Predictive factors for early mortality after percutaneous endoscopic and radiologically-inserted gastrostomy.

Background: Gastrostomy insertion is of benefit to selected patients, but 30-day mortality is as high as 54% in some patient groups. The current study examines risk factors associated with 30-day mortality in a cohort of patients who underwent percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) or radiologically-inserted gastrostomy (RIG) in a district general hospital over a 2.5 year period.

[Treatment results in children with the standard risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with high dose of methotrexate (5.0 g/m2). 11 years of the Polish Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group experience].

Since 01.07.1993 to 30.

[Treatment results in children with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Report of the Polish Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group].

Since 01.07.1993 to 30.

[Level of copper and zinc in plasma of patients with lung cancer].

Microelements metabolic disorders, including copper and zinc, constitute an important field of cancer studies. Efforts are undertaken to identify cancer markers. Found changes in plasma copper and zinc levels in patients with lung carcinoma may have clinical implications, and help in the diagnosis despite the fact that there are no reports in the literature confirming specificity of these two elements for lung carcinoma.