Publications by authors named "Erzsebet Lakatos"
Background: Pathological concentrations of plasma proteins may confound the results of binding assays. We compared two routinely used total 25-hydroxyvitamin D [t-25(OH)D] methods: a chemiluminescence-immuno-(CLIA) and an electro-chemiluminescence-protein-binding-(ECLPBA) assay.
Methods: Two sub-studies were performed: 1) In an "in vitro" study, exogenous albumin was added to pools of patients' sera with low albumin levels; and 2) In "ex vivo" studies of Cohort_1: sera of hospitalized patients with low albumin levels, and of healthy controls; and of Cohort_2: outpatients with chronic kidney disease in pre-dialysis stage, or on peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis were investigated by the routine and LC_MS/MS methods.
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- Heart failure poses significant health risks and costs due to frequent hospitalizations, necessitating high-quality care and disease-specific registries for better management and evaluation.
- The Hungarian Society of Cardiology has initiated the Hungarian Heart Failure Registry to collect comprehensive data on heart failure patients, aiming for a web-based database involving 2,000 patients from 17 cardiology departments.
- Preliminary results from 698 enrolled patients show a predominance of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (87.8%), predominantly of ischemic origin, with common co-morbidities including hypertension and diabetes, and treatment largely involving ACE inhibitors or ARBs.
The authors introduce their patient suffering from Lyme carditis. This causes III. degree AV block, then spontaneous remission, and complete recovery.
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