Utilization of Ultrashort Bicon Implants in Clinical Situations: A Retrospective Case Series.

When vertical bone loss results in insufficient crestal height to place standard-length implants without the use of osseous grafting, this poses clinical issues to implant usage. Based on an analysis of the literature and clinical experience, it has been found that it is possible to optimally use the available bone volume of the maxillary and mandibular ridges for implant placement without extensive osseous grafting to increase vertical height. This case report will examine several uses of ultrashort implants utilizing the Bicon system in common clinical situations in the maxillary and mandibular arches without the need for osseous reconstruction to improve the available vertical height of the crest to permit implant placement.

The bone microstructure from anterior cruciate ligament footprints is similar after ligament reconstruction and does not affect long-term outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of the bone tissue microstructure from the footprints of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and its impact on late follow-up outcomes in patients who undergo anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR).

Methods: The records of 26 patients diagnosed with a completely torn ACL who underwent ACLR were collected. During the surgery performed using the Felmet method, bone blocks from the native ACL footprints were collected.

The Effect of Immunosuppression on Selected Antioxidant Parameters in Patients with Graves' Disease with Active Thyroid-Associated Orbitopathy.

Background And Study Aims: Thyroid-associated orbitopathy, the most common extrathyroidal manifestation of Graves' disease, is an autoimmune inflammation of orbital soft tissue. We report the study assessing the effect of immunosuppressive treatment with methylprednisolone on selected antioxidant parameters in patients with Graves' disease with active thyroid-associated orbitopathy.

Patients And Methods: Activity and serum levels of selected antioxidant parameters as well as lipid peroxidation products were determined in a group of 56 patients with active thyroid-associated orbitopathy at three time-points: at baseline, after the discontinuation of intravenous methylprednisolone treatment and at 3 months after the discontinuation of additional oral methylprednisolone treatment.

Chemokine receptors on peripheral blood T lymphocytes in children on peritoneal dialysis.

Background: Immune cell dysfunction is listed among complications resulting from chronic kidney disease (CKD). It could be associated with T-cells, which play a role in the lymphocytic migration and infiltration. However, the data on chemokine receptors expression on T-cells in patients with CKD particularly treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD) are still limited.

Evaluation of retinal function improvement in neovascular age-related macular degeneration after intravitreal aflibercept injections with the use of the assessment of retinal sensitivity: The use of the assessment of retinal sensitivity in anti-VEGF treatment - a STROBE-compliant observational study.

This study compares 2 methods of macular function evaluation: the microperimetric examination (mean central retinal sensitivity and fixation stability) and the distance best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) examination, which is the most frequently used method of assessing macular function in patients with newly diagnosed wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who have been treated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drug (aflibercept).Prospective analysis was conducted on 44 eyes of 44 patients treated with intravitreal injection of anti-VEGF (aflibercept) because of newly diagnosed neovascular AMD. According to the research protocol, all patients had a 6-month follow-up.

Relationship between stroke severity, extensity of leukoaraiosis, and brain atrophy in patients with ischaemic stroke.

Purpose: Leukoaraiosis (LA), according to the latest classification, is white matter hyperintensity - morphological findings of small blood vessel disease of the brain. This radiological detection of small vessels disease is important because there are no technical possibilities to assess small vessels of the brain using computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) angiography. Our aim was to analysis the relationship between the extension of leukoaraiosis and severity of ischaemic stroke and brain atrophy.

The assessment of the kinematics of the rescuer in continuous chest compression during a 10-min simulation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Background: In pursuit of improvement in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), new technologies for the measurement and assessment of CPR quality are implemented. In our study, we assessed the kinematics of the rescuer during continuous chest compression (CCC-CPR). The proper performance of the procedure is a survival predictor for patients with cardiac arrest (CA).

Effect of dexmedetomidine or propofol sedation on haemodynamic stability of patients after thoracic surgery.

Background: Dexmedetomidine and propofol are commonly used sedative agents in non-invasive ventilation as they allow for easy arousal and are relatively well controllable. Moreover dexmedetomidine is associated with low risk of respiratory depression. However, both agents are associated with significant hemodynamic side effects.

Ropivacaine has no advantage over bupivacaine in thoracic epidural analgesia for patients with pectus excavatum undergoing the Nuss procedure - a single blind randomized clinical trial comparing efficacy and safety.

Introduction: Pectus excavatum repair (Nuss procedure) is a painful procedure requiring effective postoperative analgesia.

Aim: To establish whether thoracic epidural analgesia with ropivacaine is non-inferior to epidural analgesia with bupivacaine following the Nuss procedure in children.

Material And Methods: The prospective, randomized, controlled, single blind study included 81 children.

A comparison of selective and conventional spinal anaesthesia for ambulatory surgery.

Background: Selective spinal anaesthesia is the practice of employing minimal doses of intrathecal agents so that only the nerve roots supplying a specific area and only the modalities that require to be anaesthetised are affected. The study is based on the hypothesis that small dose lidocaine spinal anaesthesia may be adequate for elective surgical procedures, providing limited motor and sensory block, and thus enabling earlier patient's discharge. The aim of this study was the comparison of the low and the conventional dose of lidocaine spinal anaesthesia discharge time.

What you cannot get from routine MRI of MS patient and why - The growing need for atrophy assessment and seeing beyond the plaque.

