Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies

Magdalena Nalewajska

Publications

• Case Report
  Renal Artery Thrombosis in a Bodybuilder using Anabolic Steroid - Case Report
  Author(s): Magdalena Nalewajska, Małgorzata Marchelek-Mysliwie, Jaroslaw Przybycinski and Kazimierz CiechanowskiMagdalena Nalewajska, Małgorzata Marchelek-Mysliwie, Jaroslaw Przybycinski and Kazimierz Ciechanowski
  
  Acute renal infarction (ARI) is a rare condition associated with poor prognosis in most cases. Due to non-specific clinical symptoms and abnormalities in lab results, as well as equivocal results of imagining scans, diagnosis of ARI is often delayed. Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) intake in contribution to heavy weight-lifting workout are among the risk factors for hypercoagulable state. AAS are responsible for a number of haemostatic defects, including higher platelet number, enhanced platelet aggregation, increased synthesis of procoagulant factors and impaired fibrinolysis. Increasing number of AAS intake among amateur and professional athletes observed in recent years require consideration of these drugs as possible cause for thrombotic events in young patients. Yet, only few case studies have been published describing an occurrence of venous or artery thrombosis in athletes w.. Read More»
  

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