Original articles - Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

Usefulness of the 2MACE score as a predictor of long-term all-cause mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation

Anna Szymańska, Anna E. Płatek, Karolina Semczuk-Kaczmarek, Filip M. Szymański, Mirosław Dłużniewski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 635–639; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15431

Novel coronavirus disease 2019: predicting prognosis with a computed tomography–based disease severity score and clinical laboratory data

Ali Sabri, Amir H. Davarpanah, Arash Mahdavi, Alireza Abrishami, Mehdi Khazaei, Saman Heydari, Reyhane Asgari, Seyyed Mojtaba Nekooghadam, Julian Dobranowski, Morteza Sanei Taheri

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 629–634; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15422

Liver volume: a point of no return in liver transplantation?

Maciej Miarka, Krzysztof Gibiński, Marcin Kotulski, Krzysztof Zając, Magdalena Chmielewska, Bogna Wardeńska, Ryszard Pacho, Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 622–628; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15441

Dynamics of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in Poland: an epidemiological analysis of the first 2 months of the epidemic

Filip Raciborski, Jarosław Pinkas, Mateusz Jankowski, Radosław Sierpiński, Wojciech S. Zgliczyński, Łukasz Szumowski, Kamil Rakocy, Waldemar Wierzba, Mariusz Gujski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 615–621; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15430

Blood pressure profile, sympathetic nervous system activity, and subclinical target organ damage in patients with polycythemia vera

Katarzyna Jóźwik-Plebanek, Piotr Dobrowolski, Jacek Lewandowski, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Anna Sikorska, Maciej Siński, Graeme Eisenhofer, Roland E. Schmieder, Magdalena Januszewicz, Jerzy Windyga, Aleksander Prejbisz, Andrzej Januszewicz

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 607–614; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15473

Serum concentration of selected biochemical markers of endothelial dysfunction and inflammation in patients with the varying activity of inflammatory bowel disease

Dorota Cibor, Katarzyna Szczeklik, Kamil Kozioł, Halina Pocztar, Tomasz Mach, Danuta Owczarek

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 598–606; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15463

Usefulness of combined endobronchial and endoscopic ultrasound-guided needle aspiration in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis: a prospective multicenter trial

Anna Filarecka, Maciej Gnass, Jacek Wojtacha, Jerzy Soja, Juliusz Pankowski, Damian Czyżewski, Wojciech Zajęcki, Arkadiusz Joks, Adam Ćmiel, Artur Szlubowski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 582–588; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15399

Short- and long-term outcomes of continuous-flow left ventricular assist device therapy in 79 patients with end-stage heart failure

Agnieszka Biełka, Mariusz Kalinowski, Jerzy Pacholewicz, Justyna Małyszek-Tumidajewicz, Jacek Waszak, Izabela Copik, Anetta Kowalczuk-Wieteska, Michał Zakliczyński, Piotr Przybyłowski, Marian Zembala, Michał O. Zembala

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 589–597; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15362

Effect of day- and night-time admissions on long-term clinical outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with percutaneous coronary intervention

Rafał Januszek, Zbigniew Siudak, Agnieszka Janion-Sadowska, Magdalena Jędrychowska, Bartłomiej Staszczak, Jerzy Bartuś, Krzysztof Plens, Stanisław Bartuś, Dariusz Dudek

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 7-8: 570–581; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15398

Association of muscular strength with pulsatile and steady hemodynamics in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Tomasz Krauze, Katarzyna Cebrowska, Agata Schneider, Adam Szczepanik, Agnieszka Banaszak, Agnieszka Rutkowska, Marek Balinski, Przemysław Guzik, Andrzej Wykrętowicz

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 6: 512–519; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15335

Sex differences in the frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms and olfactory or taste disorders in 1942 nonhospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Radosław Sierpiński, Jarosław Pinkas, Mateusz Jankowski, Wojciech S. Zgliczyński, Waldemar Wierzba, Mariusz Gujski, Łukasz Szumowski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 6: 501–505; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15414

Time from admission to surgery in Polish patients with hip fractures: temporal trends in the last decade and association with duration of hospitalization and in-hospital mortality

Kamil Polok, Zbigniew Pilecki, Halina Kutaj-Wąsikowska, Barbara Kutryba, Rosa Sunol, Grzegorz Pilecki, Jacek Górka, Jakub Fronczek, Wojciech Szczeklik

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 6: 506–511; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15342

The clinical value of the routine analysis of cardiac implantable electronic devices after the patient’s death in a tertiary cardiovascular center

Mateusz Tajstra, Maciej Dyrbuś, Jerzy Nożyński, Jacek Niedziela, Elżbieta Gadula-Gacek, Ewa Zembala-Nożyńska, Ewa Trejnowska, Agata Stanek-Widera, Dariusz Lange, Piotr Knapik, Mariusz Gąsior

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 6: 492–500; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15343

The impact of cytogenetic evolution and acquisition of del(17p) on the prognosis of patients with multiple myeloma

Aleksander Salomon-Perzyński, Aleksandra Bluszcz, Agnieszka Krzywdzińska, Zofia Spyra-Górny, Natalia Jakacka, Joanna Barankiewicz, Katarzyna Borg, Iwona Solarska, Tomasz Szpila, Bartosz Puła, Sebastian Grosicki, Krzysztof Jamroziak

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 6: 483–491; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15316

Prevalence of atherosclerotic stenosis of the carotid and cerebral arteries in patients with stable or unstable coronary artery disease

Przemysław Puz, Anetta Lasek-Bal, Aldona Warsz-Wianecka, Maciej Kaźmierski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 5: 412–419; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15330

Clinical characteristics and short-term outcomes of patients with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective single-center experience of a designated hospital in Poland

Błażej Nowak, Piotr Szymański, Igor Pańkowski, Agnieszka Szarowska, Katarzyna Życińska, Wojciech Rogowski, Robert Gil, Mariusz Furmanek, Jacek Tatur, Artur Zaczyński, Zbigniew Król, Waldemar Wierzba

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 5: 407–411; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15361

Etiology and bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics in patients with recurrent lower urinary tract infections

Ewa Jurałowicz, Anna Bartoszko-Tyczkowska, Ewa Tyczkowska-Sieroń, Ilona Kurnatowska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 5: 373–381; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15284

Can we predict the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 with a routine blood test?

Furong Zeng, Linfeng Li, Jiling Zeng, Yuhao Deng, Huining Huang, Bin Chen, Guangtong Deng

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 5: 400–406; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15331

A retrospective study of risk factors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections in hospitalized adult patients

Qingchun Yao, Peng Wang, Xingguang Wang, Guoqiang Qie, Mei Meng, Xiwen Tong, Xue Bai, Min Ding, Weiming Liu, Keke Liu, Yufeng Chu

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 5: 390–399; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15312

Impact of disseminated tumor cells in the bone marrow on survival and disease progression in patients with left-sided colorectal cancer

Radosław Pach, Katarzyna Dyląg-Trojanowska, Jarosław Baran, Antoni Czupryna, Maciej Siedlar, Justyna Zybaczyńska, Philip H. Brandt, Antoni M. Szczepanik

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 5: 382–389; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15200