.
Aim. To evaluate the compliance and virological response to pegylated interferon alpha 2a treatment of chronic hepatitis B in Roma population compared to majority Caucasian population in Slovakia. Methods.
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