Publications by authors named "R Boguslawska-Walecka"
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- * Researchers included 103 SLE patients and 95 control subjects, measuring IMT and screening for plaques in multiple arteries while correlating findings with various factors like age, gender, and SLE duration.
- * Results indicate strong associations between atherosclerosis and traditional cardiovascular risk factors, suggesting that continuous immunosuppressive treatment may improve IMT and reduce atherosclerosis risk in SLE patients.
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- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, with a meta-analysis indicating higher intima media thickness (IMT) in RA patients, hinting at atherosclerosis progression.
- The study analyzed 317 RA patients and 111 controls to determine how various RA treatments affect IMT and atherosclerotic plaques.
- Results showed that higher doses of methotrexate (≥ 20 mg/wk), cyclosporine, or biologics lead to lower IMT and plaques compared to lower doses of MTX or other drugs, with no significant differences between the treatments.
Objective: The investigation is aimed at the development of a semiautomatic method of examining the femoral and iliac arteries, and quantifying atherosclerotic plaques visible in the multislice computed tomography images.
Methods: We have utilized the advanced morphology and segmentation methods for processing of a series of the images. In particular, a novel sorted pixel intensity approach to segment the artery into the lumen/plaque regions has been used, and effectively combined with the Gaussian mixture modeling to increase the accuracy of the segmentation.
Background And Purpose: Growing number of vertebral artery dissection has been detected due to higher awareness and improved imaging techniques, even after seemingly minor head turning in young- or middle-aged adults without predisposing risk factors for cerebrovascular disease. Treatment options for this condition at this time are limited and there is a troubling shortage of controlled studies.
Summary Of Case: Our patient suffered a bilateral vertebral artery dissection complicated by posterior circulation stroke.
The femoral head receives blood supply mainly from the deep branch of the medial femoral circumflex artery (MFCA). In previous studies we have performed anatomical dissections of 16 specimens and subsequently visualised the arteries supplying the femoral head in 55 healthy individuals. In this further radiological study we compared the arterial supply of the femoral head in 35 patients (34 men and one woman, mean age 37.
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