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Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with Follicular Lymphoma, Treated with Obinutuzumab—Challenging Recognition and Treatment

Viruses, 2023
A Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) led to a pandemic outbreak in 2019. COVID-19’s course and its treatment in immunocompromised patients are uncertain.
E. Łyżwa, M. Sobiecka, K. Lewandowska, I. Siemion-Szcześniak, I. Barańska, M. Klatt, R. Langfort, M. Szturmowicz, W. Tomkowski   +8 more
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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease in the Patients with Cystic Fibrosis—A Challenging Diagnostic Problem

Diagnostics, 2022
Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal, recessive genetic disorder, caused by a mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance receptor regulator (CFTR) gene.
Dorota Wyrostkiewicz, Lucyna Opoka, Dorota Filipczak, Ewa Jankowska, Wojciech Skorupa, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć, Monika Szturmowicz   +6 more
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Factors Predictive for Immunomodulatory Therapy Response and Survival in Patients with Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis—Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Diagnostics, 2022
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is one of the interstitial lung diseases with clearly established diagnostic criteria. Nevertheless, pharmacologic treatment recommendations are still lacking. Most specialists use steroids as first-line drugs, sometimes
Katarzyna B. Lewandowska, Inga Barańska, Małgorzata Sobiecka, Piotr Radwan-Rohrenschef, Małgorzata Dybowska, Monika Franczuk, Adriana Roży, Agnieszka Skoczylas, Iwona Bestry, Jan Kuś, Witold Z. Tomkowski, Monika Szturmowicz   +11 more
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Pulmonary amyloidosis mimicking interstitial lung disease and malignancy - A case series with a review of a pulmonary patterns

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021
Background: Amyloidosis is an uncommon condition, which results from accumulation of misfolded extracellular insoluble protein in tissues and organs of the body, causing its damage and dysfunction.
Katarzyna Zimna, Małgorzata Sobiecka, Renata Langfort, Katarzyna Błasińska, Witold Z. Tomkowski   +4 more
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Tuberculous Pericarditis—Own Experiences and Recent Recommendations

Diagnostics, 2022
Tuberculous pericarditis (TBP) accounts for 1% of all forms of tuberculosis and for 1–2% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. In endemic regions, TBP accounts for 50–90% of effusive pericarditis; in non-endemic, it only accounts for 4%.
Małgorzata Dybowska, Katarzyna Błasińska, Juliusz Gątarek, Magdalena Klatt, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć, Witold Tomkowski, Monika Szturmowicz   +6 more
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Pulmonary Hypertension in the Course of Interstitial Lung Diseases—A Personalised Approach Is Needed to Identify a Dominant Cause and Provide an Effective Therapy

Diagnostics, 2023
The prevalence of pulmonary hypertension (PH) complicating interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is 3.5–15% at an early stage, and up to 90% in ILD patients listed for lung transplantation.
Aneta Kacprzak, Witold Tomkowski, Monika Szturmowicz   +2 more
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Phenotypes of Sarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension—A Challenging Mystery

Diagnostics, 2023
Sarcoidosis has been a well-recognised risk factor for pulmonary hypertension (PH) for a long time, but still, the knowledge about this concatenation is incomplete.
Aneta Kacprzak, Witold Tomkowski, Monika Szturmowicz   +2 more
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Serum Levels of Interleukin-8 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha in Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis: One-year Follow-up Study

Safety and Health at Work, 2010
Objectives: Various cytokines induced by inhalation of coal dust may mediate inflammation and lead to tissue damage or fibrosis, such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP).
Jong Seong Lee, Jae Hoon Shin, Joung Oh. Lee, Kyung Myung Lee, Ji Hong Kim, Byung-Soon Choi   +5 more
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Imaging Plays a Key Role in the Diagnosis and Control of the Treatment of Bone Sarcoidosis

Biomedicines, 2023
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown origin. The most frequent localizations are thoracic lymph nodes and/or parenchymal lung disease, nevertheless any other organ may be involved.
Katarzyna Błasińska, Małgorzata Ewa Jędrych, Lucyna Opoka, Witold Tomkowski, Monika Szturmowicz   +4 more
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Severe Respiratory Failure Due to Pulmonary BCGosis in a Patient Treated for Superficial Bladder Cancer

Diagnostics, 2022
Intra-vesical instillations with bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) are the established adjuvant therapy for superficial bladder cancer. Although generally safe and well tolerated, they may cause a range of different, local, and systemic complications.
Katarzyna Lewandowska, Anna Lewandowska, Inga Baranska, Magdalena Klatt, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopec, Witold Tomkowski, Monika Szturmowicz   +6 more
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