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Fagundes M, Rodrigues MA, Olszewski S, Khan F, McKenzie C, Gutierrez A, Chuong M, Mehta M. Expanding the Utilization of Rectal Spacer Hydrogel for Larger Prostate Glands (>80 cc): Feasibility and Dosimetric Outcomes. Adv Radiat Oncol 2021; 6:100651. [PMID: 34195489 PMCID: PMC8233470 DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2021.100651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Purpose The Hydrogel Spacer Prospective Randomized Pivotal Trial achieved mean rectoprostatic spacing of 12.6 mm resulting in lowering of rectal V70 from 12.4% (without spacer) to 3.3% (with spacer) in patients with glands up to 80 cm3. The value of this approach in patients with larger glands is inadequately established. This study assesses the feasibility and dosimetric outcomes of perirectal spacing in patients with prostate cancer with larger glands (>80 cm3). Methods and Materials Between January 2017 and December 2019, 33 patients with prostate glands >80 cm3 (mean 108.1 cm3; range, 81.1-186.6 cm3) were treated, 15 with glands >80 to 100 cm3 and 18 >100 cm3. Median follow-up was 10 months (range, 3-26). The median international prostate symptom score was 9 (range, 1-18). Hydrogel was placed under local anesthesia in all cases. Treatment modality included intensity modulated radiation therapy in 15 and proton therapy (PT) in 18 patients. Treatment targeted the prostate plus seminal vesicles in 21 patients and 12 also had elective nodal irradiation. Conventional fractionation (CF) to 78 Gy in 39 fractions was used in 16 and moderate hypofractionation (HF) to 70 Gy in 28 fractions in 17 patients. Results In the CF group, mean rectum (r) V75, 70, 60, 50 was 0.87%, 2.25%, 5.61%, and 10.5%, respectively. For glands >80 to 100 cm3 and >100 cm3, rV70 was 2.55% and 2%, respectively. In HF patients, mean rV65, 63, 60, and 50 was 1.67%, 2.3%, 3.4%, and 8.6%. For glands >80 to 100 cm3 and >100 cm3, rV63 was 2% and 2.56%, respectively. Overall, the mean midgland rectoprostatic hydrogel separation was 9.3 mm (range, 4.7-19.4 mm). All patients tolerated treatment well; no acute grade 2 or higher adverse gastrointestinal events were observed. Conclusions Hydrogel placement is feasible in prostate glands larger than 80 cm3 with favorable dosimetric outcomes.
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- Marcio Fagundes
- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida
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Popko J, Zalewska A, Olszewski S, Górska A, Sierakowski S, Zwierz K, Urban M. Activity of N-acetyl-beta hexosaminidase in serum and joint fluid of the knees of patients with juvenile idiopatic arthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2003; 21:675. [PMID: 14611126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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Kajio H, Olszewski S, Rosner PJ, Donelan MJ, Geoghegan KF, Rhodes CJ. A low-affinity Ca2+-dependent association of calmodulin with the Rab3A effector domain inversely correlates with insulin exocytosis. Diabetes 2001; 50:2029-39. [PMID: 11522668 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.50.9.2029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The stimulus-response coupling pathway for glucose-regulated insulin secretion has implicated a rise in cytosolic [Ca2+]i as a key factor to induce insulin exocytosis. However, it is unclear how elevated [Ca2+]i communicates with the pancreatic beta-cell's exocytotic apparatus. As Rab3A is a model protein involved in regulated exocytosis, we have focused on its role in regulating insulin exocytosis. By using a photoactivatable cross-linking synthetic peptide that mimics the effector domain of Rab3A and microsequence analysis, we found calmodulin to be a major Rab3A target effector protein in pancreatic beta-cells. Coimmunoprecipitation analysis from pancreatic islets confirmed a Rab3A-calmodulin interaction in vivo, and that it inversely correlated with insulin exocytosis. Calmodulin affected neither GTPase nor guanine nucleotide exchange activity of Rab3A. The calmodulin-Rab3A interaction was pH- and Ca2+-dependent, and it was preferential for GTP-bound Rab3A. However, Rab3A affinity for calmodulin was relatively low (Kd = 18-22 micromol/l at 10(-5) mol/l [Ca2+]) and competed by other calmodulin-binding proteins that had higher affinity (e.g., Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase-2 [CaMK-2] [Kd = 300-400 nmol/l at 10(-5) mol/l [Ca2+]]). Moreover, the Ca2+ dependence of the calmodulin-Rab3A interaction (K0.5 = 15-18 micromol/l [Ca2+], maximal at 100 micromol/l [Ca2+]) was significantly lower compared with that of the calmodulin-CaMK-2 association (K0.5 = 40 micromol/l [Ca2+], maximal at 1 mmol/l [Ca2+]). The data suggested that a transient Rab3A-calmodulin interaction might represent a means of directing calmodulin to the cytoplasmic face of a beta-granule, where it can be subsequently transferred for activation of other beta-granule-associated calmodulin-binding proteins as local [Ca2+]i rises to promote insulin exocytosis.
