cmr in diagnosis of cardiac masses

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... histopathologic findings) The disagreement in staging of the tumor between MDCT and surgery was found in 12 cases (table 2) Adnexal masses were overstaged in three patients and understaged in nine patients ... histopathology in determining stages of adnexal masses Also, it has been demonstrated that MDCT have high efficacy and accuracy in defining the nature of a pelvic mass and detecting extension of malignant ... imaging in gynecologic malignancy Minerva Ginecol 2008, 60:143-154 Heinz-Peer G, Memarsadeghi M, Niederle B: Imaging of adrenal masses Curr Opin Urol 2007, 17:32-38 Forstner R, Hricak H, Occhipinti...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Hisamuddin NAR and Suhailan M: Evaluation of the diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative cardiodetect®® test kit in diagnosis of ami within 12 hours of onset of chest pain in the ... AMI in patients presenting with chest pain in the ED setting General objectives The diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative Cardio Detect® test kit in the diagnosis of AMI in the ... remaining blood samples were tested for other routine blood investigations, including full blood count (FBC), renal profile (RP), and cardiac enzymes (creatine kinase) Presence of H-FABP in the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... duration of his treatment His knee pain and effusion settled with treatment and full range of movement was regained at the end of the treatment The skin induration remained, but the underlying Figure ... system in tuberculosis in seen in 1% to 3% of cases and the most common sites to harbor the infection are the vertebra, hip and the knee joints [2] The incidence of pulmonary TB with concurrent skin ... abscesses involving both skin and skeletal muscle of immunocompetent individuals are rare, but have been reported [4,5] They present with pain and swelling and follow a prolonged clinical course if diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... pitfall in diagnosis of midfoot injuries Even in the absence of a fracture, a bipartite medial cuneiform may be the source of midfoot pain, which can be treated with various techniques, including ... marrow edema, suggesting the absence of altered biomechanics [9] or increased stress across the joint As such, the authors believe that they were true incidental findings In cases of symptomatic bipartition, ... ossification center In the setting of two primary ossification centers, these may fail to fuse, resulting in bipartition Ossification of the lateral cuneiform begins in the first year of life, followed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... meningeal layer of the dura and drain into the cranial venous sinuses Blood from both brain is drained by cerebral veins into dural sinuses and then into the jugular Cerebral veins is divided into ... Anatomy of cerebral veins and sinous The veins of the brain have no muscular tissue in their thin walls and possess no valves as compared to other types of veins They emerge from the brain and lie in ... magnetic resonance imaging in combination with magnetic resonance imaging of vein and/or routine magnetic imaging in combination with computerized tomography of cerebral vein and/or cerebral angiography...

Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2014, 21:52

... Introduction • Ischemic: 80% of stroke • 3rd leading cause of dead in United States • 2025: prediction of 1.2 millions patients/year • In Viet Nam, stroke is top cause of Death (account ... irreversible lesion = core of infarction • Bigger core, worse outcome • In the MCA occlusion, core volume in DWI > 100cm3 -> no indication of treatment (>1/3 territory of MCA) • >70cm3: poor prognosis ... (double dose of contrast) MRI protocol • T2*: rule out hemorrhage + identify cerebral microbleeding • DWI: core of infarction • FLAIR: parenchymal lesion/ absence of “flow voids” in the occluded...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2016, 22:26

... negative, investigation of classic serologic tests and antibodies occupy an important place in diagnosis of brucellosis Antibodies begin to form weeks after the beginning of disease Those who engage in ... agglutination tests have an important role in the diagnosis of brucellosis Main antigenic structure which is imported in the diagnosis of brucellosis is the smooth lipopolysaccharide structure of ... Infec Microbiol Clin 2001;19:202-5 Araj GF Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, not Agglutination, is the test of choice for the diagnosis of serodiagnosis Neurobrucellosis Clinical Infectious Diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... Presence of moderate staining completely surrounding cytoplasmic membrane in at least 10% of invasive carcinoma cells or presence of membranous staining in less than 30% provided that the staining ... scored at levels based on the membranous staining in invasive tumors: Score 0: No staining Score 1: Stainings not surrounding the cell membrane, the presence of which are hardly detected and which ... material and Mayer’s hematoxyline was used as opposite staining In ER, PR, and P53 evaluation, the percentage and intensity (+  weak, 2+moderate, 3+ intense) of nuclear staining were considered and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... two include the substitution of methionine (M) by the amino acids isoleucine (I) or valine (V) in the YMDD motif (C domain) at position rtM204V/I In the majority of cases, these mutations in the ... no intermediate high Complexity of Labor Automatability interpretation intensiveness intermediate intermediate low intermediate intermediate high Intermediate high high low low intermediate intermediate ... its role as a ‘baseline’ indicator of HBV infectivity, the measurement of viral load is an indispensable means for monitoring and confirming resistance to lamivudine therapy Indeed, resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... satisfactory in the evaluation of nodal status in this patient group Since the highly cellular tissue in reactive lymph nodes may also show increased intensity, the role of DWI and ADC in distinguishing ... echo-planar MR imaging and ADC mapping in the differential diagnosis of ovarian cystic masses: usefulness of detecting keratinoid substances in mature cystic teratomas J Magn Reson Imaging 22:271–278 ... images DWI can be explained with “T2 blackout effect”, which indicates hypointensity on DWI caused by hypointensity on T2-WIs, resulting in a decrease in the ADC of ordinary leiomyomas [28] ADC...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... clinical team Other approaches to be explored include improvment of the quality of chest radiographs, and interpretation by clinical practitioners, including nurses, through specialised training ... bacillary load seen in the sputum of HIV-infected patients.48 The specificity of culture is also affected by contamination since manipulations in the laboratory can result in transfer of bacteria from ... patients In the remaining three studies the distribution of type of tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients was obtained from secondary data Additional Setting, study design, purpose characteristics of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... ¼ after deducting basal and background values Sepsis resulted in a significant increase in the transcription of the mRNA encoding iNOS in heart of iNOS+ ⁄ + mice The expression of iNOS mRNA was ... isoforms with constitutive and inducible kinetic properties in heart mitochondria During in ammation, i-mtNOS activity is increased, but not that of mtNOS The induction of i-mtNOS depends on iNOS ... 90 h in septic mice, whereas aMT administration increased this time up to 150 h Discussion Fig Changes in mitochondrial ATP production in heart of iNOS+ ⁄ + and iNOS– ⁄ – mice, using succinate...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 00:20

