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Importance of Concomitant Fibromyalgia in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus
Tomš, Jan ; Malý, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Pavelka, Karel (referee) ; Horák, Pavel (referee)
Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic syndrom characterized by dysfunction of pain processing and regulation. It occurs relatively often in concomitance with the connective tissue diseases (CTD), in particular rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). FM may be involved in their final clinical manifestation and may have important consequencies for diagnosis and treatment. Objectives: To examine frequency of FM in the prime CTD, FM impact on their clinical manifestation and relationship to assessment of the clinical activity in regional, monocentric, cross- sectional, descriptive study. Methods: Study groups of 120 adult patients with RA, 91 with SLE, 30 with polymyositis/ dermatomyositis (PM/DM) and 28 with systemic sclerosis (SSc) were evaluated. Each patient was examined on the presence of concomitant FM according to ACR (American College of Rheumatology) classification criteria (1990). The following data were recorded: sociodemographic data, history including comorbidities, contemporary immunosupressive and analgesic therapy, laboratory parameters (serum inflammatory markers, relevant autoantibodies). Pain, fatigue and muskuloskeletal stiffness were assessed on horizontal 100 mm visual analogue scale. Patients' function status was evaluated using HAQ (Health...
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Analysis of the Lipno dam reservoir fisheries management
TOMS, Jan
The aim of the present bachelor thesis was to evaluate a development of the Lipno dam reservoir (the Vltava River, South Bohemia, Czech Republic) fisheries management during period from its filling in year 1958 to 1997 and during period 2004-2009. Fisheries statistics of number of stocked/caught fish (provided by the Czech Fishing Union; CFU) were used for the assessment of the state, as well as quantitative and qualitative changes of ichthyocenoses in time during monitored periods. These data were also compared with the results of the ichthyological screening at this dam reservoir in 2008 (undertaken by the employees of Biology Centre of the AS CR, v.v.i., Institute of Hydrobiology) in order to reveal a possible diference between a real fish assemblage compostion and structure of fishes caught by sport fishermen. Analyses of the catch sheets of the members of six choosen local organizations (belonging to CFU) from 2009 were used for evaluation of degree of fishing pressure during one choosen season (whole year) and for assessing of age structure of sport fishermen visiting Lipno dam reservoir.
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