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- H Kajio
- Pacific Northwest Research Institute and Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98122, USA
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Olszewski S, Jung A, Kamińska A. [Results of ESWL treatment in children with urolithiasis: own experience]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2000; 8:194-6. [PMID: 10897608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Actually extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the most frequent method in the treatment of urolithiasis in children. The aim of the study was to estimate the results of ESWL in children with urolithiasis. Between 1991 and 1999 y, in our Department 260 "reno-ureteral units" in 203 children were treated by lithotripsy. Totally of 518 ESWL procedures were performed. In general efficacy of ESWL was 88.08%, in children with single stone in kidney--97.80%., with multiple stones in kidneys--78.65%, in ureterolithiasis--71.88%. For complete recovery in patients mean 1.99 ESWL procedures were performed on 1 "reno-ureteral unit" on the average diameter of the stone/stones 13.3 mm.
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- S Olszewski
- Kliniki Pediatrii i Nefrologii Dzieciecej CSK WAM w Warszawie
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Jung A, Kamińska A, Olszewski S, Rutka J. [A form of premorbid condition of urolithiasis and urinary stone composition in children with urolithiasis]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2000; 8:188-90. [PMID: 10897606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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In diagnosis, monitoring and prophylaxis of urolithiasis it is important to use simple, non-invasive tests. The aim of the study was to define the value of crystallizing ratios in urine in correlation with chemical stone composition in presumptive diagnosis and monitoring patients with urolithiasis. The study involved 102 children. An analysis of chemical stone composition was carried out in 62 cases. A correlation between values of crystallizing ratios in the urine, indicating the kind of preurolithiasis state and chemical stone composition has been found.
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- A Jung
- Kliniki Pediatrii i Nefrologii Dzieciecej CSK WAM w Warszawie
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Jung A, Kamińska A, Olszewski S. [Etiology of nephrolithiasis in children: own observation]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2000; 8:172-3. [PMID: 10897598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Recurrent formation of renal calculi may be prevented by selective medical therapy designed to correct underlying metabolic disturbances in urine biochemistry. The aim of the study was to estimate potential risk factors of urolithiasis in 102 children before ESWL treatment. Metabolic disturbances followed by anatomical malformations of urinary tract, recurrent urinary tract infections caused by urease-induced microorganisms are the most frequent risk factors. In single cases possible risk factors were: immobilization and chronic corticosteroid therapy.
