Determinants of Psychosocial Resilience Resources in Obese Pregnant Women with Threatened Preterm Labor-A Cross-Sectional Study.

: The purpose of the study was to assess the level of such psychosocial resilience resources as self-efficacy, dispositional optimism, and health locus of control in pregnant women with obesity with threatened premature labor. The study was performed in the years 2017-2020 in a group of 328 pregnant women hospitalized due to threatened preterm labor and diagnosed with obesity before the pregnancy. The following instruments were applied: the Life Orientation Test, the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale.

The N34S mutation of the SPINK1 gene and alcoholic chronic pancreatitis.

Introduction:  Recent studies have shown the key role of genetic factors in the development of chronic pancreatitis.

Objectives:  The aim of the study was to establish whether the frequency of the N34S mutation of serine protease inhibitor Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) gene differs between patients with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis, patients with nonalcoholic chronic pancreatitis, alcoholics without any digestive organ damage, and controls. We also sought to investigate whether the frequency of this mutation differs between women and men, and whether the mutation is associated with the age of patients at first diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis.

[Molecular and cytogenetic prognostic factors in acute myeloid leukemia (AML)].

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) constitutes a group of diseases that are very heterogeneous with regard to clinical course, response to therapy as well as cytogenetic aberrations and gene mutations. Such lesions are of prognostic value. Patients with t(8;21), inv(16)/t(16;16) or t(15;17) have a favorable prognosis.

Usefulness of 1H MR spectroscopy in the evaluation of myocardial metabolism in patients with dilated idiopathic cardiomyopathy: pilot study.

Rationale And Objectives: Primary dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease of unknown etiology, and it leads to severe heart failure. Abnormalities of the cardiac metabolism can play an important role in prognosis and influence the symptomatology in this group. The aim of this study was to assess cardiac metabolism using proton spectroscopy magnetic resonance (1H MRS) and to examine whether there is any correlation between cardiac metabolites and functional New York Heart Association (NYHA) class and left ventricular function parameters obtained in echocardiography.

[Use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy in cardiology. State of the art].

Magnetic resonance imaging of tissues and organs, specifically the use of magnetic resonance specroscopy (MRS) for examination of metabolism in vivo, is a relatively new modality with a very dynamic development and a promising future. In the past few years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used more widely in cardiology. A certain stereotype has been broken that this modality is dedicated strictly for neuroradiology.