... under -diagnosis nor overdiagnosis was a ‘serious problem’ in out of the centres Of the remaining centres, underdiagnosis was substantial in two and overdiagnosis in one Resultant over -diagnosis: ... not have influenced results adversely For a number of reasons, one of which is the influence of the training programme of NTI, the findings of this study should be considered illustrative of methodology ... corrective training Comparisons of results on reexamination of centre smears and duplicate smears, indicated that both reading variations and ‘defective smear preparation and staining’ could have influenced...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... PTB in the same setting Using LJ culture as the base-line test, this study evaluated in- house PCR for rapid diagnosis of smear-negative Page of PTB in a low income setting with high burden of ... accuracy estimates for the inhouse PCR Species-confirmation of the LJ-positive cultures was not done in light of recent findings in parallel studies in this setting, in which AFB growth on LJ ... use of in- house PCR in a real world setting, since PCR methods vary widely with setting and the data herein may not be generalizable Conclusions In- house PCR is inefficient for diagnosis of smear-negative...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Passive case finding is the mainstay of case finding in most developing countries This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin skin testing Under ... to detect AFB in clinical samples by ZN staining As seen in Table 1, 80 % of the samples showed the presence of AFB in the primary smear Most of the primary smears showed + grading (28.6 %) followed ... Neelsen staining Introduction Millions of people have succumbed to tuberculosis worldwide Tuberculosis is out of control in most of the developing countries Despite all the advances made in tuberculosis...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... located as a result of any spilling, leaking, pouring, ponding, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, discarding, or otherwise disposing of such oil or hazardous ... environment Confined Disposal Facility (CDF) A facility created in open water or wetlands consisting of confinement walls or berms built up against or extending into existing land Corps of Engineers The ... determined using hydrographic survey data of the National Ocean Survey of the U.S Department of Commerce Mixing Zone A mixing zone is the limited volume of water allowing for the initial dilution of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... levels Conclusions The new guidelines will offer the option of omitting biopsies in selected cases with symptoms suggestive of CD without increasing the risk of misclassification Preconditions ... Towards a new definition of coeliac disease  Chronic  Multi-organ  Small intestinal inflammation  Transglutaminase-related ESPGHAN working group, 2011 Suggestion: New definition  an immune-mediated ... related prolamines  in genetically (mainly HLA) susceptible individuals  characterized by a combination of: • gluten dependent clinical manifestations • anti-tissue transglutaminase (TG2) antibodies...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... testing was part of routine examination For HIV testing, specific informed consent was asked and counseling offered Approval for this study was obtained from the relevant authorities of the Ministry ... performance of the so-called reference standard Clinical decisions regarding TB status should be made taking into account the final post-test probability after exploring all findings, and comparing this ... results in this study including clinical, bacteriological and Julie et al radiological findings not permit the measurement of disease status directly, because they are all (imperfect) indicators of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... are the main sources of infection in a community [5,6] Delays in the diagnosis and start of effective treatment of tuberculosis patients result in a prolonged period of infectivity in the community ... treatment diagnosis interval treatment interval admission to hospital diagnosis initiation of treatment Table shows the distribution of the diagnosis intervals and initiation of treatment intervals with ... considered indicative of a delayed diagnosis [14,18] The treatment interval was the time from diagnosis to initiation of treatment Intervals that exceeded one day were considered indicative of a delayed...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20