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- A Jung
- Kliniki Pediatrii i Nefrologii Dzieciecej CSK WAM w Warszawie
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Kamińska A, Jung A, Olszewski S, Muszyńska J, Dadas E. [Beta-2 microglobulinuria in children with vesico-ureteral reflux and recurrent urinary tract infections]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2000; 8:240-1. [PMID: 10897629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Recurrent urinary tract infections in children with vesico-ureteral reflux are the one of risk factors in the process of reflux nephropathy. One of markers of early kidney parenchyma damage is beta 2-microglobulin. The aim of the study was to evaluate the value of beta 2-microglobulin excretion in urine and its serum levels in children with vesico-ureteral reflux and recurrent urinary tract infections. It was found that abnormal urinary excretion of beta 2-microglobulin and its serum levels of proceeded post-inflammatory changes in kidney parenchyma observed in imaging examinations of urinary tract and impared parameters of renal function in biochemical analyses.
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- A Kamińska
- Kliniki Pediatrii i Nefrologii Dzieciecej CSK WAM w Warszawie
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Popko J, Sobaniec W, Król E, Sendrowski K, Kossakowski D, Olszewski S. Morphological brain damage, functional disorders and the possibilities of their treatment in children with infantile cerebral palsy. Rocz Akad Med Bialymst 1999; 43:137-44. [PMID: 9972049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Twenty-four children with infantile cerebral palsy (6 girls and 18 boys aged 3-17 years), surgically treated in the years 1993-1997, were involved in the study. Neurological-orthopaedic examinations and computer tomography (CT) of the head allowed precise diagnosis and understanding of its pathology. The group consisted of 10 patients with hemiplegia, 10 with diplegia and 4 with severe quadriplegia. In 18 children changes in the brain were largely dependent on the clinical type of paresis. In hemiparesis, unilateral changes, such as cerebral cortex atrophy with enlarged ventricles, were predominant. Diplegia cases frequently showed periventricular damage to the white matter. Brain tomography in severe quadriplegia did not always correspond to the clinical condition. CT examinations revealed no abnormalities in the brain in 6 out of 24 cases. Since the results of rehabilitation were not satisfactory, 29 surgical procedures were performed in the presented group of patients, with improved the course of therapeutic rehabilitation or nursing care in all the children.
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- J Popko
- Department of Children's Surgery, Medical Academy of Białystok
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Olszewski S, Roliński T, T. K. High–order perturbation energy of metal electrons in an external electric field. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 1997. [DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1997.0055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- S. Olszewski
- Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 44/52 Kasprzaka, 01‐224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 44/52 Kasprzaka, 01‐224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 44/52 Kasprzaka, 01‐224 Warsaw, Poland
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Olszewski S, Rolinski T, Cinal M, Kwiatkowski T. Correlation effects in a few-particle one-dimensional Coulomb-interacting system. Theor Chem Acc 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02335463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Olszewski S, Deeney JT, Schuppin GT, Williams KP, Corkey BE, Rhodes CJ. Rab3A effector domain peptides induce insulin exocytosis via a specific interaction with a cytosolic protein doublet. J Biol Chem 1994; 269:27987-91. [PMID: 7961732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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A key protein involved in the regulated exocytotic mechanism in neuroendocrine cells is the GTP-binding protein, Rab3A. Rab3A is thought to mediate exocytosis by an interaction of its effector domain with a putative effector protein. We demonstrate here that Rab3A effector domain peptides specifically stimulated insulin exocytosis in electroporated insulin-secreting cells (K0.5 activation, 6-8 microM) in a Ca(2+)-independent manner, although in the presence of Ca2+ insulin exocytosis was further potentiated. By using a 125I-radiolabeled photoactivated cross-linking Rab3A effector domain peptide, we identified a cytosolic protein doublet (REEP-1 and REEP-2), which specifically interacted with the Rab3A effector domain. Competitive inhibition studies revealed this protein-protein interaction to be at a concentration equivalent to that required for Rab3A effector domain peptides to trigger insulin exocytosis (Ki, 6-8 microM). Furthermore, under basal secretory conditions REEP-1 and -2 were membrane-associated, but upon stimulation of exocytosis they were released into a cytosolic fraction. Our results suggest that REEP-1 and -2 are part of the regulated exocytotic machinery, and their dissociation upon stimulation of hormone release (likely from a protein complex) may be essential to the mechanism that triggers regulated exocytosis in pancreatic beta-cells.