Multiple sclerosis is a disease that still has not been fully understood and calls for better diagnostic procedures for the improvement of everyday patient care and drug development. Routine magnetic resonance examinations reveal demyelinating focal lesions, but they do not correlate sufficiently with the patients' disability and cognitive impairment. For more than 100 years it has been known that demyelination affects not only white but also grey matter of the brain.

Expression of chemokine receptors on peripheral blood T cells in children with chronic kidney disease.

Chemokine receptors play a role in leukocyte recruitment, activation, and maintaining effector functions and regulate adaptive immune response and angiogenesis. The study aimed at flow cytometric analysis of T cell subsets with selected surface chemokine receptors (CCR4, CCR5, CCR7, CXCR3, and CXCR4) or receptor combination in peripheral blood of children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on hemodialysis (HD). The percentage of T lymphocytes with CD8 and combined CD28,CCR7 expression was higher in HD children.

Common ophthalmic problems of urban and rural postmenopausal women in a population sample of Raciborz district, a RAC-OST-POL Study.

Introduction And Objective: We wished to establish the prevalence of eye diseases and eye disease risk factors at postmenopausal age and to compare ophthalmic problems in urban and rural areas of Raciborz.

Patients And Methods: The study was performed in 2010. Out of the whole population of Raciborz, Poland, 10 percent (1750) of women were randomly selected for the reported study.

Ipsilateral shoulder pain after thoracic surgery procedures under general and regional anesthesia - a retrospective observational study.

Background: Ipsilateral shoulder pain (ISP) is a common complication of mixed etiology after thoracic surgery (its prevalence is estimated in the literature at between 42% and 97%). It is severe and resistant to treatment (patients complain of pain despite effective epidural analgesia at the surgical site).

Aim Of The Study: The aim of this retrospective, observational study was to evaluate the prevalence of ISP in patients operated on in our facility and to determine the risk factors for ISP development.

Objective assessment of pain-related stress in mechanically ventilated newborns based on skin conductance fluctuations.

Background: In the process of intensive care, neonates are exposed to stress and pain related to the repeated therapeutic- diagnostic procedures. The aim of this study was the objective assessment of stress intensity pain while performing selected procedures in neonates in the intensive care unit.

Methods: 32 neonates, with a mean body mass of 2,495 g, intubated and mechanically ventilated, and who underwent sedation and analgesia were qualified to the study.

Results of cataract surgery in the very elderly population.

Aim: The aim of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the effectiveness and safety of cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation (IOL) for patients aged 90 years or older, whom we define as "very elderly."

Methods: The study involved a total number of 122 patients (122 eyes) with senile cataracts. The mean age of patients was 91.

Usefulness of ultrasound guidance for central venous catheterisation in patients with end-stage renal disease.

Background: Renal replacement therapy often requires the insertion of a central venous catheter. The procedure is invasive and can lead to a number of complications. To minimise the risk of such complications, ultrasonography is used.

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy as a method of nutrition support in children with chronic kidney disease.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) exerts a significant impact on children's growth and development. In infants and children with CKD, feeding-related problems are not infrequent, leading to protein-energy malnutrition and resulting in retarded physical development. Because spontaneous energy intake is usually inadequate in children with CKD, special dietary counseling with supportive procedures are often required.

Clinical features of asthma in children differ with regard to the intensity of distal gastroesophageal acid reflux.

Background: The prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in children with asthma is higher than in healthy controls, but the nature and direction of this association is unclear.

Objective: The aim of our study was to assess the relationship between esophageal acid exposure and the clinical features of asthma in children.

Methods: In total, 66 children (mean age 122.

Bone metabolism and the muscle-bone relationship in children, adolescents and young adults with phenylketonuria.

The aim of the study was to assess body composition in subjects with phenylketonuria (PKU). Forty-five patients aged 13.8 ± 5.

Evaluation of postural balance control in patients with multiple sclerosis - effect of different sensory conditions and arithmetic task execution. A pilot study.

Background And Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of concomitant cognitive task execution and different sensory conditions on balance control in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Material And Methods: Thirty-two subjects with MS and 30 healthy age- and sex-matched control subjects were included in the study. Balance Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment was performed in all subjects.

Interleukin-1beta plays a role in the activation of peripheral leukocytes after blood-brain barrier rupture in the course of subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) develops when extravasated arterial blood enters subarachnoid space and mixes with cerebrospinal fluid. As a result, many pathologies develop, including increase in brain-blood barrier (BBB) permeability and activation of peripheral leukocytes, that in turn augments immuno-inflammatory response, considered as the cause of numerous complications following SAH. In the study, we examined the role of one of major cytokines, interleukin 1-beta (IL-1beta), in the BBB rupture and subsequent migration of leukocytes into central nervous system (CNS) after experimental SAH in adult rats.

[Application of long term subcutaneously implanted access into the central veins system of "PORT" type in the Clinic of Pediatry, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in Zabrze--15 year own observations].

Introduction: Long term disease treatment in children is a very special medical problem due to a necessity of maintaining an efficient venous access for many months and even years. Vascular ports applied in those children improved the conditions of treatment and a quality of life, additionally, made the job of personnel taking care of them easier.

Material And Methods: The study presents own experience in long-term venous access into the central veins system, so called vascular ports, gathered for 15 years of using them in children with hemato-oncogical diseases.