Publications by authors named "Ivo Sotornik"
Osteoporosis is considered as a lifestyle disease with high prevalence in the developed countries. Its appearance with number of related fractures has increasing tendency. In the Czech Republic approximately 7 % of the population is affected, which is 700,000 people, 50,000 osteoporosis fractures a year are documented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Moderate to medium decrease in glomerular filtration (GFR) in individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) does not need to be associated with hyperphosphatemia due to an adaptive decrease in tubular reabsorption of phosphates (TRPi) in residual nephrons. The clinical assessment of this function is performed based on the measurement of fractional phosphate excretion (FEPi), which is a quantity specifying the proportion of the filtered amount of phosphates which is excreted in the urine. This quantity may provide useful information about the involvement of kidneys in phosphate homeostasis of the internal environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Coronary calcium score (CCS) is established as an index for the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The aim of this prospective study was to assess changes in CCS in patients 1 year after kidney transplantation (KTx).
Method: A total of 221 consecutive renal transplant recipients were enrolled in our prospective study (140 males/81 females).
Background: Post-transplant osteopathy is a known complication of kidney transplantation (KTx). The aim of this study was to assess bone mineral density (BMD) in a large cohort of patients with treatment depending on pre-transplant parathormone (PTH) and baseline BMD.
Patients And Methods: 347 consecutive KTx recipients (222 M, 125 F) finished all follow-up measurements of BMD at lumbar spine, femur and radius using DEXA Lunar (at baseline and at 6 and 18 months).