Publications by authors named "Justyna Zamojska"
Article Synopsis
- Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a type of blood vessel inflammation that can severely affect the coronary arteries if untreated, with 15% to 25% of children likely developing coronary artery aneurysms.
- Patients with these aneurysms often show no symptoms for years, but can suddenly experience serious issues like cardiac arrest or heart problems.
- A case is reported of a 17-year-old boy who had a sudden cardiac arrest, later found to have a ruptured aneurysm in his coronary artery likely due to untreated KD from childhood, highlighting the need to consider KD complications in young patients experiencing such crises.*
The available literature is scarce on the initial symptoms of arterial hypertension in children. Our study aimed to analyze the initial clinical profile of patients referred to the hospital with suspected hypertension and those diagnosed with hypertension for the first time during a hospitalization for other reasons. This study was a retrospective analysis of medical records in 471 patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lipid disorders are one of the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the study was to estimate the lipid profile in early childhood in the population of Polish children born small for gestational age (SGA).
Materials And Methods: The study included 140 patients (93 SGA children and 47 controls) aged 5 to 11 years.
Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the exposure to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Intima-media complex thickness (IMT), selected metabolic parameters and health behaviors were assessed in the course of the study.
Methods: The study included study group, which consisted of 45 patients with JIA and 37 healthy age- and sex-matched children in the control group.
Background: Children diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) are thought to be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in adulthood. The factors modulating the cardiovascular risk, involving exposure to secondhand smoking, sedentary lifestyle and abnormal body mass index, might have had a stronger impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of reliable prognostic markers for a higher probability of cardiovascular events might be solved by carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) measurement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adipose tissue is not only a storage place for fat, but also an endocrine organ, secreting bioactive molecules which influence body metabolism. Such molecules are known as adipocytokines. In the past years the coincidence between adipocytokines and fetal growth restriction disorders was found.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of the study was to evaluate the health-promoting behavior of the preschool children (aged 3-6 y) of Polish health care professionals (HCPs).
Methods: The study was conducted by means of quantitative research on a group of 386 individuals, using an Internet-based survey.
Results: The ideal cardiovascular health model was determined in the case of 22 children (5.
Introduction: The prevalence of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is about 3-10% of live-born newborns and can be as high as 20% in developing countries. It may result in the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases later in life.
Methods: The aim of this study was echocardiographic evaluation, with the use of conventional and tissue Doppler parameters, of cardiac function in children born with IUGR, and comparison with healthy peers born as normally grown foetuses.
Background And Aim: To evaluate myocardial function with the use of tissue Doppler echocardiography in children with primary hypertension.
Methods: A total of 64 subjects (34 with hypertension, 30 control) underwent echocardiographic evaluation of systolic and diastolic function with the use of standard and tissue Doppler echocardiography parameters.
Results: The left ventricular myocardial performance index was higher in children with hypertension (0.
Introduction: Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) is present in about 3-10% of live-born newborns and it is as high as 20-30% in developing countries. Since the 1990s, it has been known that abnormalities during foetal growth may result in cardiovascular disease, including hypertension in adulthood.
Methods: This study evaluated blood pressure parameters (using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring) in children aged six to 10 years old, born as small for gestational age (SGA), and compared them to their healthy peers born as appropriate for gestational age (AGA).
Objective: To evaluate the prenatal characteristics and postnatal outcome of cardiac tumors diagnosed at two prenatal Polish cardiology centers.
Methods: Descriptive analysis of 23 fetuses with cardiac tumors (12 multiple and 11 single) diagnosed over 16 years (from 1993 to 2009). Congestive heart failure was diagnosed when the cardiovascular profile score was seven or less.