Original articles - Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

Educational needs among physicians treating patients with atrial fibrillation: lessons for Poland from the European Society of Cardiology international educational needs assessment study

Michał M. Farkowski, Michał A. Karliński, Maciej Sterliński, Tomasz Tomasik, Matthias Antz, Alec Vahanian, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Gerhard Hindricks, Nikolaos Dagres, Hein Heidbuchel

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 9: 586–591; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14924

Sarcoidosis among hospitalized patients in Poland: a study based on a national hospital registry

Magdalena Bogdan, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Krzysztof Kanecki, Paweł Goryński, Piotr Tyszko, Agnieszka Barańska, Piotr Samel-Kowalik

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 9: 580–585; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14927

Serum pentraxin 3 concentration in patients with type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Aleksandra Trojak, Małgorzata Waluś-Miarka, Maria Kapusta, Przemysław Miarka, Ewa Kawalec, Barbara Idzior-Waluś, Maciej T. Małecki

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 499–505; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14913

A panel of urinary biochemical markers for the noninvasive detection of kidney dysfunction in HIV-infected patients

Beata Szymańska, Zofia Marchewka, Brygida Knysz, Agnieszka Piwowar

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 490–498; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14905

Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of infliximab biosimilar in comparison to originator biologic and adalimumab in patients with Crohn disease

Magdalena Kaniewska, Mariusz Rosołowski, Grażyna Rydzewska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 484–489; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14901

Long-term outcome of renal transplantation: a 10-year follow-up of 765 recipients

Bartosz Foroncewicz, Krzysztof Mucha, Michał Florczak, Agnieszka Szymańska, Michał Ciszek, Magdalena Durlik, Andrzej Górski, Rafał Kieszek, Maciej Kosieradzki, Sławomir Nazarewski, Zbigniew Gałązka, Leszek Pączek

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 476–483; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14914

Assessment of patients with coronary artery disease who may benefit from the use of rivaroxaban in the real world: implementation of the COMPASS trial criteria in the TERCET registry population

Piotr Desperak, Bartosz Hudzik, Mariusz Gąsior

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 460–468; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14907

Changes in total and acylated ghrelin levels during mitotane treatment in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma

Hanna Komarowska, Marcin Ruciński, Marta Fichna, Barbara Bromińska, Dariusz Iżycki, Agata Czarnywojtek, Marek Ruchała

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 469–475; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14865

Efficacy of family history, genetic risk score, and physical activity in assessing the prevalence of type 2 diabetes

Łukasz Szczerbiński, Joanna Gościk, Witold Bauer, Natalia Wawrusiewicz-Kurylonek, Magdalena Paczkowska-Abdulsalam, Magdalena Niemira, Anna Citko, Edyta Adamska-Patruno, Maria Górska, Adam Krętowski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 442–450; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14866

The evolution of electrocardiographic signs of right ventricular overload after balloon pulmonary angioplasty in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Michał Piłka, Szymon Darocha, Marta Banaszkiewicz, Michał Florczyk, Maria Wieteska, Anna Dobosiewicz, Małgorzata Mańczak, Rafał Mańczak, Arkadiusz Pietrasik, Radosław Pietura, Adam Torbicki, Marcin Kurzyna

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 7-8: 451–459; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14877

Long-term follow-up and comparison of techniques in radiofrequency ablation of ventricular arrhythmias originating from the aortic cusps (AVATAR Registry)

Katarzyna Styczkiewicz, Bartosz Ludwik, Janusz Śledź, Magdalena Lipczyńska, Beata Zaborska, Tomasz Kryński, Karol Deutsch, Aleksandra Morka, Piotr Kukla, Marek Styczkiewicz, Piotr Kułakowski, Sebastian M. Stec

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 6: 399–407; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14861

Percutaneous management of long and diffused coronary lesions using newer generation drug-eluting stents in routine clinical practice: long-term outcomes and complication predictors

Elżbieta Paszek, Wojciech Zajdel, Piotr Musiałek, Andrzej Sokołowski, Bartłomiej Guzik, Anna Kabłak-Ziembicka, Łukasz Niewiara, Małgorzata Pankowska, Aleksandra Mielimonka, Krzysztof Żmudka

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 6: 392–398; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14864

Smoking ban in public places and myocardial infarction hospitalizations in a European country with high cardiovascular risk: insights from the Polish nationwide AMI-PL database

Krzysztof Ozierański, Anna Witkowska, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Marek Gierlotka, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Jakub Stokwiszewski, Mariusz Gąsior, Lech Poloński, Grzegorz Opolski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 6: 386–391; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14862

IRF5 promoter methylation as a new potential marker of rheumatoid arthritis

Marek Cieśla, Bogdan Kolarz, Maria Majdan, Dorota Darmochwał-Kolarz

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 6: 370–376; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14863

Clinical outcomes and plasma clot permeability and lysability in patients with venous thromboembolism on rivaroxaban: a cohort study

Paulina Frączek, Marta Krzysztofik, Andrzej Stanisz, Anetta Undas

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 6: 377–385; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14824

Normative values for magnetic resonance elastography–based liver stiffness in a healthy population

Marzanna Obrzut, Vitaliy Atamaniuk, Bogdan Obrzut, Richard Ehman, Marian Cholewa, Mateusz Rzucidło, Andrii Pozaruk, Krzysztof Gutkowski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 5: 321–326; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.4456

Maternal risk factors for neonatal acidosis in women with type 1 diabetes

Paweł Gutaj, Urszula Mantaj, Agnieszka Zawiejska, Łukasz Adamczak, Sylvie Lagodka, Ewa Wender-Ożegowska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 5: 316–320; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14809

Costs of pharmacotherapy of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in relation to changing Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines (2007, 2011, and 2017 updates)

Grzegorz M. Brożek, Marcin Nowak, Jan E. Zejda, Mateusz Jankowski, Joshua Lawson, Władysław Pierzchała

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 5: 308–315; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.4487

Somatic comorbidity in Polish patients with epilepsy

Magdalena Bosak, Monika Kowalik, Patrycja Mołek, Agnieszka Słowik

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 5: 303–307; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14794

Early chemotherapy de-escalation strategy in patients with advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma with negative positron emission tomography scan after 2 escalated BEACOPP cycles

Monika Długosz-Danecka, Sebastian Szmit, Anna Kocurek, Paweł Koźlik, Agnieszka Giza, Dagmara Zimowska-Curyło, Bogdan Małkowski, Anna Sowa-Staszczak, Jarosław Kużdżał, Wojciech Jurczak

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2019, Vol. 129, No. 4: 259–266; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.14786