Publications by authors named "Slawomir Pynka"
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the periodontal status in patients with type 2 diabetes based on glycated haemoglobin levels and other risk factors.
Material/methods: 75 patients with DM2 were grouped according to glycemic control: 40 subjects with HbA1c<7.0% and 35 subjects with HbA1c≥7.
Aim Of The Study: To assess resource utilization and costs of treatment with lanreotide AUTOGEL 120 mg (ATG120) administered as part of routine acromegaly care in Poland.
Material And Methods: A multicentre, non-interventional, observational study on resource utilization in Polish acromegalic patients treated with ATG120 at 4 weeks or extended (> 4 weeks) dosing interval. The study recruited adult acromegalic patients treated medically for ≥ 1 year including at least 3 injections of ATG120.
Background: The purpose of this study was a retrospective analysis of outcomes following laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) performed for benign adrenal tumours responsible for various endocrinological disorders. The patients were diagnosed with non-functioning (NFT) and functioning adrenal tumours (FT) including pheochromocytoma (PH), Conn's syndrome (CO) and Cushing's (CS) syndrome.
Material And Methods: A total of 165 LAs were carried out between August 1995 and September 2009 via either the transperitoneal (n = 38) or retroperitoneal (n = 127) approach.
Introduction: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) has become the standardized treatment of benign adrenal lesions over the last two decades, making the indications to open adrenalectomy (OA) limited. The purpose of this study was to show the thirty years of experience in open (OA) and laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) gained in one medical centre as well as to compare the results of OA and LA performed for benign adrenal lesions.
Material And Methods: Three hundred patients underwent 127 open and 173 laparoscopic adrenalectomies between 1979 and 2009 at M.
Objective: The risk of non-vertebral fractures is increased in men with type 1 diabetes (DM1) but studies have shown only moderately decreased or normal bone mineral density (BMD) in these patients. No previous studies have evaluated hip strength and geometry indices in DM1 patients. This study was therefore designed to characterize associations between BMD, dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)-based hip strength indices, metabolic control, and DM1chronic complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The aim of the study was to analyze the functional and structural changes in the echocardiographic parameters of the left ventricle (LV) in adult patients (pts) with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) without any treatment in childhood before and after one year long somatropin treatment.
Material And Methods: Twelve GHD pts (mean age 42 +/- 10 years; M/F: 6/6) before (group GHD-1) and after one year rhGH therapy (group GHD-2) were compared. The s.
Purpose: To evaluate the value of ophthalmological tests in detection of the optic neuropathy associated with pituitary tumours.
Material And Methods: 38 patients with pituitary tumours in 21-73 years old, were examined. Routine ophthalmological examination, kinetic and static perimetry (screening test, "white-on-white" and "blue-on-yellow") and PVEP were performed.
Unlabelled: The lipodystrophy syndrome with dyslipidaemia and insulin resistance is side-effect of combined antiretroviral therapy (CART).
Aim Of The Study: to describe the influence of CART on leptin and adiponectin concentration in connection with lipids levels in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy. BMI, serum leptin, adiponectin, triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL- and LDL-cholesterol concentrations were measured in 56 HIV(+) patients before and on CART; average of treatment duration 38.