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- S Olszewski
- E. P. Joslin Research Laboratory, Joslin Diabetes Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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Olszewski S, Deeney JT, Schuppin GT, Williams KP, Corkey BE, Rhodes CJ. Rab3A effector domain peptides induce insulin exocytosis via a specific interaction with a cytosolic protein doublet. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)46884-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cinal M, Olszewski S, Kwiatkowski T. Correlation energy of the free‐electron pair in the second‐order perturbation theory. J Chem Phys 1993. [DOI: 10.1063/1.464294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Olszewski S. Electron correlation and kinetic energy of an inhomogeneous electron gas. Chem Phys Lett 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(87)85194-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Holas A, Olszewski S, Wierzbicki A. Scattered impurity states in transition metals. II. Approximate solutions using phase shifts. Phys Rev B Condens Matter 1985; 32:7913-7924. [PMID: 9936962 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.32.7913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Holas A, Olszewski S, Wierzbicki A. Scattered impurity states in transition metals. I. Exploitation of the point-group symmetry for the linear-combination-of-atomic-orbitals method. Phys Rev B Condens Matter 1985; 32:7890-7912. [PMID: 9936961 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.32.7890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Olszewski S, Kowalski A, Sédek W, Strońska H. Operative treatment of bilateral ureteral injury. Int Urol Nephrol 1982; 14:359-62. [PMID: 7182370 DOI: 10.1007/bf02081975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Olszewski S, Kowalski A, Strońska H, Sapeta K. [Bilateral high ligation of the ureters after gynecological surgery]. Ginekol Pol 1981; 52:833-6. [PMID: 7319284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Kucharczyk M, Olszewski S. Effect of the local exchange‐correlation correction to electron density on the properties of inorganic solids. J Chem Phys 1981. [DOI: 10.1063/1.441024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Sapeta K, Strońska H, Kowalski A, Olszewski S. [Spontaneous recanalization of the ureter injured during gynecological surgery]. Ginekol Pol 1981; 52:553-6. [PMID: 7286756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Olszewski S, Kinalska I, Długosz J, Stasiewicz J, Gabryelewicz A. The glucose tolerance, insulin response and pancreatic exocrine function in patients after acute pancreatitis. Endokrinologie 1978; 71:183-91. [PMID: 668642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In 25 patients having a history of acute pancreatitis (AP) in anamnesis one year ago and in 12 control subjects the insulin response to oral glucose was investigated and in some cases the exocrine function of pancreas was evaluated. The disturbances in glucose tolerance occurred in about 30% of the patients and were associated with impairment of insulin response and deterioration of exocrine pancreatic function. The double cortisone and glucose load did not influence the glucose tolerance in the patients. In persons investigated during AP and one year later only slight improvement of insulin response was noted. The results support the significance of follow-up studies of carbohydrate tolerance and insulin response in patients after AP for the evaluation of the diabetic risk in such cases.
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Olszewski S, Kinalska I. [Case of gastric ulcer in untreated Addison's disease]. Pol Tyg Lek 1977; 32:155-6. [PMID: 834655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Olszewski S. [John Jonston, author of the 1st systematic description of nail diseases]. Wiad Lek 1972; 25:629-32. [PMID: 4558486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Olszewski S, Dubejko M. Erratum: Quantum‐Statistical Ab Initio Calculations on Ionic Crystals. J Chem Phys 1971. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1674715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Olszewski S, Dubejko M. Erratum: Quantum‐Statistical Ab Initio Calculations on Ionic Crystals. J Chem Phys 1969. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1671305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Olszewski S. Erratum: Some New Applications of the FE Theory to the Spectra of Linear Unsaturated Compounds. J Chem Phys 1966. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1728016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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