Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with NMOSD: a longitudinal retrospective analysis of a Slovak cohort of 63 patients.

Background: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are autoantibody-mediated inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system predominantly targeting optic nerves and the spinal cord. Two distinct phenotypes are recognized based on the presence of serum aquaporin-4 (AQP4-IgG) antibodies. However, contrasting clinical course patterns have been identified between AQP4-IgG-positive and AQP4-IgG-negative patients.

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Clinical Patterns, Outcomes, and Prognostic Factors for Overall Survival-A Retrospective Analysis of a Slovak Cohort.

Objective: To compare NAFLD-related HCC and other etiology-related HCC and to describe predictive factors for survival in patients with NAFLD-related HCC independent of the BCLC staging system.

Methods: We performed a multicenter longitudinal retrospective observational study of patients diagnosed with HCC during the period from 2010 through 2016.

Results: 12.

Incidence and prevalence of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in Slovakia.

Objective: : Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs) are a group of rare, inflammatory, demyelinating diseases that affect the central nervous system. Neither the incidence nor the prevalence of NMOSD has been determined in Slovakia thus far. The aim of this study was to determine both the incidence and the prevalence of NMOSD in Slovakia using the 2015 International Panel of NMOSD diagnosis (IPND) criteria.

Clinical experience of conversion from cyclosporine to tacrolimus prolonged-release in stabilized kidney transplant patients.

Background And Aims: The CONCERTO study results showing the beneficial effects of conversion from cyclosporine to tacrolimus prolonged-release (tacrolimus PR) in stabilised patients after kidney transplantation, were first published in 2011. This communication describes our first experience of conversion from cyclosporine to tacrolimus PR in stabilised kidney transplant patients. The aim was to determine whether it could be used in routine clinical practice in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Liver transplantation in Central Europe.

Introduction: Transplant hepatologists convened in Warsaw on 20-21 November 2015 at a meeting of the Initiative Group for Central European Hepatologic Collaboration to exchange their experience in liver transplantation in their respective countries.

Material And Methods: The description is based on narration of individual country representatives, supplemented by data from additional queries, and from publicly accessible sources.

Results: Liver transplantation programs were launched, in the Czech Republic in 1983, in Poland in 1990 (paediatric) followed by the adult program 1994; the first liver transplant in Hungary was performed in 1995, with Slovakia launching its liver transplantation program in 2008.

Assessment of Visual Reliance in Balance Control: An Inexpensive Extension of the Static Posturography.

Ability of humans to maintain balance in an upright stance and during movement activities is one of the most natural skills affecting everyday life. This ability progressively deteriorates with increasing age, and balance impairment, often aggravated by age-related diseases, can result in falls that adversely impact the quality of life. Falls represent serious problems of health concern associated with aging.

The incidence of tumours in renal transplant recipients with long-term immunosuppressive therapy.

Introduction: The incidence of cancers after renal transplantation is significantly higher than in population that have not undergone transplantation. It is increased by a long-term survival of functional graft requiring long-term immunosuppressive therapy.

Material And Methods: Since 1972, 620 renal transplantations have been performed for different causes of end stage renal disease.

[Elastic band ligation in secondary prevention of esophageal varices hemorrhage].

Background: Sclerotization of esophageal varices may result in serious esophageal destruction. Elastic band ligation of esophageal varices is recently used in similar indications.

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate in a pilot study the efficacy and safety of elastic band ligation for secondary prevention of bleeding from esophageal varices in patients who experienced life-threatening and were not yet treated with elastic band ligation.