Publications by authors named "Jakub Piotrkowski"
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- * A multicenter study of 228 adult COVID-19 patients showed that LUS effectively identified signs of interstitial pneumonia, with significant variations between hospitalized and ambulatory patients in the frequency of findings.
- * LUS demonstrated high sensitivity (97%) and specificity (100%) for detecting interstitial pneumonia compared to high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), indicating its potential as an effective diagnostic tool for pneumonia in COVID-19 patients.
Article Synopsis
- The 2020 update to the lung ultrasound recommendations for internal medicine (POLLUS-IM) is based on a comprehensive review of new literature since 2018, incorporating 528 publications, including 253 new studies.
- The recommendations were developed through a rigorous process that involved assessing data quality and expert evaluations using the modified Delphi method.
- Key areas addressed in the updated recommendations include pneumonia, heart failure, hydration status monitoring in dialysis patients, pleural effusion assessment, pulmonary embolism, and diaphragm function testing—all aimed at assisting clinicians in their daily practice.
Use of bedside ultrasound to assess fluid status: a literature review.
Pol Arch Intern Med
October 2019
The assessment of a patient's body fluid status is a challenging task for modern clinicians. Ultrasonography has numerous advantages, the most important being reproducibility and bedside monitoring of the patient. The examination is quick and has a significant diagnostic value.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to establish recommendations for the use of lung ultrasound in internal medicine, based on reliable data and expert opinions. Methods: The bibliography from the databases (Pubmed, Medline, OVID, Embase) has been fully reviewed up to August 2017. Members of the expert group assessed the credibility of the literature data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The introduction of the classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) by NKF KDOQI guidelines in 2002, including the staging and risk assessment of this disease, was a landmark event. The division of CKD into stages 1-5 turned out to be very useful and sensitive tool in the hands of both scientists and clinical practitioners; it established common nomenclature pertaining to CKD all over the world. This stratification profoundly changed the approach to CKD, transforming it from a somewhat neglected clinical problem to the phenomenon named "the epidemic of CKD".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women in Poland. According to the Center of Oncology (The National Cancer Registry) in 2010 in our country 15,784 new cases have been noted. Since 1970s worldwide growth of new cases of breast cancer have been reported.
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