Flash Glucose Monitoring in Israel: Understanding Real-World Associations between Self-Monitoring Frequency and Metrics of Glycemic Control.

Objective: Flash glucose monitoring has been widely used in Israel for diabetes treatment and since 2018, the cost is reimbursed for all people with type 1 diabetes nationally. In the current study, we present the daily scanning behavior for FreeStyle Libre users in Israel and how this was associated with a range of metrics for glycemic assessment.

Methods: Deidentified data from FreeStyle Libre readers were collected between September 2014 and October 2020.

Microrheological disorders in patients with polycythemia vera suffered acute ischemic stroke.

The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the combination of cerebrovascular disorders and myeloproliferative diseases requires the search for a predictive biomarker to improve outcomes. The aim of this article was to explore the meanings of microrheological disorders in patients with polycythemia vera (PV) who suffered an acute ischemic stroke (AIS). The study was carried out at the Research center of Neurology.

Hypoglycaemia and its management in primary care setting.

Hypoglycaemia is common in patients with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes and constitutes a major limiting factor in achieving glycaemic control among people with diabetes. While hypoglycaemia is defined as a blood glucose level under 70 mg/dL (3.9 mmol/L), symptoms may occur at higher blood glucose levels in individuals with poor glycaemic control.

Digital Diabetes Care System Observations from a Pilot Evaluation Study in Vietnam.

Digital technologies are gaining an important role in the management of patients with diabetes. We assessed clinical outcomes and user satisfaction of incorporating a digital diabetes care system in diabetes clinics of a developing country. The system integrated a wireless blood glucose monitor that communicates data to any smartphone utilizing a patented acoustic data transfer method, a mobile-app, and cloud-based software that stores, analyzes, and presents data.

Effect of Flash Glucose Monitoring Technology on Glycemic Control and Treatment Satisfaction in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.

Objective: To assess treatment satisfaction and the effectiveness of a flash glucose monitoring (FGM) system in patients with type 2 diabetes using insulin.

Research Design And Methods: A total of 101 patients with type 2 diabetes on multiple daily insulin injections (MDI) for at least 1 year were assigned randomly to the FGM intervention ( = 53) or the standard care (control) group ( = 48) and followed for 10 weeks. Both groups were instructed to adjust their insulin doses in face-to-face and telephone visits.

PO-59 - Hemorheologic disturbances as thrombosis risk factor in patients with some myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Introduction: In today's antithrombotic prevention we forget that hemorheologic abnormalities are part of Virchow's triad. Isn't this one of reasons that venous thromboembolism (VTE) including catheter-related thrombosis (CRT) retain high frequency despite of modern antithrombotic therapy?

Aim: The aim was to investigate rheological behavior of blood in patients with some myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Materials And Methods: The study included 16 adults with Polycythemia Vera (PV), 42 young with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and 67 healthy donors as control group.

PO-56 - Subsequent clot properties depend on the storage time of platelet concentrates.

Introduction: Despite platelets properties varies during storage, transfused platelets are included in blood clot in the same way as well as native. We assume that after transfusion the prevalence of platelets with changed activity lead to worse quality of blood clot in vivo.

Aim: The aim was the in vitro study of platelet-dependent clot properties that are formed from some stored platelet concentrates (PCs).

[GENDER DIFFERENCES OF THE HEMOSTASIS POSTAGRESSIVE EARLY RESPONSE IN ACUTE NECROTIZING PANCREATITIS].

The study was performed in a group of 25 patients with acute necrotizing pancreatitis (mean age 46.2 ± 6.74 years).

Effects of oxidized fibrinogen on the functions of blood cells, blood clotting, and rheology.

Oxidatively-modified fibrinogen induces platelet aggregation and potentiates ADP-induced platelet aggregation and production of active oxygen forms in zymosan-stimulated leukocytes. Fibrinogen induces IL-8 production in primary culture of endothelial cells from human umbilical vein; the oxidized form of fibrinogen is more active, similarly as during induction of the expression cell adhesion molecules (P-selectin and ICAM-1). Oxidized fibrinogen (10 and 20% oxidation degree) impairs microrheological properties of the blood, sharply reduces erythrocyte deformability, modifies blood viscosity, and reduces suspension stability of the blood.

An assay for uracil in human DNA at baseline: effect of marginal vitamin B6 deficiency.

Improvements are made to our gas-chromatography-mass-spectrometry-based assay for quantifying low levels of DNA-uracil. Folate deficiency leads to increased deoxyuridine monophosphate/thymidylate (dUMP/dTMP) ratios and uracil misincorporation into DNA, which may increase cancer risk. Vitamin B6 (B6) deficiency might also result in increased DNA-uracil because B6 is a cofactor for serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which catalyzes the methylation of tetrahydrofolate (THF) to methylene-THF, the folate form that is required to convert dUMP to dTMP.

