Pain in Multiple System Atrophy a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Individuals with multiple system atrophy (MSA) often complain about pain, nonetheless this remains a poorly investigated non-motor feature of MSA.

Objectives: Here, we aimed at assessing the prevalence, characteristics, and risk factors for pain in individuals with MSA.

Methods: Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes (PRISMA) guidelines, we systematically screened the PubMED, Cochrane, and Web of Science databases for papers published in English until September 30, 2022, combining the following keywords: "pain," "multiple system atrophy," "MSA," "olivopontocerebellar atrophy," "OPCA," "striatonigral degeneration," "SND," "Shy Drager," and "atypical parkinsonism.

Cardiac catherization in Austria : Results from the Austrian National Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Registry (ANCALAR) 2012-2018.

Background: Cardiac catheterization is one of the most widely performed cardiac interventional procedures worldwide. The Austrian National Catheterization Laboratory Registry (ANCALAR), started in 1992, collects annual data on cardiac catheterization in Austria. The registry enables in-depth understanding of the dynamics of cardiac catheterization procedures and their use across 34 cardiac catheterization laboratories in Austria.

Austrian National CathLab Registry (ANCALAR): cardiac catheterization, coronary angiography (CA), and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in Austria during the year 2011 (Registry Data with Audit including 2012).

Concerning international comparison for the year 2011, Austria is situated under the top nations with 6,383 diagnostic coronary angiographies (CA), 2,407 percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), and 47 transarterial aortic valve implantations (TAVI) per 1 million inhabitants in Europe. Although the number of TAVI increases rapidly since its first introduction in 2007 (47 TAVI per 1 million inhabitants in 2011, not including surgical cases from the transapical route), the data for CA and PCI remained constant during the past years.The rates of stent (91%) and drug-eluting stent implantations (78% of stents) also remained constant on a high level.

[Heart rate and functional impairment are predictors of outcome in heart failure patients in the real world. Data from the Austrian Heart Failure registry].

Purpose: Elevated heart rate (70 beats per minute-bpm or more) is a predictor of impaired prognosis in patients with ischemic heart failure. The Austrian Working Group on Heart Failure has established a registry in May 2006 for all patients referred to dedicated heart failure clinics with a planned follow-up after 12 ± 3 months. Here we report an analysis of the prognostic impact of elevated heart rate at referral in a well-defined cohort of heart failure patients.

Antibody dynamics and spontaneous viral clearance in patients with acute hepatitis C infection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Background: The anti-HCV antibody response has not been well characterized during the early phase of HCV infection and little is known about its relationship to the clinical course during this period.

Methods: We analyzed serial anti-HCV antibodies longitudinally obtained from a prospective cohort of 65 patients with acute HCV infection by using a microparticle enzyme immunoassay AxSYM HCV 3.0 (Abbott Diagnostics) during the first 12 months from HCV acquisition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Use of penalized splines in extended Cox-type additive hazard regression to flexibly estimate the effect of time-varying serum uric acid on risk of cancer incidence: a prospective, population-based study in 78,850 men.

Purpose: We sought to investigate the effect of serum uric acid (SUA) levels on risk of cancer incidence in men and to flexibly determine the shape of this association by using a novel analytical approach.

Methods: A population-based cohort of 78,850 Austrian men who received 264,347 serial SUA measurements was prospectively followed-up for a median of 12.4 years.