[The 20th Jubilee Debrecen Nephrology Days]
DEÁK György
SEPTEMBER 10, 2016
Hypertension and nephrology - 2016;20(04)
DEÁK György
SEPTEMBER 10, 2016
Hypertension and nephrology - 2016;20(04)
Hypertension and nephrology
Hypertension and nephrology
[Around authors of the literature data and our own experience of the relationship between hypertension and cognitive function. The age progresses, more and more of the dysfunction and vascular dementia. This plays a significant role in hypertension. Simple methods, tests you should regard the practice and also check this function, considering that the aging population is an unstoppable process. The effective antihypertensive treatment, blood pressure variability reduction positively affected by the deterioration of the cognitive function, especially if treatment is started as soon as possible.]
Hypertension and nephrology
[Authors had performed an anthropometric analysis using a database of 2011-2013 of Hungarian Hypertension Register. They analyzed overweight and obesity in relation of age. The results were compared with similar analysis conducted in the total population 2015. They analyzed the prevalence of visceral obesity as well using the waist circumference measurement categories and these were also compared with screening data of total population. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was very high in both genders, co-occurrences exceeded 70% between 45-70 years. The prevalence was significantly higher in hypertensives, than in the total population. The prevalence of visceral obesity measured by waist circumference was also high, especially in women whose reached 50% of cases. They observed a significant difference between hypertensive and total populations In category „danger” of visceral obesity]
Hypertension and nephrology
[Around 57% of Hungarian hypertensive patients did not reach the goal blood pressure. According to a paper in 2011, the prevalence of resistant hypertension is 2.9-43%. Analyzing only the therapy of hypertensive patients of an Hypertension Outpatient Clinic of the University of Szeged authors wanted to answer these main questions. How many patients were therapeutically resistant by definition? How many patients were taking 3 or more antihypertensive drugs? How many of these patients reached the goal systolis blood pressure values? How many fold drug combinations were used generally? Data were retrospectively collected from 01/01/2011 to 31/08/2011 from the electronic files of the hypertensive patients. Altogether 310 patients’ data were analyzed, of all cases only one visit. If someone returned more times during this period, only the first visit was considered. Means of two measurements were calculated. The goal SBP was 140/ mm Hg. By the definition 234/310 (76%) patients had resistant hypertension in this population (158±17/97±8 mm Hg). Three or more antihypertensive drugs were taken by 257/310 (83%) patients (136±20 mm Hg) and 134 of them (52% of 257 patients) reached the goal. A fourfold combination of antihypertensive agents was the most frequent in this population. It is advised to use multiple drug combinations to reach the goal blood pressure and it is recommended to spend enough but not longer than necessary time to find the most effective combination in every case. In resistant cases it is always necessary to investigate the background of it.]
Hypertension and nephrology
[The well-being of the citizens is a determining factor of the social development in every country. The well-being is expressed in the notion of quality of life. Quality of life consists of lots of components and it is more than just being healthy, so its terrain extends far beyond the medicine. Based on a comprehensive research carried out by Eurostat the statistical office of the European Union the study intends to report about the components of the quality of life and about the findings of the survey made with the aim to map the opinions and views of the citizens about it in the different European countries. The paper deals with the relations among these components and with the comparison of the views of the countries.]
Clinical Neuroscience
We aimed to investigate the association between fluoxetine use and the survival of hospitalised coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia patients. This retrospective case-control study used data extracted from the medical records of adult patients hospitalised with moderate or severe COVID-19 pneumonia at the Uzsoki Teaching Hospital of the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary between 17 March and 22 April 2021. As a part of standard medical treatment, patients received anti-COVID-19 therapies as favipiravir, remdesivir, baricitinib or a combination of these drugs; and 110 of them received 20 mg fluoxetine capsules once daily as an adjuvant medication. Multivariable logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between fluoxetine use and mortality. For excluding a fluoxetine-selection bias potentially influencing our results, we compared baseline prognostic markers in the two groups treated versus not treated with fluoxetine. Out of the 269 participants, 205 (76.2%) survived and 64 (23.8%) died between days 2 and 28 after hospitalisation. Greater age (OR [95% CI] 1.08 [1.05–1.11], p<0.001), radiographic severity based on chest X-ray (OR [95% CI] 2.03 [1.27–3.25], p=0.003) and higher score of shortened National Early Warning Score (sNEWS) (OR [95% CI] 1.20 [1.01-1.43], p=0.04) were associated with higher mortality. Fluoxetine use was associated with an important (70%) decrease of mortality (OR [95% CI] 0.33 [0.16–0.68], p=0.002) compared to the non-fluoxetine group. Age, gender, LDH, CRP, and D-dimer levels, sNEWS, Chest X-ray score did not show statistical difference between the fluoxetine and non-fluoxetine groups supporting the reliability of our finding. Provisional to confirmation in randomised controlled studies, fluoxetine may be a potent treatment increasing the survival for COVID-19 pneumonia.