[Changes in hemostasis at aortic surgery under conditions of extracorporeal circulation].

This paper describes hemostatic changes in patients who had undergone aortic surgery under conditions of extracorporeal circulation. The changes in the hemostatic system are marked by the thrombophilic condition made up for activation ox blood fibrinolytic activity in the preoperative period. The basic amount of blood loss falls within the first 6 hours after operation.

Oxidatively modified fibrinogen modulates blood rheological parameters.

We studied the effect of UV-oxidized fibrinogen with oxidation degrees of 10 and 20% on rheological parameters of the blood. The effect of fibrinogen with 10% oxidation degree was moderate and variable, which attests to its partial compensation with the pool of natural antioxidants. The effect of fibrinogen with 20% oxidation degree was more pronounced.

Effect of oxidized fibrinogens on blood coagulation.

We studied the effect of UV-irradiated fibrinogen on blood coagulation. Fibrinogen with oxidation degree of 10% moderately activated the intrinsic pathway, but inhibited the extrinsic pathway of blood coagulation. Fibrinogen with oxidation degree of 20% inhibited both the extrinsic and intrinsic blood coagulation pathways.

[Hemorheological changes during mammary coronary bypass grafting].

Hemorheological studies were performed in 44 patients subjected to mammary coronary bypass surgery during induction of anesthesia, at initiation of cardiopulmonary bypass, at the end of operation, on the 1(st) and 2(nd) or 3(rd) postoperative day. Methods included determination of whole blood and plasma viscosity with estimation of suspension stability and calculation of Caisson viscosity and fluidity limit. Rigidometry was used for assessment times of linear (T(1)) and three dimensional (T(2)) aggregates formation, final aggregates dimensions, total hydrodynamic strength of aggregates (beta), index of strength of especially large aggregates.

[Hemorheological changes at reconstructive operations on the aorta].

Fifteen patients who had undergone aortic reconstructions were examined. Hemorheologic studies were performed at the following stagest initial anesthesia, the end of operation, the early postoperative period, and the 2nd-3rd days after operation. A study was made of blood viscosity at a shift rate 5-300 s(-1), of suspension stability, caisson viscosity (CV), and the yield stress (YS).

[Prophylaxis of thrombotic complications in microsurgical auto-transplantation of tissue complexes].

Problems of prophylaxis of intra- and postoperative thrombotic complications are discussed basing on the experience of treatment of more than 1500 patients who underwent microsurgical autotransplantation of tissues. Influence of non-fractionated heparin, acelysin and low-molecular heparin on hemostasis in combination with standard hemodilution after microsurgical autotransplantation was analyzed. Scheme of treatment before, during and after surgery are developed for prophylaxis of thrombotic complications.

Identification of 7(8) and 8(9) unsaturated adrenal steroid metabolites produced by patients with 7-dehydrosterol-delta7-reductase deficiency (Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome).

Patients with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome have impaired ability to synthesize cholesterol due to attenuated activity of 7-dehydrosterol-delta(7)-reductase which catalyses the final step in cholesterol synthesis. Accumulation of 7- and 8-dehydrocholesterol is a result of the disorder and potentially these sterols could be used as precursors of a novel class of delta(7) and delta(8) unsaturated adrenal steroids and their metabolites. In this study, we have analyzed urine from SLOS patients in the anticipation of characterizing such metabolites.

Furosemide and 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity, in man.

Mineralocorticoid receptors possess the same affinity for aldosterone and for cortisol and preferential binding of aldosterone is modulated by the 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11 beta-OHSD) enzyme, which converts cortisol to its inactive metabolite cortisone. Several endogenous or exogenous compounds able to inhibit the enzyme have been described and, as a consequence, produce the syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess (AME) characterized by hypertension, hypokalemia, volume repletion and suppression of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. High doses of furosemide, a diuretic that works in the luminal surface of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop, have been reported to inhibit 11 beta-OHSD activity to the same extent as licorice in vivo and in vitro, in rat.

[Changes in blood rheological properties and erythrocyte osmotic resistance in activation of free radical processes].

Relationship between serum oxidation of different degree and micro- and macrorheology of the blood and modification of this relationship in the presence of antioxidant alpha-tocopherol were studied. Lipid peroxidation affects blood rheology and erythrocyte osmotic resistance. Erythrocytes are the first to react to increased activity of free radical oxidation and to exhaust their compensatory potential.