Clinical Neuroscience
[Background – Dizziness is one of the most frequent complaints when a patient is searching for medical care and resolution. This can be a problematic presentation in the emergency department, both from a diagnostic and a management standpoint. Purpose – The aim of our study is to clarify what happens to patients after leaving the emergency department. Methods – 879 patients were examined at the Semmelweis University Emergency Department with vertigo and dizziness. We sent a questionnaire to these patients and we had 308 completed papers back (110 male, 198 female patients, mean age 61.8 ± 12.31 SD), which we further analyzed. Results – Based on the emergency department diagnosis we had the following results: central vestibular lesion (n = 71), dizziness or giddiness (n = 64) and BPPV (n = 51) were among the most frequent diagnosis. Clarification of the final post-examination diagnosis took several days (28.8%), and weeks (24.2%). It was also noticed that 24.02% of this population never received a proper diagnosis. Among the population only 80 patients (25.8%) got proper diagnosis of their complaints, which was supported by qualitative statistical analysis (Cohen Kappa test) result (κ = 0.560). Discussion – The correlation between our emergency department diagnosis and final diagnosis given to patients is low, a phenomenon that is also observable in other countries. Therefore, patient follow-up is an important issue, including the importance of neurotology and possibly neurological examination. Conclusion – Emergency diagnosis of vertigo is a great challenge, but despite of difficulties the targeted and quick case history and exact examination can evaluate the central or peripheral cause of the balance disorder. Therefore, to prevent declination of the quality of life the importance of further investigation is high.]
Lege Artis Medicinae
[Three decades ago, LAM was launched with the goal of providing scientific information about medicine and its frontiers. From the very beginning, LAM has also concerned a special subject area while connecting medicine with the world of art. In the palette of medical articles, it remained a special feature to this day. The analysis of the history of LAM to date was performed using internationally accepted publication guidelines and scientific databases as a pledge of objectivity. We examined the practice of LAM if it meets the main criteria, the professional expectations of our days, when publishing contents of the traditional printed edition and its electronic version. We explored the visibility of articles in the largest bibliographic and scientific metric databases, and reviewed the LAM's place among the Hungarian professional journals. Our results show that in recent years LAM has gained international reputation despite publishing in Hungarian spoken by a few people. This is due to articles with foreign co-authors as well as references to LAM in articles written exclusively by foreign researchers. The journal is of course full readable in the Hungarian bibliographic databases, and its popularity is among the leading ones. The great virtue of the journal is the wide spectrum of the authors' affiliation, with which they cover almost completely the Hungarian health care institutional system. The special feature of its columns is enhanced by the publication of writings on art, which may increase Hungarian and foreign interest like that of medical articles.]
Clinical Neuroscience
Introduction - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory infection that has rapidly become a global pandemic and vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been developed with great success. In this article, we would like to present a patient who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), which is a serious complication after receiving the inactive SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (CoronaVac). Case report – A 76-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with nine days of progressive limb weakness. Two weeks prior to admission, he received the second dose of CoronaVac vaccine. Motor examination revealed decreased extremity strength with 3/5 in the lower extremities versus 4/5 in the upper extremities. Deep tendon reflexes were absent in all four extremities. Nerve conduction studies showed predominantly reduced amplitude in both motor and sensory nerves, consistent with AMSAN (acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy). Conclusion - Clinicians should be aware of the neurological complications or other side effects associated with COVID-19 vaccination so that early treatment can be an option.
Clinical Neuroscience
[To assess the rehabilitation outcome after severe traumatic brain injury. Retrospective evaluation of the rehabilitation process and prospective follow-up five years after discharge. Patients – Patients treated in 2013 at the Traumatic Brain Injury Unit, National Institute for Medical Rehabilitation were included in the study (n = 232). Ninety-nine of 232 patients were treated with severe traumatic brain injury. Data were available for 66/99 patients (67%). Fifty patients (13 women and 37 men) were successfully contacted for follow-up (51%), three patients deceased. The mean age of the patients was 42 years (range: 22-72). The majority of them (36/50) was injured in traffic accidents. The mean duration of coma and post-traumatic amnesia were 19 (1-90) and 45 days (5-150), respectively. Patients were admitted for rehabilitation on the 44th (11-111) day after the injury and were rehabilitated for 95 days (10-335). Thirty-eight patients became independent at daily living activity during the rehabilitation period, and none during the follow-up. Two patients needed moderate and one a little help for the daily life. After successful rehabilitation 4 patients continued their higher education, 24 patients worked (six in sheltered, six in the original, 12 in other workplaces). Twenty-two patients did not have permanent jobs, two of whom were retired. The majority of the patients were successfully reintegrated into society. More than half of the patients returned to work or continued their studies. These successes were greatly facilitated by the 40 years of experience and the multidisciplinary team working in the National Institute for Medical Rehabilitation. ]
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